The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

November 10, 2008 Historical Fiction, Uncategorized 1 Comment

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Georges Melies was a French magician who went into cinema.  Young Hugo Cabret helps discover him and his beautiful automaton after Melies has been in hiding for many years.  Hugo becomes a magician after Mr. Melies helps him out. 

Mailing May By:Michael O Tunnell

November 10, 2008 Historical Fiction No Comments

Nowadays it’s no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day’s pay. This book tells the exciting adventure of how May was ‘mailed’ to her grandmother’s house.