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Plain Girl

By: Virginia Sorensen
Narrated by: Julia Farhat
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An Amish girl, Esther feels like "one black bird against the sky" in her plain clothes. So when she's forced to attend public school she's terrified. She fears the new world she must enter, fears the way she sticks out next to other kids, and--most of all--fears she may do what her brother did: Run away and join the sinful but great wide world she's only just discovering.

©1983, 1955 Virginia Sorensen (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Social & Life Skills Friendship
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Plain Girl would make a great book club discussion book! There were so many great pivot points of decision that each character had to make, depending on the others’ choices. The story illustrates well how life doesn’t just depend on our own choices, but how choices within a family particularly impact family members—not only for the present but for generations following. Topics for discussion might include tradition versus progress; religious traditions versus change; benefits and challenges of rigidity and structure; gifts from plain and simple lifestyles; the crucial need for safe communication—particularly between parents and children; mandatory education versus homeschooling; emotional and mental impact of clothing, etc.

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