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The Touch of Magic by Lorena Hickok


The book I chose to read is called The Touch of Magic written by Lorena
A. Hickok. The story was about Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller's wonderful
teacher. I had never heard of Anne before I read this book, but while looking
in the library my mom explained to me who she was and she seemed like she would
be an interesting person to do it on. I was right.
Anne Sullivan Macy was born on April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills,
Massachusetts. At the age of nine she was taken to the outskirts of Tewksbury,
Massachusetts with her three year old brother Jimmie. There, they were sent to
the Massachusetts State Infirmary. Not because they were mentally sick or
anything, but because they had nowhere else to go.
Their mother had died of tuberculosis and their father had left them.
None of their relatives wanted them because Annie was nearly blind and Jimmie
had something wrong with his hip and had to walk with a crutch. Annie's one
year old sister was......

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