The Stranger Within Sarah Stein
Publisher
Harper Collins
Publication Year
2007
ISBN
9780896727472
Pages
160 pages
Genre
fantasy
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When her parents separate, twelve-year-old Sarah Stein feels split into her mother's daughter and daddy's girl, but a disgraced firefighter who lives in a hidden room in the Brooklyn Bridge, and her grandmother's story of her own childhood, help Sarah find her true self.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Separation; separated parents; co-parenting; two homes
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
separated parents
Keywords
firefighters; Holocaust; identity; Jews; New York; homeless people; artist
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Rosenbaum, Thane, "The Stranger Within Sarah Stein" (2007). Diverse Families. 1101.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1101