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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2011
Gr 7 Up—Chelsea Glaser, 16, is finally old enough to get a job at the mall where normal people spend their summers instead of at the Colonial Essex Village where she's been working with her parents since she was six. However, her friend Fiona convinces her to spend one more summer as a historical interpreter, and Chelsea's previous life comes back ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2011
Chelsea's grown up in the past—1774, to be specific. Every summer for years she has worked as a living history interpreter at Colonial Essex Village in Virginia alongside her father, the silversmith, and her mom, the silversmith's wife. Reluctantly, she's agreed to spend another summer wearing a suffocating dress and telling "moderners" where the bathroom is. But the boy who broke her heart is also working at Essex. And then there's the War: the bitter rivalry betwee...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Every summer Chelsea's family works as living history interpreters at Colonial Essex Village. Things get awkward when she traitorously falls ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More