Shoeshine Girl

by Clyde Robert Bulla

Book Overview

A defiant 10-year-old girl learns much about friendship and a sense of independence when she works in a grimy shoeshine stand.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0690007582
• ISBN13: 9780690007589
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Crowell
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Fabulous, teachable, important little book!

I absolutely love and adore this little book. Having read it to each of my nieces and nephews and having promoted it to my 8th grade students, I had the good fortune to read this book with a wonderful group of 6th grade students. These students absorbed this delightful experience as they watched the rude, impolite Sarah Ida change and grow through the patience of three very important characters. These children loved the experience of learning how to shine shoes with me, an old timer who remembers the shoeshine stand. They were anxious to read and to follow the story; they showed patience and kindness themselves. Shoeshine Girl is a must read for anyone with children; grandparents who remember shoe shining and tougher times will especially enjoy sharing it with grandchildren. Important themes in the story include the value of money, learning responsibility, learning respect for others and for yourself. Everyone is a work in progress, capable of change and growth and love! Thank you, Mr. Bulla. Thanks, Edison, Derek, Zanisia, Dillon, Brent, Natalie, Zachery, Collin, Ben, Andy, Lexi, Pamela, Savanah, Miss Pruner, and Mrs. Brady.

shoe shine girl from Parkside Elementy Columbus,IN

I liked this book alot becuse it had a good point of view. If i could pick my favorite book this wouldd be it. This is a story about a little girlthat had to live with her Aunt over the summer. She had to ride a trian to her Aunts house. Her Auant was wating for her at the train station and she asked if she could have some money, but her Aunt siad no becuse her mom does not whant her to have eney money becuse she had took her allwes for tow months. So she could go two a movie. So the little girl whent and found a job on a corner. The store was call the shoe shine stand. There is a old man sitting on the groud shinning shoes. she asked him if she could have the job becuse there was a sighn that said work whanted . so she got the job she worked for him all summer intlall something bad happend.

Absolutley awesome!

I just finished this book and I would like to recommend it to other kids because it is the kind of book you can read over and over and over and never get tired of it. She is a little mean but she comes to her senses in the end and is generous and kind.

Carla Maldonado says, "THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK!"

I read the book Shoeshine Girl and it was about a girl named Sarah-Ida. She was very mean to everyone. But in the middle of the book she began to be nice and friendly. In the end there was an accident and she was very sad. I liked this book very much and recommend it to other kids. Carla, 5th grader, Nazareth School