Littsie of Cincinnati Book

The story is about an older woman recalling her lifetime as a child around 1832 in the area that is now the city of Cincinnati.

There are a lot of difficulties that Littsie has to go through, including a terrible cholera plague in the city that results in personal tragedy for her. She ends up living in New Orleans for a while.

She's eventually able to return to Cincinnati and continue to look for her sister. During these adventures she meets a variety of people who are important in Cincinnati history and also describes the early appearance of the city, when it was known as Porkopolis due to the pig business and pigs running loose everywhere.

The book also contains information about slavery, and the girl in the story plays her part in an attempt to set a young slave girl free.

The story itself is fairly good, aimed at an age group of around ten years old. There is quite a bit of historical material covered, but herein lies one problem with the book. A bookmark (which is easily lost) is filled with relevant information. It would have been better if the bookmark idea had been dropped and the information would have become a physical part of the book, as in the historical sections of books in the American Girls series.

I don't care for the cover artwork, however.