Osborne, Mary Pope Danger
in the Darkest Hour (Magic Treehouse Super Edition #1) Random
House, 2015. $14.99 Content: Language: G (0
swears); Mature Content: PG Violence: PG
Jack and Annie find themselves deep in the heart of occupied
France during World War II. They need to rescue a friend, but must find her
first, so they must hide from Nazi’s. Luckily they find members of the Resistance
to help them along. But danger only increases as the battle of D-Day looms.
Wow, I don’t even know how to rate this. Its undeniable that
Magic Treehouse is wildly popular, at my school mostly with first graders and
some second graders. However sometimes I question the content, such as a prisoner
hanging in Knight at Dawn, and this is the case I don’t think I would want a student
checking this out unless they had some sort of context to fall back on. By this
I mean a parent or teacher who has provided some foundation and can keep the
horror of this war from falling so heavily on the child. While the author does
a decent job of keeping it more of a sneaking around type of feeling, it can’t
help but being a bit confusing just because of the complexity of the war
itself. I don’t imagine many second grade teachers doing a unit on World War II
however, I could be wrong, so it might be a good resource.
EL (K-3) -OPTIONAL Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary School
Librarian & Author.
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