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Jill Owens: IMG Gideon Lewis-Kraus: The Powells.com Interview

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Gideon Lewis-KrausI started and finished A Sense of Direction in one evening; I couldn't really stop thinking about it, so I couldn't put it down. I found it... Continue »
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A House of Tailors

by Patricia Reilly Giff

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SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.

Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, shes worked in her familys dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.

When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her uncles family in Brooklyn, she turns her back on sewing. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and threadand homesick to boot.

She didnt know she could be this homesick, but she didnt know she could be so brave either, as she is standing up to an epidemic or a fire. She didnt know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailors shop. And she didnt know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talentand her future.

In Dina, the beloved writer Patricia Reilly Giff has created one of her most engaging and vital heroines. Readers will enjoy seeing 1870s Brooklyn through Dinas eyes, and share her excitement as she discovers a new world.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780440238003
Author:
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Publisher:
Yearling Books
Subject:
Family - General
Subject:
History
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Family - Multigenerational
Subject:
Emigration and immigration
Subject:
Social Issues - Emigration & Immigration
Subject:
Uncles
Subject:
Children s-Reference Family and Genealogy
Publication Date:
20060831
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
Young adult
Language:
English
Pages:
148
Dimensions:
7.68x5.24x.44 in. .26 lbs.
Age Level:
09-12
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