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PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
GENRE: Historical Fiction
AGES: 10-14, $16.99
REVIEWED BY: Crystal Scott
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![]() This story takes place in 1959, a time when the South had separate water fountains, entrance doors, service counters, bus seats, and schools for blacks and whites. Bobby and his family begin by traveling to see the Civil War battlefields, while Jacob and his family travel to visit family in the country. As both trips veer off course and eventually collide, the bitter injustices of segregation reverberate through the lives of the travelers. Both family's then have to take the bus and Bobby's naively prejudice feelings begin to change when he starts to identify and question his assumptions about race. Bobby witnesses an incident that threatens to deny the black family seats. What they don’t know is the reason for the family’s desperation to be on that bus is that a few towns away, their child is missing. This book is written to highlight the Jim Crow Laws during the time period. It is also written from different perspectives of each character, to allow the reader to understand the characters feelings. PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux GENRE: Historical Fiction AGES: 10-14, $16.99 REVIEWED BY: Crystal Scott
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![]() This book is about a boy whose name is changed to Taro. He is captured by an older Samurai and has to learn how to be a proper human being (at least in the eye’s of a Samurai). Tauro goes up the ranks from helping the cook in the kitchen, taking care of the Samurai’s horses, being the Samurai’s errand boy all the way to becoming a Samurai himself. As in most stories about characters who go through a "coming of age" journey Tauro does end up becoming a Samurai, which is basically how the story ends. I mainly picked up this book because of the Samurai on the cover, thinking that this book would tell me an exciting and captivating story about Samurai's. This book did not do this. To me, this story is not one that successfully tells the story that it tries to. The story is not interesting, it is comparable a person's mouth after they eat twenty-five saltines in a row. I understand that not every moment in a book is always interesting so I fought through the dry reading in hopes on interesting section. There were none, the story is just constantly dry. I would not recommend that libraries purchase this book and place it on their shelves. Librarians should spend more time researching books about Samurais and find one that children will actually find interesting. Published- 1984 Price- $7.95 Ages- 12 to 16 Reviewer- Andrea Dow Zusak writes this historical fiction book during World War II, in Nazi Germany. It was carefully and uniquely narrated through the eyes of “death”, or the one who collects your souls when you pass. Liesel Meminger’s journey begins on a train, when she is being transported with her brother to a new safer home in Molching. Her brother however, does not make it and passes along the way. This is where she steals her first book, from a gravedigger. Liesel then goes on to meet her new family the Hubermans. Hans and Rosa both grow to love Liesel like she was one of their own; they both just have different ways of showing it. Things get complicated when a Jew named Max shows up looking for refuge. He is the son of a man who saved Hans’ life, and Hans feels like he must repay the debt. Now the family is all in danger from trying to save his life and keep him alive. As time goes on Liesel learns many new things, and grows into a confident and daring young girl. In the end, it becomes too dangerous for Max to stay, and he leaves to avoid getting the Hubermans caught. Liesel finds a love of books, and steals books from different people and places. By the end of her story the war leaves her alone, with everyone close to her dead. Vanished during a surprise bomb raid, Liesel is the only survivor of her family and friends. She meets up with Max after the war, and together they live on, to tell their tales. Zusak’s distinctive narration gives light to a story that follows a girl trying to survive during Nazi Germany, who has a love of books.
Published: 2005 Company: Knopf Borzoi Books Ages: 13-17 Prices: $8.99 Category: Historical Fiction Natalie Hoeksema Rikki cohen
by kirby larson, read by kirsten potter ![]() 16 year old Hattie Brooks didn’t know what she was signing up for when she left her Aunt and Uncle’s home in Illinois to prove up on her Uncle Chester’s claim. Leaving everything behind, Hattie heads to Montana to live on 300 acres of farm land. Things aren’t perfect in Vida, Montana however. With the first world war underway, people see German spies everywhere. The county counsel of defense makes American citizens with german ancestry’s lives miserable. Hattie’s neighbors and her good friends seem to be the object of the counsels anger at the Germans. Farming on the plains of Montana is not easy. Dust storms, hail and grasshoppers destroy crops, while it rarely rains. To prove up Hattie must set 180 rods of fence and harvest 20 acres of her land. With the german scare and the in climate weather will Hattie be able to prove up? audible.com. $22.95. Ages 11-15 Kelsey Means |
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