Sarah's Daughter

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Rose begins to think of her mother as "Sarah" because the very word "mother" makes her cry. She continually asks herself what her mother would do about breakfast for the family; about how to take care of her siblings; about her father's drinking and going off to a hotel almost every evening.

After the unusual accident that killed her mother, fourteen-year-old Rose Hibbard copes. She is forced to take on her silently grieving father and her ...
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Rose begins to think of her mother as "Sarah" because the very word "mother" makes her cry. She continually asks herself what her mother would do about breakfast for the family; about how to take care of her siblings; about her father's drinking and going off to a hotel almost every evening.

After the unusual accident that killed her mother, fourteen-year-old Rose Hibbard copes. She is forced to take on her silently grieving father and her younger brother and sister. Without a role model of her own, she becomes one for her eight-year-old sister. She makes breakfast, gets everyone started for the day, does the washing and ironing and sewing, and still manages to get to school and do her own homework.

Interspersed with Rose's moments of panic or despair are warm hours shared with her friends, Alice and Emily, who listen and help and have fun with her; times familiar to most American teenagers today. As are the nights she stares at the moon and wishes on stars, as well as her developing romance with young Newton Barnes.

Just when Rose thinks her family will find a way to manage without a mother, her father says she will have to leave school for good in the spring. Her teacher is her main adult ally. School is where she is happiest and feels most comfortable, where life feels almost normal for someone her age. The one thing that has kept her going, giving her the will to take care of everyone and stay awake in class is her lifelong dream of becoming a teacher, and it disappears in a matter of seconds.

Her brother and sister often sneak off to cry at their mother's grave, and Rose's father, unable to face his own loss, becomes increasingly gruff andsilent. She overhears a gossipy neighbor saying something about her father being "at the drink." And when she comes home early one day and discovers her father, his trousers in a heap on the floor, laughing in her parents' bedroom with a half-clothed woman, she flees to the woodshed where she hopes the restacked cords of wood will fall on her, just as they had crushed her mother.

This story, which takes place in late 19th century New England, focuses on a typical American teenage girl for whom cooking on a wood stove, pumping water, emptying chamber pots, reading by kerosene lamps and heating flatirons on the stove to do the ironing is the norm. But it is Rose's ability to deal with the death of her mother, her father's alcoholism and her distraught siblings, her stellar performance in school and her growth from child to girl-woman, her friendship with her teacher, and the responsibility she feels to care for her siblings, that shows us the depth and character of this fourteen-year-old young woman.
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Gene Shalit
"Ruth Bass has written a rich, intimate, engrossing portrait of Rose-a child thrust into the demanding adult life of her 19th century New England homestead. Beautifully written, flowing with memorable characters-what a wonderful pleasure to read."--(Gene Shalit, NBC-TV)
Judith Viorst
"You'll just want to keep reading and reading this vividly told story of three motherless children: Abby and Charles and Rose, bereaved and beset but trying to "hold up" as best they can. The setting is richly evoked; the characters are utterly persuasive; and issues of loss and mourning, friendship and love, and the complexities of family life are explored with sensitivity and wisdom. Big sister Rose, the spunky heroine of this compelling tale, may well become a classic of young-adult literature."--(Judith Viorst, author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, and The New York Times bestseller Necessary Losses)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780977405343
  • Publisher: Gadd & Company Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/28/2007
  • Pages: 389
  • Age range: 13 - 17 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

As a newspaper reporter and columnist, Ruth Bass has been telling the stories of real people for a long time. A descendant of generations of New Englanders, she has also listened all her life to people like the characters in Sarah's Daughter, her first venture into fiction. A resident of the Berkshires, in Massachusetts, she has won many awards for writing and editing and was recently inducted into the New England Press Association's Hall of Fame. She is a graduate of Bates College and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, has been an elected town official and is married to novelist Milton Bass. They have three adult children. She writes a weekly newspaper column on everything from politics to puppies, is author of twelve cookbooks, and in her spare time turns to gardening, reading, knitting, photography, travel, tennis and golf.
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