9. Describe the events that lead to Ada accepting the housekeeping job from Frank. Can you imagine something similar happening today? 10. By the end of the book, how has the relationship between Ada and Matilda changed since their first meeting? The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustia...
"...expertly crafted and assuredly told... If you’re looking for a worthy successor to WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, look no further than THE GIRLS IN THE STILT HOUSE." Matilda Patterson is the 16-year-old daughter of sharecropper Dalton and his wife, Teensy. They live on the other side...
Whenever she passed me in the hallways of our house, she would nod at me like a career diplomat. Polite, but chilly. My father didn’t know what to do with me, either, though he was busy running his hematite mine and didn’t overly concern himself with the problem of his daughter....
I was lucky to spend one morning in a local village near Bagan. While riding our e-bike between thousands of pagodas, we lost our way and met a friendly local who invited us to his house. It was our first week in Myanmar so I was a little bit suspicious at first but my curiosity ...
Whenever she passed me in the hallways of our house, she would nod at me like a career diplomat. Polite, but chilly. My father didn’t know what to do with me, either, though he was busy running his hematite mine and didn’t overly concern himself with the problem of his daughter....