I finally wrote up a review of this book! It's an old favorite! I wrote it up for my blog, Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing (and, it looks/reads better there, because all the HTML is viewable! :) )Time Enough for Drums is the one of three reasons I decided in 8th grade that it was okay to rea...
A Break with Charityby: Ann Rinaldi 1. The setting of this book is Salem Village in 1692. The book demonstrates the Witch Trials and all the events that took place during this time. 2. This book follows a young girl, Susanna English through her experience with the Witch Trials. Before the trial...
alyssa pagan December 29 2011Brooklyn Rose The main character is Rose. She lives some where in the south and marry’s a fifty year old man. Rose is 14. She has mom a dad a sister and a little brother. Her sister has married just a few days before her. Her sister is now expecting a baby as for ...
An Acquaintance with Darkness is about both the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and also medical history surrounding the Civil War. Emily Pigbush, the daughter of one of Elizabeth Keckley's seamstresses, has been orphaned and is supposed to live with her best friend, Annie Surratt. However, when...
Just the other day, this little book on Tudor England in the juvenile fiction department of the library called out to me. It’s not a genre I particularly read, but since I was on the heels of having completed Bring Up the Bodies, what was I to do?!It’s a sad, often times, heart-wrenching story ab...
The reader is drawn into the story right off by being plunged into the conflict by the very first line. The story proceeds with a chain of causes and effects. Each event sets off another. Because of the complex nature of the characters, there is ever an element of surprise. Lizzy’s nemesis Elinor...
I have come to expect so much more from Ann Rinaldi. She was the first author to introduce me to the world of historical fiction. When I first started to read vigorously my aunt gifted me with the Ann Rinaldi book 'an aquantice with darkness" and after that I moved through the rest of her series ...
Keep Smiling Through is a lovely book. Just like Ann Rinaldi’s other novels there is a strong female character who speaks about life truths in a very straightforward almost painfully honest way.I really like the theme in this one. You can do the right thing but things can still turn out badly. An...
The Coffin QuiltBy: Sam JenningsThis book is called The Coffin Quilt. It is a historical fiction about the Hatfields and McCoys of Kentucky and West Virginia. This feud started with a pig that was stolen by the Hatfields. This book is about a girl named Fanny McCoy who tries to survive the feud. ...
Torn from her native land in Africa when only a small child, Keziah arrives in Boston terrified. She doesn't understand what the white people say. On the voyage, she was treated inhumanely and watched her mother die. Bought by Mr. Wheatley for his wife, Keziah becomes Phillis Wheatley. She is a s...