Dear Dad, Love Laurie
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Laurie's letters to her divorced father chronicle her year in the sixth grade and her efforts to enter her school's program for the gifted and talented.Tags
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The chapter book “Dear Dad, Love Laurie” by Susan Beth Pferffer is an uplifting and relatable book for students to read. The writing is organized in letter format throughout the whole book but is engaging because they are short and interesting. The letters are full with information about her life but directed towards her dad. “Dear Dad, Love Laurie” is how every letter starts and ends. Also, the book pushes readers to think about divorce and the challenges it brings such as long-distance frustrations, parent arguments, and family problems in general. For example, Laurie’s grandfather dies and since her father is not around she blames it on her dad but quickly forgives him. The big idea in this story is about pushing through show more hardships of divorce and striving to reach goals. show less
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Susan Beth Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948, and grew up in the city and its nearby suburbs. At the age of six, when her father wrote and published a book, Pfeffer decided she, too, wanted to be a writer; that year, she wrote her first story. She didn't write her first published book, until much later. Just Morgan, a young adult novel, show more was written during her final semester at New York University, and published the following year. Since then, Pfeffer has been a full-time writer for young people. She has won numerous awards and citations for her work, which ranges from picture books to middle-grade and young-adult novels and includes both contemporary and historical fiction. Her young adult novel About David was awarded the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. Her young adult novel The Year Without Michael, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and winner of the South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, was named by the American Library Association as one of the hundred best books for teenagers written between 1968-1993. Pfeffer has also written a book for adults on writing for children. She has written over 60 books for children and young adults. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1989
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.054 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type
- LCC
- PZ7 .P44855 .D — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
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