This is a great book for kids. It is longer and wordier than other books I've read and the artwork is somewhat bland, but the subject makes for a great discussion starter. After reading it a good classroom question might be "do you have any heroes?" or "is there something that you care about enough to die for?" These two questions are the main themes in the book about a young girl who discovers her own heroes are all around her- her father, mother and next door neighbor. The book takes a look at the inner thought process of a young girl as she wrestles with these two questions.
Reading this book also made me realize how much America has changed in such a short period of time. In the book, everyone in the school left early on tuesdays to go to church. I also learned a fact that around this same time period, the church bells would ring on sunday mornings and anyone not found in church could be put in prison!
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