Time Enough for Drums

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Summary: READ IT,
Review: History,romance,and adventure all in one!This book takes place in colonial times,where America's revelutionary war is going on. In this book she learns alot about her-self and whats happening around her. If your a history buff,like me,you'd love this book!

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Summary: One of her greatests
Review: I would have to say this is one of Rinaldi's greatests yet! History,adventure,and a bit of romance all in one!This one was the first I read of hers,and this book made me want to read more of her work. Hey, if your a girl who doesnt do manners,well this book is for you!!!!!!!

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Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: Don't worry, girl talking!Don't let the mushy cover fool you - this was a GREAT book. Jem is spunky, and disobedient. She loathes her "tory" tutor John Ried, more than anyone on earth. But, when Jem discovers a secret about her mysterious tutor, her hatred turns into love, thus beginning the romance. I've never been a fan of too much romance - one or two love scenes are enough. That's why I was hesitant about looking at this book. But, trusting the background of the story, I read it, and LOVED it! I'm glad there wasn't too much romance, cause too much just isn't good. Just mushy. The cover of the book is annoying, and destroys the perspective of future "picker-uppers." If you enjoy anything by Ann Rinaldi, you'll sure love this!!

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Summary: Love and Freedom
Review: What could be a better plot then that of the American Revolution. Where a young girl keeps trying to drive her tutor to the edge. She has good reason to because he is a Tory after all, or is he? This is a must read. It shows the hardships of war. It show the struggle of a young women. She has to learn to surive on her own when her family is torn from her. I have read this book so mant times I know it by heart. My friends and I share book and I made them all read this one. They fell in love with it. I can read this book over and over and never get tired of it.

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Summary: Very Good!
Review: This book is really good. It talks about the opinions of a girl during the Revolutionary War and about her thoughts of falling in love with a Tory and his secret. She acts like a true heroine when all hope seems gone and does her best to act like a young lady when needed! I suggest this book to all and hope they enjoy it as much as I did.

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Summary: 2 the 12 year old reader
Review: I read this book twice and i know for a fact that John Reid is NOT african American and Jemima is NOT a full Indian...her grandfather married a Native American and had Mr.Emerson as well as Canoe...but also her mother is not Indian...plus in the book they do not refer to Jem and her family as Indians...also Lucy ((the maid)) is not John Reids sister. She is a African Slave...she and Cornelius ¤the 2 are married¤...other than that you basicly got it all right except Dan ((the older brother)) does not marry in the story. He states that he will wait until he is discharged from the Continental Army...well not to be rude or anything

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Summary: Time Enough for drums I really enjoyed this book!
Review: This book is one interesting novel. It starts out with a catchy beginning like a quarter back. Its about a young 15-year-old Native American, named Jemimah. She has a tutor, an African American man, who tries to teach her to be more lady-like. Jem.has a brother also who later on gets married but this is after her father gets killed in the American Revolutionary War outside of her house. Jemimah and her family is very wealthy. Her tutor's sister is their maid, yet she is treated like a member of the family.After the death of Jem's. Father her mother begins to fall apart with her heart and so she begins to sleep over at her brother's house. Jemimah is now left alone for her tutor has to go and fight his own battle in life (he's a spy), but Jem is really not left alone for she realizes the love she has in her life will be back for her, which is her tutor who gives her a kiss before he leaves, with a book of poetry and lets her ride her horse named Blu. Time Enough for Drums is only recommended for ones who can hold the drumsticks in their hands and make it through a banging story like this.

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Summary: Time Enough to Read
Review: Time Enough for Drums was a little too mushy for my liking. Besides that I think that the book had a good plot and a surprising twist. This book tells the story of a teenage girl and her hardships during the American Revolutionary War. The book picks up its pace when a spy in the family's midst life is revealed.

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Summary: A Look Before Our Century
Review: This book is ideal for American historical fiction. It includes romance and politics. Those two topics often collide in the story making it insightful in the ways Jemima Emerson feels toward the British and her country and the way John Reid, her tutor, sees freedom and liberty.

And this book also includes how the Revolution affected Jem and her family by being torn apart. This book is not only a look on the war and the times, but a look at how Jemima turned into a woman from the child she once was. The war transformed her and the people around her she cared about.

It's about who sides with who and her resentment that she cannot control when her juvenile self appears throughout the book though she curbs it in the end with help from John Reid.

Overall, this book fascinated and entralled me to the very end. I love history and romance. Ann Rinaldi puts up a great show of talent when she mixes the two categories together into one stunning novel called, Time Enough For Drums.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I have read many of Ann Rinaldis books and found all of them good, though as a previous revier mentioned, rather depressing. My least favorite was Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons.
However, this particular book was much better in that the ending was one that made you smile, instead of cry. It is often important to make a reader cry, adds to the story, but I personally likke a happy ending better.
I do understand, though, that history was often sad to begin with... so I see Rinaldis views here.
Read this amazing book. You won't be sad!