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EAN: 9780590438100 ISBN: 0590438107 Label: Scholastic Inc. Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 188 Publication Date: October 01, 2001 Publisher: Scholastic Inc. Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Scholastic Inc. Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In the late 1870s, many young teachers traveled West to earn money and make a new life for themselves, despite the schools being inadequate at best. Some returned home, unable to endure the hardships of prairie life, but others were more committed to their work. Sarah Jane Price stayed, braving the rough conditions of the West. Written by Newbery Honor Author Jim Murphy, this is Sarah Jane Price's story. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Dear America Diary of Prairie TeacherA young 14 year old becomes a teacher after her teacher father dies and leaves her in Broken Bow, Nebraska without support. She learns to support herself and to be a good teacher. Good book but not outstanding story. As with many of these diary books, the actual historical account at the end of the book is more interesting than the fiction. Rating:  - Flawed but informativeI'm a fan of the Dear America series of book yet found this to be one of the weaker ones. Firstly, there are some plot deficiencies - a 12-year-old girl passing herself off as 16 and being accepted as a teacher seems rather far-fetched to me [though for the time it was set in, this may not be so implausible after all]. The character of Sarah Jane Price seems rather flat and didn't engage me as much as some of the other protagonists in other books in the series. However, the story itself ... Read More Rating:  - A great bookA wonderful story. Sarah Jane Price is only fourteen years old but all alone in the world. Her father recently died and Sarah Jane must now figure out how to survive all on her own. She doesn't want to leave Broken Bow where her father was suppose to be the new teacher. She asks the town to give her a try as a teacher. Overnight Sarah Jane goes from being a student to the teacher. She struggles to assert her self as a teacher to her students and keeping her students in school while the storm of 1888 ... Read More Rating:  - I Tried . . . I Really Did!I was about half-way through this book when I finally had to face the fact that I was not at all interested. I was just forcing myself to read because I had to know what happened to Sarah, the orphaned girl without family to turn to; but the writing styel was dry and tasteless. Sarah had no personality, and neither did any of the people in the wind beaten Prarie town where she lived. And Sarah says things that don't make any sense. There is a girl who wants to be her friend, but Sarah says that she talks ... Read More Rating: - Slow Beginning But Nevertheless a Good ReadThis is the second Dear America I read, and it was good enough to make me read more. The second time I read it, I saw that the boring beginning wasn't that great, and I skipped straight to her first class. As for her "visions" of her father, they didn't really bother me. The classroom scenes were fresh and portrayed the challenges of teaching on a prairie, and the ending also gripped me. Read, and if necessary skim the first few entries! 
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