Featured books

Featured Websites

.: Reader Views Kids

Provides book reviews, by kids, for kids

.: Inside Scoop Live

Provides live author interviews for podcast

.: Authors Access

Provides interviews with experts in the publishing industry

.: Midwest Book Review

Provides post-publication reviews

.: Reader Views

Provides book reviews and author publicity

.: LR Communication Design

Provides professional website design and development

.: Blogging Authors

Provides a place where writers and readers meet

.: Review The Book

Provides 5 books reviews on 10 different sites

.: Best Sellers World

Provides book reviews and author features

.: Feathered Quill Book Reviews

Provides book reviews and author features

reviews

Call Me Kate: Meeting the Molly Maguires

Molly Roe
Tribute Books (2008)
ISBN 9780981461953
Reviewed by Danelle Drake for Rebecca’s Reads (7/09)


Katie’s life, as she had known it, drastically changed one day during the winter of 1860. Her longtime friend, Con Gallagher, ran to her classroom to inform her of a tragic accident that will take her from a young girl to an adult within the blink of an eye. Katie’s father is the victim of a terrible mining accident and is no longer able to support his family.  The burden of the household fall’s on the shoulders of Katie and her mother.  Katie’s sense of responsibility at such a young age is nothing short of astonishing. 

As heartache and added burdens enter Katie’s life she amazes the reader.  Life in the coal region around the time of the Civil War was bleak for many.  These people etched out an honorable and love-filled life for themselves and their family.  This is a true example of a community raising exemplary children.  Everyone helped everyone out the best they could. 

Following Katie as she becomes involved with the Molly Maquires makes you envy her grit.  Molly Roe is a talented writer who can simply educate you as she entertains.  I was consumed with the characters are events and look forward to reading other work by Molly Roe.

As I sat on the beach reading “Call Me Kate” I thought of the vast difference in the life Katie and my own fourteen year old daughter who was walking on the sandy beach with little responsibility. Explaining what life was like for others is something that is hard to describe verbally but as I handed “Call Me Kate” by Molly Roe to my daughter to read, I knew she will see what determination one so young can contain and strive to do amazing things herself.  Although fictional, Katie, is an amazing role model for other’s young and old.

.: Blog