- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Children's Books
- First published
- 2019
- Length
- ≈ 192 pages
- Reading time
- 5–7 hours
- ISBN
- 1681198010
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
This non-fiction book for young readers looks at the events of a single year in the United States. They include the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, racial tensions, the Red Scare, changing labour conditions and the start of Prohibition. Beyond describing what happened, Martin W. Sandler explains the lasting effect of each event.
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