Badge of Honour

FICTION-IN A MOMENT OF WEAKNESS,MARY ALLOWS HER FRIEND JULIA TO INVOLVE HER IN A SHAMEFUL ESCAPADE-STEALING FROM AN OLD LADY.MARY RESOLVES TO RETURN THE SMALL CASKET THAT JULIA HAS TAKEN.BUT WHEN SHE DISCOVERS THAT THE CASKET CONTAINS THE FASCINATING DIARIES AND MEMENTOES OF AN EARLY SUFFRAGETTE,A BRAVE WOMAN WHO WAS PREPARED TO FACE THE PAIN AND HUMILIATION OF PRISON IN HER FIGHT TO GAIN WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.AS MARY READS THE MOVING ACCOUNT,HER WORLD BECOMES HAUNTED BY VISIONS OF THE TURBULENT PAST AND SHE KNOWS THAT SHE CANNOT POSSIBLY RETURN THE CASKET UNTIL SHE HAS READ RIGHT TO THE VERY END.


Genre: Children's Fiction