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Breathing Room
By Hayles, Marsha
- ISBN
- 978-0-80508-896-5 978-1-46681-160-9
- Publisher
- Holt/Christy Ottaviano
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Fiction
Gr 5-8–Evvy Hoffmeister, 13, arrives at Loon Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota in the early 1940s in hopes of being cured of tuberculosis. She is confined to bed rest in a ward with three other adolescent girls, Beverly, Pearl, and Dena. Evvy misses her family, especially her twin brother, but adjusts to life at Loon Lake, a complex of buildings almost as vividly depicted as the staff and patients it houses. Stony Nurse Marshall, dubbed Old Eagle Eye by Dena, assigns privileges ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2012
"A little mystery was better than a lot of boring," thinks thirteen-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister when in May 1940 she is sent to Loon Lake Sanatorium to recover from tuberculosis. This philosophy takes Hayles's first novel far, making a perfect read for those not yet ready for Martha Brooks's emotionally dense Queen of Hearts (rev. 7/11). Although Evvy is at first horribly lonely in the sanatorium, her natural inquisitiveness gradually overcomes her fear and isolation, creating an evenly pace...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
