Starring Sally J. Freedman as herself.

mass market paperback, 186 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1988 by Piper Books in association with Heinemann.

ISBN:: 978-0-330-28279-6
OCLC Number:: 861522616

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ESTHER WILLIAMS IS SEARCHING FOR A GIRL TO PLAY HER YOUNGER SISTER IN A NEW MOVIE. SHE COMES TO MIAMI BEACH. WHEN SHE SPOTS SALLY, SHE SAYS, 'THAT'S HER ... THAT'S THE GIRL 1 WANT TO PLAY MY LITTLE SISTER!'

A highly imaginative girl, Sally constantly makes up stories — stories in which she is always the star of her own lavish film spectaculars. But, when her close-knit family are separated because of her brother's illness, even Sally's daydreams are not enough to comfort her. With her beloved father left behind in New Jersey, a winter in the Florida sunshine seems gloomy and the cramped and dingy flat can't compare with her comfortable home, or her new classmates with her old school friends. Worst of all it is 1947 and Sally is convinced that Adolf Hitler is alive and living in Miami Beach ... --back cover

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3 stars

read as part of the Girl Detective Summer Challenge (where readers are encouraged to read at least 1 of the 6-7 books featured in each chapter of Lizzie Skurnick’s Shelf Discovery: The Teenage Classics We Never Stopped Reading) (www.girldetective.net/?p=4506) it's weird to re-read a book from so long ago - i was shocked by some of the language. did i know what those words meant back then? and then there were plot points that made me gasp with adult shock that i doubt i paid much attention to as a twelve or thirteen year old.
the book is set after WW II and sally is certain she's found a retired adolph hitler in miami. but her conjecture is no different than all her other movie-type fantasies she plays in her mind (or out loud with friends) her ignorance is what allows a child to read the book - …

read as part of the Girl Detective Summer Challenge (where readers are encouraged to read at least 1 of the 6-7 books featured in each chapter of Lizzie Skurnick’s Shelf Discovery: The Teenage Classics We Never Stopped Reading) (www.girldetective.net/?p=4506) it's weird to re-read a book from so long ago - i was shocked by some of the language. did i know what those words meant back then? and then there were plot points that made me gasp with adult shock that i doubt i paid much attention to as a twelve or thirteen year old.
the book is set after WW II and sally is certain she's found a retired adolph hitler in miami. but her conjecture is no different than all her other movie-type fantasies she plays in her mind (or out loud with friends) her ignorance is what allows a child to read the book - an adult knows immediately the implications of the situation. for example, in sally's view we are told they've moved to miami for her brother's health, and perhaps the parents want to focus on that. but when douglas confesses to sally that he was chased by a likely pedophile, the mother's inflated worry over a broken bone and her absence at the hospital implies an entirely different worry