Shadows of Caesar's Creek by Sharon M. Draper

The book felt a little outdated, for sure, but for the most part I thought it was a useful way to have those conversations with my son, and he was very invested in the part where the boys (once again) get themselves into a dangerous situation and have to find their way out of it / be rescued. There was some discussion of the origins of Black chattel slavery in the United States - how the settlers originally tried to enslave the indigenous people and why that didn't work - as well as how some indigenous people helped escaped slaves. I did a bit of verbal editing where the boys were running around 'playing Indian' at different points, but I appreciated that the book included two modern-day Shawnee characters and didn't just talk about the Shawnee as people of the past. How Draper went about it was, in my inexpert opinion, mostly OK. Where the first two books in the series provided opportunities to talk about slavery and the Underground Railroad, this book brought up conversations about Native American history that were valuable to have with him.

However, my son is now invested enough in these characters that he was eager to listen to multiple chapters of them walking through the woods, setting up tents, fishing, and learning about the history of the area. This was another suspenseful adventure with the Black Dinosaurs, though it took a while to get to the adventure part, and I'm starting to see why the series was renamed, as there really wasn't a mystery here.

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Shadows of Caesar's Creek by Sharon M. Draper