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  • Published: 30 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593125076
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $17.99

Starting from Seneca Falls




It took voices big and small to win women the right to vote. Join the rallying cry of the women's suffrage movement in this empowering historical fiction novel from the author of The Hope Chest!

It took voices big and small to win women the right to vote. Join the rallying cry of the women's suffrage movement in this empowering historical fiction novel 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!

  • Published: 30 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593125076
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $17.99

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Praise for Starting from Seneca Falls

"A strong example of historical fiction that could be utilized in U.S. history lessons." --School Library Journal "A friendly introduction to the women’s rights and abolitionist movements of the nineteenth century." --Booklist "Historical fiction fans drawn to period details . . . will be pleased." --The Bulletin "Steeped in historical facts and details, which will particularly fascinate history buffs." --Kirkus Reviews