Blue.
Blue
Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Calkins Creek Books
Boyds Mills Press
815 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431
1590783891 $16.95 boydsmillspress.com
When her father is sent to fight Hitler, Ann Honeycutt puts on the
blue overalls he's given her: she's now in chafe chafe (chaf) to irritate the skin, as by rubbing together of opposing skin folds.
chafe
v.
To cause irritation of the skin by friction. of tending
the house and watching out for her siblings siblings npl (formal) → frères et sœurs mpl (de mêmes parents) . When polio polio: see poliomyelitis. strikes, her
challenges grow into firsthand first·hand
adj.
Received from the original source: firsthand information.
first knowledge in this story of loss,
friendship, and early battles during the polio epidemic of 1944.
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