The Girl Who Feared Trains by Padgett Gerler is historical fiction based on facts from her mother’s life. At the age of three, Tante lost her mother to a flu-epidemic and was cared for by her grandmother until her father remarried. Then tragedy struck her father, meanwhile the Great Depression was making history.

I don’t often love new fiction, but this one found a place on my bookshelf.

This book is suitable for young adult readers as well.