![]() ![]() Although the author's nostalgia for times past weighs heavily now and then to point the story adultward, this is a honey, gentle book, tailor-made for little girls. Five little girls in one family supply in lively activities and affection what may be lacking in worldly goods to the close-knit Jewish household in the days of immigrant poverty and hard-ships, and this story chronicles the activities of the family - hated household choring which Mama made fun the cherished religious holidays - including a Seder celebrated by Papa, Mama, and one daughter, while four scarlet fever patients participated wistfully in the bedroom a wonderful Fourth of July with real fireworks an outing to Coney Island a furious hunger strike by one of the more willful daughters which plunges the family into misery a pushcart-street shopping expedition and even a small mystery-romance. Follett Award series stepped off to a sprightly start last year with Carol Hoff's Johnny Texas and this season's offering again features authentic period and regional flavor plus expansive and attractive format, in a loving family story set in 1912 on the lower East Side of New York City. ![]()
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