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Summary: A glimpse at the lives of 2 young men in a Nazi work camp.
Review: I really got into this book. Roberto and Sameuel are captured by German Soldiers and sent to work at a work camp, putting in long hard hours and under fed. Roberto gets his insprition to survive through a small stone given to him by a young jewish girl. Roberto faces many trails with and without Samuel. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to all readers, young and not so young.
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Summary: Stones in Water
Review: I really really like this book. It should be an award winning novel.I think all of you should buy it or read it, if you do you will really like this book, an if you like it so much you should buy it and read it day after day after day. I fell in love with this book, and even though I was done reading it I still am reading it a second time.You will love this book.
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Summary: Stones in Water
Review: I though this book was a really good book because it was about a boy named Roberto and his three friends went to see an American flim, during the war. They got caugt after the film, got stuffed in a train and made about 10 stops. After the stops they got seperated into different groups.Roberto told them to stand in the front of the line. Roberto and Enzo got picked but Memo didn't, so they went to a diffrent camp.He ran away from his old camp and fell and crackeed his head open.After they let him go and Enzo and him went on a boat and tolled the story of the HUNCHBACK OF NOTER DAME.....
~Nicole~
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Summary: stones in water
Review: I thought that this book was very interesting and I would recommend it to anyone the part that troubled me a little was at the begining but then it got more interesting when you got deeper in the book. Over all I think that it was one of my favorite books you couldn't relly tell what was going to happen. This book tells how it's really tough for the Jews and there life style in their days.I really got into the book it is a great book for kids my age. My whole family really loved this book because they read it at sometime or another. Well overall I really enjoyed this book and I recommend it to you any time.
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Summary: Needs an epilogue or something
Review: I thought the book was great, but it ended so suddenly. I alsothink it needs a better title or they should explain better at theend. END
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Summary: A boy gains inner maturity through a horrible wartime ordeal
Review: On a lark, Roberto and his older brother sneak off with some friends to go to a movie - spending money loaned by a slightly shifty friend. But at the movie, all the boys in the theatre are summarily rounded up and herded onto trains at gunpoint by German soldiers. This is just the start of a long and grueling ordeal for Roberto, who learns first hand of the horrifying brutality of the Nazi regime. Rumors that he had always uneasily dismissed as too awful to be true are fleshed out before his eyes. The boys are carefully split up into geographically unrelated groups, the Germans using Italy's many dialects to minimize the chances of conspiracy in the work groups. The only one of their original bunch that remains with Roberto is his Jewish friend Samuele. Like all the drafted boys, Roberto and Samuele barely manage to survive physically from day to day. But Samuele and Roberto keep each other alive in spirit. This is a poignant and wonderful story of trial and determination. Never maudlin, clean and realistic. It is a beautiful little book.
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Summary: Book Review
Review: One day when a teenage Italian boy named Roberto goes to see a western movie with his brother and two friends, German soldiers raid the theater and take all the boys. The soldiers pack the boys in a train and send them off to a work camp. Roberto, when sent to this work camp is split up from his brother and later on is split from his friend Memo. This means it is only Roberto and his best friend Samuele. Samuele though has a secret that can get them both killed. Roberto during this book sees and does some things that he dosn't like. One, for example is he has to eat slugs for a stream to survive. Another is that he sees many people that looked starved and people getting shot for no reason. In order to survive and try to get back home, Roberto has to do some courageous things. He has to go face to face with a hungry wolf, goes through the woods and almost freezes to death, gets shot, goes through some towns where he is not welcome. Some positive thing that he did that made him feel powerful was to feed a Polish girl who looked like she was starving food. Another positive thing that Roberto learns about is the partigiano (people that sabatage the war by disarming tanks and weapons)and wants to become one of them. I think this was a really good book and is great for people who want to learn about how people lived during WWII and how bad war can really be. I would reccoment this book to people who like action and drama.
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Summary: Stones In Water
Review: Patrick Murphy
10/19/02 Title: Stones in Water
Author: Donna Jo Napoli
ISBN: 0-439-14122-2 Stones in Water Book Review Roberto fell on his chest and rolled quickly to the right, kicking out his legs in defense. "Damn!" The soldier who stood over him pointed a pistol. And he was wearing an Italian uniform. Italian! He looked quickly back at the river, then at Roberto again. "What's wrong with you people?" he hissed. "That whack was hard enough to knock any normal person out. Is a bullet the only thing that stops you? Does everything have to be death? I am sick of you. I'm so sick of all of you." He shook his pistol as he talked, and he kept looking over his shoulder at the river every few seconds. The book Stones in Water is a historical fiction about an Italian boy named Roberto and his Jewish friend Samuele who was taken as a work prisoner in the WW2. This book takes place over all Western Europe mainly in Italy in Germany. The plot of the story is for Robert and Samuele to make it home safely back to Italy without any one finding out Samuele's Jewish or else they will not be able to tell about the adventure they had. This book is a great book because the writing style left you hanging and wondering about what is going to happen next. I was constantly finding myself being sucked into the story; I was always fumbling though the pages to see what happened to Roberto and his friend. The book put a movie in my head; every time I had to put it down, I could not wait to pick it up again. The chapters end would make you want to pee your pants in anticipation to see what happened next, for example "then he held out his pistol and shot one of the boys in the head. Red spray fanned out in front of the boy as he fell forward." She would just not tell you what happened to the rest of them until the next chapter. I would recommend this book to people of ages 11-14 and for people who like an exciting war book, and do not mind a lot of violence. If you like, action and adventure this is the book for you. This is a truly great novel about friendship, courage, and heart.
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Summary: My English teacher made me...
Review: Stones in Water
After the Germans take Robert and his friends away and his best friend Samuel dies at one of the work camps Robert runs away from the work camp in search of his home. Robert has to rely on his wits and courage to make it home??? This was a great book full of suspense and action I really liked this book the main character was tuff like a boy should be. I recommend this book to any guy who loves war books and to see a little death.
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Summary: My English teacher made me...
Review: Stones in Water
After the Germans take Robert and his friends away and his best friend Samuel dies at one of the work camps Robert runs away from the work camp in search of his home. Robert has to rely on his wits and courage to make it home' This was a great book full of suspense and action I really liked this book the main character was tuff like a boy should be. I recommend this book to any guy who loves war books and to see a little death.
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