From Gene, Teen Book Reviewer author: McCormick, Patricia titl: Purple Heart Patricia McCormick has already enlightened the world with Sold and Cut. Purple heart is no different. Purple Heart is about a young Matt Duffy who awakens in a hospital in Iraq with no idea how he got there. He was also injured and because [...]
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Purple Heart
Posted in Teen Book Reviewer's Picks, Teens, War/Military Fiction, tagged Iraq War, soldiers on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shanghai Girls
Posted in books, Historical Fiction, Shelley's Picks, War/Military Fiction, tagged Arranged Marriages, families, immigrants, Japanese invasion, poverty, racism, Shanghai, United States immigration on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Shelley Lauer-Bader author: See, Lisa Shanghai Girls This story of Shanghai during the Japanese invasion and immigration to the US has great period detail. May and Pearl escape China in 1937 and arrive in the United States, although not without great pain and suffering. They finally connect with the men they married through an [...]
The widow of the south
Posted in books, Eileen's Picks, Historical Fiction, War/Military Fiction, tagged battle, Battle of Franklin, Carrie McGavock, Confederate soldiers, field hospital, plantation, Tennessee, Union soldiers, United States Civil War, war on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Eileen Effrat author: Hicks, Robert The widow of the south Based on an extraordinary and inspirational true story, THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH is a fictional account of a real life woman, Carrie McGavock . McGavock’s Tennesseee plantation was commandeered into a field hospital during the bloody Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. [...]
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