My rating: 3.5/5 stars A Gathering of Days was a very quick read, being only about 145 pages and written in the form of a teenage girl’s diary with frequent breaks. This would be a great book to read with elementary students who are learning about 19th century New England because it chronicles a year…
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1959)
My rating: 4/5 stars I am fairly certain that I originally read The Witch of Blackbird Pond when I was in elementary school. As it’s historical fiction, it seems likely that it was assigned to me to learn about colonial history. In any case, I remembered none of it, so I figured it was time…
