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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
Miss Spitfire Reaching Helen Keller
Author: Sarah Miller
Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she'd taken on a seemingly impossible job -- teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But Helen Keller needed more than a teacher. She needed someone daring enough to work a mira...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781416925422
ISBN-10: 1416925422
Publication Date: 7/10/2007
Pages: 240
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Atheneum
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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The author, Sarah Miller, makes Anne Sullivan seem like a kind, sympathetic teacher. Yet, in her own texts she gives examples of suffocation and the likes which made me utterly disgusted. Ms. Miller seems to think the methods used by Anne Sullivan were "the meens to the cause"... reader beware of extreme abuse. Not for the faint hearted.
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