The Year We Were Famous
by Dagg, Carole Estby
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0618999833
- ISBN 13
- 9780618999835
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Synopsis
With their family home facing foreclosure, seventeen-year-old Clara Estby and her mother, Helga, need to raise a lot of money fast—no easy feat for two women in 1896. Helga wants to tackle the problem with her usual loud and flashy style, while Clara favors a less showy approach. Together they come up with a plan to walk the 4,600 miles from Mica Creek, Washington, to New York City—and if they can do it in only seven months, a publisher has agreed to give them $10,000. Based on the true story of the author’s great-aunt and great-grandmother, this is a fast-paced historical adventure that sets the drama of Around the World in Eighty Days against an American backdrop during the time of the suffragist movement, the 1896 presidential campaign, and the changing perception of “a woman’s place” in society.
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- St. Vinnie's Charitable Books (US)
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- F-04-3614
- Title
- The Year We Were Famous
- Author
- Dagg, Carole Estby
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618999833
- ISBN 13
- 9780618999835
- Publisher
- Clarion Books
- This edition first published
- 2011-04-04
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