The Mom's Choice Awards® has named Call Me Kate: Meeting the Molly Maguires by author Molly Roe among the best in family-friendly media, products and services.
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Fourteen-year-old Katie McCafferty risks job, family, and eventually her very life to rescue a lifelong friend. Disguised as a draft resister, Katie infiltrates a secret Irish organization to prevent bloodshed. Tragedies challenge her strength and ingenuity, and she faces a crisis of conscience. Can Katie balance her sense of justice with the law?
Call Me Kate is suitable for readers from eleven to adult. The story is dramatic and adventuresome, yet expressive of daily life in the patches of the hard coal region during the Civil War era. This novel will appeal to readers of the Dear America series, as well as more mature readers who will enjoy the story’s rich context and drama.
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Looking forward to more reviews! Fellow book lover following from MBC!
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Thanks for the post, Mandie and for helping us spread the word about "Call Me Kate!"
Thank you for helping to spread the word about "Call Me Kate!"
"Call Me Kate" is, unfortunately, an unreliable history of mining and Irish immigrants in Pennsylvania. Roe's book adds to a long history of untruths (e.g. calling unionists "Molly Maguires" ) about Pennsylvania miners and unions-- stemming back to the disinformation campaign invented by mine owners to break coal unions. (See Governor Milton Shapp's posthumous pardon of alleged "Molly Maguire leader" Jack Kehoe).
For a more accurate portrayal of events in Pennsylvania's coal era I recommend "Mine Seed," an historical novel by Lucia Dailey. Roe's book seems to borrow from "Mine Seed" in structure and some other ways, but for content and depth the two books are far apart.
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