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A review by ljrinaldi
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
3.0
Just doesn't age well
Perhaps because I read "understood Betsy" first, which is also the story of a fish out of water, or rather a city girl in the country, leaning to do all the things that people had to do, to live off the land. And although they were written about fifty years apart, Miracles seems to be less relevant and out of date than Understood Betsy.
I think the problem stems from how each girl approached thing. Betsy would do what had to be done while Marly would say things like she was a girl so couldn't. Her brother Joe kept having all the adventures and the reader would hear about them second hand.
It is a Newberry award winner in 1957. So there is that. And you can read that with that in mind. But if you have a choice I would read Understood Betsy.
Perhaps because I read "understood Betsy" first, which is also the story of a fish out of water, or rather a city girl in the country, leaning to do all the things that people had to do, to live off the land. And although they were written about fifty years apart, Miracles seems to be less relevant and out of date than Understood Betsy.
I think the problem stems from how each girl approached thing. Betsy would do what had to be done while Marly would say things like she was a girl so couldn't. Her brother Joe kept having all the adventures and the reader would hear about them second hand.
It is a Newberry award winner in 1957. So there is that. And you can read that with that in mind. But if you have a choice I would read Understood Betsy.