COOL STUFF A NEW APPRECIATION ...Byline: - Sandra sandra (sänˑ·dr  ),adj J. Terrell With all of our modern conveniences, we're living in very good times indeed. If you would like to show your young children that life was not always as it is today, here is an interesting historical book that both of you will enjoy. ``Five Smooth Stones, Hope's Diary'' by Kristiana Gregory Kristiana Gregory (b. 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is a popular author of children's historical fiction, including several for the Dear America and Royal Diaries series. She currently resides in Boise, Idaho. . (A Dear America book, Scholastic Inc., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; $8.95), is the expressive writings of a 9-year-old Quaker girl living with her mother, older brother and baby sister in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. Her innocent entries reflect difficult times. The New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. winters are very cold. There were no heaters or electric blankets and they had to find other ways to keep warm. The summer humidity humidity, moisture content of the atmosphere, a primary element of climate. Humidity measurements include absolute humidity, the mass of water vapor per unit volume of natural air; relative humidity (usually meant when the term humidity was very hard on everyone, especially Hope's mother, who was pregnant with her youngest child. Strict religious rules that governed gov·ern v. gov·erned, gov·ern·ing, gov·erns v.tr. 1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in. 2. their lives become clear in another entry. When Miss Sarah wed a man from a different faith, Hope wrote in her diary, ``Friends and family are not allowed to talk to her or buy things from her shoppe.'' Hope often thought about her father, who has been missing for months since he went to sea. Her feelings were clear in another entry when she wrote, ``We are waiting for Papa, but we know not if he is hurt or captured or ...'' After reading this book, you and your children just may find a new appreciation for the freedoms and comforts we all take for granted today. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (``Five Smooth Stones, Hope's Diary'') |
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