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Summary: from a guys point of view
Review: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty" is a great book, but knowing that it is the companion to "The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty" also by White, just makes the story even more special. I think it's an interesting perspective: one of the books is from the soldiers point of view, while the other one is from the sister and family's point of view. White made Molly the every modern girl, and all female readers will be able to relate to her (I even saw a little of myself in Molly). I like how Ellen Emerson White made Molly the opposite of a hippy - very levelheaded and mature - during such a confusing time in history. The TV show name-dropping did get a little tiresome, and I wished the epilogue included what came of the wounded soldiers at the VA hospital, but the story is excellent. I recommend.
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Summary: Another great Diary
Review: 15-year-old Boston native Mollie MacKenzie Flaherty is going through some tough times. The Vietnam War is raging overseas and not one day passes without Mollie thinking about her brother Patrick, who had voluteered to serve in the Marines. There is trouble at home too as the assasinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. rock the country. Through the four months chronicaling Mollie's life we meet a girl who is trying to keep herself busy and trying everything to help with the war. She finds a job at the VA hospital working to help injured soliders who had just come back from Vietnam. She finds sad but also inspiring stories there. However when the family is rocked with the news that Patrick was injured in the war everyone is nervous and waiting for news. Another pretty good Dear America book. It wasn't exactly the best, lacking something, I'm not sure what. Anyway I recommend everyone to read this book and its companion, the story of Patrick, "The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: U.S. Marine Corps"
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: I give this book a 2 because a lot of it wa sboring and hard to understand. I wouldn't recommend this book to children who are younger than 11 because it has bad words in it and you don't want them going around the house saying bad words. This book could have been bettter.
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Summary: Great!!
Review: I love to read, but I am very picky. When I read books like this, I feel like it's going to be (a) too easy (b) too hard (c) too much action or (d) not enough feelings. Well, I needn't have had worried about this book! The diary-writer's name is Molly Flaherty. She was 15 during the late 1960s. Her older brother, Patrick, had just volunteered to fight in the Vietnam war. Molly misses him a lot. And she just doesn't know what to think. Be a hippie and protest? But is that betraying Patrick? Her decision is to volunteer at a Vietnam Veteran Hospital. She is surprised to see that most of the veterans are not much older than Patrick. In this way, she draws out her fear of Patrick dying, as she misses him so much.
Great book.
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Summary: The dairy of Molly Mackenzine Flaherty
Review: Molly Flaherty is a teenager in the confusing decade the '60s are. Her brother Patrick is serving in Vietnam, causing her to worry along with her family. She wants to do something, anything, to volunteer, to help in some way. At the same time she is often at odds with her family and friends as a result of her ideas and inquisitive nature, not to mention boy trouble. Yet through it all, her sarcasm and sense of humor help her get by. How can she get by, though, in such dark days when everyone thinks their views are the right ones? How can she survive pinned down by anxiety?
I really enjoyed this one. Molly and I are very alike: We're both inquisitive and want to understand things completely. Neither of us can quite understand the opposite sex and we both have annoying brothers. And we are both animal lovers. I highly recommend this Dear America. Molly's sarcastic nature kept me laughing all the way through the book, and it'll do the same to you!
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Summary: America's gone crazy and she's caught up in the trouble...
Review: Molly Flaherty is a teenager in the confusing decade the '60s are. Her brother Patrick is serving in Vietnam, causing her to worry along with her family. She wants to do something, anything, to volunteer, to help in some way. At the same time she is often at odds with her family and friends as a result of her ideas and inquisitive nature, not to mention boy trouble. Yet through it all, her sarcasm and sense of humor help her get by. How can she get by, though, in such dark days when everyone thinks their views are the right ones? How can she survive pinned down by anxiety?
I really enjoyed this one. Molly and I are very alike: We're both inquisitive and want to understand things completely. Neither of us can quite understand the opposite sex and we both have annoying brothers. And we are both animal lovers. I highly recommend this Dear America. Molly's sarcastic nature kept me laughing all the way through the book, and it'll do the same to you!
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Summary: The dairy of Molly Mackenzine Flaherty
Review: This, was a great book! You feel like its your brother over in Veitnam, not hers. It's not very discriptive, it leaves a lot open for your imagination. Some people's opinions about women at the time were ludicris! Girls HAD to where dresses at school!
It makes you relize how hard the 60's were for everyone.
Afican-Americans and women where fighting for civil rights. A major loss for Afican-Americans was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. JFK's assination was hard for everyone, white or not. I would suggest it!
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Summary: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Review: Where Have All The Flowers Gone is another one of my random book choices. I give it 5 stars. It entrances your intellect with the terrible mind frame of America during the chaotic 1960s. A time when hippies or "beautiful people" demonstrated their anti-war feelings, rasicm was at a boiling point, violence was a daily routine, and the Vietnam War was at an all time high. Stuck in the middle of all the turmoil, Molly Flaherty must learn to deal with the fact that her brother, Patrick is a U.S. Marine, stationed in one of the most dangerous spots, that is attacked occasionally. She must come to terms with herself and mature in order to cope with and conquer over her worst fear-her brother being killed. I recommend it to all Dear America fans.
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Summary: A very good Dear America book!
Review: Yet another GREAT Dear America has been published for you to read. Centering around Boston native Molly Flaherty, this book has the smell and sounds of the late 1960's. Molly is growing up surrounded by peace protests against the Vietnam War. Although she believes in what they are saying, she is torn because her brother Patrick (read the Journal of Patrick Flaherty also) is serving in Vietnam. Throughout the book, you'll encounter her thoughts about her rights and her country, which so many teens ask today. I feel this book was the most mature out of all of the Dear America. It centered more on social issues and two sides than others. All in all, The Diary of Molly Flaherty is a win-win for all!
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