In the second story, Building Bridges, in Sindhu and Jeet’s Detective Agency, Sindhu and Jeet find out about an Indian engineer who was working on Tower Bridge. He had come from India to study engineering and he worked on the bridge for 10 years. After that, he returned to India and was part of many different bridge projects in his home state.
Now here’s a writing activity that will spur you to write your own story set in the past.
Step 1: Identify a building in your town / city that has been built at least 100 years ago. Here is some help. This website will give you details of listed buildings – buildings with special historical significance. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/
Step 2: Imagine a young boy or girl who lived near the place where the building was being built. Were they rich or poor? Did they work on the site? Or did their parents did? What did they eat?
Step 3: What if your character found a mysterious object on the building site. How will they solve the mystery of this object? Did they take the help of a friend, like Sindhu and Jeet worked together?
Step 4: Now plan and write your story. Why don’t you draw it as a comic book or illustrate it with pictures of how the building looked like and how your characters looked like.
Want some more help? Check out this helpful guide on how to write historical fiction.
Ask an adult to share your stories with me online or via email.