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Summary: review from a teenage drama queen
Review: A War within- what does this mean? When you look at these words you think? Maybe a family is split from the Civil War, or maybe a family is discouraged about something. In a way both are true. In the Green family this is true. As young Hannah struggles about the war, she has many thoughts running through her head: is slavery wrong or is the South (her home) right. Her brother and father are gone at war. Her sister falls in love with a Yankee soldier. What is she supposed to do? Then to top it off she has been removed from her home because she is Jewish. As all this comes down on her soldiers, her servant (or slave) leaves them with their cook to join the Union army. With all this emotion she has to decide who is right? The South or the North.
A element to describe this book is suspense.
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Summary: A new perspective on the Civil War
Review: Carol Matas' novel "The War Within" tells of a situation during the Civil War we don't know much about. In Holly Springs, Mississippi 1802, Hannah Green keeps a journal on the accounts of 2 weeks during the Civil War. Her family owns a general store in the small Southern town who is for slavery, but the war has ruined her beloved town and family. Her father and two older brothers have already gone to fight the war for the south and when the Union army occupies her belove town Hannah is furious. Plus her sister Joanna has also fallen in love with Captain Mazer of the Union---the same Union that has split her family. When General Grant issues General Order #11, which commands all Jew to evacute the his territory the Greens are forced to leave their beloved home. It is on this journey that Hannah learns her views on slavery might not be exactly right with the help of Captain Mazer. For the first time she realizes the discrimination her family receives because they are Jew is very similar to the treatment of slaves. As she battles her own war "within" Hannah begins to realize the true meaning of the War.
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Summary: The War Within Book Review by Stephanie
Review: Ten days ago, I knew what was important: order, decorum, manners, and etiquette. That is what it meant to be a southern lady. In Carol Matas' The War Within, Hannah, a 13-year-old girl is forced to leave her home in Hollow Springs and move to Memphis, but before she reaches Memphis, they are forced to go somewhere else. They are forced to go somewhere else because they are Jews. The soldier that sent them somewhere else also said all of their slaves could leave if they wanted to. Then Hannah comes down with a horrible cold. The cold causes her eyes to swell so she can't open them. Will she ever be able to open her eyes again? Hannah somehow finds a way to fight strong wind, downpours and other obstacles with blind eyes. Carol Matas has won the best-selling author award.
This book is perfect for everyone, including boys and girls. It teaches everyone the dangerous elements of the outdoors, such as quicksand, rushing water, etc. Readers will learn how to avoid these dangerous elements. While adults are reading about dangerous elements kids will be interested in other things. The boys will like reading about the war and talking to soldiers while the girls will like the dresses and dolls. This is why this book is perfect for everyone.
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Summary: The War Within Book Review by Stephanie
Review: Ten days ago, I knew what was important: order, decorum, manners, and etiquette. That is what it meant to be a southern lady. In Carol Matas' The War Within, Hannah, a 13-year-old girl is forced to leave her home in Hollow Springs and move to Memphis, but before she reaches Memphis, they are forced to go somewhere else. They are forced to go somewhere else because they are Jews. The soldier that sent them somewhere else also said all of their slaves could leave if they wanted to. Then Hannah comes down with a horrible cold. The cold causes her eyes to swell so she can't open them. Will she ever be able to open her eyes again? Hannah somehow finds a way to fight strong wind, downpours and other obstacles with blind eyes. Carol Matas has won the best-selling author award.
This book is perfect for everyone, including boys and girls. It teaches everyone the dangerous elements of the outdoors, such as quicksand, rushing water, etc. Readers will learn how to avoid these dangerous elements. While adults are reading about dangerous elements kids will be interested in other things. The boys will like reading about the war and talking to soldiers while the girls will like the dresses and dolls. This is why this book is perfect for everyone.
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Summary: Good
Review: The book was about a girl who lived during the Civil War and her family owned slaves. She was a Rebel, she believed that they should get to live how they want. Then General Grant orders all Jews to leave and she has to be taken with her family by the Union soldiers, and she is also going through hard times withher sister. Her sister fell in love with a Union soldier. In the end she realizes her mistakes.
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Summary: The War Within
Review: The War Within was the best book i have ever read. Its about a southern family who are being kicked out of Holly Springs, Mississippi because they are Jewish, while her 2 brothers and father are away at the war. Her sister Joanna mets a Yankee and runs of with him to tend to him during the war because he is injured. There is much more i just dont want to ruin the book for you if you read it!
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Summary: The War Within Book Review by Stephanie
Review: Thirteen year old Hannah Green is growing up as a proper southern lady of Jewish background during the Civil War. Her father and brother's have joined the Confededrate Army. The women and younger brother's, along with their three slaves, are left to take care of the home. Hannah's view of the world was that Negroes were inferior to whites and that all Union "Yankees" were bad. As the war outside their home carries on a war develops within between Hannah and her sister Joanna, after Joanna falls in love with a Union Captain. Hannah cannot bring herself to think past her own world. She considers her sister a traitor. Once Hannah is discriminated against because of her religion she begins to think differently.
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Summary: The War Within
Review: Thirteen year old Hannah Green is growing up as a proper southern lady of Jewish background during the Civil War. Her father and brother's have joined the Confededrate Army. The women and younger brother's, along with their three slaves, are left to take care of the home. Hannah's view of the world was that Negroes were inferior to whites and that all Union "Yankees" were bad. As the war outside their home carries on a war develops within between Hannah and her sister Joanna, after Joanna falls in love with a Union Captain. Hannah cannot bring herself to think past her own world. She considers her sister a traitor. Once Hannah is discriminated against because of her religion she begins to think differently.
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Summary: Offers a unique perspective on the Civil War.
Review: Thirteen-year-old Hannah Green and her family are Jews living in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1863. The Civil War is raging, and the Green family are Southern supporters. Hannah's father has always gone along with the Southern way of life, including owning slaves, because he was so relieved to be accepted in Holly Springs, unlike back in Germany. For many years, the Greens have peacefully run their store, but now the war is changing everything. General Grant passes Order #11, which expels all Jews from the territory under his control. On the long march, bitter with anger over the loss of her home, Hannah blames the Yankees for everything. It takes the actions of one good man, a Northern soldier who helps save the lives of Hannah and her family, for her to realize her narrow-mindedness, and to realize her own family's practice of owning slaves is as wrong as the order that forced the Green family and other Southern Jews from their homes. This was a unique historical novel offering a different perspective on the Civil War.
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Summary: An Interesting Story on the Civil War
Review: This book caught me by surprise I thought that it would be about a young boy in the south during wartime. However it was about a young American girl, whose religion made her along with her family unwanted. The family was removed from their home and their town because they were Jewish. Through out the hardships she encounters, she learns hard lessons about life and about the equality of man and woman. It is a great twist on the view of the Revolutionary war. I enjoyed this book a lot because there are few books that are based on the point of view of a girl through a war. This would be a great book to introduce the importance of treating others they way you wanted to be treated. The author does a great job at teaching respect for each other.
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