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The Hope Chest

When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the cruci...

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Main Author: Schwabach, Karen
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, c2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Women > Suffrage > Juvenile fiction.
United States > History > 1913-1921 > Juvenile fiction.
Sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Women's rights > Juvenile fiction.
Tennessee > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.
Physical Description:274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780375840951 (trade)
0375840958 (trade)
9780375940958 (lib. bdg.)
0375940952 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:Karen Schwabach has been voting since 1984. She lived in Alaska for many years, but did not find it necessary to change her name. A Pickpocket's Tale was her fiction debut, and The Hope Chest is her second novel. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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