Description: Here is a year of letters, at times hilarious, at others, touching or suspenseful. The principal correspondent is Hannah Diamond of Grand View, New York, who writes one day to Edward Winchley, a farm boy of Wichita, Kansas. "When I picked that piece of paper out of the pen pal box on my teacher's desk, I really wanted a girl, but my teacher, Miss Hopkins, says you have to take what you get. I got you". Edward's answer is a surprise. Others to and from whom Hannah hears include (even more surprisingly) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the First Lady, and FDR's secretary. Then there are Hannah's grandmother and her madly knitting Aunt Becky, and an itinerant painter who stops by the family's Grand View Restaurant (home of the four-extra-bites square hamburger) to work for a meal. The year are 1937-38, the time of the New Deal. No one reading this book will forget it -- or Hannah.

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