The War That Saved My Life by Emily Crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p Book & Author Study, by Emily Crawford en-us 2017-05-05 22:24:46 UTC 2025-12-10 12:48:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/86670376/6368ae28ab193b49b458a2111e149da9/s_l225.jpg emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171564290 Click here for booktrailer.]]> 2017-05-12 18:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171564290 Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171565583 Click here for author video.]]> 2017-05-12 18:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171565583 Plot: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171565757 Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute --- she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan --- and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. ]]> 2017-05-12 18:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171565757 Name Pronunciation emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171567149 2017-05-12 19:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171567149 Character: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171567897
  • Ada is 9 years old
  • club foot
  • abusive mother
  • no schooling/can't read
  • takes care of younger brother, Jamie
  • loves riding Butter, her pony
    • ]]>     2017-05-12 19:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171567897     Genre: Historical Fiction emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171571797 2017-05-12 19:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171571797 Theme: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171571952
  • Character – destruction, building up
  • Companionship as salvation
  • Displacement
  • Overcoming – fear, weakness, vice
  • Will to survive
  • War – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy
    • ]]>     2017-05-12 19:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171571952     Setting: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171572782 1939 at beginning of World War II 
    London, England and in the country by the English Channel
    ]]>     2017-05-12 19:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171572782     Conflict: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171574696 Will the bond between Ada, Jamie, and Susan be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?]]> 2017-05-12 19:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171574696 Golden Line: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171575364 "My foot is a long way from my brain." -Ada]]> 2017-05-12 20:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171575364 Clubfoot emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171576466 2017-05-12 20:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171576466 Author Facts: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171586998
  • born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1967 
  • attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated with a degree in chemistry 
  • married high school sweetheart, Bart Bradley, who became an Opthamologist 
  • son, Matthew, born in 1994
  • daughter, Katie, born in 1998 
  • lives on a 52-acre farm, with ponies, dogs, cats, sheep, goats, and lots of trees in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains 

    • ]]>     2017-05-12 22:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171586998     Writing Facts: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587094
  • worked as a freelance writer for equestrian magazines in college, and later as a part-time editor 
  • studied chemistry in college because that was what I most loved to learn, but it's not what I most love to do; loved to write!
  • took a Children's Literature class in college, and the teacher was Patricia MacLachlan (author)
  • joined a writer's group and learned the art & business of writing for children (group was run by author, Jane Yolen)

    • ]]>     2017-05-12 22:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587094     Author Quote: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587422 "I have no idea what inspires my stories. They aren't inspired, they're written: it's work.]]> 2017-05-12 22:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587422 I discovered this author when a student made a "wish" for the book! emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587774 2017-05-12 22:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587774 First Book: emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587867 RUTHIE'S GIFT was published in 1998. It won a Publisher's Weekly 'Flying Start' Award, and was on six state book award lists. Since then she has published fourteen books, in all age groups from preschool to young adult. ]]> 2017-05-12 23:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587867 emily_crawford https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587974 2017-05-12 23:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_crawford/6nwl7c8juq2p/wish/171587974