YA historical fiction novel about Georgina, a girl of eleven, who moves with her family in the 1840's to the wilds of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Borning Room is a room set aside for births and deaths of which Georgina experiences many. A good read. 101 pages ( )

This story is about Georgina's home life of the late 1800s and early 1900s in Ohio. The story revolves around a room where births and deaths are held through multiple generations. ( )

What I remember of this book is the child narrator's belief that pregnancy occurs when a married woman swallows a watermelon seed.

In this day of sanitary hospitals, we don't get to experience birth and death in our homes much anymore. This is an account of a home where life and death happens. The real human scenario unfolds right before our eyes.

Nice episodic, story about a family's history centered around a room where people are born and die. There is the grandfather who is spiritual and whose Sunday worship is spent outdoors in the woods; a runaway slave whose firsthand knowledge of childbirth is helpful; a teacher who lives with each of the families of his students; and others. I especially liked a paragraph in which the first-person narrator describes the light her mother brings to others and the flickering that she herself provides. ( )