Hilmo, Tess Cinnamon
Moon, 247 pgs. Farrar Straus Giroux,
2016. $16.99 Content: Language: G; Violence: PG-13; Mature
Content: G.
12yo Ailis and
11yo Quinn are two orphans who survived the Peshtigo fire. Taken by one of their father’s
friends to Chicago, they now find themselves living in a boardinghouse with a
woman who doesn’t like kids. Ailis and
Quinn befriend a six year old girl, Nettie, and decide that they will get jobs
and raise money to move somewhere together.
When Nettie goes missing, Ailis and Quinn uncover nefarious workings of
a prominent business in the struggling post Great Chicago Fire city. Ailis and Quinn, have to work together and
fight for what is right.
I enjoyed the
story line and the kind and courageous characters.
The history of the Peshtigo fire, a fire that happened the same day as
the Great Chicago Fire is heartbreaking and fascinating. At the end of the book the author provides
the histories of the different events from the book. The cover will be a hard sell for younger
readers because it is bland. Ailis and
Quinn’s family was burned to death in the book and although it isn’t detailed
it is upsetting. Also, Nettie is abused
and kidnapped by scary characters.
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OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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