Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Get this: Ann Rinaldi has written over forty books.
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A Break with Charity is super famous, and the American Library Association even put it on their Best Books for Young Adults list. (Source)
Rinaldi became a history buff when her son started doing Revolutionary War reenactments. (Source.)
Pretty much everyone in A Break with Charity actually lived in Salem during the witch trials, and though the book infuses that time with plenty of fiction, there's plenty of truth included too.
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