A house of tailors
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Author
Publication
2004 - Wendy Lamb Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
37,000 words, Guess
Page Count
148 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehouseoftailors00giff
- Internet Archivehouseoftailors0000giff_e2f2
- ISBN-100385730667
- ISBN-100385908792
- ISBN-139780385730662
and 4 more
- ISBN-139780385908795
- Goodreads1901235', '6961219
- Library of Congress Control Number2003026103
- Open LibraryOL3681179M
Classifications
- DDC[Fic]
- LCCPZ7.G3626 Hr 2004
Description
SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. 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.From the Hardcover edition.
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
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- Fiction
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