Tag: Historical Fiction

by Susan Lynn Meyer

Sequel to Black Radishes, it starts right where that one left off, with Gustave and his family on the ship arriving to America. Gustave is eagerly watching for the first sight of land with his cousin on deck. They’re disappointed that the ship docks in Baltimore and they have to take a train to New York, where relatives are going to help them get settled in their new country. It’s very exciting and confusing for Gustave. Frustrating that he can’t understand the language, yet his grasp is a bit better than his parents’, so they depend on him to translate and ask questions for them. Also frustrating and disappointing that his cousin goes to live with a (relatively) well-to-do aunt in a different part of the city, while his family has to make do in a small, shabby one-room apartment while they struggle to find work and save up for a better place. Gustave immediately starts school, while his parents attend night school to learn English, after long days working menial jobs. His father had owned a textile business back in France, so it is degrading to have to work as a janitor now, and that barely supports his family. Gustave faces the difficulties of school. Some teachers and peers are patient with his inability to understand, others not so much. There’s one teacher that continually treats him like he’s unintelligent, which isn’t the case at all. Some kids tease, or try to trip him up with words and phrases he doesn’t know yet. He’s often quick to manage a comeback though, or assess the situation through reading the faces and body language of those around him, even if the idioms and jokes are over his head. He makes friends with a black girl, and is confused when others mock or outright insult and shame them for being together. Pretty soon he realizes that America isn’t all about justice, freedom and equality like he’d hoped. Even here some people are treated unfairly or discriminated against. His family, because they are poor and immigrants. His friend, because she is colored. But amidst all this, he does find strength and new opportunities, and friendships, and ways to help his family succeed. For a long time he feels conflicted about his ties to France, loyalty to his home country, while at the same time trying to embrace being American. At the end of the novel, he finally accepts that this is going to be his new home, and more than just adjust, he has to adapt and accept it all, to forge a new future for himself. That they will probably never go back to France.

A lot of this story is based on experiences the author’s father went through, as an immigrant during WWII. She details in the back how much was drawn from that. Also from accounts by other authors, journals and biographies, who lived through that time period in New York. It has a very authentic feel, in my opinion. I liked this one better than Black Radishes, I felt I could relate a bit more to the main character’s situation and difficulties. Forgot to say earlier- he also had a lot of worry about what happened to loved ones left behind in Europe,  and couldn’t ask his friend back home in France about it, because their letters were read by censors. But found a way to communicate in a kind of code they created, and had some relief at the end, learning that at least one person he missed and feared for, was deemed alive and safe.

I really picked this book up initially because it has skating in the title, but that doesn’t come into the story until the very last chapter. It was at a special event, a rally that included collections of tin cans for the war effort, patriotic songs performed by schoolchildren, and a temporary skating rink build of wood planks near the waterfront. It sounds like all the kids took to skating immediately (I laughed, but also pictured it might be so, some people just have a knack for it) and the description of the different games and skating activities the rink announcer led them through was interesting. Some kids tried to bully Gustave there, but he stood up to them and had support from his friends. Their game of crack-the-whip on skates sounded very dangerous though!

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
306 pages, 2016

by Susan Lynn Meyer

Historical fiction children’s book (middle grade), from the viewpoint of a French boy during WWII. Gustave has a pleasant life, he loves his hometown of Paris, runs around with his two best friends (one is a cousin) all the time, and is active in the Boy Scouts. He’s looking forward to winning a Scout competition (some kind of scavenger hunt) when news of the war starts to turn his life upside down. First it’s just rumors, but then changes creep into their lives. Gustave’s family is Jewish, which he felt was very ordinary, until the government started imposing restrictions. There were food shortages for everyone, but things were worse for the Jews. When they heard that the Germans had crossed the border and were marching on Paris, his family fled to the countryside. For several years they lived there. Gustave was lonely and upset at leaving his friends behind, starting a new school where he didn’t know any kids, and facing some bullying from classmates who resented refugees moving into town (even though he was still French). Then German soldiers moved into the area, and they were right on the edge of the occupied zone. His father started crossing the line regularly- risky, but he could trade goods for food on the other side. He met a girl at school whose family was involved in the resistance, though she didn’t let on for a long time, but finally Gustave became a part of that too, proud of the part he played even though he was also frightened. Harassment by the soldiers increased, and Gustave witnessed some horrible things- death on a number of occasions- the war felt a bit closer to home in this story than in The War That Saved My Life. This child seemed to suffer more deprivations, see more bad things happen (but then, he hadn’t come from an awful background that made anything seem an improvement). He had to make some personal sacrifices, too. It was very interesting to me how the special radishes came into the story. Finally in the end Gustave’s family decides they must leave France and try to emigrate to America. Gustave is devastated at the thought that he won’t see some of his old friends ever again, or his beloved country, but he is also upset at what it has become under the shadow of war. It seems they simply have no choice but to try and flee.

This novel gave me a good picture of what life was like in occupied France for ordinary citizens, the ways they were involved with the war effort or the resistance, the difficulties and terrors they had to endure. It’s based loosely on some events the author’s father lived through. She explains at the end which parts are fact and which fictional. It all felt a bit at a distance, though- I was interested in reading about what happened, but I didn’t feel very connected to any of the characters as individuals. I’ve already started the sequel however, and I feel more involved as a reader with that one.

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
230 pages, 2010

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

A great sequel. Warning for SPOILERS if you haven’t read the first book!

The war continues, Ada and Jamie face even more privations and difficulties- yet through it all Ada continues to recognize how much better her life is now than it was before. She’s puzzled by people’s condolences on her losses (which to her seem like gains) and tries to pretend her foot has always been normal, that she doesn’t still limp. Susan looses her house, she moves with Jamie and Ada into a sevant’s cottage on the manor grounds, of the Lord and Lady Thornton. To Ada’s surprise and consternation, the house is requisitioned by the government and they are now living in close quarters with the stern Lady Thornton, who is upset at the smallness of this house which seems plenty grand to Ada. Different perspectives on everything. Ada continues to enjoy riding and improve her skills, and struggle with the emotional aftermath of having been abused and deprived by her own mother during her childhood. She’s often frustrated at not knowing everyday things- she’s never been in an elevator, never visited a zoo, never seen a piano. Things that other people around her take for granted. But she’s surprised to find there are skills she has which Lady Thornton lacks- practical things which are now more important, and she finds herself willing to share her abilities. But sometimes overstepping things, because she simply doesn’t know any better. Through all that tangle, Susan is patient and guides them well. But faces her own darkness with ongoing bouts of depression. Everyone has some kind of loss in this book, I had my dread about which of the introduced characters might die, and sadly I was right about one of them. More difficulties arise when a girl near Ada’s age is brought into the household- a Jewish refugee whose family fled Germany, but her mother is in an internment camp and her father doing secret work for the British government. Everyone is suspicious of the new girl, but when Ada finds out that she likes to ride and is good with horses, her attitude slowly thaws. She finds she has more in common with Ruth than she could have imagined, and even ends up supporting and comforting her in trials to come.

Again, so much going on in this book. Found family. Overcoming trauma and learning trust. Accepting people for how they are, and seeing past your first impressions of them. Living through the horrors of war. Adjusting and making do and moving on. I’m trying to write and give you a sense of what this book is about, without giving away any actual plot points- let’s just say the author takes you through a lot of ups and downs, you’re never sure who is going to make it through safely, and the reader comes to find some of these characters very dear. Ada continues to grow and overcome some of her past, but still struggles to trust others and accept love, though at the end she is getting much better at that. She and Jamie make a particularly kind gesture towards Susan, which brings their guardian some closure too, at last. I did not see that part coming (I thought they were planning something else) and it was really touching.

Rating: 4/5
388 pages, 2017

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Wow this book. Such a difficult subject, but hard to put down (except of course, when my brain suddenly got too tired). It’s set during WWII. The main character is Ada, a young girl who lived with her brother in poverty in London, until children were evacuated to the countryside. Ada resented her mother’s treatment of her, and longed to play outside, but she didn’t realize how bad things had actually been, until she faced a much better life with a woman who was was actually reluctant to take them in, but did her duty. How could this woman Susan feed them, clothe them, give them a warm and comfortable place to sleep, even make sure they got educated (Ada didn’t know how to read and write before), when her own mother who was supposed to love her had neglected those things? Ada hadn’t liked getting yelled at, physically punished or shut up in the room- never allowed outside- but she partly thought she deserved it. Her mother was ashamed of her club foot and had always abused her. Life in the country was so different Ada didn’t know what to think. She didn’t know about some of the simplest things- having never gone into shops, never walked through a field, never attended school. She sometimes reacted with anger and resentment at kind things people did for her, or gifts they gave, because she thought it would all get taken away again. Her conflicting feelings and terror at the prospect of being returned to London warred with her growing acceptance of the idea that life could be better, that she could actually learn and do things. She learned to walk on crutches, she taught herself to ride a pony, she made a few friends. She even assisted others when war brought wounded soldiers into their village. She grew up quickly and matured in so many ways, finding herself more capable than she’d ever imagined, and even slowly learning to trust that Susan actually cared for her. But at the end, she had to face her mother once more . . .

This story has so much going on. At heart, it’s about this girl gradually overcoming the trauma from her abusive childhood, learning new skills and learning to trust and receive love. She finds acceptance among the villagers and even admiration for a job well done (helping out with the war effort). The are quiet, parallel stories in here on similar themes- their temporary foster mother seems to be shunned by the locals and (though it is never spoken of clearly) appears to be suffering from depression and grief, after the death of her long-time friend. The two women had lived together and I can only assume they were partners. Ada’s brother is punished in school for being left-handed, and Susan has to march in there and set the teacher straight. So he had his own fear and shame to overcome, for something he couldn’t help- just being himself. Even the pony has been harmed by ignorance, because Susan assumed he was fine out there in the pasture with grass to eat, and never gave him proper care. Ada only learns this from a stable worker at a nearby horse farm who helps her out when she’s learning how to ride. She’s angry at Susan at first, then learns herself how to take care of the pony better, and teach Susan the same. They make things right. There’s also- of course- a lot in here about how civilians experienced the war, the fear of bombing, hiding in shelters, shortages and food rationing. Ada’s little brother loves to watch planes on the airfield near their home, and they have their share of close calls, terrifying moments and seeing others injured, wondering if there are spies among them . . .

I have the sequel here on my shelf ready to pick up, but I might need a lighter read in between! Although I will tell you, this one does have a good ending. You fear for Ada in the final chapters, but things do turn out all right.

Rating: 4/5
324 pages, 2015

by Cynthia Kadohata

The daughter of Japanese immigrants, twelve-year-old Sumiko lives on a flower farm. She feels a bit ostracized at school, being the only Japanese student and shunned at a birthday party. But she loves the flowers on the farm, works hard to help her family, and dreams of owning her own flower shop someday. Her life turns upside down when war starts. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, all Japanese are under suspicion and they feel the effects almost immediately. She quits going to school. Her family looses their farm, has to sell all their belongings for next to nothing, and get moved to an internment camp. First they stay at a converted racetrack, literally living in the horse stalls. Then they’re sent on a bus to Arizona. Living at the end of a road in the middle of nowhere, the hot dry dusty desert. It’s questionable what is worse, the heat or the boredom. Sumiko watches as some people around her fall into lethargy and depression while the kids run wild, lying and stealing at will. Her family seems to be dissolving- two family members were sent to a different internment camp up north, where they constantly talk about the cold in their letters. Even though she’s still with her brother, aunt and uncles, some days she hardly talks to any of them. They all feel a loss of purpose.

Gradually the people finds ways to occupy themselves, forming clubs, knitting circles, cooking for others, even planting gardens. This is where Sumiko pours her energies. (It was a nice surprise to once again read a book where the protagonist enjoyed gardening). She improves the soil, works hard to tend and protect her plants, grown from seeds she brought from home. Fields around them are planting with food crops, irrigation ditches are dug. Sumiko listens to the talk around her about the war, what the government has done to them, how they have lost their rights. There’s outrage and criticism when they hear that now the government wants their help in the war effort- they’re asked to leave the camp to work (for a pittance). Sumiko herself doesn’t want to leave. She’s found her place in the camp, strange and isolated as it is. She’s even made a few friends, including a Native American boy who sometimes meets her in a bean field. (The camp is on reservation land, and she learns that the tribe resents them being there, raising more conflict). Some of the young men are even enlisted as soldiers. It’s a whirlwind of change again near the end of the story. Her family is leaving- will she go with them? or stay with Frank. You do see some growth in her maturity, but overall I felt this was such a quietly-told story, I didn’t get a strong feel for Sumiko’s character. I found myself struggling to keep interest on the page sometimes. I’m not sure if it’s the writing style, the fact that this is still J fiction and maybe my brain is ready to move on, or that I have an intriguing sequel to another series waiting on my bedside table distracting my attention.

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: 3/5
260 pages, 2006

by Conrad Richter

Frontier times. A boy, soon to be a young man, was taken captive by a native tribe when he was a small child. John is now True Son. He was not made a slave, but adopted into the tribe and brought up as one of their own. When the story opens, the natives were being forced to give back all their white ‘captives’. True Son fought but was literally bound and dragged by soldiers back to a town of white settlers, where a family claimed him as their long-lost boy. He hated it there. He despised the food, the stifling buildings, the restrictive clothing. Only wanted to return to his native family. But when he got the opportunity, found that his loyalties were divided. Against his will, he had become fond of his younger white brother. He can’t bring himself to raise his hand against the white family now, not when he sees the face of a child in the company his native tribe is attacking. Which reluctance his tribal companions see as betrayal, so they cast him out, to return yet again to the white men. Torn from the freedom of life in the forest that he had loved. I can’t say this one had a happy ending, but it was a riveting read.

Note: I have not addressed some of the problematic language and attitudes the author portrayed in this book. Inaccuracies and degrading terms. While reading I kind of ignored those and just enjoyed the story, although I admit I had a few twinges of discomfort and realized if I read this with my kid, I’d have to point out what terms are insulting or just plain wrong. But some of the other reviews I linked to go into more detail on that, so please refer there.

Completed on 7/22/24.

Rating: 3/5
120 pages, 1953

Lucy and Andy Neanderthal

by Jeffrey Brown

Like the previous two books, this story about a Neanderthal family in the stone age shows what their daily life and challenges might have been like, and also how much like us they probably were- concerned about their family members, annoyed by younger siblings, preferring to have fun than doing boring tasks, etc. Andy and his sister Lucy in this story are still friends with the kids from group of humans, but they now also encounter another small group of Neanderthals, who act friendly in a suspicious way. Our family struggles with getting along in close quarters during rainy spells, the kids train for hunts by some of them pretending to be prey animals, they find dinosaur bones and speculate what the huge skull might have belonged to- and collect some specimens to drag back to their cave. Just because it’s cool. They have to keep things clean (and get a few very short haircuts- making a few characters almost unrecognizable-) to control head lice, try to find ways to make gathering food plants easier, encounter a wooly rhino (and accidentally lead it too close to home), mourn the death of one kid’s pet frog (leading into a discussion of what Neanderthal burial rights might have consisted of, if they had any), and find clever ways to prevent that other Neanderthal group from stealing their stuff. All parts of the story lead into two or three-page spreads of present-day scientist characters discussing things to show the reader what current knowledge we have on the subject, and the end of the book has even more pages of facts. Oddly though, there are a few more bits of storyline interspersed in those fact pages. I didn’t quite get that placement.

Another thing that slightly bugged me through the whole series, was that the Neanderthals didn’t look much different from the humans. Even though the characters kept saying how the humans were taller and had longer arms and legs, really they all had the exact same stature in the pictures. Just that the humans had longer faces, but otherwise it was hard to tell the species apart if you didn’t know from the storyline.

Borrowed from the public library. Completed on 7/14/24.

Rating: 3/5
208 pages, 2018

Lucy and Andy Neanderthal

by Jeffrey Brown

Much the same as the previous book in this series, about a family of Neanderthals, with the two kids as main characters. It’s winter now, so they have to work to stay warm, and things are complicated by all the extra people in their cave, since they took in this group of humans. It’s supposed to be temporary, and they’re helping the humans look for their own new cave to live in- with lots of very specific requirements to meet the needs. Andy keeps reminding the other kids and his parents how much he wants their visitors to move on. He squabbles with the other kids, gets picked on sometimes, tries to make jokes, and continues attempting to impress the older girl. Still begging to go along on hunts and show off his skills, but when he does finally confront a dangerous animal, it’s very frightening. The kids learn rules about what to do if they meet a cave bear, play in the snow, draw maps on the cave walls, help with butchering animals and making clothes from the hides, listen to scary stories, go exploring and walk across a glacier, make music by drumming on things and playing a bone flute, and argue about whether or not Lucy (the sister) is psychic (which I felt was lame). They go on an excursion to the seashore where the kids gather and trade shells, and later make decorative things to wear with them. The kids organize a ‘battle of the bands’, which felt like too modern of an idea to me, but I get how that would appeal to kids- showing that people back then were interested in the same things- approval of their peers, enjoying music, showing off their skills. Through the whole storyline, one of the humans is pregnant, and at the end she gives birth (the kids all leave the cave on a hike, to avoid the noise and give her some privacy). Just like in the previous book, there are pages between chapters where modern scientist characters have conversations while they discover things that reflect what was told in the story, and explain what parts are factual, and what parts made up. The final pages have even more of this, but it kind of diverged into a whole spiel about climate change.

Borrowed from the public library. Completed on 7/13/24.

Rating: 3/5
220 pages, 2017

by Jeffrey Brown

Comic style graphic novel about a family of Neanderthals. The main characters are the kids- particularly Andy, who really wants to join the grownups on a mammoth hunt, resents having to look after his baby brother, and has a crush on a slightly older girl in the small group. Through their daily life adventures, the reader learns more about what it was like in the Stone Age- what Neanderthals probably ate, wore, how they made tools, etc. It’s cute and funny. Andy sneaks after the adults to watch one of the hunts, and is nauseated by seeing the actual mammoth getting killed, and the butchering afterwards. The kids are supposed to watch their baby brother at one point, but he wanders off and then they’re desperate to find him again- before something bad happens. The sister Lucy gets tasked with making clothes from the mammoth skins, and creates a new style that others are reluctant to appreciate. And so on. At the end they encounter a group of humans, some of them are trusting and willing to be friendly, others suspicious if the humans have sinister motives. I thought the part about cave art was pretty amusing- created simply because the kids were bored during a rainy spell (not as some grand symbolism or magic).

In between bits of story are pages showing present-day scientists discussing things, explaining to the reader what the current facts are about Neanderthals, and how much is just speculation. At the end is an even longer section that details more clearly what parts the author made up (Neanderthals would not have had pet cats for example- even though this one is supposed to be a scimitar cat runt). I liked this book a lot more than I expected to. It was engaging and fun, and I learned a bunch of stuff. Not only does it do a good job of dispelling stereotypical ideas about Neanderthals, but it shows how kids back then were just like kids today in many regards- not wanting to do their chores, having trouble getting along, reluctant to try new foods . . . There’s at least one sequel, about how they survive in the winter- I might just look for that.

Rating: 3/5
220 pages, 2016

a novel of the ice age

by Kim Stanley Robinson

I picked this book up before The Jaguar Princess and kept trying a chapter here and there during the next read, too. It’s a hefty book that looked enticing but then wasn’t drawing me in, so I decided best to put aside and maybe come back to it someday in the future. Though I soon realized it’s written by the same author as Years of Rice and Salt, which I attempted before and gave up on as well, who knows how many years ago now. So probably this author is not really for me. Very dense historical fiction. This one set during the ice age. It opens with a young man away from his tribal group on a “wander”- an initiation into manhood where he has to live alone for a month proving he can use his skills to survive. It’s brutal. He almost freezes, almost gets caught by the Others (I’m guessing Neanderthals), has to flee predators. Doesn’t starve, but isn’t exactly eating well either. I thought a survival story of living close to the land and among the wild animals, would be exactly my thing, but while the details are intriguing, something about the way they were told simply wasn’t. I read a little over fifty pages, and found myself more and more disinclined to pick it up again. Pushed through to the point where he returns to the tribe and is interacting with people, thinking that would spark more interest, but nope. Only got a glimpse of the story: protagonist is reluctant apprentice to the group’s elderly shaman, he’s not at all sure he wants to follow in those footsteps. I have to say, his incessant interest in sex got old very quickly, and the magical realism wasn’t really working for me (it usually doesn’t, no matter the writing style). Though I might just not be in the right mindset for it,  I really suspect this book isn’t my type.

Borrowed from the public library.

Rating: Abandoned
458 pages, 2013

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