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Camilla Can Vote

Mary Morgan Ketchel - Author

Marsha Blackburn - Author

Camilla’s museum visit becomes a journey into the 1920 Tennessee vote on women’s suffrage. The book connects a classroom history trip with the campaign for equal voting rights and the decisive vote that helped ratify the 19th Amendment.

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Camilla's class trip to the history museum proved to be both instructive and enlightening when Camilla is transported back to August 18, 1920. That's when women achieved the right to vote with the "Yes" vote from Harry T. Burn, a young legislator from East Tennessee whose mother encouraged him to do the right thing by breaking the 48-48 tie in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Until that day, women did not have the same rights as men. Join Camilla as she learns the exciting (and controversial!) history of women gaining the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Women’s voting rights· Affirmed19th Amendment· AffirmedAmerican history· Affirmed

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Discrimination or prejudiceDiscrimination

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Beyond the Cover

women’s voting rights19th AmendmentAmerican history

Fiction

Themes in Context

Women’s suffrage and civic change

Camilla learns about the campaign for women’s voting rights and the 1920 Tennessee vote connected with ratification of the 19th Amendment.

How the book presents it: The work is presented as celebrating and commemorating women’s suffrage, framing the achievement as significant rather than treating it as a neutral political detail.

Talk about: Which people or actions does the story show as contributing to the change in voting rights?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

The story offers a child-centred route into a major moment in American history, with the Tennessee vote providing a concrete point of focus. It may prompt interest in whose voices and actions shape civic change.

What Deserves Attention

The history centres on women not having the same rights as men and on a contested political decision. This may be a useful moment to explore how unequal rights affected people and how change was pursued.

A Conversation Worth Having

What do you think influenced the Tennessee legislator’s decision, and how might the outcome have differed if the vote had gone another way?

Reading Approach

Read together, pausing to distinguish the story’s time-travel device from the historical events it introduces. Afterwards, invite your child to identify what they would like to find out about the suffrage campaign.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

Women’s suffrage and civic change: Focuses on the campaign for women’s voting rights and the Tennessee vote linked to ratification of the 19th Amendment.

Camilla Can Vote by Mary Morgan Ketchel | Open Library

Limited information

Checked: 1 October 2026.

Relevant to: Women’s suffrage and civic change

Camilla Can Vote

Limited information

Checked: 1 October 2026.

Relevant to: Women’s suffrage and civic change

Benefits, discussion questions and reading approaches are suggestions. Your knowledge of your child remains part of the decision.

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Camilla Can Vote

At a Glance

Discover

Consider

Personalised Fit

Beyond the Cover

Themes in Context

Women’s suffrage and civic change

Why It May Be Worth Reading

What Deserves Attention

A Conversation Worth Having

Reading Approach

What remains unconfirmed