As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movement
Eleven-year-old Susan OтАЩNeal 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, sheтАЩs 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 wordsтАФmust be kept secret for nowтАФshe wonders what her new friend is hiding.
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Is Bea a spy? Is she trying to involve SusanтАЩs mother in something dangerous? SusanтАЩs 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 motherтАЩs safety, she begins a search that exposes some hard truths about her cityтАФand their new boarder.
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