Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Or Rescuing the Runaways
Roe Annie Carr · 2007
66/100
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A spirited girls' adventure from 1916 that still delivers genuine stakes — cold-weather danger, a theft, a fire, a daring rescue — and a protagonist whose courage and kindness hold up well. The trouble is the period prose and flat supporting cast date the reading experience in ways that may frustrate modern kids. Worth offering to a patient, history-curious middle-grader, but most contemporary readers will bounce.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety92
substance58
craft54
originality52
accuracy70
hype55
age-fit68
human-eye60
Penny’s verdict66
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