Kimberly Willis Holt

problematic issue that continues to arise is whether realistic fiction is too realistic for the children it is ostensibly written for. Two books that are in question specifically at the moment are Kimberly Willis Holt’s My Louisiana Sky and Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer. In both narratives, authors Holt and Williams-Garcia take their implied audiences (children) on a journey through explicit subject matter foreign and forbidden in the fruitful and fantastical garden of conventional children’s

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences”- M. Scott Peck. When two humans from different lifestyles along with even being in two separate books have so much in common that's when people will start to look into the differences a bit more. Everybody has theses things about them that make it where no one even if they were twins would have the exact same idea for every tiny detail about themselves. If everyone in this world was the same as the person next to them could you think of how boring

than oxen, but they wear out faster too.”” (Holt 161) Secondly, travelers on the Oregon trail quickly learned that you had to travel light, or you wouldn’t be traveling at all. In context in the book it said, “” Ain’t you gonna tell ‘em they need to get rid of some of those belongings?” Isaac shook his head. “I’ve already warned them. But so many of them don’t want to throw out their great-aunt Sadie’s chair. They’ll figure it out on their own.”” (Holt 168) This reasoning was also found in an article

an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it is like to be twelve years old.” This quote by Kimberly Willis Holt mirrors the main idea of the novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi as Marjane, the main character of the novel, has to make decisions that change her life forever. While Marjane’s world rapidly changes around her, she has to decide whether she