I read this book in anticipation of hearing the author speak at the Fox Cities Book Festival. (Marvelous presentation, by the way, and encouraged me to continue the series.)Like others have written, I didn't particularly care for the main character, Chloe, at first. Her depression issues and "lea...
Genre: Historical FictionAwards: noneGrade: K-2I think this would be a book that younger students would enjoy reading. It has an easy to follow, historically accurate plot line. Also, it has a common theme of bravery and doing what is right. The younger girls would be draw to this story because o...
Meet Caroline is the story of Caroline Abbot, who is girl living during the War of 1812. I read this one on my own, without my little sister, because she and my mom read it together. So, before we buy more in the series, I had to know what happened in the first one. Even without reading it to a c...
I have read the first book in the series and this one. I am continually disappointed with the main character. I prefer to read about strong women who take charge of their lives and move forward. Chloe is whiney, and self absorbed. I had hoped the second book in the series would have her character...
Chloe Ellefson is a special collections professional who is spending a week at the historic Pottawatomie lighthouse on Rock Island to research furnishings for the RISC (Rock Island Support Circle). This group of dedicated volunteers is in the process of restoring the lighthouse with the hope that...
During her career she’d helped tell the beginning of that story (planting, growing, and harvesting grain) and the end of that story (creating baked goods from scratch) at historic farms from Wisconsin to Switzerland. She’d never had opportunity to consider the middle phase, though—turning grain i...
He took her to see The Heiress because Sigrid liked Olivia de Haviland, and they strolled through Dunnings Spring Park, and … well. The point was, she felt sad and happy whenever he came home, and sad and happy whenever he left. 83 Sigrid sighed and picked up her current needlework project, a bab...
Sprawling belly-down on her bed, she opened her notebook to a clean page. On the left side she listed all the attacks made on the newspaper. Then, digging back through her memory, she started another list opposite the first: Press lever stolen Mr. Spaulding knew when we were coming and unpacked t...