In Another Land

by Jane Sorenson

Book Overview

While visiting Haiti, Jennifer makes some discoveries about the poverty and health problems of the Haitians that lead to her personal commitment to sponsor a child there. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872399346
• ISBN13: 9780872399341
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Standard Publishing Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Written especially for me . . .

. . . when I was fourteen years old and feeling discontent with my life. I ordered this book from a book club knowing next to nothing about it, and it really did change my life. Jennifer Green goes on a trip with her grandma to Haiti, and she sees first hand the reality of life in a third-world country. I still remember some of the images in this book: children filling dirty water jars with brown, not clear, water, and Jennifer saying, "I really am rich. Even without a mansion or a chauffeur." While the rest of this series is expendable as a typical "Girl Grows Up" series, this one should be read by every pre-teen/early teenage girl. They won't be complaining about *anything* for a long time.