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Summary: Another great, and rare, historical fiction!
Review: "Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774" was such a great story! I was a little weary when beginning this story, as I feared this Tory family would be betrayed as rich, snobby, and not as humans, as that is the assumption with Tories. Luckily, that was not the case. I was glad that a book was finally published with loyal British people and what they dealt with through their eyes. A must read if you've read, or been reading, books about the Patriots. I recommend.
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Summary: Another great, and rare, historical fiction!
Review: "Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774" was such a great story! I was a little weary when beginning this story, as I feared this Tory family would be betrayed as rich, snobby, and not as humans, as that is the assumption with Tories. Luckily, that was not the case. I was glad that a book was finally published with loyal British people and what they dealt with through their eyes. A must read if you've read, or been reading, books about the Patriots. I recommend.
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Summary: Love Thy Neighbor
Review: I have been reading Dear America books for a long time, and I've had a hard time trying to stop! I started in fifth grade, and I am a senior now. I normally read adult books, but there are just some series that I can't let go!I was surprised and pleased when I found out about Dear America coming out with a different take to the Revolutionary War. I was not entirely surprised, because they also did When Will this Cruel War be Over? I am glad that Scholastic is not worried about being politically correct, and is brave enough to explore new frontiers. Hats off to Scholastic! Prudence lives in America around the time of the American Revolution. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone was ready to break with England. Prudence's family is one of the forgotten families, ones that are loyalists. She and her family deal with Patriots using terrorism to get them to leave or change sides. Friendships turn to hatred as her town splits in two. And the war has just begun!
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Summary: Love Thy Neighbor
Review: This book is excellent. All through my life, I have pictured the Revolutionary War from one side of the tale, the American side. This book let me think of it from the side of someone who was living in America, but supported England. I am in the 6th grade, but read a post high school level, and I found it to be an amazing book. Normally, all of us never even think about this other side of the war, but this book will make you. Everyone has a different opinion, but we rarely hear everyone's side. This book shows us what it would be like to go agianst the majority, to see your friends become enemies, and to live in a place, where everyone purely despised what you believed. We always think of the Revelutionary War (or at least I used to) as a fight for Independence from the unfair British, but what we really don't often think about, is that the British were people too. And they also got hurt for their beliefs, just like we did, and they also died in the war. Read this book, because when you do, you'll see the Revelutionary War from the rarely heard prospective, the prospective of a Tory.
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Summary: My Love Thy Neighbor Review
Review: This book was not great. It was not bad. But it was more towards the bad side than the good side. But I would not say it was so bad. But I've read much better books. Especially in the Dear America series. I reccommend-do not read this book it was not good.
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Summary: Hard To Relate
Review: This book was very well-written and shocking, but I couldn't really relate to people with a Tory perspective. I cannot really understand why people like the Emersons remained loyal to the king. Weren't the Tories being unfairly taxed too?
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Summary: Love thy neighbor
Review: This Revolutionary War era novel is quite interesting, enthralling and raises many questions and feelings about loyalties to friends, family and country in a time of war. Tories were American colonists who remained loyal to King George and England despite the fact that the Thirteen Colonies were on a course of independence from the monarchy. The story is about a teenage girl whose family are Tories living in a rural community. Her best friend is from a family who is in favor of independence. Events threaten their friendship and the life of her family causing difficult choices to be made. I really enjoyed this thought-provoking book.
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Summary: Great!
Review: Throughout books based on American history, we have seen numerous Young Adult books about the Patriot side. Finally, Ann Turner has written a book about what it was like to be a Tory. Love Thy Neighbor catches you from page one. Centering around Prudence Emerson, a teenager living in Massachusetts, this fictional diary talks about daily life and the problems of being a Tory. Not only is she perscuted by Patriot neighbors, but forced out of her home with her family. Read as you learn about the Revolutionary War and the "other side". Great! Dont forget to read other Dear Americas and Royal Diaries.
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Summary: A Dear America entry: spoon-fed American history
Review: Told by diary entries of a 13yo girl living in Massachusetts in the late 18th century, Love Thy Neighbor deals with the beginning of the American Revolution. It's an easy way to learn about all the different factions involved, the divided loyalties, the strife between Loyalists (those who favored the English king), such as Prudence's family, and the Patriots, like the family of her best friend.
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