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| | Emily (Sunfire, No 11) |  | Author: Candice F. Ransom
Publisher: Scholastic
Category: Book
List Price: $2.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 691424
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4 x 1
ISBN: 0590334107
EAN: 9780590334105
ASIN: 0590334107
Publication Date: March 1985
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 Emily February 15, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Emily is a rich girl that would rather work to earn her living and money. When her brother becomes seriously ill and she goes looking for the young doctor that helped her before, she finds herself in a hospital. She meets a student nurse who convinces her to work half days, at the hospital, as a nurse. While working there Emily faces many hardships. Her mother and father think that she'll ruin the family name if word gets out that she's a nurse, in one of the local hospitals; she falls in love with a doctor in training who keeps everything to himself and won't let any body help him; and her cousins don't understand why she would want to give up her wealth and social standing to become a nurse in a dirty hospital.
I like that at the end of the novel instead of telling you what happens to Emily they let you decide what happens to her.Personally this book had no effect on me because I couldn't relate to her. I would recommend this to girls about 13 or 14 that like love novels that have some adventure in them.
 This is a book you can read over and over again! April 18, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have read many of the Sunfire Romances, and Emily is one of the best. As well as providing a detailed insight into the lives of the Fifth Avenue millionaires at the turn of the twentieth century, this book explores deeper themes within this context, such as the upper class reliance on tradition, and how one girl breaks away from accepted standards to follow her heart. Emily falls in love with Stephen, a medical student from the Lower East Side, and decides to work in a hospital to be near him, but she soon discovers that there is meaning in life when one is helping others. All the while, she is battling her conservative parents and being compared to her beautiful, radiant cousin Annabelle, a "credit to the Blackburn family." This book is truly enjoyable...a delightful read and an enthralling history lesson!
An Exciting and Educational Book December 4, 1999
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Emily was my favorite book as a child. It taught me a lot about the history of women in medicine and since it describes the dawn of the 20th century, it is especially relevant now, as we face the dawn of the 21st century.Emily is a love story. A young debutante falls in love with a poor medical student and, at the same time, with the world of medicine. Much to her family's shock and horror, she begins to work at a hospital as a nurses assistant. The story is delightfully readably, and yet it discusses complex themes such as romance between people of different class backgrounds, the role of women in medicine, coming of age, confilcts with one's parents and with one's social background, discovering one's professional calling in life and following it in spite of obstacles and falling in love for the first time. The Sunfire series was a wonderfull series. It gave me an overview of history that helped me later in school. Even as an adult, I still think back on the Sunfire series as a valuable influence. They give an honest, subtly feminist perspective. Educational without being dull -- historical but still modern and easy to relate to. Someone should bring them back!
 My favorite Sunfire romance September 16, 1999
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've enjoyed reading all the customer comments on the Sunfireromances; I have fond memories of being enthralled with them when Iwas a teenager and rushing to the bookstore everytime I got my allowance to see if a new one had come out. EMILY was my favorite (also I think one of the last ones published in the longer format), particularly for its detailed description of life among the upper classes in turn of the century NY. Some publisher really should bring these back into print, or expand upon the series - it was a great tool for training young readers to be devoted fans of paperback romances. EMILY is particularly timely now - it talks all about the concerns people had when 1899 became 1900!
A book to love. March 27, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Emily is a millionaire who falls in love with a medical student. He inspires her to become a nurse but her hopes are dashed when her parents return from Europe and threaten to send her to Boarding School. Emily tries to go to the hospital but is caught every time. Can Emily seek the career of her choice and can the man she loves love her? Bring back the Sunfire Romances!!!
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