num_pages: 296
description: Sally was ten when she made herself a movie star. As big a star as either Esther Williams or Margaret O'Brien, for whom she dreamed up some of her best stories.Sally would never have had to leave New Jersey to reach stardom except that in 1947 her older brother Douglas became ill, so the Freedman family traveled south to spend eight months in the sunshine of Florida. That's where Sally met her friends Andrea, Barbara and Shelby Peter and Georgia Blue Eyes—and her unsuspecting enemy Adolf Hitler.Dear Chief of Police: You don't know me but I am a detective from New Jersey. I have uncovered a very interesting case down here. I have discovered that Adolf Hitler is alive and has come to Miami Beach to retire. He is pre- tending to be an old Jewish man...While she watched and waited, and kept a growing file of letters under her bed, Sally's Hitler played an important—though not quite starring—role in one of her grandest movie spectaculars.--front flap
language: English
title: Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself
titlecomplete: Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself
genres: Fiction, Historical, Juvenile, Jewish, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Classics, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 14840
places: Miami, Florida
publisher: Bradbury Press