From: doris j gebel <djgebel>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 06:52:49 -0400

I'm glad Erzsi De?k mentioned the school book fairs. It was my first chance to "own" books of my own choosing and I found books that weren't in our small school library. I loved book about people who made a difference. I wore out a paperback copy of The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss. Though I didnt think so at the time, our family didn't have much-but when the Doss family resorted to eating the rattlesnake meat from the souvenir can on the window sill, I knew I had nothing to complain about. This book opened my eyes to a world of children who couldn't count on what I had-a home-in the same way the Gilly Hopkins did years later. Another childhood book club find that spoke to another side of that same need for home-was Roosevelt Grady by Louise Shotwell. This is a powerful story about a child in a migrant family who want a permanant home. Still as poignant in 2006 as it was in 1963. Doris Gebel Northport-East Northport Public Library
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