- Physically handicapped, Fiction, People with disabilities, Juvenile fiction
When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Jean Little
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 201
- Publisher
- Trumpet Club, Tandem Library, Harper & Row
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060239114
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“Let it really be Papa, Anna wished desperately as she tugged open the big front door.”
A Canadian children's author.
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