I'm doing a double-book review today of the first two books of the Life and Times Series by Scholastic. Put together by the same team who created the My America, My Name is America, and Royal Diaries series, this particular set of childrens' books focuses on people who lived during the ancient civilizations. I believe the series has since been
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So which books did you like in the Dear America series? I've started to collect those in hopes of reading them this summer.
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Maybe Denenberg should have written them as Sci-fi/Fantasy and had characters going back in time from modern day. Then maybe he would have been able to get his dates correct and written a female character who could actually do something while highlighting the fact that Athenian girls couldn't.
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Besides, the endlessly whining protagonist who can't do anything sells copy these days. Look at Twilight.
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