| Description |
150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 3.5 3. |
| Contents |
Too Many Boys -- Entire Third Grade -- Baby Arrives -- Ruthie Leaves -- Happy Birthday, Boiled Bert -- A For-Real Invitation -- House with No Boys -- In the Graveyard -- Poor Paul -- How a Lady Should Act -- Clarinda -- Praying for Peace -- Auditions! -- Great Tidings of Glad Joy -- Tattletales -- Sick, Sleepy Angel -- A Train Just for Ruthie -- Pickle Jar -- Surprises -- Center of Attention -- Stampeded into War -- Trying to Be Brave -- Travel Plans -- Sacrifice -- Errand in Town. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo. |
| Subject |
Farm life -- Indiana -- Fiction.
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Families -- Indiana -- Fiction.
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Families. |
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Farm life. |
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Indiana. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Siblings -- Fiction.
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Siblings. |
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Indiana -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Kramer, David (David Joseph), illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0385325258 |
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9780385325257 |
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