![]() ![]() ![]() In Dina, the beloved writer Patricia Reilly Giff has created one of her most engaging and vital heroines. Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Sewing No one could hate it more than Dina Kirk. Readers will enjoy seeing 1870s Brooklyn through Dina's eyes, and share her excitement as she discovers a new world.From the Hardcover edition. A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly Giff. And she didn't know that sewing would reveal her own wonderful talent-and her future. She didn't know she could grow so close to her new family or to Johann, the young man from the tailor's shop. She didn't know she could be this homesick, but she didn't know she could be so brave either, as she is standing up to an epidemic or a fire. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and thread-and homesick to boot. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. ![]() Since she was tiny, she's worked in her family's dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her uncle's family in Brooklyn, she turns her back on sewing. ![]() SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. ![]()
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