Michael and Derek don\'t expect the adventure of a lifeTime visiting a Civil War museum with their grandmother.
Personally, I feel that this is the most valuable experience of my life....having the wonder of knowing both children and elderly people."The respect that I learned as a very young person certainly carried over in.
You probably have noticed that in almost every book that I write there is a very young person who is interacting with an elderly person.
In both households I was the apple of my grandparents\' eyes! I would say that these relationships with my grandparents have most definitely influenced my life and my work.
I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
I must say that living on that little farm with them was the most magical Time of my life...and that my Babushka and other grandparents were some of the most inspirational people in my life."My parents were divorced when I was 3, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents.
That is when my Babushka (my grandmother) died and we prepared to move away from Michigan.
Soon after my birth I lived in Williamston, Michigan and then moved onto my grandparents farm in Union City, Michigan."I lived on the farm with my mom and Grandparents until 1949.
About the Author:"I was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1944.
Patricia Polacco\'s time-travel premise is fascinating- who knew that history museums could literally be doorways into the past? She makes history exciting for young readers, drawing them into a pivotal part of our nation\'s development.
Soon, they start to wonder if it\'s really a game, after all-and suddenly they\'re racing across Confederate-occupied land to return to their own Time before it\'s too late.
They see the destruction at the battlefield of Antietam, and even meet President Lincoln.
But the mysterious museum keeper invites them to play a game, and before they know it, they\'re walking through a door straight into a very realistic depiction of 1863.
Michael and Derek don\'t expect the adventure of a lifeTime visiting a Civil War museum with their grandmother
