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Summary: Too Much Criticism!
Review: If you too deeply analyze the war aspects, the "bad choices" of the girl, or the one sidedness in this book then you miss the entire meaning of the book, one of someone being loved by the first time in her life, this book is a heart warming story of love and the extents you go to for love, so read this book, and don't criticize it for its flaws because it is a spectacular book .
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Summary: " The Summer of my German Solider"
Review: The book " Summer of My German Solider" is a great book. I am 10 years old and had to read this book for an english project. I feel this is a good book to read because it shows how teenagers deal or overcome with the problems they face in life. Most think because it is about WWII that it would be relly borrrringg!!! but it isn't.Then again some people don't like love stories either. I think this book is a great book to read because it is funny, mysterious, exciting, and there are a few facts in it.
The story is about a girl named Patricia ( Patty) who is 12 years old.Her family is really mean to her and they don't show any appreciation. Then one day while she is working in a family store she helps a boy or a POW/ Nazi then they start to talk. They get into a conversation and patty doesn't think he is bad, he can speek great english. That was when her live started to change.
The next time she say him was trying to hitch a train ride. HE ESCAPED from jail!!! Her live wasn't over. She hides him from her family, and freinds. She doesn't tell anyone that she is hidding him. She gives him food and water to. Then the secret comes out!!!
You should pick up the book summer of my german solider and start reading it today. It sad, happy,mysterious, adventures, and factual. I would rate it a 9.9999 star rating out of 10.
(10 the best). I love this book !! so you should love it toooo
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Summary: Blah....
Review: This book is OK, I had to read it for school. It was bearable, but I wouldn't have read it if I had a choice. First of all, I'm not interested in World War 2, and secondly it seemed unrealistic for a realistic book. There were a few exciting parts, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: A Boring with a German Soldier
Review: This book is one of the my favorites. Its a romantic, exiting and tragic story about a friensdhip between a jewish girl and a german soldier during WWII. once you start reading, its hard to stop. the main characters, Patty and Anton, are impossible not to become attatched to. it can be dull in a few parts, but the story altoghether is worth it.
must read!
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Summary: One of my Favorites
Review: This book was on a list of recommended summer reading for my daughter. I was disturbed by the two sentence synopsis on the list and decided to purchase and read it myself to find out if the school to which I pay a princely sum every year, was indeed recommending a book with such a poor moral foundation. What I found out was that not only was the two-sentence synoposis accurate, the book was worse than described. (To get a plot summary look at some of the other reviews--I won't waste space with that here.) Nowhere in this book is there an acknowledgment that POWs--regardless of what their personal political stands may be--belong in POW camps until the end of hostilities. The heroine of this story is in fact championed for protecting an escaping POW. There had been no build up suggesting that conditions at the camp were subhuman, etc. No, he just didn't want to be there. He wasn't a Nazi, he was misunderstood, a product of his historical circumstance, etc. Our heroine's eventual punishment is presented as the result of an unfortunate legally-required minimum, not as an appropriate punishment for her actions. She is now the victim of a legal system that can't acknowledge her personal circumstances--her evil father and mother who through their lack of love drove her to want to help the German soldier. The fact is, our heroine's "protection" of the soldier is an indirect cause of his eventual death, something which never even seems to occur to the heroine--or to anyone else for that matter. It is odd that after portraying the soldier as having such great personal potential and goodness that he should be protected from internment at a POW camp, the author does nothing to suggest at his death that his life had any value beyond his relationship with our heroine. Even there his memory serves as nothing more than a foundation for her daydreams. And her daydreaming is not about his life cut short, it's about her playing the role of sympathetic visitor to his grieving mother in Germany! Not only does this story present extremely poor choices by a 12-year-old as praiseworthy, it never questions a relationship between a 12-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man, and it romanticizes death--a very unfortunate theme among much of what passes for award-worthy modern children's literature. Finally, all of the characters are completely one-dimensional. The heroine's parents are evil without explanation, the German soldier is a perfect gentleman, the townspeople are hysterical bigots, the heroine's black maid is wise and the only source of love for the heroine. With all the great literature out there, why do we have our children read this junk? What our children read is important and it is very disturbing that it appears from the other reviews that a great many schools seem to be using this book as part of a literature or history program. It is poor on all levels, poorly written, poor character and plot development, and poor moral lessons.
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Summary: A review for parents
Review: This book was on a list of recommended summer reading for my daughter. I was disturbed by the two sentence synopsis on the list and decided to purchase and read it myself to find out if the school to which I pay a princely sum every year, was indeed recommending a book with such a poor moral foundation. What I found out was that not only was the two-sentence synoposis accurate, the book was worse than described. (To get a plot summary look at some of the other reviews--I won't waste space with that here.) Nowhere in this book is there an acknowledgment that POWs--regardless of what their personal political stands may be--belong in POW camps until the end of hostilities. The heroine of this story is in fact championed for protecting an escaping POW. There had been no build up suggesting that conditions at the camp were subhuman, etc. No, he just didn't want to be there. He wasn't a Nazi, he was misunderstood, a product of his historical circumstance, etc. Our heroine's eventual punishment is presented as the result of an unfortunate legally-required minimum, not as an appropriate punishment for her actions. She is now the victim of a legal system that can't acknowledge her personal circumstances--her evil father and mother who through their lack of love drove her to want to help the German soldier. The fact is, our heroine's "protection" of the soldier is an indirect cause of his eventual death, something which never even seems to occur to the heroine--or to anyone else for that matter. It is odd that after portraying the soldier as having such great personal potential and goodness that he should be protected from internment at a POW camp, the author does nothing to suggest at his death that his life had any value beyond his relationship with our heroine. Even there his memory serves as nothing more than a foundation for her daydreams. And her daydreaming is not about his life cut short, it's about her playing the role of sympathetic visitor to his grieving mother in Germany! Not only does this story present extremely poor choices by a 12-year-old as praiseworthy, it never questions a relationship between a 12-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man, and it romanticizes death--a very unfortunate theme among much of what passes for award-worthy modern children's literature. Finally, all of the characters are completely one-dimensional. The heroine's parents are evil without explanation, the German soldier is a perfect gentleman, the townspeople are hysterical bigots, the heroine's black maid is wise and the only source of love for the heroine. With all the great literature out there, why do we have our children read this junk? What our children read is important and it is very disturbing that it appears from the other reviews that a great many schools seem to be using this book as part of a literature or history program. It is poor on all levels, poorly written, poor character and plot development, and poor moral lessons.
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Summary: Summer Of Josie's German Book Report
Review: This is a story of Patty Bergen, a trouble making, homely thirteen-year-old growing up on the American World War Two homefront. Patty's parents are verbally abusive, and her father is known to beat her on occasion. When a German POW escapes from the local prison camp, she allows him sanctuary in hidden rooms in her home. This German soldier proves to be her first love and one of the only people who truly loves her back.
I, personally, would not recommend this book for pleasure reading. The novel had well-developed characters, and that was mostly what the author concentrated on. It seemed Bette Greene wanted to just develop a character, and not a story. When something tragic happens to Patty, I'm so busy learning everything about her that I did not shed a tear. Summer of My German Soldier seems to be an analysis of the adolescent human mind, not a novel I could fall in love with.
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Summary: Book Review for Summer of My German Soldier
Review: This is really dramatic and romantic! when i read it for english class in 7th grade,i liked it from the whole beginning.I think it's sad how patty's family and the towns people treat her.& it has some interesting history background!
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