Book Review: The Memory Quilt

Reviewed By: Kayla - student - Kansas City

The Memory Quilt     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Pamela J. Erickson
Class/Genre:   Fiction   Historical   Young Adult
Et al Publishing, 2004, 117 pages

The Memory Quilt tells the story of the Cloquet Fire of 1918. It’s basically a history lesson. It starts out in the present when Lisa Henson, a fourteen-year-old girl, has the flu. She falls asleep and wakes up on the day of the fire as one of her ancestors. She has to figure out what she is doing there and how to survive.

I think my biggest problem is that there was no real character depth. All you really found out about the main character was where she lived, how old she was, and the names of the people in her family. There was also no real transition between present and past. She was in the present and then she was in the past. The story described what happened that day and not much more. The thing that kept you reading the book was to find out what had happened to Lisa’s grandmother’s sister.

This book is definitely for preteens and younger, or teenagers who don’t really read that much. It is a good story, but it could be explored more.

Kayla - student - Kansas City

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