Kirkus Reviews First Fiction Special Issue - "Kids & YA" section
Date of Review:
Apr.15.2008
Published Work:
Source:
Kirkus Reviews First Fiction Special Issue, page 17
"What was the life of an indentured servant but that of a slave? M.P. Barker brings it ringingly, cringingly to life...A Difficult Boy hinges on the efforts of two boys—one social, one circumstantially remote, soon to be friends—to escape their brutalized existence... Then there is Ivy, a horse that bonds the boys
and provides their ticket out."
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About Michele
I'm a time traveler—well, actually an archivist and historian, which amounts to the same thing. I got a firsthand taste (sometimes literally!) of nineteenth-century New England rural life when I was a costumed historical interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village...
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