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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
Warm Springs Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
Author: Susan Richards Shreve
Just after her eleventh birthday in 1950 and at the height of the frightening childhood polio epidemic, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a place famously founded by FDR, “a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of crippled children.” There the young Shreve ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780618658534
ISBN-10: 061865853X
Publication Date: 6/7/2007
Pages: 224
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2.8 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Interesting take on a young girl's experience with this debilitating disease and the determination to rise above it.
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I tried to get interested in this author's account of the time she stayed in Warm Springs but it just jumped around too much. With every new chapter, I was trying to figure out where this part left off from. About half way through it my four year old son took the bookmark out and lost my place. I started to try to pick up where I left off but decided that I really didn't want to.


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