Introducing Shirley Braverman by Hilma Wolitzer, Dell
Hilma Wolitzer’s young adult novel was first published in hardback by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1975. This is the cover of the mass-market paperback issued as Dell 94112 in March 1978, featuring Patrick Collins’s Rodin for the title. The cover artist is unknown.
From the back cover:
To twelve-year-old Shirley Braverman, World War I| seems a long way from Brooklyn. Her immediate concerns include Saturday double features at Loew’s and her little brother Theodore. Will he grow up to be the biggest sissy in the whole world? Shirley and her best friend, Mitzi, try everything to make him more self-confident – hypnotism, body building, scaring him half to death. Even more important, though, is the interborough spelling competition. Shirley dreams of being named the best speller in New York City, and she practices constantly from her book Words That Stump the Experts. Mitzi gets bored, but Shirley is determined to win the Mayor’s Medal. Then, suddenly, the war comes close to home. A telegram arrives: Buddy, Mitzi’s brother, is missing in action.
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