{"id":14564,"date":"2024-05-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14564"},"modified":"2024-05-09T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:02:24","slug":"in-tenmile-mining-town-what-future-does-she-have-by-sandra-dallas-mg-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14564","title":{"rendered":"In TENMILE mining town, what future does she have? by Sandra Dallas (MG book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"419\" height=\"594\" data-attachment-id=\"14565\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=14565\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Tenmile.jpg?fit=419%2C594&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"419,594\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tenmile\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Tenmile.jpg?fit=419%2C594&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Tenmile.jpg?resize=419%2C594&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Back of young girl with long hair, looking at old western town at base of mountains - book cover of Tenmile, by Sandra Dallas\" class=\"wp-image-14565\" style=\"width:311px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Tenmile.jpg?w=419&amp;ssl=1 419w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Tenmile.jpg?resize=201%2C285&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Tenmile.jpg?resize=106%2C150&amp;ssl=1 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Beautiful mountains above, <br>gold in the ground below, <br>the many toiling to benefit a few.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some have enough, most have little, a few have so much &#8211; life in their <a href=\"https:\/\/westernmininghistory.com\/towns\/colorado\/russell-gulch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colorado gold mining town<\/a> isn&#8217;t fair, her widowed doctor father tells 13-year-old Sissy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;d asked him once why he hadn&#8217;t moved to Denver, where there were beautiful houses and grass and leafy trees. &#8216;Because people in Tenmile need me,&#8217; he&#8217;d replied.&#8221; (p.85)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When their fathers are injured in the mines, some of her friends  must drop out of school to support their families, working as maids, clothes washers, even down in the mines as young teens\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willie Gilpin&#8217;s big brother died of scarlet fever, so his worried mother keeps him home from school. The rich mine owner&#8217;s son has gotten spoiled and mean; 13-year-old Sissy will tutor him, but not put up with his bad behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, no! Another mine accident! Sissy runs to help. <br>Doc has taught her many treatments and remedies; she helps him setting broken bones and delivering babies &#8211; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hws.edu\/about\/history\/elizabeth-blackwell\/entry-of-women-into-medicine.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no one thinks a girl can be a doctor in 1880<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for this 2022 release in hardcover, paperback, or eBook at <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/libraries\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">your local library<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">independent bookstore<\/a> (not affiliate links).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What dream job are you aiming for, despite what others say? <br>**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>: Tenmile \/ Sandra Dallas. Sleeping Bear Press, hardcover 2022. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandradallas.com\/tenmile\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sandradallas.com\/tenmile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">author site<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/cherrylakepublishing.com\/shop\/show\/53234\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cherrylakepublishing.com\/shop\/show\/53234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful mountains above, gold in the ground below, the many toiling to benefit a few.. Some have enough, most have little, a few have so much &#8211; life in their Colorado gold mining town isn&#8217;t fair, her widowed doctor father tells 13-year-old Sissy. &#8220;She&#8217;d asked him once why he hadn&#8217;t moved to Denver, where there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[203,22,4,75,197,230,5,37,16,118,18,40,44,43,27,49,184,132,193,502,15,9,21,57,35,33,3,8],"class_list":["post-14564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-abuse","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-bullying","tag-colorado","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-economics","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-personal-finance","tag-prejudice","tag-professions","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}