A Family Apart

Behold! Another book from my childhood I had forgotten completely about. But man, I read this so many times as a kid. I literally read the cover off of it!......more

I read this book on an airplane when I was like 8; my mom looked over and I was BAWLING with tears streaming down my face. At first she thought I somehow hurt myself but nope, just sobbing about a sad book. #sensitivechildproblems......more

I think I read this book for the first time in 6th grade. I'm feeling a bit nostalgic lately so I've been rereading books from my childhood. I remembered that while I liked the Orphan Train series, It always bugged me that at some point (I don't remember which book) the children were allowed to go b......more

This was a fun quick read set in the years shortly before the American Civil War. When modern day children find themselves bored in Missouri their grandmother helps them take a look at the past through the Journal of their great great great grandmother. Francis Kelly and her siblings live with lots o......more

I read this series in probably 3rd or 4th grade and have thought of them often over the years. For the life of me I couldn't remember what they were called, just bits and pieces of them. I even reached out to old grade school teachers and one point to see if they remembered them, they didn't. A chil......more