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One of my two favorite of Streatfield's "Shoes" books. A children's novel from the 1930s about three adopted sisters, poor but talented, who attend a dance and stage school in London. They have a guardian who turns her home into a boarding house to make a living, and most of the other characters live there.
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I don't think I'd read this in 30 years, and I barely remembered anything about it! Lots of things to explain to the kids - especially old British currency (there's a LOT of talk of money). The adoption plotline is inherently problematic, but the characters are plucky and I remember loving the glimpse into an old-fashioned world. Not sure how much my kids got, but they definitely wanted to keep listening!
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I have always loved Noel Streatfeild's books and as a child I got my library to ILL them for me or hunted through second hand book stores to find all of them. She tells the perfect "girls stories". I was always able to find one character in each book that was my favorite. They definitely stand up to re-reads.
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I have to say I didn't love this book. It was fine, I didn't hate it or anything, but I was hoping to really love it the way so many others have. Maybe if I had read it as a kid I would have liked it more but I don't know-I was never a kid who wanted to be a dancer/performer so mabye it wouldn't have been my thing even then.
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This wasn't bad, just not great. This is my second "Shoes" book and I'm not sure I get the appeal. Sweet, but not memorable, and are all these books the very same story, plucky orphans in dance class, then performances?
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Jul 30, 2009
Bette
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Jul 24, 2010
Rachel Piper
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Jun 21, 2011
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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Sep 16, 2011
Elizabeth
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