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Summary: Excellent story line and characters!
Review: As a teacher of American history I have been reviewing a large number of books to add to my classroom library. Lyddie is beautifully written and historically accurate. I couldn't put it down and finished it in a day and a half! The description of the mill scenes are a reminder of how difficult life truly was yet Lyddie through everything survives. The story takes the reader through every emotion ending with hope.
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Summary: I would definitely read this great book again!!!
Review: Lyddie was one of the best books I have read.
There are many reasons for this, but one of the main ones is that I can identify with Lyddie well, not that I`ve had as hard a life as her, but I understand her, because all the things she did in hard situations were what I would have done. At so many times I thought she would give up but she was way to tough. It was lucky she was tough, though, because her life was so tough. I liked the part when Lyddie and Luke were together because they seemed to almost be in love with each other, although Lyddie was to headstrong and to much of an individual to want to marry yet. I think they actually will get married in the end because they really suit each other. One of the characters which really disgusted me was Mr. Marsden because he was trying to kiss the girls: Bridgid and Lyddie. He made me like Lyddie even more!
I would recommend this to any one above the age of nine, as different aged people would understand the story at different levels. Brie Hughes 6C
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Summary: It was a book full of hardship and fellings.
Review: I enjoyed reading Lyddie because it was set thought Lddie's thoughts about the world.I liked how Lyddie always seemed strong to me when really she was falling apart inside.Lyddie had so much anger and many problems in her life and I always felt sorry for her.I felt sad for Lyddie because her father had left her family with such a task to pay back HIS dept.Lyddie was so kind and strong but the world put her in a prison of hate
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Summary: This book was very emotional.
Review: I like the way Katherine Paterson captured my attention at the beginning of the book and held me in suspense through the whole book until the last page.
There were a lot of good and interesting parts in the book and my favourite part was when Rachel came to live with Lyddie. I like that part the best because it had a lot of emotions and there was always something new happening to Lyddie.
I thought the characters were really well thought out and I liked Lyddie the best as the book was written from her pespective.
The life like traumatic adventures and happenings really gave the book a solemn and serious position and I kept reading to find out what happened next.
The book always caught my emotions and even when my mother read the chapter when Lyddie's mother died, she cried as she read.
The emotion I always felt was sadness. I felt sad for poor Lyddie losing so much of her family and her life. If I was her, I would have given up hope a long time ago.
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Summary: My feelings about the characters. What their reactions were.
Review: I liked the way Lyddie was very powerful and took control. Although she was always taking control, Lyddie was very caring for her family and friends. She took care of Rachel by teaching and helping her to live her life well and be healthy. She helped her to stay alive. I thought that Mr. Marsden was disgusting and mean and Lyddie was very active to his actions. Charlie seemed very understanding and if Lyddie wasn't taking control then he would be. He was very like Lyddie, caring, understanding and powerful. It was like he was taking over his fathers character, being the man of the family, except that Lyddie was more powerful then he was so he couldn't take too much control. Her father seemed like he was a greedy yet caring man. This is so because Lyddie had said that she missed her father. He is greedy because he left home for money. Even though he was getting money for the house he seemed as though he wanted the money the money more for himself. Her mother seemed very anxious because of her father leaving. It was as though her soul was leaving her and day after day she was becoming weaker and weaker. When the bear came it was like she was seeing death, the devil. She must have thought that she had been bad and that was why she had lost her husband and was losing her life, she was going to live with the devil, in hell. As Agnus played a very small part in the story I have not many thoughts about her. My only thought was that Lyddie's mother must have became more sorrowful when she died. As above she was losing more of life
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Summary: We didn't think it was very interesting.
Review: We enjoy more recent books with not so many personal problems.We don't like the style of writing in this book.We usually read horror and adventure books, aswell as mystery with intrigue.We didn't find it very descriptive. We think that people didn't really like Lyddie in the story because they thought she was a goody-too-shoes and they treated her like dirt.We thought that Lyddie has feelings like a chocolate box with lots of different flavours and Lyddie has many different feelings.We think that Lyddie is an egocentric person, although it was nice of her to try to teach Brigid to read and gave her the book. We don't understand why the Worthens didn't return to their little cottage on the hill, because the bears gone and it won't come back
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Summary: Read the book 'Lyddie' it is sooo interesting.
Review: This book was one of the best written books I have ever read.There are not many books like this in the world.It is very sad that here family had to be seperated.Read this book, it will make your heart melt
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Summary: Finally, a novel about the determination of a GIRL!!!
Review: Lyddie was an extraordinary book about a very brave, strong, and smart GIRL!!! FINALLY! Not a boy! Novels of this kind about girls are rare. I couldn't put it down! I admired her determination, and sympathized her hardships. It's Paterson at her best. I advise anyone who is looking for a book to look for Lyddie. I will carry this story for the rest of my life
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Summary: Amanda-10, My favorite book in the world!
Review: I read this book when I was 9, and I still think that this is my favorite book! I really like Lyddie because she really has a strong will as she tries to raise money to reunite her family. She comes across many decisions that are hard to make, but at the end she and her family are reunited to wrap up a very wonderful story. I can not rave enough about this book
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Summary: A *BODACIOUS LADY* IN THE MAKING ...
Review: Isn't this author a marvel? We are transported to another time with the deafening clamor of the weaving machines, feeling the weariness, the shock and confusion 13 year old Lyddie felt when she became a factory girl. We hunger with her for the kindnesses of fellow workers Diana & Betsy. We understand her yearnings for more knowledge as she listens to her friend read from Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist".Her determination to pay off family debts makes it impossible to consider joining the movement for fair labor practices but she does open her mind to learning. Her reading & writing skills lead her to other dreams. In fact, Lyddie fits the description of *a bodacious lady* at a very early age. This is a story about health problems in the mills of New England in the 1800s, and child labor before laws existed for protection of the young. It touches on views of slavery, prejudices against Quakers, Irish immigrants. The descriptions of early settlers pitted against hunger and poverty, even wild bears, have a genuineness that should impress young readers who haven't experienced such struggles, or known hard labor. (It does upset me that several student reviewers call this a 'boring' book -- how many of them ever 'stared down' a bear?) Following that episode, Paterson says "the November night gathered about them ... with its accustomed quiet." It may not be your child's choice for carefree summer reading but it won't be an unhealthy encounter! There may even be some middle-schoolers who will find tracing their roots back to New England an exciting hobby. *Reviewer mcHaiku* is thankful that a sense of humor was part of Lyddie's dna, for it helped her to be a survivor in the best sense. This is a thoughtful book with "staying power" and is highly recommended.
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