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Better to Wish
Better to Wish: The First Generation | Ann M. Martin
2 posts | 8 read | 3 to read
In 1930, Abby Nichols is an 8-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
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If, like me, your reading style started out as Babysitters Club and morphed into historical fiction, this middle grade series is for you. This seems to be a sleeper by Ann M Martin, of Babysitters Club fame. Following a family tree from the depression, Kennedy‘s assassination, on through 9/11, Martin tackles tough family topics such as mental illness, disability, and alcoholism in a straightforward but gentle way.