Understood Betsy
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Youth level.
Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Delightful for Kids & Adults submitted by sdunav on August 28, 2017, 12:08pm A delightful kids' book, suitable for all ages. It holds up really well for having been first published in 1916, and is the story of a timid 9 y.o. girl who moves from the big city to live with her aunt in rural Vermont. It is a fairly short and simple story - a bit like "The Secret Garden" but without the suspense and the secret, and with butter-making and schoolwork instead of the gardening. Good description of growing independence, which was apparently influenced by Maria Montessori (my library copy had an essay on the author following the story).
PUBLISHED
New York : Holt, 1999.
Year Published: 1999
Description: 229 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0805060731
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Root, Kimberly Bulcken.
SUBJECTS
Self-perception -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Country life -- Vermont -- Fiction.
Vermont -- Fiction.