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aklibrarychick's review
3.0
I think I'm reading so much children/young adult stuff because it's impossible for me to wander off to a different section when I have the kids at the library. But I'm really enjoying all these young adult stories. They seem just a little kinder and gentler perhaps than grown up books.
We checked out "Dear Emma" because of it's title, of course. The book is a series of letters written by Hadassah "Dossi" Rabinowitz to her friend Emma. Dossi live in NYC and spent two weeks with Emma on her Connecticut farm in the summer of 1910, thanks to the Fresh Air Fund. Dossi's life is changing because her older sister has married. Their parents are dead, so Dossi is to live with the newlyweds. While her sister's marriage has meant an improvement in their financial and material circumstances, it sets the stage for difficulties in adapting to her new life. Illness ravages the city, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burns, Dossi's sister is expecting a baby - all these cause big changes in Dossi's life, and force her to grow up and think outside of her own needs. It's an interesting slice of life into a time when the world was modernizing, but sanitation and medical knowledge were still lagging behind. Dossi is inspired to become a doctor.
We checked out "Dear Emma" because of it's title, of course. The book is a series of letters written by Hadassah "Dossi" Rabinowitz to her friend Emma. Dossi live in NYC and spent two weeks with Emma on her Connecticut farm in the summer of 1910, thanks to the Fresh Air Fund. Dossi's life is changing because her older sister has married. Their parents are dead, so Dossi is to live with the newlyweds. While her sister's marriage has meant an improvement in their financial and material circumstances, it sets the stage for difficulties in adapting to her new life. Illness ravages the city, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burns, Dossi's sister is expecting a baby - all these cause big changes in Dossi's life, and force her to grow up and think outside of her own needs. It's an interesting slice of life into a time when the world was modernizing, but sanitation and medical knowledge were still lagging behind. Dossi is inspired to become a doctor.
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