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Summary: Two Thumbs Up!
Review: Time Enough For Drums is about a Patriot family living during the Revolutionary War. This book is kind of a love story, but then again it is happening during the war so you have details about that. I loved this book. It was one of the best books I've ever read. However, most books that are good don't teach you anything, but Time Enough For Drums did. It taught me how it would feel to live in the 1700s and during a war. I strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: Time Enough For Drums
Review: Time Enough For Drums was a great book. Althogh she lived during a time when women were second-class citizens, girls like me can identify with her smart-aleck behavior, her bravery and her leadership ability.
In this story, Jem is a young girl forced to grow up to fast. Her tutor, John Reid, is no help. He seems to push her to her limts. Then he shows his true colors. After her Brothers, her tutor, and her friend leaves for war all seems lost. Read this book and find out what happens to Jem.
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Summary: Time Enough For Drums
Review: Time Enough for Drums is at times dry as the desert and at other times I couldn't put it down. Ann Rinaldi has an amazing ability to tie history together with things that are interesting to young readers. I was very interested by the relationship between Jemima Emerson, the main character, and the other characters in the book. In the beginning, Jem is a 15-year-old girl who runs off on her tutor, John Reid, making her parents worried and getting into trouble. Once the Revolutionary War begins and her brothers join the army, she realizes that she must grow up. When her mother falls ill, she takes over the housework and running her father's shop. She faces hardships and gets through with the help of John Reid. This book gives insights into what life could have been like before, during, and after the Revolutionary War.
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Summary: Its LAUGHY TAFFY AGAIN!
Review: This book gives u an utz in ur stomach. Its about a girl, who hates her teacher(Reeves). Cuz he's really strict and is a Tory worst of all. He is kind of cute though, and he falls in love w/ Jemima (no not the syrup) But, when Reeves leaves to fight the war, she and Reeve's, friend, danny are getting close because they thought he was dead and. . .oh, sorry, wrong plot. Anyways Jemima then realizes she can love him back when. . . (sorry, static, should have used Sprint PCS, or READ THE BOOK!)
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Summary: Best book ever
Review: I have never liked history so when i was recomended this book, i hestitated before reading it. But now it is my favorite book. I love the story, there's romance and hate, wars between countries, and even one in Jem's own house. It really is the best book ever.
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Summary: Big Fan of Rinaldi
Review: I've always loved Ann Rinadli's books, but found most of them quite depressing. Her "Quilt Trilogy" was a real downer, and "The Secret of Sarah Revere" never seemed to stop making it's characters miserable. Miserable or not, however, there was one strong point that kept me reading - well-developed, interesting characters and plots that equal no other. Nowhere else, truly, have I ever read stories as intriguing and exciting as the novels of Rinaldi. It was this that drew me to this book.Unlike her other works, this book is actually quite a happy one in places. Although the subject (the Revolution) isn't exatly joyful, Rinaldi writes it so well that you can't help but be interested even when it gets sad. Not sad enough to turn me off, though! The plot is far from simple: Jem is a teenage girl at the brink of the Revolution, caught up in her family's ideals and aspirations of freedom and independence. Jem's free-spiritedness often gets in the way of her being a true adult, something she longs for even when acting juvenille. (It is this, the flaws Rinaldi gives to her characters, that make it that much more interesting). Although educated and good-looking, Jem's tutor John Reid (a former lover of her silly and shallow older sister) is a constant thorn in her side. Not only is he super-conservative, he's also a Tory - a person loyal to Britain - with strong ties to England and the King. Or so she thinks! Several interesting plot twists make this book fun as well as insightful, and the romances are so down-played and work so well into the story that the book seems more and more like historical fiction of the best kind and less like the common historical teen romance you most often see today. A keeper!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book by a Wonderful Author
Review: If you think you've seen it all, think again. Ann Rinaldi brings to life a wonderful story that twists and turns with every chapter and every page. A deep love story, and a classic piece of historical work, Ann Rinaldi has proven in this book that writing for her is a natural talent. She takes information from the Revelutionary War, adds a bit of "Rinaldi Flavor" and produces a book! For anyone who has not read this yet, grab your copy and sit down today! You won't want to miss this treasured gift!
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Summary: Good history, decent plot
Review: This book features Jemima Emerson during the time of the American Revolution. Her father owns a store that refuses to sell tea, her mother writes patriotic letters for the newspapers secretly at night, her brother is going around trying to get people to be in the army with him, her other brother helps make guns, and her tutor whom is loved by her family is a Tory?
Before the war is bad she enjoys simple things. Making John Reid ( the tutor) angry, learning to shoot guns, flirting with a village boy (who just happens to be the brother of her brother's fiance). Then her brother's regiment leaves and she finds out something about John Reid, which is so predictable. Then totally out of character she falls in love with him.
This book is not as romantic as the other reviewers make it sound. The history in it is fantastic though. The American Revolution life style is brought to life so well, I thought I was there. The plot wasn't bad either, the romance was. I recomend this book unless you are only looking for a good romance. This book lacks in it.
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Summary: Time Enough for Drums
Review: This book was great. It mixed in historical facts with fiction. And the romance added a great spark to it.
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Summary: Rinaldi Rocks!
Review: First let me begin by saying that this was a really great book and my heart twisted when I had finished reading it. The love between John and Jem was so intense that I almost felt like I was there watching them look at eachother with smoldering eyes. I also really like reading about the Revolutionary War and this book had excellent facts and information on the battles etc.. This book also showed the human side of war, how people's lives are devastated by it. When Jem's father died and she was in the graveyard talking to his tombstone, I just cried and cried. The only reason that I didn't give this book 5 stars was because it was at first hard for me to believe that John and Jem had really fallen in love. He spends a lot of the book abusing her verbally and emotionally, even physically hitting her hand several times. I just he just did all this to try to hide his feelings for her. In the beginning of the novel, Jem absolutely hates John Reid and then suddenly, once she finds out he's a Patriot and not a Tory, she falls madly in love with him. Also, John spends a lot of his time in the book trying to make Jem "into a lady". I thought that Jem was just fine the way she was, bold, adventurous and generally just being herself. Another thing that annoyed me was when Jem was still mourning the loss of her father and her mother was still in shock and couldn't even talk and Jem was so devastated, but then John comes back and doesn't even talk to her about her grief, he doesn't even try to comfort her in her sorrow. In fact, he doesn't even take the time to ask her whats truly bothering her. Besides those few things this really was a great book that I had a hard time putting down!
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