{"id":416,"date":"2009-03-12T23:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T03:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/review-of-miss-spitfire-by-sarah-miller\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T03:34:36","slug":"review-of-miss-spitfire-by-sarah-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Review of Miss Spitfire, by Sarah Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image415\" height=\"208\" alt=\"miss_spitfire.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/miss_spitfire.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Miss Spitfire<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reaching Helen Keller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Sarah Miller<\/p>\n<p>Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, 2007.\u00a0 208 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred review.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the novelized story of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller&#8217;s teacher.\u00a0 Sarah Miller does a magnificent job making us feel what it must have been like for a poor orphan to come miles to teach a spoiled, passionate blind and deaf child, who showed an ability for clever imitation, but didn&#8217;t show glimmers of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Annie taught Helen discipline, and then gave her the power of words.\u00a0 But she might never have persevered if she hadn&#8217;t been a spitfire herself.<\/p>\n<p>This book carries the reader into a compelling piece of history, and gives us a window into the mind of someone whose sheer stubbornness was responsible for a miracle.\u00a0 But how amazing that she didn&#8217;t give up before that wonderful day came!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1416925422\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Spitfire Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, 2007.\u00a0 208 pages. Starred review. Here&#8217;s the novelized story of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller&#8217;s teacher.\u00a0 Sarah Miller does a magnificent job making us feel what it must have been like for a poor orphan to come miles to teach a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-starred-review","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}