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Shoo Fly Girl
1963
First Published
4.12
Average Rating
176
Number of Pages
Suzanna belonged to a big Amish family of nine children. They lived on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Suzanna got her nickname because one morning before breakfast she ate a whole shoo-fly pie that she had dropped on the floor. Although Suzanna does not dress like most children, although her family has few of the things that other families consider essential, she is a happy child and her life is a gay and lively one. Her steadfast love for her older brother, Jonas, helps to bring him through a difficult time of crisis. Through it all, she enjoys the sense of love and security that a closely knit family can give to each other.
Avg Rating
4.12
Number of Ratings
280
5 STARS
39%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
22%
2 STARS
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Author

Lois Lenski
Lois Lenski
Author · 62 books

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois\_Lenski Many of Lenski's books can be collated into 'series' - but since they don't have to be read in order, you may be better off just looking for more information here: http://library.illinoisstate.edu/uniq... Probably her most famous set is the following: American Regional Series Beginning with Bayou Suzette in 1943, Lois Lenski began writing a series of books which would become known as her "regional series." In the early 1940s Lenski, who suffered from periodic bouts of ill-health, was told by her doctor that she needed to spend the winter months in a warmer climate than her Connecticut home. As a result, Lenski and her husband Arthur Covey traveled south each fall. Lenski wrote in her autobiography, "On my trips south I saw the real America for the first time. I saw and learned what the word region meant as I witnessed firsthand different ways of life unlike my own. What interested me most was the way children were living" (183). In Journey Into Childhood, Lenski wrote that she was struck by the fact that there were "plenty of books that tell how children live in Alaska, Holland, China, and Mexico, but no books at all telling about the many ways children live here in the United States" Bayou Suzette. Strawberry Girl. Blue Ridge Billy. Judy's Journey. Boom Town Boy. Cotton in My Sack. Texas Tomboy. Prairie School. Corn-Farm Boy. San Francisco Boy. Flood Friday. Houseboat Girl. Coal Camp Girl. Shoo-Fly Girl. To Be a Logger. Deer Valley Girl.

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