Historical Fiction – Janet Ruth Heller

Janet Ruth Heller will speak about her books for children at the MASL conference in Bay City, Michigan on Friday, October 25, 2024

Author: Janet Ruth Heller October 20, 2024

Janet Ruth Heller will speak about and autograph her books for children at the Michigan Association of School Librarians conference in Bay City, Michigan on Friday, October 25, 2024 at the DoubleTree Hotel from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. She…
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Chapter Book, Children's Literature, Conference Presentations, Creative Writing, Education, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humanities, Public Speaking, Sibling Rivalry, Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, Writing Workshop, Young Adult Literature

bullying, chapter books, children's literature, creative writing, education, librarians, middle-grade fiction, picture books, School Visits, Sibling Rivalry, workshops

Review of the Downton Abbey Movie

Author: Janet Ruth Heller January 27, 2020

Both the Downton Abbey movie and the television series have the same strengths and weaknesses. The acting is superb and the costumes are wonderful; however, the dialogue sounds flat and the plots are melodramatic and sometimes illogical. Audience members who…
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Historical Fiction, Mass Media, Movies and Videos, Reviews, Television Programs

Movie Review, Review of the Downton Abbey Movie

Review of the Middle-Grade Novel Worth by Alexandria LaFaye (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2004)

Author: Janet Ruth Heller April 18, 2019

This historical novel set in the 1800s poses a challenging question: how much is a child worth when differently abled or orphaned? Eleven-year-old Nathaniel “Nate” Peale helps his parents Gabriel and Mary Eva to farm their land in Nebraska. He…
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Book Review, Books, Children's Literature, Coping with Deaths in a Family, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humanities, Literature, Novels, Parenting, Psychological Issues, Reviews, Sibling Rivalry

book review, historical novel, human worth, Orphan Train