Starting from Seneca Falls

Celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment with another historical novel about women´s suffrage from the author of The Hope Chest! Bridie´s life has been a series of wrongs. The potato famine in Ireland. Being sent to the poorhouse when her mother´s new job in America didn´t turn out the way they´d hoped. Becoming an orphan. And then there´s the latest wrong--having to work for a family so abusive that Bridie is afraid she won´t survive. So she runs away to Seneca Falls, New York, which in 1848 is a bustling town full of possibility. There, she makes friends with Rose, a girl with her own list of wrongs, but with big dreams, too. Rose helps Bridie get a job with the strangest lady she´s ever met, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Mrs. Stanton is planning a convention to talk about the rights of women. For Bridie and Rose, it´s a new idea, that women and girls could have a voice. But they sure are sick of all the wrongs. Maybe it´s time to fight for their rights!