Operation Clean Sweep

Beard, Darleen Bailey

ISBN 10: 0374380341 / ISBN 13: 9780374380342

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (edition First Edition), 2004

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Seller Inventory # 0374380341-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Operation Clean Sweep
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374380341
• ISBN 13: 9780374380342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Mom for mayor!

Election day is fast approaching, and twelve-year-old 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 won't 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 town's government.

About the Author

Darleen Bailey Beard is the author of Twister, The Flimflam Man, and The Babbs Switch Story, winner of the Oklahoma Book Award. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma.