The Avion My Uncle Flew

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Summary: Bring It Back!
Review: "The Avion My Uncle Flew" is a classic, a book that I use in the classroom as a teacher, year in and year out. My students find it full of suspense, intrigue, history and humor. They also like to keep track of the French they have learned as they read-- which amounts to pages and pages. If you can't find it in print, I recommend that you scour your library shelves or ask your child's librarian if they have it somewhere in the school district to borrow. Johnny Littlehorn is a very realistic hero and fun role model. At the time that it was written, Homefront Americans took on patriotic roles to support our men and women fighting the Axis overseas, whether it was recycling, rationing, etc. Johnny Littlehorn gets to take a more active role while visiting his uncle in France, even though the war is over. Intrigue and spies go up against All-American Johnny, whose dream it is to have a three-speed bicycle with a lighting dynamo. Refreshing and fun.

Rating:
Summary: Bring It Back!
Review: "The Avion My Uncle Flew" is a classic, a book that I use in the classroom as a teacher, year in and year out. My students find it full of suspense, intrigue, history and humor. They also like to keep track of the French they have learned as they read-- which amounts to pages and pages. If you can't find it in print, I recommend that you scour your library shelves or ask your child's librarian if they have it somewhere in the school district to borrow. Johnny Littlehorn is a very realistic hero and fun role model. At the time that it was written, Homefront Americans took on patriotic roles to support our men and women fighting the Axis overseas, whether it was recycling, rationing, etc. Johnny Littlehorn gets to take a more active role while visiting his uncle in France, even though the war is over. Intrigue and spies go up against All-American Johnny, whose dream it is to have a three-speed bicycle with a lighting dynamo. Refreshing and fun.

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Summary: STALKED--IN PARIS AND IN THE MOUNTAINS
Review: Don't be surprised if you can read a little French by the time you finish this delightful spy-adventure! This tale is cute and clever with much tongue-in-cheek humor from a boy's standpoint. We meet 12-year-old Johnny Littlehorn of Wyoming, who starts off as a spoiled baby, but who thankfully matures to become a local hero! Since his father is still serving in the Army just after WW2, John injures his leg while trying to be the man about the ranch. He fears he will be crippled for life--or at least the crucial teen years. When his father returns he annoucnes that the whole family will sail to Europe for a few months while he helps with the allied peace effots. What does a lame cowboy care about his French mother's village--a tiny one-road hamlet in the boonies of some old mountains?

While at the hotel in Paris, Johnny is confined to a wheelchair, but gradually realizes that he is being stalked by a thin, bearded man whose face and manners give him the shivers. The hotel porter is in cahoots with this mysterious creep, who slyly pumps Johnny for information. The boy is frustrated that he can not control his own fate, yet his parents think his screams of protest and denunciations of the wicked duo are just childish fantasy. No one takes him seriously, but We know that he is not imagining things, for there is some deadly serious plotting underfoot. And He is the only one to catch on! His terror mounts as he is cruelly manipulated by this sinister pair, but for what nefarious purpose?

Then John meets his vivacious Uncle Paul who rescues him in more ways than one. Johnny wants a fancy bike more than anything, so he makes a deal with his parents to learn to walk without crutches for two miles and to write a letter in French-thus acknowledging his French heritage. His Uncle--a man of honor and pride despite the family's financial and social decline--has a grandiose dream: to construct a safe glider, which will be bought by a plane manufacturer, so that he can restore the family's pre-war status. Paul and Johnny travel by train to this rustic village, but even on the rails Johnny is sure that he is being watched. Everyone needs an uncle like Paul, who is the only one who believes the boy. But there is real danger in gentle St. Charmant as well, for Nazis are known to be still hiding in the mountains of post-war France. There is still suspicion as people wonder who was the local collaborator. It takes John and his new French buddy to unmask the real traitor! Boys will love this book but girls should read it too, for the French girl shows wit, spunk and compassion as she helps our hero. Will Johnny win his bicycle? Will Uncle Paul ever get his avion to fly? Only one way to find out. Have fun reading and pick up a few French words the easy way!

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Summary: A review
Review: I love this book! It is about a boy who has to go to France. But he doesn't want to. He visits his uncle and meets a guy called Mr. Fichfasse. You should read this book!

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Summary: Bring It Back!
Review: I read this book, and not only found it to be extremely interesting, but also educational. I am so sorry to know that it is out of print, that is a major loss of society. It is suspenseful, easy to understand, has a good plot line, and makes you think. It is a great portrayal of how a young boy in the USA deals with a major change in his life, and I would reccommend it strongly to any one of any age. I loved that book!

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Summary: What a great book
Review: I read this book, and not only found it to be extremely interesting, but also educational. I am so sorry to know that it is out of print, that is a major loss of society. It is suspenseful, easy to understand, has a good plot line, and makes you think. It is a great portrayal of how a young boy in the USA deals with a major change in his life, and I would reccommend it strongly to any one of any age. I loved that book!

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Summary: French Teacher Rates #1
Review: This is a wonderful story. I am so sad that it is out of print. I would use it as a first activity with all of my French 1 students in High School. By the end of the story the reader is able to successfuly read and completely understand a 2 1/2 page letter. I wih he wrote more books like this. Bi-lingual books make languages esy for students with or without language courses available to the. Merci beaucoup pour mon livre. Mrs Welch

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Summary: A must have book for French students
Review: This was absolutely the best book! I homeschool my children and we are learning French. This book integrates french vocabulary words throughout. We kept a list of all the new words we were learning and by the time we got to the last chapter--which was completely in French, we could read and understand it. It was fabulous. The plot was very intriguing,keeping us on the edge of our seats. It was educational as well as entertaining. I just wish this author wrote more books on this order of integrating French into the English. What a painless way to learn a language!

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Summary: A must have book for French students
Review: This was absolutely the best book! I homeschool my children and we are learning French. This book integrates french vocabulary words throughout. We kept a list of all the new words we were learning and by the time we got to the last chapter--which was completely in French, we could read and understand it. It was fabulous. The plot was very intriguing,keeping us on the edge of our seats. It was educational as well as entertaining. I just wish this author wrote more books on this order of integrating French into the English. What a painless way to learn a language!