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Historical reenactments
2 Reviews
(2)
YA
Every summer Chelsea's family works as living history interpreters at Colonial Essex Village. Things get awkward when she traitorously falls for a boy working at the village's rival across the street, Civil War Reenactment-land. The story, narrated in Chelsea's acerbically funny voice, is filled with specifics about Colonial life (and the lives of the interpreters) and meditations on history, memory, heartbreak, and love.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2011
(3)
K-3
After roll call and breakfast with other soldiers in his Union camp, nine-year-old Stephen drums his company into a battle. A stray bullet hits the drummer boy, and he dies on the battlefield. On the last page, Lewin reveals that Stephen is actually a contemporary boy participating in a Civil War reenactment with his father. Lewin's realistic watercolors add authenticity to this dramatic interpretation of historical events.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
2 reviews
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