![]() ![]() ![]() Lizzie does discover information about her mother's relatives, but the book ends before any meeting takes place. The many descriptions of Amish food, particularly the ingredients, serve little purpose, and the girl's stereotypical view of the Amish as a perfect people is predictably shattered by the phone Granny Zook keeps in the barn loft and the occasional presence of Daniel, a boy who plays a radio and smokes cigarettes. ![]() However, readers will find that her search for her roots is hampered by bits and pieces of Amish life imposed upon an otherwise conventional plot line. When her Granny Zook needs help with her vegetable stand, Lizzie jumps at the opportunity to spend the summer in the Amish community where her parents grew up. She dislikes her stepmother and is sickened by her squirmy, smelly baby brother. Her mother died when she was only nine months old, and she doesn't fit in with her father's new wife and baby or the trailer park in which they live. ![]()
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