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Summary: A Wonderful Story
Review: I read this book a few years ago and fell in love with it. Now that my neice is old enough to enjoy a long book, I have enjoyed re-reading it with her. She loved just as much as I did.
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Summary: After the dancing days is a fantastic book!
Review: It really captured the feeling of those who suffered. I couldn't stop reading! I even took it into the doctor's office with me!!
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Summary: A very loving and touching book; could be a bit better!
Review: Rostkowski combines heroism, war, and love in this chapter book for children. The story is almost always set in a hospital, where Annie Metcalf, the main character, learns to confront Andrew, a bitter young veteran whos face yielded terror in many people. Annie soon opens her heart to this man, and yet must face her mother, who shows immense prejudice to Andrew. This book was repetitious, though. There was actually no real "movement" of the plot
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Summary: After The Dancing Days
Review: The war to end all wars is over and everyone in Annie's hometown is planning a rapid return to normalcy. But things are far from normal in Annie's family. Her father has been away for over a year working as an Army Doctor in a hospital in New York City. Her Uncle Paul died in France a year before the end of the war, and the sadness of his death has cast a long shadow over all her relatives. After her father returns, things start to change even more. The doctor decides to take a new job at a catholic hospital and assist in the care and rehabilitation of some of the more severely wounded soldiers from the war. These disfigured young men are a painful reminder to the townspeople who prefer to think only of the heroic dead and the handsome young veterans. When Annie befriends a wounded man many of her friends and family find it hard to accept. Annie is forced to make painful choices and decided what is the right thing to do. I was not overly impressed with this book. I though it moved very slowly. Many of Annie's friends and schoolmates were two-dimensional. Some themes, like the anti-Catholic feeling of the town were introduced but then never resolved. This was an adequate book but not the kind I would read again or recommend highly.
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Summary: Just O.K.
Review: The war to end all wars is over and everyone in Annie's hometown is planning a rapid return to normalcy. But things are far from normal in Annie's family. Her father has been away for over a year working as an Army Doctor in a hospital in New York City. Her Uncle Paul died in France a year before the end of the war, and the sadness of his death has cast a long shadow over all her relatives. After her father returns, things start to change even more. The doctor decides to take a new job at a catholic hospital and assist in the care and rehabilitation of some of the more severely wounded soldiers from the war. These disfigured young men are a painful reminder to the townspeople who prefer to think only of the heroic dead and the handsome young veterans. When Annie befriends a wounded man many of her friends and family find it hard to accept. Annie is forced to make painful choices and decided what is the right thing to do. I was not overly impressed with this book. I though it moved very slowly. Many of Annie's friends and schoolmates were two-dimensional. Some themes, like the anti-Catholic feeling of the town were introduced but then never resolved. This was an adequate book but not the kind I would read again or recommend highly.
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Summary: After The Dancing Days
Review: Thirteen-year-old Annie is going to the train station to meet her dad, who was a doctor in World War I, for the first time since the war ended. After seeing men who were injured come off the train with badly wounded bodies, legs and arms missing; Annie told herself she was never going to visit a hospital unless she absolutely needed to. After hearing her dad talk about the men in the hospital where he was working in their small Kansas town, Annie slowly became interested in the lives of the men her dad was taking care of. She became so interested that she started visiting the hospital. There she met Andrew who's face was badly burned. She became attached to Andrew as a good friend. There at the hospital Annie found out from Andrew about her uncle's mysterious death at battle. The book became tragic when a family member of Annie's had a heart attack.
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Summary: A book that represents individualty,
Review: This book captured the essence of what life was like for a teenager living in times of The Great War(World War 1). It explains the struggles of one man that was effected by the War. (He was poisoned with mustard gas.) The book is historically accurate because there are connections to other books in the time period.
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Summary: This was an excellent book!
Review: This book is about a young girl who becomes friends with a horrible looking was hero. She visits him every day and wants to find out how her uncle died. If you won't to learn more of the story, READ IT FOR YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: This is a story about Annie Metcalf coming of age.
Review: This book was entertaining and insightful. It captured the essence of what it was like for an adolescent after WWI. Annie is coming of age during a time when the world had suffered a loss of innocence. This book would work well in an intergrated study of literature and history. Connections could be made to other reading material of that era. Although this book is earmarked for a Young Adult audience it has an ageless quality about it that would allow even adult readers to enjoy. I would reccomend this book to everyone who enjoys reading well written fiction.
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Summary: This book was badly written, does not appeal to teens.
Review: This book was not only very badly written but it was so confusing that it was dificult to follow, comprehened, or enjoy. The flash backs were useless, not in a timely place, and no cross reference to the right place of the story. I am sure you are a great teacher but, you may get a better perspective or better ideas on what to write, for teens, if you interface or request teens/students opinions on your ideas. These comments were written by a female teen 14 years of age. END
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