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Misunderstandings of Charity Brown, The
Elizabeth Laird
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books/Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-5290-7563-2
Keywords: Historical Fiction-Friendship, religion, preachers, Holocaust survivors, Nazis, coming-of-age, polio
In 1950s England, a girl recovering from polio grapples with changes in her family., the teachings of her strict religious community, and her first experiences with a wider world.