Faraway Summer
1998
First Published
3.91
Average Rating
156
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In the summer of 1910, Dossi is surprised and terrified to discover that her sister is sending her to a Vermont farm on a charity-sponsored vacation. The landscape and the people of Vermont are very different from her urban Jewish tenement, but Dossi is enchanted by the big blue sky and the peaceful countryside. She longs to make Emma Meade, the brooding daughter of her Christian host family, her friend, and she fills a journal with her thoughts, fears, and impressions of a universe very different from her own. And soon Dossi begins to realize that, sometimes, worlds apart are not so far away from each other after all. 01-02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Gr 4-6)
Avg Rating
3.91
Number of Ratings
94
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Author
Johanna Hurwitz
Author · 54 books
Johanna Hurwitz is an American author of more than sixty children's books. She has sold millions of books in many different languages. Hurwitz graduated from Queens College, New York with a degree in English and Columbia University with a master's in library science.
