Growing Up in Colonial America

by Tracy Barrett

An intimate look at the everyday life of children in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America contains authentic first-hand accounts, diaries, recipes, letters, and other mementos of youth in a young country.

96 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Tracy Barrett has written more than twenty books for children and young adults. She’s much too interested in too many things to stick to one genre, and has published nonfiction as well as historical fiction, mysteries, fantasy, time travel, myth and fairy-tale retellings, and contemporary realistic novels. She knows more about ancient Greece and Rome and the European Middle Ages than anyone really needs to know, can read lots of dead languages, and used to jump out of airplanes.
  Tracy grew up near New York City, and went to college in New England and graduate school in California. She majored in Classics and earned a Ph.D. in Medieval Italian. She was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval women writers and won the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Work-in-Progress Grant in 2005. She taught Italian and other subjects at Vanderbilt University for almost thirty years. She lives in Tennessee with her 6’7” husband, a rescue cat, and two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.

Reviews

[Samantha]

Very informative book! I've taken college courses on literature during the colonial era, but there was info in this book that I hadn't known before. I'm very glad I read it, because it provides a lot of interesting historical information that you might not get exposed to in public school or in higher education. I highly recommend this book as a supplement to historical studies.