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Title: Sue Barton, Superintendent of Nurses
Author: Helen Dore Boylston
Genre: YA, classics
Rating: 6/10
# pages: 129
Date read: January, 2008

Summary: "Sue Barton, Superintendent of Nurses" features Sue as the superintendent of the new Springdale Hospital School of Nursing, along with the concurrent story of Sue and Bill Barry's first three years of marriage. Sue is uneasy about her administrative role since she prefers hands-on nursing, but with the guidance of her staff, she carries the new job through to the best of her ability. Her natural warmth and interest in the students also help her to sort out their problems and personalities; from taming a sophisticated smart aleck, to guiding an unhappy nursing student into the teaching career the girl really wants. Meanwhile, Sue and Bill have to adjust to life together as a married couple.

Review: The foreshadowing in this series is getting out of hand. A little is fine, but I don't need a paragraph at the start of each chapter telling me what's going to happen in the chapter.

This was a very difficult book to read. I still enjoy the stuff happening at the hospital, but it had the sad sub-plot of how a married couple can fall apart... not through harsh words and mean actions, but simply because of misunderstandings that aren't handled in time, but allowed to grow large.

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