Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller

Once a healthy, energetic child, Helen Keller is now deaf, blind, dumb, and with no hope for a future. Annie Sullivan, a young lady with an extremely troubled life comes into Helen’s world to try and get her to see, hear, and talk through her hands. But how do you introduce someone to language when communication and comprehension are non-existant for the present.

Miss Spitfire has been on my book list ever since it came out, but I wasn’t able to read it until just a bit ago. Usually books that I’m really pumped up for and that I anticipate way to much turn out being not as good as I thought. Thankfully Sarah Miller’s book did not disappoint. Even though I was already really familiar with Helen and Annie’s story, Miss Spitfire was unique and still kept me on my toes.

15 comments:

Polka Dotted Pickles said...

Hmm, sounds like an interesting one. :)

Erin said...

I'm glad you finally got a chance to read this, and that you enjoyed it so much. :)

Sookie said...

I'm so glad you reviewed this one--it sounds very interesting--it might just earn a spot on my limited (because I have to go to college soon--and won't have much room for my books!) to be read list.

emily said...

I'm reading it right now! It's such a great book. :]

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