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Gr 5-9 Historically unreliable, these two novels also fail to convey a real sense of living in the past. In Pandora, the author mentions the creation (inaccurately described) of an art object in a style more than 100 years out of date (Athenian black-figure vase painting ended ca. 510). Atticus, torn from his family at age 12, subsequently coddled by a toga-hating noble, never truly experiences slavery. Incredibly, Pandora, at 13, has never heard the myth of her namesake. The texture of daily life is absent, though Denenberg dutifully offers lists of foods or goods, or shoeho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More