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Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Sally Nicholls
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Description for Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Paperback.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, and vows to pay ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, and vows to pay ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Andersen Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783446735
SKU
9781783446735
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award. She lives in Oxford.
Reviews for Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Nicholls has brought alive the young women of the past to empower the next generation
Alex O'Connell
The Times, Children's Book of the Week
Each voice is distinct, resonant and authentic... uniquely special
Imogen Russell Williams
Guardian
Romantic and inspiring
Nicolette Jones
Sunday Times, Best Books of ... Read more
Alex O'Connell
The Times, Children's Book of the Week
Each voice is distinct, resonant and authentic... uniquely special
Imogen Russell Williams
Guardian
Romantic and inspiring
Nicolette Jones
Sunday Times, Best Books of ... Read more