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Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story (American Girls Collection (Sagebrush)) | 
| Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 3158435
Media: School & Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 0833523678
EAN: 9780833523679
ASIN: 0833523678
Publication Date: October 1999
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 Changes for Samantha: an interesting story July 25, 2008
Imagine your best friend lives in an orphanage. How would you feel? Well in this story theres a girl named Samantha with your uncle and aunt to named Samantha, and she moved to New York with her Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia. Samantha felt very unhappy. She didnt know what to do.
Samanthas best friend is named Nellie; Nellie has two little sisters named Bridget and Jenny. All of the sisters got sent to the orphanage. Nellie and her sisters got sent to the orphanage because their parents died and their uncle, Mike O Malley, gave them to a woman, and then the women sent Nellie and her sisters to the orphanage. The orphanage is called Coldrock House. Coldrock House is a place for homeless girls.
The place was different because it was in 1904, where cars are different with out a roof, where there are no telephones and when they used fire to heat the house.
My favorite part is when Samantha took the orphan girls to her aunt and uncles house. She kept them in the attic and didnt tell her uncle and aunt. She treated them in a kind gentle way. Shes very helpful girl. I have a connection because my friend treats me in a kind gentle way too.
This is a great book. This book tells people how to treat people kindly. This book is good for second and third graders.
Vivienne
Canges for Samantha an interesting book July 24, 2008
Imagine your best friend lives in an orphanage. How would you feel? Well in this story theres a girl named Samantha with your uncle and aunt to named Samantha, and she moved to New York with her Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia. Samantha felt very unhappy. She didnt know what to do.
Samanthas best friend is named Nellie; Nellie has two little sisters named Bridget and Jenny. All of the sisters got sent to the orphanage. Nellie and her sisters got sent to the orphanage because their parents died and their uncle, Mike O Malley, gave them to a woman, and then the women sent Nellie and her sisters to the orphanage. The orphanage is called Coldrock House. Coldrock House is a place for homeless girls.
The place was different because it was in 1904, where cars are different with out a roof, where there are no telephones and when they used fire to heat the house.
My favorite part is when Samantha took the orphan girls to her aunt and uncles house. She kept them in the attic and didnt tell her uncle and aunt. She treated them in a kind gentle way. Shes very helpful girl. I have a connection because my friend treats me in a kind gentle way too.
This is a great book. This book tells people how to treat people kindly. This book is good for second and third graders.
Vivienne
Social Awareness in Turn of the Century New York City May 14, 2008
Gale Finlayson
For those familiar with the delightful American Girls series, Valerie
Tripp presents Victorian Samantha in 1904, the 5th chronologically in a series featuring 7 different girls (eras in American history and ethnicities). Each young female protagonist stars in 6 books in her own mini series; after a story of 5 chapters (some 60 pages) readers are treated to an easy introduction into the mores and fashions of the day in the final, non-fiction section, A PEEK INTO THE PAST.
Set in Victorian NY City CHANGES opens as Samantha is preparing to celebrate Valentine's Day with her loving Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia, while her grandmother is honeymooning abroad. Aside from a critical servant, things are just fine for Sam, but be assured that we will meet or hear about various villains and cold-hearted characters, which offset her pleasant existence. Alas, her dear girlfriend from Mount Bedford, poor Nellie, faces personal disaster as the influenza epidemic takes both her parents--leaving the three sisters suddenly orphaned.
Samantha is abruptly brought to face the harsh reality of big city callousness toward children of poverty. First, their only relative, a hooligan uncle, robs and deserts them; then they are taken to an orphanage (think "work house") where they will be trained as future domestics. Manipulated by the heartless directress the sisters are little better off as they are browbeaten into servitude. The only fate worse than this institution for legalized robbery and cruelty is the dreaded Orphan Train, which will mean separation of the sisters forever. How can generous Samantha help these girls from being torn apart?
No matter how young, girls want to preserve their human and feminine dignity. Family values surface as the satisfying denouement--however implausible--concludes the series of Victorian adventures. The Peek into the Past provides excellent photographic documentation and a gentle
introduction to future Social Studies or pop cultural history. Excellent fare for grades 4 - 6, this series brings the past alive for today's girls. (Wonder when they will come up with a 60's heroine... )
 great book! September 25, 2004
i got this book from the library. it was a great book,but the ending was even better,i asked my mom to get it for me becuse i liked it so much. i think YOU should get this.
Excellent book July 16, 2004
Ten-year-old Samantha Parkington, who is living in New York City with her Aunt Cornelia and Uncle Gard, learns that her best friend Nellie and Nellie's sisters, Bridget and Jenny, are living an an orphanage. Samantha secretly goes to visit her and finds out that Nellie and her sisters are about to be seperated. So Samantha hides them in her house. But soon the grumpy maid, Gertrude, finds out that Samantha is hiding them. What will Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia decide to do with Nellie and her sisters? Read this book and find out!
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