All About "historical fiction"
Book Review: Out of Time (1996)
The ridiculous story could come from an early silent movie.
Read MoreBook Review: The Book Thief
Powerful teen novel about poor Germans in WWII.
Read MoreBook Review: Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906
Plucky orphan survives San Francisco's big quake.
Read MoreReview: Chig and the Second Spread
Chig, so called because "That girl ain't any bigger than a little red chigger," is small for her age, the smallest girl in the one-room schoolhouse in Niplack, "way down deep in the hills and hollers of southern Indiana." She doesn't talk much either and, as her Aunt Dorothea tells her, "to be small or to be quiet on its own is no great disability in life. But if you're both at once, you're apt to be invisible ..."
Chig may be quiet, but she notices things, such as the way the contents of her classmates' lunch buckets are dwindling, often to just a biscuit with one spread -- ketchup. And the time is coming when her observations and her readiness to speak out come together in a surprising way.
Read MoreBook Review: Meet Julie: An American Girl
Plucky '70s American Girl fights for her rights.
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