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The Hope Chest

There are two types of girls . . . according to Violet's parents, that is. There are proper ladies, and there's the wrong kind of girl. "New Women" meddle in politics, have careers, and even want the right to vote--just like Violet's older sister, Chloe, whose ideas got her kicked out of home.

When Violet runs away from home to find her sister, it's already been three years since Chloe left Susquehanna. Following her sister's trail takes Violet to New York and then Tennessee, where Chloe's joined the fierce fight for women's right to vote. With a new friend by her side--Myrtle, a kind African-American orphan who is gutsy enough for the trip--Violet becomes entangled in the suffragists' fight to getting the 19th Amendment ratified. If standing side-by-side with the Suffs makes Violet the wrong kind of girl . . . then why does it feel so right?

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