![]() ![]() Will she hear and try to understand and learn from these stories? ![]() What she finds is people whose stories differ from hers. In each classroom, she searches for Yoder School, where learning was full of wonder and people seemed safe. ![]() Pulled from the cloistered three-room Yoder School, full of Mennonite and Amish kids, she pursues her goal to become a teacher in a variety of classrooms, all unfamiliar to her, and then graduates from Antioch University, the hippie college of Yellow Springs, Ohio. This coming-of-age memoir shows how a young Mennonite, uprooted from her community in the mountains of western Maryland, forges her identity. Here is a story of leaving a childhood of innocence to go out into the world and to learn in new ways from different people in places that don't feel like home. ![]() When a young Mennonite girl is uprooted from her cloistered community, she pines to go back to Yoder School where learning was full of wonder and where she decided to be a teacher. "Because this story is so well-written, we the readers follow the narrator's progress with the eagerness of a child at play." -Shirley Hershey Showalter, Author, Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World, in the Foreword ![]()
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