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A sad, sweet tale of a lonely girl (I don’t remember them mentioning her age, but I’d guess eleven or so) in an orphanage. Although the story is set in Germany in the early 1950s, it could come from just about any time or place.
Mirjam Pressler
author
Halinka
book
cruelty
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Germany
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orphanages
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youth fiction
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sad, sweet tale
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lonely girl
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early 1950s
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lack of family
concepts
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“This simple, yet compelling plot teaches that if people think and wonder why, things will begin to happen and dreams will come true.”
Meindert DeJong
author
The Wheel on the School
book
the Netherlands
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simple plot
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country unfamliar
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early 1950s
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