Cora Frear

Very good book for a young reader. My 7 y/o daughter enjoyed it a lot.

My daughter's name is Cora, so I got this for her for Christmas. She loved it! And so did my other daughter as well. Great story!

Another great book of historical fiction at about a 1st/2nd grade level. Quick read for my 8 year old.

Easy chapter book for those readers building their skills and their confidence.

Ordered for homeschooled grandsons.

Cant wait to read this with my 3rd grader!

"Cora Frear: A True Story"by Susan E. Goodman(Aladdin Books, 2002)--------------------------------------------This is a great mid-level, historically-oriented chapter book based on the memoir of Cora Frear Hawkins, who lived as a young girl on the American prairie in the last decade of the 1800s... In this story, Cora accompanies her father, a frontier doctor, on a long-distance house call, and they are trapped along with their horse team in the middle of a fast-moving prairie fire. Father and daughter both use cool heads and quick wits to save themselves, and Cora emerges as an excellent role model of a capable, brave young woman. Well-written and suspenseful, a good book for kids who are interested in historical events and pioneer times. (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews)

This is used in Sonlight curriculum. It is a great fit for any US history/pioneer period study. I typically use it with my 1st grade kids, but my older and younger are interested too. Cora is a little girl who helps her dad, a doctor. On the way to a patient in their buggy, they get caught in a prairie fire. Cora is key in saving them, but I'll leave the rest a surprise. What is especially nice is this is based on a true figure in history, and of course female heroines are great as there are not quite so many books written starring a female for kids to admire. It is good for probably 2-3rd grade and above to read alone, or as a read-aloud down to even pre-K age.