Excerpt from The Young Champion: One Year in Grace Aguilar's Girlhood But here again the critic need not be too severe. In fiction the end often justifies the means. In the hope that the story may prove readable to our young people, and, brief though it be, suggestive to their parents for it touches on topics that can no longer be ignored by those who wish Jewish foun dations to be permanent, and who see little prospect for the strengthening of Jewish ideals except in the old-fashioned balance wheels - this little volume is submitted to the public. May It meet as appreciative a reception as that accorded to its prede cessor, Step by Step. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.