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An abridged version of the story of nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann, timid and small for her age, who discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.

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Main Author: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Greenville, SC: Journeyforth, 2008.
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Self-perception > Juvenile fiction.
Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:An abridged version of the story of nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann, timid and small for her age, who discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
Physical Description:140 p.
ISBN:9781591668640
1591668646
Author Notes:Author Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in Lawrence, Kansas on February 17, 1879. She received a Ph.D. in romance languages from Columbia University in 1904. She wrote novels, short stories, children's books, educational works, and memoirs. In 1912, she met Maria Montessori in Italy and was so impressed by the educator's theories that she wrote A Montessori Mother, The Montessori Manual, and Mothers and Children. She worked for many environmental, children's and education causes in the 1940s and 1950s. She died in Arlington, Vermont on November 9, 1958.

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