Puppies and Portals by Loralee EvansMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Puppies and Portals is an entertaining story for children of about 10 to 12 years old. Amy Yellow Horse is babysitting Leah for a neighbour and talking to her friend, Will Taylor, when a girl also named Leah turns up at the house. This Leah possesses an amazingly advanced ‘palm phone’ from the future, and starts questioning their presence in her grandparents’ house.
The three children plus baby Leah, then get involved in a galloping romp and adventure through time, while trying to help the ‘future Leah’ return to her own future time period. Somehow her puppy dog, Skipper, and a family of racoons were instrumental in this time-travelling event. I admit I did not quite understand how the animals did this? But what did become quite clear later on in the tale was the reference to slavery, and the work done by certain groups of Native Americans, in joining the abolitionists of the period, fighting this.
The book is part of a series and so it would have helped if I had read some of them previously. However, I have read and enjoyed another couple of Loralee Evans’s books about a sparrow. My two grandchildren would like this book I am certain, but overall I’m still not sure that I did.
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