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Summary: My Brother Sam is Dead
Review: My Brother Sam is Dead is a very detailed book by James L. Collier & Christopher Collier.
It's about a boy named Tim and his brother Sam who participated in the Revolutionary War. Tim always looked up to Sam but now he despised him for what he did. Sam's father told Sam of how gruesome it would get {guts splattering, stepping on dead bodies you used to call friends. Always hearing screaming of horror or death.}
The message here is war is stupid! The war is so distant, you hear about the wars here and there but you don't give a care till some things gone. Liberty what is it exactly freedom or death? The dead pays the debt for the living.
I like this book because it shows people how lucky we are to not live in fear of participating in war as kids. Try reading this book. Does Sam live or die [the title tricks sometimes].
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Summary: Excellent Book About the Revolutionary War Period
Review: A family is divided in its loyalties during the Revolutionary War in America. There is stress, conflict, heart-wrenching moments, grim realities as a family faces the daily experiences created by a wartime environment. Excellent read for students studying American history and great book report material. Evelyn Horan-teacher/counselor/author/children's historic fiction
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Summary: this book was great
Review: This book was great! It is filled with true and real facts but it is also a great plot and a page turner. My only problem with this book is that the chapters are really long. This story is so detailed and descriptive. It teaches you all about life during the revoultion. You learn to know the characters and the family so well that when the chapter is over, and the chapters always leave you thinking, you have to read on. I would defently recomend this book for reading with a group or by yourself. I think that you will enjoy it more with a group because it has a lot of things to talk about and discus. Read this book if you want plot, conflict, information, and a great story!
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Summary: good book, but i would recamend it to people who like the wa
Review: My brother Sam is dead!I think this book is good but I recommend it to people who like history and like to read about the war. The setting-
The setting takes place in a town called Redding, where a family called the Meeker's lives, and where they own their tavern.
It also takes place in Lexington, and concord where the war takes place. Also Verplancks Point. The plot-
The plot is that Sam the oldest child leaves collage and goes to war. Sense Sam was gone their father needed some one to help him with selling cattle and gathering goods. On the way home father is tookin by redcoats.
Tim then the youngest child takes the cattle and the goods home. By then the war had reached Redding and Sam returned home for a short while. In the middle of the night people come and take the cattle can Sam goes out to rescue them and gets set up for the thief. And finally they find out what happened to father and something dramatics happens to Sam. Characters-
Sam-the oldest child in the family who goes to war.
Tim- the youngest child and has to grow up fast and be the man of the house.
Susanna- the mother
Life- the father who is captured and...
Betsy read- Sam's girl friend and his messanger.
Theme- in the war the death pay the detps of the living, and was war really necessary.
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Summary: Get the Audio
Review: This book was very good & @ times very exciting. I listened to this on Audio in our car, so I don't know how it is to read it, but it is defidentily worth hearing. I imagiane the book could be boring. Very historical & good. ~Atalanta
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Summary: Brother Vs. Father With Tim In Between
Review: Tim Meeker is a teen boy with a lot to live up to. His older brother, Sam, is close to being a town idol. Sam Meeker has always been smart, brave, and knows what the right thing to do. Most of the town that they live in admires Sam, but especially Tim. One night Sam comes home from collage and tells all about the recent battle in the war of the revolution. His father is extreemely unaprechative of the way Sam addresses the King and his troops. Sam doesn't feel that King George III should rule over the colonies. Therefore he joins the army to fight against the British.
In the mean time, Tim is going back and forth on who to side with: Sam, who's always right, or father, wo's the head of the family. Not only does he have them to side with, but more than half the town are loyalists. Tim sees Sam once in a great while and only for a short time. Soon, his father is taken away by the British troops, a few of his friends are killed by the same men, and his brother is about to be killed because of a crime he didn't commit! Later on, Tim and his mother find out that his father had caught a disease while in a prison ship and died. Now all that tim has left is Sam. He talks to some of the generals, but no one is willing to save Sam's life. At the end of the book, Sam Meeker is shot to death
I enjoyed this book because of two main things: part of the book was true fact and it didn't "drag" like other books I've read. If you look at the back of the book, it tells you that there was actually was a Meeker family living in Redding, the town in which Tim lived. The church that they discribed is still there too. The other part I liked was the pace of the book. It did have a lot of set up, but it still kept me interested in what was going on in these people's lives. I like to see the way people think and why they do things, and this book met both of my likings. The only part I didn't like was that the ending was left hanging. I wished that something could've happened after Sam died.
My favorite part of the book was, sadly, at the end of the book and theend of chapter ten. They're both parts where people die. Though it's descriptive, there are parts about it that I took into consideration. This is a story baised on what happened in history; it just happened to be a war. And in war there is blood, fighting, deaths, and so on. I've read so many fantisys that it was a bitter-sweet feeling to have reality hit.
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Summary: deliver us from this book!
Review: I am truly sorry to all of you who absolutely loved this book but I have to say that this was, in short, the worst book I have ever read. Sure, if you love overly-descriptive and revolting battles and pathetic and weak plots this book is for you. However, if you want to actually get involved in the storyline (without puking) and enjoy what you are reading, pass over this one. Seriously, people I threw this book across the room and stomped on it when I finished it.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book is great. A boy, forced to choose sides because of the war. His hard headed brother listens to no one but his superior in the service. His father stern and wise. Tim, the boy, has a choice, a brash teenager, or a serious adult. War pulls his family apart, and Tim is forced into a front row seat to watch the most historical war of the United States. A great book, though slow at the beginning, it really picks up. It is definately worth a second read
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Summary: My brother sam is dead
Review: This book was a very good read that I enjoyed, though it was slow in the beginning, it became intense and made me not wanna put it down. A sad ending, but that's expected from the title, but sad endings make a book a little better. A great read for 12 to 18 year olds. Interesting, and who doesn't love historical fiction. Only a couple of slight flaws, like certain small things being repetative, but no book is perfect. I loved this book, a great read, and worth reading more than once!
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Summary: My Brother Sam is Dead: A Great War Book!
Review: If you like war books then this is the book for you. There are unexpected surprises and action arising from each page. Although there are some bloody scenes, I'm all right with that. The story is about two brothers and their father. Sam(the older brother)gets in a fight with his dad because he wants to go to war as a Patriot. But his father is a Loyalist. Now Tim (the younger brother) has to decide whose side he is on. I give this book 4 stars because it is an action packed story but some people might not like this kind of book.
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