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Bromley Girls
Martha Mendelsohn
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Description for Bromley Girls
Paperback. After Emily Winter, fourteen, makes a promising start at a posh, academically-challenging Manhattan girls' school in 1955, things turn sour but she discovers a knack for leadership as she copes with her best friend Phoebe's snubs, a newborn brother, snobbish classmates, and more. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: YFN; YXA; YXF. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
It’s 1955 and fourteen-year-old Emily Winter’s promising start at Bromley, a posh, academically-challenging Manhattan girls’ school, threatens to turn sour when her new friend Phoebe Barrett joins an anti-Semitic club founded by the popular and snobby Cressida Whitcroft.
But how can Emily stay angry with Phoebe, who shares Emily’s fascination with knights and the Middle Ages, when Phoebe has put herself on a dangerously stringent diet and is sinking into an ever-deeper obsession with losing weight?
In a story about the search for identity and the triumph of friendship over bigotry, Emily discovers a knack for leadership as ... Read more
It’s 1955 and fourteen-year-old Emily Winter’s promising start at Bromley, a posh, academically-challenging Manhattan girls’ school, threatens to turn sour when her new friend Phoebe Barrett joins an anti-Semitic club founded by the popular and snobby Cressida Whitcroft.
But how can Emily stay angry with Phoebe, who shares Emily’s fascination with knights and the Middle Ages, when Phoebe has put herself on a dangerously stringent diet and is sinking into an ever-deeper obsession with losing weight?
In a story about the search for identity and the triumph of friendship over bigotry, Emily discovers a knack for leadership as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896729223
SKU
V9780896729223
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About Martha Mendelsohn
Martha Mendelsohn has worked as a translator for the French Embassy, an editorial assistant for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and associate editor of Tikkun magazine. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Tikkun, The New York Times, Moment, Beliefnet.com, Jewishmag.com, and The Jewish Week. She lives with her husband on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, USA.
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