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In Times Past
an eBook on CD
by Carol Hurst and Rebecca Otis

Integrating US History with Literature in Grades 3-8.

Enliven your US History curriculum!

Teach US History using great kids books.

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A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost

by Bober, Natalie S.. (Holt, 1991 ISBN 0 8050 1672 4) Nonfiction. 192 pages. Grades 6+.
This book was reviewed by Carol Otis Hurst in Teaching K-8 Magazine.

Review

Details of Frost's life, with an accent on his great love for his long-suffering wife Elinor, are told clearly and sometimes lyrically, interweaving excerpts from his work and photographs of him as well as of friends and family. Something of the man's torment and guilt is related as well: the death and unhappiness of so many of those he loved or who loved him took their toll. The ever-changing houses and locales to which he led his family boggles the mind, but his restlessness and determination to succeed as a poet took precedence over everything else and Elinor lent her will to his. Bober's portrait of the kindly, devoted father and teacher is at odds with some accounts I've heard or read, but she avoids the common error made by some biographers for young people of glossing over all unpleasantness and faults.

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