Age Ratings and Content Overview
As parents ourselves, we understand that you put great care into choosing the right reading material for your children. This page is designed to give you the content information you need about our letters, so you can confidently decide whether a story is the right fit for your young reader.
Overall Content
Values
Our stories are crafted around the standards of civility, courtesy, and the Judeo-Christian values that were considered the foundation of society during these historical time periods.
Language
The language is very clean. While the tone is overall conversational, the text may include quaint phrasing or period language throughout.
Mature Themes
Our stories honestly address serious historical themes such as social injustice, war, and personal loss. These themes are addressed through the perspective of the person experiencing them, and are written about in a sensitive, reflective, and non-graphic way.
Individual Letter Series
Recommended reader age: 12+
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Time period: 1870
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Beatrice’s age: 19
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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level:
8th-9th grade -
Content themes: rigid social expectations, political corruption, overcoming past mistakes
Recommended reader age: 10+
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Time period: 1900-1901
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Tillie’s age: 18
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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level:
7th grade -
Content themes: new beginnings, class distinctions, social injustice, surviving a hurricane/flood
Recommended reader age: 12+
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Time period: 1917-1918
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Nora’s age: 21
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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level:
8th-9th grade -
Content themes: uncertainty and separation caused by war, experiencing WWI on the frontline in France, the impact of a devastating explosion in Halifax
Recommended reader age: 16+
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Time period: 1932-1933
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Irene’s age: 30
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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: 10th grade
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Content themes: personal loss of financial security and social standing, marriage struggles, Nazi rise to power in 1930’s