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Title: Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo ISBN: 0-14-038431-6 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: What Cost--Self-preservation?
Comment: Twelve-year-old Jo is a shepherd boy in a French mountain village near the Spanish border; but his pastoral life is abruptly changed when Nazi soldiers are garrisoned in his peaceful hamlet. Having worked to help the family during the four years that his father has been a POW, the youth meets a red-bearded stranger in the hills--precipitating excitement, new purpose and great dangers. For Benjamin is hiding with his mother-in-law (a widow with the reputation of a witch), while waiting for his daughter to sneak back home through occupied France. Jo is stunned to discover that the adult pair are part of an underground railroad, ferrying Jewish children through the country across to Spain. How can he not help this noble cause, yet how can he keep his humanitiarian activities a secret from Maman and Grandpere?
The story reads easily with plenty of dialogue, action and increasing tension which culminates in the inevitable confrontation with the enemy. There is a fine line between Collaboration and making the best of a hateful situation; no one can be blamed for putting a priority on self-preservation. The author provides gentle thematic substrata to the obvious plot; mutual atempts for international cooperation
and even sympathetic understanding. People are human, after all, with similar values and upbringing, despite the language barrier. Unfortunately, serious events keep reminding friendly Jo that these soldiers are still the Eneny. This is a good juvenile thriller about French resistance and the Jewish experience. (Other books with this theme of Resistance to the Nazi invasion: The Little Riders--Holland, Snow Treaure--Norway, and Twenty Plus Ten (also France.)
Rating: 1
Summary: What a sophorific (meaning causing sleep) book!
Comment: I wanted to read this book because it took place during the Holocaust, and normally, I find that time period intruiging. However, this book disappointed me. The characters are shallow and one sided, and the story is unoriginal & predictable. Also, the authors descriptions of, well- everything, were vague and contradictory. If you insist on reading this book, get it from a library, don't waste your money.
Rating: 5
Summary: Touches my heart deeply !
Comment: This book got my heart deeply from the very first chapter.It is about a boy named Jo.His father was sent to war and was later a prisoner-of-war for a long time.This period is during the Second World War.Jo misses his father very much.One day,he was watching his sheep and felt like sleeping.He drifts into sleep leaving his sheep unattended.He wakes up to hear Rouf(his dog)barking and the sheep bleating.As Rouf was barking,Jo saw a bear.Panicstrikken,he ran down to the village and yelled for help.The men in the village came rushing out and were very excited as they had never shot a bear.Once they had shot the bear,they predicted that it was a female.Jo immediately went up to search for Rouf and finds him near a bear cub.Coincidentally,he met a man whom he had never seen but yet he recognised the man's face.The man offered the bear cub some milk and talked with Jo as if he knew him.Suddenly the man asked him to forget that day and not to tell anyone about what happened that day.Jo promises.Later he found himself helping the man named Benjamin to send Jewish children over to Spain.When Jo's little town was occupied by the German and more and more patrols were being held,it is hard to smuggle the children up into the mountains of Spain.I felt very anxious for Jo and Benjamin.Benjamin is also waiting for his daughter,Anya be able to arrive at the village.Will Anya be able to arrive at the little village? Will Jo and Benjamin and Jo be able to smuggle the children over? Read this book.
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Title: Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo ISBN: 0439382025 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo, Francois Place ISBN: 0670863602 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman, Bryan Leister ISBN: 006440630X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Barry Moser ISBN: 0689835825 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry ISBN: 0440227534 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 09 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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