http://www.slj.com/2012/08/books-media/reviews/pick-of-the-day/pick-of-the-day-splendors-and-glooms/ The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:24:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.slj.com/2012/08/books-media/reviews/pick-of-the-day/pick-of-the-day-splendors-and-glooms/#comment-174 Elizabeth Varadan Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:53:34 +0000 http://www.slj.com/?p=11808#comment-174 As a former teacher and a current author of a Victorian era middle grade mystery, I am always happy to see books for young people about the realities of that era. Awareness of the late Victorian era and the early Edwardian era in England (in continental Europe, "The Gilded Era") provide a real backdrop to the world we live in today. And a mysterious disappearance is exactly the kind of problem to pull the most reluctant reader into the past. As a former teacher and a current author of a Victorian era middle grade mystery, I am always happy to see books for young people about the realities of that era. Awareness of the late Victorian era and the early Edwardian era in England (in continental Europe, “The Gilded Era”) provide a real backdrop to the world we live in today. And a mysterious disappearance is exactly the kind of problem to pull the most reluctant reader into the past.

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