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Operation Clean Sweep

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By Darleen Bailey Beard
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
Operation Clean Sweep
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Mom for mayor! Election day is fast approaching, and twelveyearold Cornelius Sanwick discovers a secret his mom is running for mayor! That would be pretty neat, except that his dad is the incumbent. Corn feels torn surely he should warn his father. But if he does, his mother wont stand a chance. In 1916, Oregon is one of only eleven states in which women can vote, and they have to take office by stealth. Corn wonders what kind of mayor his mom would make. Would she be able to get the streetlights turned back on? Would she corral the chickens and keep their poop off the streets? And what would she do if the pickpocket Sticky Fingers Fred showed up in Umatilla? Friendship, first love, and above all filial devotion play their parts in this charming story set during the Great War and based on a true episode in the history of Umatilla, Oregon the female takeover of the towns government.

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27871 words27,871 words
160 pages160 pages
Lexile 610LLexile 610L
Grade 5 to 6Grade 5 to 6
Age 10-11Age 10-11
Published 2004Published 2004

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Book ISBN:

9780374380342

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