I remember walking 10 blocks to the mall with my friends. They gave us bus money but if we walked we could buy more junk food at the movies.
When I was about 12 we would take the bus into downtown and watch a baseball game. It was only about 1.50 to sit in the bleachers. We always had a crowd when we went. It's not like I was alone. Just no adults or cell phones to call an adult.
I read this book to my kids and the whole time I am thinking, I can't believe these two little grade schoolers are taking the bus alone, walking to the zoo all by themselves throughout the book. Then they come home to an empty house and make themselves lunch.
