SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk.
Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, sheтАЩs worked in her familyтАЩs dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.
When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her uncleтАЩs family in Brooklyn, she turns her back on sewing. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and threadтАФand homesick to boot.
She didnтАЩt know she could be this homesick, but she didnтАЩt know she could be so brave either, as she is standing up to an epidemic or a fire. She didnтАЩt know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailorтАЩs shop. And she didnтАЩt know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talentтАФand her future.
In Dina, the beloved writer Patricia Reilly Giff has created one of her most engaging and vital heroines. Readers will enjoy seeing 1870s Brooklyn through DinaтАЩs eyes, and share her excitement as she discovers a new world.