The Chaperone

TitleThe Chaperone
Year for Search2023
AuthorsHendrix, M.(b. 1970)
Pagination436 pp.
Date Published2023
PublisherSourcebooks Fire/Sourcebooks
Place PublishedNaperville, IL
ISBN Number978-1728260006
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Young adult dystopia in which in the future New America girls are always chaperoned with no contact with boys except in formal Visitations. And girls get only the basic education required to make them fit to be wives and mothers and higher education is closed to them. The protagonist is a girl being raised in these circumstances who learns, almost against her will, something of Old America

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Author Note

Female author (b. 1970)

Full Text

2023 Hendrix, M. (b. 1970). The Chaperone. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Fire/Sourcebooks. 436 pp. Public

Young adult dystopia in which in the future New America girls are always chaperoned with no contact with boys except in formal Visitations. And girls get only the basic education required to make them fit to be wives and mothers and higher education is closed to them. The protagonist is a girl being raised in these circumstances who learns, almost against her will, something of Old America. Female author.