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Featured Book
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| The Anti-Defamation League honors women suffragists for the month of August and their near century-long struggle to achieve the right to vote until the 19th amendment was eventually adopted on August 26, 1920. Through the use of historical fiction, this month’s book selection engages young children in the history of women’s suffrage by connecting them to the experience of an eight-year-old girl living in 1917 whose family grapples with the changing roles of women, and the debates over women’s rights in the early 20th century. |
A Long Way to Go: A Story of Women’s Right to Vote
Zibby Oneal, Michael Dooling (Illustrator)
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Set in 1917, eight-year-old Lila witnesses the conflict in her family between her grandmother, a supporter of women’s suffrage, and Lila 's father, a traditionalist. As Lila gradually begins to express her belief in a woman’s right to vote, she manages to convince her father of the injustice of gender inequality, and is allowed to march in a suffragist parade with her grandmother. At the end of the novel, the author includes a brief summary of the 70-year women suffrage campaign.
| ISBN: |
0140329501 |
| Year: |
June 1992 |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers |
| Grade Level: |
3 - 5 |
| Pages: |
54 |
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