Esperanza had to learn how to work hard, but she was also very brave and strong. It was during the Great Depression when Esperanza and her family were forced to move from Mexico to California, where they lived on a farm. It's a good way for kids to learn about the past from that point of view. A story about an Ojibway family living near Lake Superior in the 1840s is called 'Lake Superior.' In Erdrich's first book in a series, he looks at history from a Native American point of view. People who say they like Little House on the Prairie should read this book. The best historical fiction books for kids Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich They show a wide range of time periods and experiences. It's hoped that reading these 50 must-read historical fiction books for kids will make history come to life for them. This is a great way to get kids excited and help them see how it relates to their own lives in the present. Through historical fiction, you can teach children about history. It's stories about real people, their lives, and how they felt. A lot of history isn't just dates and facts. I like historical fiction because it makes history come to life. AudioFile called the story 'solid' and Bianca Amato's narration 'stellar'.People who write historical fiction are very good at making history come to life. The audiobook recording of Listening for Lions received an Audie Award as well as AudioFile magazine's Earphones Award. There is an epilogue at the end of the novel, in which Rachel becomes his adopted daughter and attends school, later returning to her parent's hospital as a doctor. Rachel comes within the day, and he returns her to her grandfather, telling him the truth, which they have already suspected. Grumbloch, gives Rachel his address and tells her to come in an emergency. In scorn of his son, the Grandfather sends them away, but his trusty solicitor, Mr. Just as things begin to get better, the Pritchards' unveil their new plot, to take the grandfather's property when he dies.

Rachel considers telling people of the Pritchards' lies on the ship, but she soon arrives in England and begins to develop a close relationship with her 'grandfather', who, like her, is very fond of birds. She is lured to the Pritchards' home and forced to impersonate their daughter, who was going to visit her dying grandfather in England, being told it would 'save his life'. Valerie dies within hours, and later Rachel's father. The sickness is the cause of many deaths, soon her friends from the Kikuyu and Maasai tribes, the dreaded Pritchards, planters in the area come with their daughter Valerie, who looks very much like Rachel. Life goes haywire as influenza strikes when Rachel is 15, in 1930. They work on a hospital in addition to church-work and teaching. Rachel Sheridan is the only child of British missionaries working among the Kikuyu and Maasai tribes of British East Africa (present-day Kenya).

Listening for lions by gloria whelan