Line #11 Literature/AllOfAKindFamily


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3	A series of books about a Jewish family in the 1910s. It tells the story of five young girls and the everyday trials, tribulations and triumphs of being poor in money, but rich in spirit and family strength.
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5	!!Contains examples of:
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7	* AssumedWin: In ''Uptown'', when Sarah loses a coveted History Prize to another girl in her graduating class.
8	%%* BeachEpisode
9	%%* BookDumb: Henny
10	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Henny develops shades of this as she gets older.
11	* DontYouDarePityMe: In ''More All-Of-A-Kind Family'', Lena calls off her engagement to Hyman, thinking he only pities her due to [[spoiler: her leg being permanently crippled by polio]].
12	* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: A soft version. In the first book, middle child Sarah refuses to eat her rice soup at lunch and is denied anything else until she does. However, she isn't really being denied food, she just has to eat something she doesn't like before she can have the food she actually wants. Papa even tells her she doesn't have to eat the whole thing, she just has to eat a little of it, and Mama carries that through when Sarah does give in, only requiring her to eat a few bites before giving her her dinner.
13	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Averted with Henny, even discussed in ''All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown'': "So much gold in the hair! What a pity there's so little in the heart." Played straight with Sarah and Gertie.
14	* HeCleansUpNicely: Invoked in ''More All-Of-A-Kind Family'' with Hyman, whom the girls fix up so he looks good for a date with Lena.
15	* InformedJudaism: Averted. The narrative discusses Jewish holidays and traditions, and Yiddish dialogue is peppered throughout the story (specifically in the market trip chapter).
16	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Henny, full stop
17	* LimitedWardrobe: In the first book, the girls are rarely seen wearing anything other than their dark blue dresses and white aprons.
18	%%* MassiveNumberedSiblings
19	* MsImagination: Charlotte to the point of sometimes being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, as when she dumps embers in her lap because she thinks they're beautiful.
20	* MistakenIdentity: Waiting in the dark, Papa mistakes Henny's friend for Henny (in trouble for breaking curfew) and turns her over his knee for a rigorous spanking. HilarityEnsues.
21	* MoralityPet: Though Henny isn't exactly evil, her softer and more maternal side is mostly reserved for little Charlie.
22	* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Well, these books ''were'' written in the 1950s.
23	%%* OldTimeyBathingSuit
24	* OnlyOneName: ...or the family's last name.
25	* ParentalMarriageVeto: [[spoiler: Charlie's]] parents forbade him from marrying the love of his life, who walked away in sadness. In anger, he left his home, his old life and even his old name [[spoiler: Herbert Charles Grahm]]. But in the end, he and his sweetheart are happily reunited [[spoiler: and she turns out to be the girls' favorite librarian, Kathy Allen]].
26	%%* SmittenTeenageGirl: Ella's crush on Charlie.
27	* UnnamedParent: We never do learn Mama and Papa's given names.
28	* WildTeenParty: Henny goes to one of these in ''Uptown''. Of course, this being 1917, it's pretty tame by modern standards.

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