Meeting Mrs. Pierce
Realistic (fiction) 3,027 words, Level X (Grade 5), Lexile 820L.
Charlotte's mother is secretly involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement, even though Charlotte's father objects to it. When Charlotte is inspired by her mother and another suffragist, Mrs. Pierce, to have a protest at her school, Charlotte puts her mother's suffrage work in jeopardy, yet she sparks the spirit and forges the ties that will allow her to vote someday herself.
