Susan Cornish

By: Rebecca Caudill

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Synopsis: Susan Cornish by Rebecca Caudill is a multileveled story. At 18, Susan is discouraged in her college studdies, feeling that her particular school isn't meeting her academic mental or emotional needs. In a fit of discouraged exasperation she tells her father that she's quitting college, and goes to the school board and gets a teaching job in a one-room school in a depressed comunity. She soon learns that many of the parents are sharecroppers on worn out land, and just making it from crop to crop is almost too great an effort. The education of their children comes merely as an afterthought. The span of the book is 3 years. In this length of time, Susan and her comunity confront and solve many of their own problems. In the End, though it's a bit fairy tale like, Susan has begun to considderthe the needs and feelings of other people, and is finding a peacefulness within herself.