More AllofaKind Family, Sydney Taylor
More AllofaKind Family, Sydney Taylor
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More All-of-a-Kind Family

Author: Sydney Taylor

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 3 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2025


Synopsis

In the third book of Sydney Taylor’s classic children’s series, Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew. Thus continues the tale of a Jewish family of five sisters—Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie—living at the turn of the century in New York’s Lower East Side. Entertaining and educational, this book brings to life the joys and fears of that time and place.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on April 07, 2013

I am thoroughly enjoying these books. I think that I read only the first book as a kid, and now I’ve just read book 3 and I plan to read book 4 soon. For now I’m skipping 2 and 5, though I might go back and read book 2 at some point. I love this family. I especially loved Sarah in the first book, and......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on March 29, 2023

This is a thoroughly delightful and charming story! I love that the girls are getting older and wrestling with new problems. I love how close the parents and kids are. I love Uncle Hyman and Lena and their moving storyline. I love the details about Jewish food and holidays and the boisterous, noisy,......more

Goodreads review by Melody on March 03, 2011

Oh, now this one stands up to the re-read. Lovely, lovely book. Evocative of the Lower East Side, poised before the First World War. The family is doing better financially, and there's The Wedding to look forward to and be part of. My favorite bit in this book is when Charlie goes downstairs to sole......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on November 16, 2018

The All-of-a-Kind Family return in this second delightful tale - and yes, despite the effort of some to re-order these by chronology, More All-of-a-Kind Family is the second book! - and their adventures here are more fun, more amusing, more poignant, and more heartwarming than in their first, the ep......more

Goodreads review by Christina on August 10, 2020

This book focuses on their Uncle Hyman’s relationship and wedding and the family’s interaction with that. It also has some more serious themes as infantile paralysis becomes an epidemic which I had never heard of before but is a true historical fact.......more