Helpful Score: 3
Good book for older elementary school age. Takes place during WWII and many of the problems will be very recognizable to American children now facing problems caused by war in another country.
Helpful Score: 1
I was a little disappointed to find this a rather bland story and one that lacked direction, especially since it was a Newbery Honor. It felt simply like a collage of scenes pasted together of a young motherless American girl's summer during World War II, when her father is called to the war effort and she is left with a grandmother she does not get along with. She befriends her neighbor's nephew, a refugee from Hungary, who is determined to get his young sister back from France where he was forced to leave her behind when she became ill during their escape. While it showed an interesting point of view of the war, both the story and characters lacked substance to me.
Helpful Score: 1
Such a wonderfully written book!
Helpful Score: 1
1997 Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Book. Newbery Honor Book During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see war and her own world differently. Great gift book. Great story!
this book i have put on is about a girl who moves for the war ans she does not know it yet but her dad has to go to war and lily is mad at her dad for going to war cause she had lots of stiff planed and he just said he had to go to war..
Lily's blissful summer of 1944 comes to a rude halt when her father is drafted into the military. Left alone with her grandmother in the family's summer home in Rockaway, New York, Lily befriends Albert, a shy Hungarian refugee her own age. Narrator Mia Dillon convincingly conveys the emotional complexity of both children, capturing the urgency and doubt that arise from Lily's internal dialogue and providing a sensitive portrayal of Albert, complete with Hungarian accent. Albert's tentativeness and sorrow are apparent to the listener long before Lily can fully understand his painful experiences in war-torn Europe.
Lily will spend the summer in Rockaway, her family's summer house. The summer of 1844- World War II has changed everyone's life. Her best frind Margret has moved a way. And much worse, Lily's father is going overseas to the war.
Theres no one Lily's age in Rockaway, until Albert a refugee from Hungrary with a secret sewn into his coat. Albert has lost most of his family to the war. Soon they begin to form a friendship. Now they both have secrets to share. They both have told lies, and Lily has told one that may cost Albert his life.
Theres no one Lily's age in Rockaway, until Albert a refugee from Hungrary with a secret sewn into his coat. Albert has lost most of his family to the war. Soon they begin to form a friendship. Now they both have secrets to share. They both have told lies, and Lily has told one that may cost Albert his life.
Summer of 1944 in Rockaway.
