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Title: The River Between Us by Richard Peck ISBN: 0-8037-2735-6 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: unigue and interesting historical
Comment: I thought this idea was really interesting. the mytery of the two young women who comne to stay during the war. It was really good. sometimes richard peck writes sort of a group of stories like in year down yonder. but in this book its more like a novel and I like that better personlally. And for those who like interesting Historical fiction read also Prairie Whispers . It's super.

Rating: 5
Summary: The River Between Us
Comment: The book is about a fifteen-year-old girl named Tilly Pruitt and her family: Mom, Cass, her younger sister who sees visions and can tell the future, and Noah, Tilly's twin. Their dad/husband has died a long time ago; life was complicated and stressful to the Pruitt family. Mom still misses her husband, Cass is having the worst visions ever from the past and future, Noah wants to join his part in the Civil War. Tilly is in the thick of it and doesn't know what to do, till one day a New Orleans lady and another lady (her slave?) comes off a steamboat: their names are Delphine Duval and Calinda. Tilly's Mom lets them inside, and this is how just one little thing changed the Pruitt family's life.

I like this book because of the following reasons. The book showed how just one little thing changed the entire family's life; every single one of them. This relates to the life right now: how kindness can be received back to something even greater, like happiness to the Pruitt family. Another is how mysterious this book was, although I do hate waiting most of the time, this time it was worth it. Like how in the book it says that Delphine was really a free woman..of color. As it says in the book, (Delphine) "French blood flow through me and Spanish blood and African blood. It is the African blood they despise. Is it not curious?"

Despise all things, however, there are some things that I wished the author of the book never added in, like pain, death, saddness. Noah lost an arm in the story, Tilly was betrayed of her mother after she commited suicide and told Tilly that she'd rather have Noah then her in the book as it says here, "Don't come back without him. I can spare you. I can't spare him." Cass saw death in her visions and in the future, it seemed so stressful for her that in a way it seemed scary. In the end, surprisingly, everything turned out fine, even if several things were lost.

My least favorite part of the book was when Tilly heard that she was betrayed. How would you like it if your own mother told you the same thing? It's like saying that she wished that you were never born at all and would rather have another sibling instead. Tilly must've felt sad to know this, depressed, yet in the end she went with Delphine to fetch Noah back from the camp. At least she was loyal; although at the same time she didn't have much choice.

Rating: 4
Summary: A riveting tale of a Civil War family
Comment: The book opens with a fifteen year old boy, his father and his two five year old brothers traveling to Grand Tower, Illinois. It's 1916 and the description of traveling by car is impressive; four flat tires in one day, cranking the Ford to get it started.

In Grand Tower, the boy meets his relatives, old Tilly, her husband Dr. Hutchings, Tilly's twin brother Noah, and his wife Delphine. The story then jumps back in time to 1861. Tilly and Noah live with their mother and young sister Cass in this small town off of the Mississippi River. One evening, a boat stops and drops off a girl with violet eyes and grand skirts and a quiet, dark-skinned girl. The two girls from New Orleans, named Delphine and Calinda, move in with the Pruitt family and immediately change their lives. Tilly learns of the torture of wearing corsets, how Calinda makes pralines, and just how bad tensions between the Yankees and the Secessioners have become in the South. Still, little is known about the two girls. Is Calinda a slave? A servant? Has she been freed? Are they escaping from something?

All questions are put on hold as Noah volunteers to fight for the Union Army. Then Tilly and Delphine become even closer as they travel to Cairo to find Noah and hopefully bring him home in one piece. They learn much about themselves and about each other, and that the bonds of friendship transcend the ideals of war.

Richard Peck has written an extraordinary portrait of life for a Northern and Southern girl during the American Civil War. I never guessed exactly what Delphine's story was and was surprised by the many twists in the story. I would highly recommend this book to teens interested in historical fiction, especially those interested in learning about war and racial tension in America. This is a tremendous little book.