DEAR AMERICA: Suffrage

Suffrage is one of those topics that tends to frustrate me, since it's hard to read about the horrible treatment of the women when all they wanted was something so simple.

A Time for Courage handles the topic well, because the main character is too young to really participate and has to live her life while the older members of her family fight for suffrage, go off to war, etc. She writes about simple things like field hockey and Latin, but also family drama involving a divorce between her aunt and uncle, and watching her mother work for women's suffrage.

The book is well-written and engaging, although it still has the same frustrating elements that always irk me about the topic.