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Title: With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier ISBN: 0440219833 Publisher: Laureleaf Pub. Date: 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4
Rating: 5
Summary: With Every Drop of Blood review
Comment: Every Drop of Blood is about the Civil War. A young boy decides to join a wagon train but their is a risk it is in the middle of the war. A black soldier from the Union army ends up captureing him. Even though one of them is black and the other is white they both find out that they have a lot of similar things about them. Towards the end of the book they become really good friends. They end up saving each others lives. This book is really good.
Rating: 4
Summary: With Every Drop of Blood
Comment: This was an interesting book to read. While a lot of war books I have read portrayed angry characters who couldn't wait for war, this book was different, because of the view the characters had.
Johnny, the protagonist, is a small farmer, who lives in the Shenanadoah Valley during the Civil War. When his Pa is wounded, he comes home to Johnny and the family. A few weeks later, Johnny's Pa dies. You can imagine that Johnny was mad about that. Like most people, fiction and realistic, Johnny wants to get even (you can't really blame him, he's only human.) When an offer to join a wagon train and take supplies to the Confederate Army goes by Johnny, he can't resist. It's a chance to get even with those Yanks for killing his Pa.
His mother is concerned about Johnny's safety, but Johnny lies to her so that he can go. She allows him to go and he starts out with the other wagon and teamsters.
A few days after they start out, some Union soldiers (who happen to be black) suprise the wagon train. Johnny tries to escape, but a soldier catches him.
Johnny doesn't like taking orders from Cush, who is a runaway slave. But if he doesn't, then he'll get shot.
Along the way, Johnny is told that if he wants a good meal, he'll have to teach Cush how to read. So he starts to teach Cush everything backwards. Cush asks Johnny to teach him how to read a newspaper clipping, "The Gettysburg Address." Cush acts like the speech is a sacred scripture. But to him it meant freedom, and that's what he liked about it.
A lot of things happen during the book. The characters feelings towards one another change and they become friends. There's one battle scene. The bond between the two grows stronger as they risk life and limb sometimes to help each other.
The book is historically accurate as far as I can tell, and there is an epilouge sort of thing explaining "How Much of this Book is True?" and "About how People Speak in this Book" and Lincoln's speech "The Gettysburg Address."
When I read the book, I felt like a lot of time had gone by. Really it was only about two weeks. Also, it was interesting to see how attached Johnny was to his mules. When he made an attempt to escape, he tried to run away with his wagon and mules. If I were him, I would have run on foot, or just taken one mule. A wagon is slower, because you have to haul it behind you. I knew that without his mules, if he ever had gotten home, his family wouldn't be able to harvest, plow, and plant crops and that they wouldn't be able to support themselves. But this is just one example of where Johnny could've been a tad bit smarter.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. I would suggest it to anyone who likes historical fiction. If you liked this book, then I would also recommend "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry".
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book
Comment: On his deathbed, Johnny's father made him promise not to go fight in the Civil War for the South but to take care of his mother and the little ones. Then, Johnny is offered 400 dollars to go on a mission to supply the Rebel troops with supplies. His family is suffering and he just can't say no. On the road, the wagon train is attacked and Johnny is captured by a black confederate soldier named Cush. Now he and Cush, though from different backgrounds, must become friends in order to get through the war. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was written in a way that I felt like I was there watching it happen. The plot was full of surprises, but easy to follow and to the point. The characters were realistic of the time period in the way that they talked and acted. The book included real places and events from the Civil War such as City Point and Appomattox. These elements made the book very historically accurate.
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Title: The Bloody Country by James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier ISBN: 0590431269 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty ISBN: 0816713170 Publisher: Troll Assoc Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440228387 Publisher: Laureleaf Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier ISBN: 0440443237 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt ISBN: 0425102416 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 1987 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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