NOT historical fiction!
As a parent and future Elem. teacher I read this book with my son for a book club that he and I run at his school for 3rd and 4th graders. My son and I enjoyed reading this book...the chapters flow quickly and the subject matter was interesting. However, I was VERY disappointed, when after a quick internet search on the ancient olympics to find out that a major premise of this story is NOT true! Girls WERE permitted to attend the ancient olympic games -- yet in this story we are taught that they were not. This is a major theme in this story and I am baffled as to how the author and publisher could have produced such a book with out checking such a simple fact! I feel that I can no longer trust the Magic Tree House books to provide accurate historical information to my son. I'd rather him not read these book if he's going to learn erroneous information from them.