Before I Lived Here
Stacy S. Jensen
A boy investigates the history beneath the home and neighborhood where he lives. He moves backward from the building and its construction to the planning of the neighborhood, earlier ranchers and log cabins, and the Indigenous people who were evicted from the land. The journey continues as far back as dinosaurs. Each layer shows that the ground beneath an ordinary home has held many different lives and histories over time.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 2 editions from 2 organizations.
