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As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movement Eleven-year-old Susan OâNeal is sick of always having to look after her two younger sisters. But ever since their father died, her mother depends on her. To make ends meet, sheâs just taken a boarder, an Englishwoman named Beatrice Rutherford, into their Chelsea tenement apartment. Susan and Bea become fast friends, but when Susan finds a folded piece of paper with six cryptic wordsâmust be kept secret for nowâshe wonders what her new friend is hiding.  Is Bea a spy? Is she trying to involve Susanâs mother in something dangerous? Susanâs fear becomes a reality when her mother vanishes on the day five thousand women from every state in the Union come to New York for a suffrage rally. A riot erupts, and Susan knows something truly momentous has happened. Terrified for her motherâs safety, she begins a search that exposes some hard truths about her cityâand their new boarder.  This ebook includes a historical afterword. |
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