Review: Good read for Middle Graders
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2013
This is a book for Upper Middle Grade readers.I liked this book a lot. There was lots of Scottish atmosphere in it and the magical traveling system was cool. Although there seemed to happen little in the beginning, every scene set the stage for the big finale, and not a single scene is boring or unimportant. That's mastery of the craft.The main character is likable and should appeal to many readers. Who wouldn't want to be able to jump into history without losing time in your own world? Her Scottish friends were just Scottish enough to be recognizable and not too much so to drive away readers who couldn't decipher s single one of Robert Burns' sentences.And I learned something too. Since the UK is free from rabies, I had assumed that had always been the case. This story made me look this up, and I was surprised to find that they only recently managed to get the country rabies free (early 20th cent).