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It is 1947 and these are happy times for Sally J. Freedman and her family. They are a close and loving Jewish family though not as orthodox as the Daniels, who live in the next apartment. The Freedman's are spending the winter in Miami beach because of her brother's health-- but he's just fine now. Sally's dad (she calls him Doey-Bird) visits often from their home in New Jersey. Sally has learned not to hate her new school, has made new friends, and is interested in boys. Mom worries too much, and her brother keeps to himself all the time, but winter in Florida is a sunny adventure after all. And Sally still dreams up wonderful stories in her head.
But there is a lingering shadow. A distant and not fully understood terror of war, death and concentration camps. Of Tante Rose and Lila, who died at Dachau, it is a shadow that sometimes turns Sally's wonderful stories into nightmares.
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historical fiction, bigotry, party lines, racism, antisemitism, sibling rivalry, snowbirds, head lice, nephritis, racial segregation, polio, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Jews, Imagination, History, Family life, Household Moving, Family, Jewish families, Large type books, Children's fiction, Florida, fiction, Family life, fiction, Jews, united states, fiction, Moving, household, fiction, Imagination, fiction, Girls, fiction, Jews, fictionPeople
Sally J. Freedman, Peter Hornstein, Mr. Zavodsky, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Douglas Freedman, Barbara, Andrea Rubin, Christine, Omar, Esther Williams, Margaret O'Brien, Jane Russell, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby, William Halsey Jr., Rita Hayworth, Louise, Arnold, Jackie, Alice, Betsy, Linda, Darlene, Georgia Blue Eyes, Vicki, Ted, Ma Fanny, Aunt Bette, Uncle Jack, Miss Swetnick, Hank, Tante Rose, Lila, Shelby, Harriet GoodmanPlaces
United States, Florida, Miami Beach, Bradley Beach, New Jersey, Southern United States, Brooklyn, New York City, DachauTimes
20th century, 1945, 1947, 1940sShowing 11 featured editions. View all 35 editions?
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
2014, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
2014-04, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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1481414372 9781481414371
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as herself
2011, MacMillan Children's Books
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1447202872 9781447202875
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
1993?, Yearling
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0440482534 9780440482536
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
/1993, Yearling
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0812421922 9780812421927
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
1991-11, Yearling
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
1986-07, Yearling
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Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself
1977, Bradbury Press
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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself is a 1977 young adult novel by Judy Blume. The story is set in 1947 and follows the imaginative 10-year-old Sally, who likes to make up stories in her head, her family moves from New Jersey to Miami Beach. While not as controversial as some of her other novels, Blume does manage to address the following themes of late 1940s life in America: racism, anti-Semitism and sibling rivalry.
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