Review by Joan Payzant.
excerpt:
With a jerk, Sal rolled away from her little sister to face the wall, her braces clanking together. A giant sob ached in her throat. As her first tears wet the pillow under her cheek, she took back the wish she had been making so faithfully for such a long time, the wish `come true' just last night. In spite of the feeling she had had when Mother hugged her in the car, . . . in spite of all the years of waiting and wanting to go home to stay, Sally wanted to go back, back to where she was known and safe and never left alone for a minute. She wanted to go back to school!
``Mine for Keeps" is author Jean Little's first novel, newly republished,
twenty-three
years after it won the Little Brown Children's Book Award in
1962. It is a sensitive story about ten-year-old Sally Copeland, who
suffers from cerebral palsy. As the story opens, Sally is just returning
to her family home after living for several years in a special school.
Highly recommended.
Note: photograph of Jean Little and cover illustration detail are both from the 1988 republication of the original 1962 edition of Mine for Keeps.
Joan Payzant, is a retired teacher/librarian in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
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ISSN 1201-9364
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