BOOK REVIEW: THE LIGHT IN THE CELLAR

THE LIGHT IN THE CELLAR

Sarah Masters Buckey

American Girl, Inc.

2007

Available: paperback & Kindle

Molly McIntire & her friend Emily, a refugee from England, wish they could do something really important to help America win World War Two. Everyone is volunteering to help the cause. They want to be plane spotters or something else equally important, but they're stuck delivering magazines to patients at the Oak Knoll Hospital. It's not glamorous or exciting. And doesn't even feel close to being patriotic. Still, it is what they've been asked to do. They make regular visits to the hospital and talk to the patients even if it is a tad bit boring. And then things start to get interesting. When Molly overhears someone is threatening

BOOK REVIEW: SHADOWS ON SOCIETY HILL

SHADOWS ON SOCIETY HILL review

SHADOWS ON SOCIETY HILL

AN Addy MYSTERY

Evelyn Coleman

Pleasant Company Publications

2007

Available: paperback,

Eleven-year-old Addy's life is suddenly changed when she saves the life of a man from being trampled on a busy Philadelphia street. The man wants to give her huge reward, but her poppa declines. Then man then offers him a job and a house to live in on his property in the elegant Society Hill section of town. The year is 1866. Just two years earlier Addy and her mother had escaped from a plantation in North Carolina where they were slaves. The new home is more wonderful than imagined, but not every one is happy that a colored family has moved