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4-6
Illustrated by
Beth Krush
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Beth Krush
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Joe Krush
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Joe Krush.
In this reissue of a Newbery award winner, Marly's father has returned from World War II with what would now be diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder. The story is a little too tidy, dealing with the healing power the family experiences at the mother's old farm, but Marly is a complicated, interesting child, and her conflicted feelings about her father are honestly drawn.
Reviewer: Terri Schmitz
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
April, 1957
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4-6
Illustrated by
Charles Geer
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Charles Geer.
This reissue retains the original interior art but has new cover art by Kevin Hawkes. Sorensen, who excelled at providing a glimpse of family life, gives readers a sympathetic and appealing portrait of Esther, an Amish girl being sent to public school--and into the wider world--for the first time, against the wishes of her father.
Reviewer: Terri Schmitz
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
December, 1955
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