Dive Into Not A Nickel To Spare: The Great Depression Diary Of Sally Cohen (Dear Canada) Imagined By Perry Nodelman Formatted As Brochure

amp/hearts. This must be the worst Dear Canada book there is, Sally is weird and ungirlish, her family is nasty, and there are a couple scenes set in a bar with some bad comments.
I very much disliked this book and I dont intend to pick up another book by the authorat least not without very good recommendation.
I just didn't care for Sally as a character, I didn't feel that the book really communicated the Jewish experience I realise the main topic is the Great Depression and not WWbut I didn't feel the Great Depression was well communicated either, and Sally's cousin was a dick.
actually, most of the characters sucked, I began reading the book because I was waiting a history essay on the Great Depression and also because I like the Dear Canada series.
However, this particular book was not that great because I found that Sally repeated things a little too much.
And I know that she's Yiddish but she used a little too many Yiddish words and I was constantly turning to the glossary at the back of the book to understand what was going on.
This was truly realistic. I loved that the character of Sally was so accurately immature in that she is definitely eleven years old with ageappropriate thoughts and opinions.
I also liked that this took place not in a traditional kind of diary but a scribbler, Not a Nickel to Spare is about Sally Cohen, a young girl who faces the difficulties of depression.
But on top of worrying about having enough money to survive, Sally also faces the difficulties of being a jewish.
With her cousin, Benny, Sally has many exciting adventures that help Sally face her fears and learn more about being jewish.


I picked up this book because Mr, Gould told us to try the Dear Canada series, I also realised that I haven't read a historical fiction book in a while.
So I decided to go look at all the Dear Canada books that were in, I read the all the Not a Nickel to Spare's back.
I decided to take this one because I read another book about a young girl in the time of depression and I loved the book.
The book was called That Scatterbrain Booky, it was fantastic,

I finished this book because I admired every page of it, my favourite part of the book was that it was written as if Sally was actually writing in it.
This book also helped me learn a lot about the Great Depression in Canada, It also made me realise what a tragedy the Great Depression was, this was another reason why I couldn't put this book down, because I was learning so much.
And even though Sally and her life may have been fictional it hurt to know that there were many people in her situation and in situations much worse.


I would recommend this book to Sashini because Sashini knows a lot about history, and she knows even more about Hitler.
And even though this book takes place in Canada, Sally talks a lot about the Nazis and Hitler in Germany.
I think Sashini will like this book just as much as I did and probably even more, This was a wellresearched book on life during the depression in Toronto, I enjoyed the details about food eaten, school days and the constant search for work, I also appreciated that the author included many stories about his own parents living during this time, However, I felt in some ways that Benny should have been the main character in the story, It seemed like Sally lived a lot of her story through her cousin and that things might have been more interesting from his perspective.
I also thought the book could have used a bit of tightening, However, I learned a lot and would recommend it for students interested in this time period, although this book does deal with the Great Depression, it deals a lot more with antiSemitism during that era.
it makes me wonder how widespread these issues are, was it the same in the states and we just don't hear about it that is certainly possible.
Aprilth,MINI REVIEW

,Stars.

The ending of this book broke my heart as much as reading through it and seeing events through Sally Cohen's eyes.
These books were really something I loved reading when I was young, especially because it featured various Canadian locations providing a more meaningful read on a personal level.
There's not too many books I find that are Canadiancentered so I'm terribly glad how these books have survived the years when they could have been easily forgotten like so many of these people have been lost within the pages of history itself.
This book is not very good, I read it and it's boring because it has nothing to do with The Great Depression! I think it's gross how Sally marries Harvey, who is VULGAR.
Not a good read. That's my advice.
Anyways, Dear Canada is not a very bad series, I have tons of them, and most of them are really good, But not this one. I love it!
I have it!
Its awesome! Oh Dear Canada, you never fail to keep me enthralled.
It was good. Didn't have the dire circumstances of the Depression mentioned as much because they weren't on the streets and had somewhat of an income but I didn't expect all the racism towards the Jews which were interesting but I think could have stood on it's own Dear Canada.
In this book Sally got a notebook from her cousin Benny and started a diary, Right after, everyone was going crazy and fighting because people didn't like Jewish people, Then her dad got into jail, Luckily her dad got out, and got a better job, Sally was the only one in the family to go to school, The rest of her sisters worked at her uncle's factory, Her dad kept changing jobs and so did Benny, I learned that you shouldn't fight, because it makes everything worse, Aurynyears old,This Book, was Sad but very, . . Interesting
I don't understand why this book has such a low rating, It is probably one of the most realistic and historically accurate book in the entire series, At least it touches on not only the depression but the rise of Hitler, Not only this but it talks about how this was like for Jews in Canada, something not many people really touch on.
This was one of the first books I read in this series, and in my opinion, one of the best books in the series.
My first Dear Canada book was love at first, Sally made me feel sympathy and laughter, Unfortunately, I lost interest halfway through the book, I cant wait to read more Dear Canada books about World War, I've read a few of the 'Dear Canada' books but this is without a doubt my favourite, Sally Cohen's diary really touched me and pulled at the heart strings, Being from Toronto, I really liked reading about places I knew but what really got me, was the racist attitudes the Torontonians had in thes.
I've always been proud to be Canadian in this multicultured city and I had never imagined that Canadians were so racist and some even supported Hitler in those days.
Then to read that Canada had pretty much closed their doors to Jews fleeing the Nazis made me so angry and upset.
In all honesty, this book made me change the way I thought of my country, The rosetinted glasses have been taken off,

I'm so glad I've read this book, It was a little snapshot of life for a young Jewish girl living in Toronto during the depression.
It opened my eyes and made me appreciate the time I'm living in now where racism and intolerance to religious beliefs are not acceptable in society.
I think that's the whole point to these little books, Little girls reading these can look at what they have and what world they live in and be a little more grateful.


Of all the books in the series I've read so far, this book has been the most touching and the message is spoken loud and clear.
This one was all right, Not my favorite. I think I knew too much about the history to really get lost in the book, I need to stick to the ones that have new information for me, This book was very fascinating and it gave me a lot of insight of life during the Great Depression as well as opinions on Jewish "sticking to your own kind.
" I never really realized how families could have different rules about religious mingling, Another book from the Dear Canada series, this time focussing on the Great Depression and how those who were Jewish were treated at this time.
Not a Nickel to Spare is full of historical facts that will leave the readers wanting to know more about Canada's history.
A great book to better understand what it is do be without, Yay! I got around to this book! Now with many if not most of the Dear Canada fictional diaries that I had read before joining Goodreads inand that are often still languishing on my toread list as unreviewed, I am of course planning on rereading them before I finally post a review.
But no, I will indeed NOT bother doing so with Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen, since I did not at at ALL enjoy Perry Nodelman's featured text when I read Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen inand have definitely mostly found Sally Cohen's imagined journal musings annoyingly frustrating and in no way even remotely a reading pleasure and because yes, I just also and really do not feel up to rereading a narrative that I have found so unenjoyable I actually had to constantly skim and skip huge sections of in order to be able to even complete Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen and not give up.


For while Perry Nodelman does certainly capture a very realistic sense of time and of place in Sally Cohen's fictional diary Depression era Toronto, Canada, with its economic woes and widespread joblessness, as well as issues regarding rising antiSemitism ins Canada, I for one have from the first printed words of Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen found Sally's voice while perhaps age appropriate also absolutely inauthentic with regard to gender, with how Perry Nodelman presents Sally Cohen and her fictional diary never really feeling like she, like Sally truly is a girl, but rather more like a boy in disguise, like I am reading a male voice pretending to be female, not deliberately done so of course, but I just do not think that Perry Nodelman ever truly captures Sally as being in any way feminine enough and as such also sufficiently authentic and relatable.


And indeed, the inherent inauthenticity of Nodelman's narration, of how he in my opinion is unable to render Sally into a gender appropriate narrator, this has also truly and lastingly lessened my potential reading pleasure regarding Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen and to the point of me only considering but one star as a rating.
Because yes, if there is one thing that I personally cannot abide and stomach when reading especially first person narration, it is indeed voices that feel false, and to and for me, Sally just does not ever in Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen show herself as though she even a totally ny bit mirrors whom and what she is in fact supposed to be, that there is really nothing in her fictional diary entries that I have found girl appropriate, that Perry Nodelman in my opinion truly makes his Sally Cohen feel not at all realistic as a girl, as someone who is supposed to be inherently female.
I only have very vague memories of reading this book, but I'm pretty sure I found it enjoyable.
Not the best, but not the worst in the series, Coping with being poor during the Depression is hard enough, but Sally also has to deal with the antiJewish feelings in her community when she ventures outside her familiar Jewish neighbourhood.
And her cousin Benny is always getting into scrapes Sally has to try to get him out of.
Sally must find the strength and learn to cope with the world around her, .