Book Review: Starting from Seneca Falls

Starting from Seneca Falls

by Karen Schwabach

 Random House Children's 

Random House Books for Young Readers

 Children's Fiction  |  Historical Fiction 

Pub Date 23 Jun 2020 

I am reviewing a copy of Starting from Seneca Falls through Random Houde Books for Young Readers and Netgalley:

Birdie has experienced a series of wrongs in her life.  First their was the potato famine in Ireland, later she was sent to the poorhouse In America when her Mothers new job didn’t turn out as expected, and then she becomes an orphan.

The latest wrong is probably the worst though.  Birdie finds herself having to work for a family that is so abusive, she’s afraid she won’t survive if she doesn’t escape.  She decides she is going to run away to Seneca Falls New York, in 1848, Seneca Falls is a town full of possibilities.  It is in Seneca Falls she makes friends with Rose, a girl with her own list or wrongs, but she had big dreams too.

It is Rose who helps Birdie get a job with the strangest lady, Birdie ever met.  A lady named Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Mrs. Stanton is planning a convention to talk about the rights of women.  Rights for women is a new idea for both Birdie and Rose.  The idea that women and girls could have rights is an idea that is hard to grasp, but they are sick of all the wrongs.  Now maybe it’s a time for rights instead of wrongs.

I give Starting From Seneca Falls five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!