{"id":6527,"date":"2010-11-30T21:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2010-11-30T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:39:31","slug":"emily-of-deep-valley-reprint-by-mitali-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=6527","title":{"rendered":"Emily of Deep Valley Reprint by Mitali Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

is introducing<\/span><\/p>\n

Emily of Deep Valley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reprint edition (October 12, 2010)<\/p>\n

by<\/p>\n

Mitali Perkins<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A word from Mitali:<\/strong> Who In The World Is Mitali Perkins?<\/p>\n

That’s a good question. I’ve been trying to figure it out myself, spending most of my life crossing borders.<\/p>\n

I was born Mitali Bose in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, and always tried to live up to my name\u2014which means \u201cfriendly\u201d in the Bangla language. I had to! Because my family moved so much, it was the only way I could make new friends.<\/p>\n

By the time I was 11, I’d lived in Ghana, Cameroon, London, New York and Mexico before settling in California just in time for middle school. Yep, I was the new kid again, in seventh grade, the year everybody barely makes it through.<\/p>\n

My biggest lifeline during those early years was story. Books were my rock, my stability, my safe place as I navigated the border between California suburbia and the Bengali culture of my traditional home.<\/p>\n

After studying political science at Stanford and public policy at U.C. Berkeley, I taught in middle school, high school and college. When I began to write fiction, my protagonists were often\u2014not surprisingly\u2014strong female characters trying to bridge different cultures.<\/p>\n

Mitali Perkins is the author of several books for young people, including SECRET KEEPER<\/em> (Random House), MONSOON SUMMER<\/em> (Random House), RICKSHAW GIRL<\/em> (Charlesbridge), and the FIRST DAUGHTER<\/em> books (Dutton).<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Often cited as Maud Hart Lovelace\u2019s (of Betsy-Tacy fame) best novel, Emily of Deep Valley is now back in print, with a new foreword by acclaimed young adult author Mitali Perkins and new archival material about the characters\u2019 real lives.<\/p>\n

Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the other girls her age in Deep Valley, Minnesota. The gulf between Emily and her classmates widens even more when they graduate from Deep Valley High School in 1912. Emily longs to go off to college with everyone else, but she can\u2019t leave her grandfather. Emily resigns herself to facing a \u201clost winter,\u201d but soon decides to stop feeling sorry for herself. And with a new program of study, a growing interest in the Syrian community, and a handsome new teacher at the high school to fill her days, Emily gains more than she ever dreamed…<\/p>\n

In addition to her beloved Betsy-Tacy books, Maud Hart Lovelace wrote three more stories set in the fictional town of Deep Valley: Winona\u2019s Pony Cart<\/em>, Carney\u2019s House Party<\/em> and Emily of Deep Valley<\/em>. Longtime fans and new readers alike will be delighted to find the Deep Valley books available again for the first time in many years.<\/p>\n

If you would like to browse inside Emily of Deep Valley<\/a>, go HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily of Deep Valley<\/a> is a sweet book with little known facts about an earlier era in our country. The easily read nostalgic reissue of the Maud Hart Lovelace novel\u00a0<\/a> is suitable for young teens who are not ‘too cool’ to read something so old fashioned. The quaint writing and social situations of long ago may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I found it an interesting break from my usual reading. During the first year after all her classmates go off to college without her, Emily learns some valuable lessons that could apply to anyone unhappy with their own situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Emily of Deep Valley Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reprint edition (October 12, 2010) by Mitali Perkins ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A word from Mitali: Who In The World Is Mitali Perkins? That’s a good question. I’ve been trying to figure it out myself, spending most of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6531,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}