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The Schoolhouse Blizzard

Maddy and the Monstrous Storm by Julie Gilbert

May 14, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Maddy  is new to the prairie, but when she and her classmates are trapped in their schoolhouse by a ferocious blizzard, she must lead them all to safety. I’d first heard of the Schoolhouse Blizzard a year or two ago, when I read Melanie Benjamin’s The Children’s Blizzard, which similarly followed a schoolteacher and a group of schoolchildren who were trapped by the snow and had to fight to survive. This book covers the same topic and themes, but in a way that is more accessible […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History Tagged With: ARC, Children's, historical, Julie Gilbert, NetGalley, pioneers, survival

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:67 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History · Tags: ARC, Children's, historical, Julie Gilbert, NetGalley, pioneers, survival ·
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Manifest Destiny was SO cool!

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

December 28, 2019 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I read a lot of the criticism about this book when it came out. That it was another white-washing of history and I must admit that I considered that perhaps the outrage was directed more at the idea of the book than the book itself. McCullough is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner after all. Perhaps, I thought, he would discuss the ideas in an objective way that did not avoid the inherent issues with the idea of the pioneers moving west. I am very interested […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: david mccullough, pioneers

thewheelbarrow's CBR11 Review No:47 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: david mccullough, pioneers ·
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