Changes for Kit: A Winter Story, 1934 (American Girls Collection)

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Genre: Girls and Women; Juvenile Historical Fiction; Depressions; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Children: Grades 3-4; Historical - United States - 20th Century; Fiction; 1929; Authorship;

Average Review: 5 stars

Review: Low Brow, but great for readers with comprehension issues! : I was a tutor for a 5th grade girl this past semester, and I asked her to choose a book that we would read together as a way to work on her reading comprehension. When she chose this book, I groaned to myself, thinking it was going to be about on the babysitters club level. Well, it was. But it contains a historical background appendix in the back, and a character list in the front. These two tools helped to boost my reader's background knowledge and confidence in her reading. Lesson learned: useful books are not always "great literature." Sometimes pop cannon fodder like this book can be of enormous use as a teaching tool. All in all, I would recommend the American Girl series to you readers- but I'd sure make sure that their intellectual diet was a little bit richer than this, as well.