" Such a cute little story, heartwarming and sweet. Getting the non-fiction book that this author based her story on when I go to the library tomorrow. It looked like it might be a silly little book, but it turned out much deeper than I thought. I wasn't expecting to like the book as much as I did. " Reminded me a little of Number the Stars.
This is the first book for young readers that I have encountered that looks at discrimination against Italian Americans.
"I read a lot about discrimination toward Japanese American families during WWII, because that's mostly what we studied in school. "Holm impressively wraps pathos with comedy in this coming-of-age story, populated by a cast of vivid characters."- Booklist Inspired by three time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer Holm’s own Italian American family, Penny from Heaven is a story about families-about the things that tear them apart and the things that bring them back together. And no one will tell Penny the truth about how her father died. Her best friend is turning into a criminal. To make matters worse, her dog, Scarlett O'Hara, is sick. For starters, she can’t go swimming because her mother’s afraid she’ll catch polio at the pool. But nothing’s that easy in Penny’s family. It’s 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. Jennifer Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor Winner is the story of a summer of adventures and secrets that will change everything, at a time in America’s history, just after World War II, when being Italian-American meant confronting prejudice because you'd been the enemy not that long ago.
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