![]() On the other hand, Sarah's reactions to her parents' despair are both convincing and moving, and it's impossible not to admire her never-say-die attitude. ![]() The setbacks Whitmore throws in are almost formulaic, and Sarah's enthusiasm for baking does not fully emerge. When Sarahs family lose their farm and are forced to move to Shantytown at the height of the Great Depression, Sarah saves them from starvation and. However, she is a little too good to be true (for example, she voluntarily takes a math test on her first day in a new school because it looks ``easy and fun to do''). Author, Whitmore Cover Type, Paperback Description, As her familys Model T truck rattles along toward Waheegan, Sarah Ann Puckett wonders about her new home. ![]() No sissy she, Sarah also fights back against the local bullies and rescues the store's cashbox from a thieving hobo. But while the adults buckle under the strain, Sarah rallies: before long, she has started a bread business, baking loaves and selling them to appreciative neighbors, eventually enlisting the aid of both parents and, ever resourceful, commandeering a storefront in the center of town. When the family farm is lost during the Depression, Sarah is horrified by the ramshackle hut she and her parents move to and worries when neither lands a new job. She and her husband reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ![]() Pleasant if not entirely persuasive, this novel by the author of You're a Real Hero, Amanda features a heroine who is pluckiness personified. Arvella Whitmores childrens novels include The Bread Winner, an NCSS-CBC Notable Childrens Book in the Field of Social Studies. ![]()
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