Shelli's Reviews > Kirsten Learns a Lesson: A School Story

If you read my reviews, you know I am a fan of the American Girls series for girls. I enjoyed this one but felt that it was two storylines when it should have been one. These are small-chapter books and dividing the narrative up this way means neither topic gets the attention that it deserves. Since this book is called Kirsten Learns A Lesson: A School Story, the book should have been just that, life for a young immigrant girl going to a rural school in 1854. School life at that time is so completely foreign to young readers now that more details about Kirsten's school life would have been interesting and educational. The second storyline was also good, though needed its own book in this American Girls Series. Kirsten befriends a Native American girl. Even though spoken communication was next to impossible, these two young girls from very different back grounds, became friends. Both story lines were good, just not enough "meat" for either of them in the one book.