Sue Barton Visiting Nurse

by Helen Dore Boylston

Book Overview

Having finished her course in a metropolitan hospital, Sue moves on to New York where she and her friend Kit are fortunate enough to secure positions with the Visiting Nurse Service of the Henry Street Settlement - a service made famous by Lillian Wald. The city is new to them and the test of their skill is absorbing. Their assignments take them to the most colorful slums in the world. They work with newborn babies and obstinate old people, with immigrants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595110267
• ISBN13: 9781595110268
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Image Cascade Publishing
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Sue as New York city visiting nurse

This book follows "Sue Barton, Senior Nurse". In this story, Sue and her best friend, Kit, move to New York city; and join the Visiting Nurse service. Sue's duties take her from the Lower East Side to Harlem. There are many vignettes, humorous and touching. Not all Sue's duties are medical. She helps a lonely Polish new mother find neighborhood friends; and she helps a kind old woman realize her dreams of travel, (Sue secretly donates the money she had saved for her own trousseau for the trip). This leads into a surprising reward for Sue herself.This was a good story. A highlight of the book was the wedding of Sue and Kit's friend, Connie, which takes place in "The Church Around the Corner". It is a beautiful and romantic scene. Recommended.

Sue Barton Series

I have read all the books in the series as a young girl. I love them very much. Today I am nurse. I have read all the author's novels. Now I am Collector of books that I have read in the past.