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Available
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Publication
Random House Books for Young Readers (2008), Hardcover, 288 pages
Description
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.
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LibraryThing member acorey
The Hope Chest is a story about Violet's journey to find her sister, who instead of getting married, purchased a car and traveled to New York. Although Violet was told by her family that her sister turned into the "wrong sort of person", she is determined to find her sister. The journey turns out
This is a good book in my opinion. It expresses how women were seen at the time before they had the right to vote. It reveals some deep situations and I would recommend it to anyone.
This book can be incorporated into lessons on women's suffrage or when the unit contains historical fiction. Boys and girls can see how things were different back then and see that equality was not easy to achieve.
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longer than she anticipated when she finds that her sister is in Tennessee instead of New York. The ideas exposed in this book reveal some irritating aspects of women's suffrage.This is a good book in my opinion. It expresses how women were seen at the time before they had the right to vote. It reveals some deep situations and I would recommend it to anyone.
This book can be incorporated into lessons on women's suffrage or when the unit contains historical fiction. Boys and girls can see how things were different back then and see that equality was not easy to achieve.
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LibraryThing member librarygrl
This was a charming read. A wonderful surprise.
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Awards
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2011)
Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice (Children/Young Adult)
Great Reads from Great Places (Tennessee — 2008)
Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18 (Selection — 2009)
Physical description
288 p.; 5.78 inches
ISBN
0375840958 / 9780375840951