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Secrets on 26th Street

by Elizabeth McDavid Jones · 1999

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In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.

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childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
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New YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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childrensmiddle gradeyoung adult

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