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Summary: Stones in Water
Review: Stones in Water is a book about a boy named Robeto, his friends Memo and Samuel and his brother go to see an American film when German soldiers enter the theater and take all the boys. They are sent to a work camp in Germany where Memo and Sergio get seperated by them selfs and Samuel and Roberto stay together. But if the German's find out that Samuel is Jewish it will get them both killed. I didn't like this book very much because i thought it was to unrealistic and to predicabul. For example when Roberto excaped the work camp, how realistic is it that he just walks away into the woods? Or that the soldier that he took along in the boat just happened to know Italian.
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Summary: Stones in Water is the best book
Review: Stones in Water is a captivating and heart-warming story about the hardships and struggles a young Venetian boy must got through to survive during World War II. The boy, Roberto, and his Jewish friend Samuele are abducted by German soldiers and are sent to a work camp. There they must put there bodies to the test in order to survive together. Since Samuele is Jewish, they have to hide that secret or they will both be killed. During the harsh Ukranian winter Samuele is brutally beaten and dies, leaving Roberto to fend fo himself. Roberto then escapes and tries to make it home to Venice, Italy during the unforgiving winter of northern Europe. Along his way, he meets up with and Italian soldier and they both decide to join the small group of people that oppose the war. I absolutely loved this book and I strongly recommend you purchase it.
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Summary: Stones In Water
Review: Stones in Water is a great book about two friends who are trying to survive during WWII. Roberto, Sergio, Memo, and Samuele are taken, from a movie theater, by German soldiers. Roberto and Samuele are taken to the same work camp. The two boys learn that only those who are strong inside and have a sense of hope survive. This book is awesome. Napoli writes with such description that the reader gets involved. As you read, you feel like you are right there with Roberto and his friends during this terrifying experience. You go through many emotions like sorrow, pride, fear, and courage with the boys. I would recommend this book for teens who are looking for an exciting war book that they'll be drawn to.
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Summary: Stones in Water is pretty good.
Review: Stones in Water is a great story! I would definitely recommend it! It keeps you on your toes the whole way through! Though it does leave you hanging, Stones in Water has a marvelous plot and the Polish girl is a very symbolic motif that is woven throughout the entire story! Will Roberto and Maurizio ever make it home? I guess it's up to the reader to decide!!
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Summary: Stones in Water: An intriguing book.
Review: Stones in Water is a very exciting and intiguing book about lives of young boys during World War II. It starts in a movie theater where Roberto, Sergio, Memo, and Samule are taken away by German soldiers. Roberto and Samule are taken to the same work camp. There, the two boys go through many struggles to stay alive and realize the one key to survival is to have hope. They are forced into labor building tarmac. Food is very scarce. But during the harsh Ukrainian winter, Samule is brutally beaten and dies, leaving Roberto by himself. That is when Roberto risks it all. Trying to escape the camp, he comes encounter with many things such as eating slugs in snow-covered streams to stay alive and battling with wild animals. German soldiers and old friends are just a few people who he also meets in his journey. Finally, by the help of people who risk their lives to save Jews, Roberto gains control of his life again. So if you are looking for a book with great description and stories that will keep you from putting a book down, I recommend you buy this book. I give it five stars out of five stars.
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Summary: Captivating
Review: Stones in Water is a very well-written, captivating book about a boy's survival in a German work camp during World War 2, and in the wilderness. In the camp he recieves little food and is worked very hard. Eventually he decides to escape, when he is in the wilderness, he stumbles in a boat and decides to padle his way back to his home in Italy. This is a very unpredictable and exciting book, it will keep you interested until the very end.
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Summary: Stones in Water a timeless classic for everyone!!!
Review: Stones in Water is a wonderful book about an epic adventure of a 13 year old boy named Roberto and his friend Samuele a.k.a Enzo. Roberto, his two brothers and his best friend Samuele are abducted by German soldiers at a movie theater. Roberto and Samuele are seperated from Roberto's two brothers and are sent off to a German work camp. Samuele is Jewish and changes his name to Enzo so the soldiers don't find out his awful secret and kill him. They go on like this going through many bittersweet moments until one night Enzo is brutally beaten by the other boys and dies during the night. After this horrible event Roberto decides to escape the Ukranian camp and tries to got back to his home is Venice, Italy. He meets up with a small boy and they try desperately try to survie in the harsh Ukranian winter. The ending is bittersweet. I absolutely LOVE this book and I recommend purchasing this book. It is an absolutely wonderful and moving book about the Holocaust, and it had me wondering...
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Summary: Stones In Water
Review: Stones In Water is an exciting book about 2 friends, Roberto a catholic boy and Sanuele a Jewish boy who are best friends. One night them and lots of other boys are rounded up by German Soldiers are taken to a work camp where they have to work. When winter comes it becomes a struggle to survive. The author Donna Jo Napoli does a great job of describing the characters and thier surroundings. I think this is a great book for students to read if they want to knonw more about the Holocaust. I found this book very hard to put down after reading the first page.
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Summary: PRISONERS OF WAR
Review: Stones in Water is book of many emotions; it begins in a small village outside of Venice, Italy. Roberto, a Gondolier's son, and his best friend Samuele are captured one day by German soldiers in a movie theater. They are taken to Nazi work camps where they are pushed into hard labor and grueling work. As the book continues work gets harder and one day the boys are moved to a camp in Ukraine. Trouble comes when a boy at the work camp discovers a dangerous secret about Samuele that could get Roberto and Samuele both killed.
When Roberto escapes out of the camp his journey home begins. He must battle rough terrain and harsh weather as well as Nazi soldiers storming cities to get back home to those he loves. With Enzo already dead from the cold Roberto thinks he has nothing to loose. He runs and runs not thinking about death but about perseverance and to never give up. He makes do with nature and survives eating sea creatures and sleeping in trees. While traveling through Russia trying to get to the Mediterranean Sea, he uses methods Enzo has taught him, and tries to survive in this deadly climate.
With Enzo gone he has no company, but While Roberto is traveling he comes upon two friends Rigazzo and Maurizio who help him travel land and sea and try to help
this unhappy gondolier son get back to his loving family, or will Roberto make a terrifying decision that could change his life forever.
My first reaction in Stones in Water was the friendship. Roberto and Samuele would literally do anything for each other. Even if it was a deadly situation It was all the way from trading food, to acting like they weren't friends, to hiding that Samuele was a Jew, sacrificing his life to be with each other, and being a great friend and telling good night stories to each other because they missed there family so much. It even showed about making friends when it is most important. Even when Roberto was tired, hungry, and cold he still went out of his way to be friendly to Rigazzo. This book really brought out the true meaning of friendship. Most of all, this book was passionate it really showed what life was like in labor camps and it almost felt like you were experiencing there situations.
Another reaction that I had was survival. Roberto did what every he could to stay alive. He ate disgusting sea creatures, slept in trees, and hid in the snow. The only reason he knew these methods was because of Samuele, Samuele taught him many tings things that kept him alive.
The last thing that I observed in the book was symbolism. The German boots represented so many different things. The most important thing to Roberto was that they reminded him of Samuele because Samuele was wearing them when he died. In addition, they kept Roberto worm. The last symbol of the German boots was a dreadful symbol, which almost caused Roberto to die. This is so, because when Roberto was in a village many people thought he was a German soldier and shot at him and almost got him killed.
I defiantly recommend this book because it is very real. When I was reading his book it almost felt like I was also a prisoner of war. It is a well written book that is very descriptive and emotional.
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Summary: Stones in Water
Review: Stones in water is one of the best books that I have ever read. It was very well written and very detailed. Although it was hard to follow because Roberto goes so many places, it was a definite page turner. The author always left you wanting more at the end of the chapter. I would not reccomend this book to people that like happy events in a book, because this was not a happy book. It is a book that makes you want to prevent a thing like WWII from ever happening again.
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