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Name: Love from your friend, Hannah
Author: Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

📘 Love from your friend, Hannah by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

From the back of the Grand View Restaurant in rural New York, 11‑year‑old Hannah’s diary‑style letters reveal her imaginative world. She writes to her best friend’s pen‑pal across the country, and extends her correspondence to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Mary. The epistolary format brings readers into Hannah’s everyday life and to the larger cultural moment of the Roosevelt era, highlighting themes of friendship, communication and the reach of letters.

First publish date: 1998

Genre: Children's Fiction/Early Readers

Authors: Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

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