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Swan : the girl who grew :   Cover Image Book Book

Swan : the girl who grew : / Sidura Ludwig.

Ludwig, Sidura,: (author.).

Summary:

Before she became the "The Giantess from Nova Scotia" and travelled the globe with notorious showman P. T. Barnum, Anna Swan was a young girl growing up near the rural town of Tatamagouche, desperately trying to fit into a world for which she was literally too big. In her debut middle grade novel-in-verse, award-winning author Sidura Ludwig imagines a pivotal period in Anna’s childhood, as she struggled to find acceptance in a community that saw her as other. When twelve-year-old, seven-foot-tall Anna’s family moves to her grandmother's farm in Central New Annan, she is forced to attend a new school, abandon the bedroom she once shared with her beloved sister, Maggie, and face bullies young and old. She worries she'll never stop growing, and dreams of dainty boots that fit and church pews that don't topple under her weight. Of a world that sees her as she sees a gentle girl who loves to read books beneath the trees. When Anna discovers a solution that will help her stop growing and get her family out of debt, she agrees to exhibit herself as a curiosity in the big city of Halifax. But her giant heart will be tested as she tries to balance her devotion to her family with her desire for normalcy.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781774713815
  • ISBN: 1774713810
  • Physical Description: 304 pages 23 cm
  • Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia : Nimbus Publishing Ltd., 2025.
Subject: Swan, Anna, 1846-1888 > Juvenile fiction.
Childhood
Family
School
Sibling
Bullies
Growth
Exhibit
Debt
Curiosity
Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Novels in verse.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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