Love from Your Friend, Hannah

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Summary: Love From Your Friend Hannah
Review: Hannah is a young girl living in New York State during the Depression. When her best friend moves away Hannah tries to find solace by making a pen pal. When that effort fails she begins to write letters to the President of the United States. Over time Hannah's list of correspondent's increases and she gets glimpses into each of their lives.

In the end her search for a friend is rewarded in a most surprising way.

This was a cute book and I enjoyed reading it. I think that many young girls would find it interesting.

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Summary: Good Read
Review: I found that this book was a very fun, sweet read. It's about a young girl named Hannah whose best friend moves away so she must find a penn pal. Eventually she has an entire (lengthy) list of pen pals. Everyone from her next-door neighbor to the secretary of FDR & FDR himself (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) This book is very entertaining and I enjoyed the correspondance between Hannah and all her friends. The book has a good portrayal of what life was like back in the 30's and the author does a wonderful job telling the sotry through the mindset of a nine to ten year old. This book is very fun and enjoyable. Hannah is a very spunky, sweet character and I especially enjoyed her letters with descriptions of people and places. There were a few things that were dissapointing in the book such as the fact that Hannah's old best friend never writes back to her but the overall story is much too fun and happy to dwell on those things. Overall this is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it!

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Summary: Good Read
Review: I love this book! It puts you in the point of view of a young girl in the 1930s. She writes letters on her favorite spot an a mountain, in her other favorite spot by the river, and in her room on her roll-top desk. She has adventures and tells of them in her letters to the president (FDR), her grandmother, her pen pal, others from the White House, and her best friend, Aggie, who moved away but never writes back. Read this wonderful book!

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Summary: Love From Your Friend Hannah
Review: I rated this book a five star book. Love from your friend, Hannah is written by Mindy W. Skolsky. This book is filled with letters to people that this girl named Hannah. Hannah writes to everyone such as her best friend Aggie, her pen pal Edward from Wichita Kansas, her Aunt Becky who knits very lumpy, her grandma, President Roosevelt, and many more. Hannah Diamond lives in the back of the grand View restaurant, that her parents own. Hannah is very good in school, especially in spelling. She never misspells a word until she spells the word restaurateur. Hannah writes to President Roosevelt and he writes back and sends her a stamp from his stamp collection. Hannah writes to her best friend, Aggie many many times and she never answers back. She goes up to her secret place on a mountain ad writes most of her letters and the other letters are written in her room on her roll-top desk. Much more happens in this book so I do recommend it!

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Summary: An Award-winner!!!!
Review: In Love from your friend Hannah by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky, Hannah is in love with writing letters to her relatives and friends. Her best friend, Aggie, moves away and never answers Hannah's letters after promising they could be pen pals. Hannah chooses a name from the basket on her teacher's desk. He writes an awful letter back to her. But soon Hannah has more pen pals than she can imagine. the prisedent and first lady both write to her, as well as Mr. Rosevelt's secratary, her grandma, her Aunt Becky, and her new friend Edward from Kansas. I think this story's message was to just have a good read! I loved this book because it was so well written. I suggest you read it!

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Summary: The Awesome Letters
Review: Love From Your Friend Hannah is a great bood for kids who like realistic fiction. Hannah is nine years old and her best friend, Aggie, moves away. Hannah wants to be Aggie's pen pal but ends up with a boy named Edward. Hannah does not like Edward at first. After a while she ends up talking and giving each other school tips. She also write to the President which was Franklin Roosevelt. When Hannah writes to President Roosevelt because she does not have Aggie to play with, Roosevelt writes back saying Mrs. Roosevelt likes to read. Hannah writes to Mrs. Roosevelt and says she likes reading too. Hannah and the Roosevelts become good friends. I truthfully loved this book!

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Summary: A Really Cool Girl
Review: My 11 year old SON just finished reading "Love From Your Friend, Hannah" and he just couldn't stop talking about it. ...I believe this book, written with courage, passion,and joy by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky and Laura Hamilton encompasses the many longings that children in our time crave. For one, the idea of writing to real people the "old fashioned way" is an almost long-forgotten art. ... Secondly, this book takes a historical time period and brings it vividly to life-a way that inspires children to take a real look at History. Finally, it presents the dreamy "possibility" that even a child could write to someone of influence and "make a difference" (Even though the letters and responses from President Roosevelt in this book are not authentic). Since reading this book, my son has begun a voracious search of how to get a "real" on-paper penpal and is encouraged to find out more about the time period of The Great Depression. Parents of boys, don't count this one out!

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Summary: Young writers will love Hannah.
Review: This story is told in the form of letters: those written by Hannah, and the responses she gets. Hannah loves to write. She writes her grandparents, her best friend who moved away and never writes back, the boy whose name she (disappointedly) drew for a pen pal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, and even the president's secretary. It's hard not to like Hannah, who is happy to share all of her trials and tribulations in letters, though there were times when I found her exuberance overwhelming. Young readers who also love to write will enjoy this book. It has a fresh voice and a timeless spirit, though rooted in small town America of the 1930's. Although the book is third in a series about Hannah, it stands alone perfectly well.