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A New York Times Bestseller
A Two-time Newbery Honor-winning Author
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Two-time Newbery Honor-winning Author
A Junior Library Guild Selection
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to leave sewing behind. But as the months pass and she survives homesickness and hardships, it is sewing that reveals her wonderful talent - and her future.
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SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.
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Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she's worked in her family's 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 uncle's 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 thread—and homesick to boot.
She didn't know she could be this homesick, but she didn't know she could be so brave either, as she is standing up to an epidemic or a fire. She didn't know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailor's shop. And she didn't know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talent—and 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 Dina's eyes, and share her excitement as she discovers a new world.
"I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people’s thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people’s stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I’d like my books to provide that connection for them."—Patricia Reilly Giff
Patricia Reilly Giff has recieved the Newbery Honor for Pictures of Hollis Woods and Lily’s Crossing, which is also a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book. Nory Ryan’s Song was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA Notable Book.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0786272627
- ISBN 13 9780786272624
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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