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Suzy and Leah The story ¨Suzy and Leah¨ by Jane Yolen is about two girls writing in their diaries as they get to know each other. They each had a different perspective of how the other one´s life was, and what the other one was like. At first they didn't like each other, but towards the end, those feelings changed and they got to know each other. Suzy and Leah both learned that they shouldn't always assume things about people. In the beginning, Suzy assumed that Leah was weird. She didn't take any food from Suzy, she hardly ate anything at all, and she seemed to always hang back alone. Leah´s reason for not taking food and hanging back alone was that she didn't want to seem like wild animals. To her, they weren't prisoners anymore. She refused to be like the others, ecstatic when something was given. Then the refugee children came to Suzy´s school. She got paired to help Leah with English. She first asked for a different pairing. Leah couldn't believe that she would have to deal with Suzy every day either. Their perspectives quickly started to change about each other. …show more content…

When she was going to correct Leah´s English paper, Leah shrunk back in her seat, as if she was going to get hit. She thought that was weird, but to Leah, that was truly what she expected. When Leah wasn't at school, Suzy worried. When Suzy found out that Leah was in the hospital, she worried even more. She wondered why Leah never told anyone that she was sick. Leah never told anyone because when she was in the German camp, if they got sick, they wouldn't let them live. When Suzy went to visit, she read Leah´s diary. She knew it was a bad thing to do, and she felt bad about it. At first, she didn't understand what anything written in it meant. She asked her mother questions to try to understand better, without letting her mother know she had read it. It helped her understand Leah better. After that, she didn't find Leah so annoying and

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