Opal Plumstead
Wilson, Jacqueline2015
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Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and 14-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up. But she idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces her to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst and her fellow Suffragettes. And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes she has found her soulmate. But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal's life for ever.
Main title:
Opal Plumstead / Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Nick Sharratt.
Author:
Wilson, Jacqueline, authorSharratt, Nick, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Corgi, 2015.
Collation:
519 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2014.
ISBN:
9780552574013 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92JFJFJF/WIL
Local class:
FIC.JFJFTFF/WILJC
Language:
English
Subject:
Accelerated readerAccelerated reader -- AR5.4Accelerated reader -- AR5Fiction: historicalWomen -- Suffrage -- Great Britain -- History -- FictionGreat Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Juvenile fictionHistorical fictionChildren's storiesFiction 9+HistoricalChildren's storiesFiction 9+Historical
Index terms:
AR 5.4AGS feature
BRN:
722322