A Bookworm’s Guide to the Best Historical Fiction Book
“Once you can read anything, you can learn everything.” - Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing When I was about about eight years old, my sister and I discovered American Girl dolls. We spent hours pouring over the American Girl catalog and started saving our allowances up to buy our dolls. (In the end, our MawMaw could never pass up an opportunity to spoil her grandkids and bought them for us for Christmas.) For those who are unfamiliar with the American Girl doll concept, each doll comes from a specific era in American history. The first doll I got was Molly, an American girl from the World War II era. The main reason I picked her was because she kind of looked like me with her mousy brown hair and glasses. Each doll also came with a series of short chapter books about her life during the era. While they are by no means literary masterpieces, I loved them. These books not only fostered my love of reading, but more specifically, instilled a lifelong love for historical fiction. Since ...
