![]() ![]() Next, there’s no Internet, so the questions he keeps track of in his notebook (over 400 so far) will have to go un-Googled. 9-13)Įleven-year-old Brooklynite Genie has “worry issues,” so when he and his older brother, Ernie, are sent to Virginia to spend a month with their estranged grandparents while their parents “try to figure it all out,” he goes into overdrive.įirst, he discovers that Grandpop is blind. That and the simple sentences in which the book is written make the book accessible to younger readers, even though it is lengthy. Blos's A Gathering of Days (1990), the accumulation of daily detail takes on a presence of its own. Still, Mary provides lively narration that flows along smoothly, and the portrait of the ways of the period and place is a compelling one. ![]() The emphasis for Whelan (Night of the Full Moon, 1993, etc.) is on the historic events-all occurring offstage-and the depiction of ordinary living, which leaves the characters two-dimensional. While worrying about him, Mary and her siblings must keep the farm going. Then the War of 1812 begins, the British capture the island, and Mary's father goes to the mainland to fight. ![]() Their life, though hard, has been one of peace and reasonable prosperity. Mary lives with her father and older siblings on their farm on Mackinac Island on Lake Michigan. Historical fiction set in the early days of America. ![]()
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