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Question: I've been trying to find this book from when I was young - does anyone recognize it!?
When I was in the 4th grade, I read this book: it was about a young girl who was sick with the flu or something, and had to stay home!. Her grandmother gave her a porcelain doll, and every time the girl went to sleep holding the doll, she had these crazy realistic dreams that she was back in the old west or something!. All of her dreams connected - it was like when she went to sleep she kept watching (or was part of) a film!. By the end, she figured out that the story she was experiencing was actually her grandmother's childhood because of the last thing that happened in her dream - a fire that actually killed her little sister!.
Okay, so that took a good minute to type!. Does anyone recognize this!? If so, could you give me a title and an author!? I've been searching for this book for about 8 years now, so I would be the happiest girl on earth!. Thank you SO much!Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Could it be The Doll by Cora Taylor!?

Here's a bit about it:

Invalid Meg is taken to her grandmother's house to recover from rheumatic fever while her parents decide how best to arrange her life now that thy are divorcing!. Meg fears the impending family crisis, but as her parents have not included her in their decision, she is still able to deny the awful truth!.

Grandmother Cameron gives Meg a china doll named Jessie, "the invalid doll," so-called because children in the family have traditionally been allowed to hold her only when thy were sick!. Through Jessie's intervention, Meg slips backwards in dreams to become Morag, a pioneer child whose family is travelling by horsedrawn wagon across the prairies to Fort Carleton!. Meg returns to Morag and her family more and more often!. The love and security that the pioneer family fosters are enticing!. Meg almost decides to remain as Morag and thereby escape the pain and isolation caused by her parents' impending divorce, but something happens that prevents Meg from permanently assuming Morag's identity!. When a recovered Meg takes charge of her life in the present, she discovers what happened to Morag!.

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i remember reading this book in english class
a few years ago but i can't remember the name
i wish i did so i could tell you because you
really sound like you want to know SORRYWww@QuestionHome@Com