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Summary: A great Revolutionary War novel
Review: "Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South" was another great novel by Ann Rinaldi, and a very good novel on the Revolutionary War!Caroline, 14, lives with her mixed Patriot/Loyalist family in South Carolina around 1780. Her life begins to change drastically then; her friend, Kit, is hanged for trying to attack Cornwallis, her father is in jail for being a Patriot, her brother, who was at war, needs her to help him, Loyalists are taking over her home, her sister is getting to be friends - very good friends - with a British soldier, and she's also beginning to know her slave grandmother. This book told a good story, with quite a bit of truth in it, about the interesting times of the Revolutionary War. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone ages 12 and up wanting an exciting read! I'd also recommend "A Wolf by the Ears" and "Time Enough for Drums", two other novels by Rinaldi, and definitely the movie "The Patriot" as it is about some of these very places, people, and events mentioned in this book.
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Summary: A great Revolutionary War novel
Review: "Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South" was another great novel by Ann Rinaldi, and a very good novel on the Revolutionary War! Caroline, 14, lives with her mixed Patriot/Loyalist family in South Carolina around 1780. Her life begins to change drastically then; her friend, Kit, is hanged for trying to attack Cornwallis, her father is in jail for being a Patriot, her brother, who was at war, needs her to help him, Loyalists are taking over her home, her sister is getting to be friends - very good friends - with a British soldier, and she's also beginning to know her slave grandmother. This book told a good story, with quite a bit of truth in it, about the interesting times of the Revolutionary War. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone ages 12 and up wanting an exciting read! I'd also recommend "A Wolf by the Ears" and "Time Enough for Drums", two other novels by Rinaldi, and definitely the movie "The Patriot" as it is about some of these very places, people, and events mentioned in this book.
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Summary: This book is awesome!
Review: Ann Renaldi once again has done it! This book is acurate and full of historical facts but at the same time interesting and captivating. I guarentee, you will not put it down after you start it!
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Ann Rinaldi has written many books dealing with the civil and revolutionary wars, but not as many of them are from the south. This one is and she wrote it and handled it beautifully. Another well written well studied page turner has come out of her type writer and we all benefit from it. I promise you'll like this book.
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Summary: GRABBER!
Review: Caroline Whitaker has just seen her childhood friend hanged, in front of her eyes. She descides then, how much she despises the Brittish. When her brother is wounded, she asks for permission from Colonel Rawdon (the soldier occupying her house for his headquarters)to go and bring him home. Caroline learns many things on her trip, including the growing love for her nigra grandmother. This book was great. I would rather do anything than not give it, or any other Rinaldi book 5 stars!
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Summary: A look at the revolutionary war in the south and slavery
Review: Caroline Whitaker is the daughter of a slaveowner and the granddaughter of a slave. After having grown up with her white famnily she must take a trip with the grandmother she never knew. Meanwhile you are also learning of the revolutionary war and the affect it had upon the south as most of the traditional stories are placed in New England or the middle colonies. I guarantee you will love it.
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Summary: A New Twist on Old Historical Fiction
Review: Cast Two Shadows is an amazing book, quite possibly Ann Rinaldi's best. The story of the American Revolution in the south, this book is a definitely not a dull example of war fiction. Where many books are set in New England, and the characters all face similar problems, Rinaldi has created a unique novel about a young girl's inner conflict as well as the one in the world around her. You will be drawn in by the unique characters, and the vivid descriptions of a South Carolina plantation. Some of Rinaldi's books are tough to follow, as she attempts to explain events that, without prior knowledge, are hard to understand. Cast Two Shadows, however, portrays historical events with ease. The plot moves swiftly, without a boring moment, as you follow fourteen year old Caroline's struggle to understand the war, her family, and herself. 282 pages of adventure and heart-felt emotions, Cast Two Shadows is a historical novel everyone should read.
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Summary: The story of a young girl in South Carolina in 1780.
Review: Fourteen year old Caroline Whitaker has always known she is different from her brother, Johnny, and sister, Georgia Ann. The child of a master and his slave, but fair-skinned enough to pass as a white girl, at age two Caroline was taken into the Master's house to be raised as a member of the family - for a price, though she does not know what the price was, only that her birth mother died shortly after. Now, it's 1780, and the Revolutionary War is raging violently throughout the land. Caroline, her "mother," and her sister are confined to one upstairs room while the British occupy their house. Caroline has seen her friend hanged, and her Patriot father has been thrown into jail. Now, her brother, who was once a Loyalist but has switched sides, is injured and needs to be brought home. Caroline and her Black grandmother, a slave, set out to fetch him home. It is on that journey that Caroline learns just what the price of her acceptance as a Whitaker was: Her mother was shipped off to be sold as a slave to a West Indies plantation. As Caroline comes face to face with the horrors of war, she struggles to accept the truth, and the shadows within herself. This book was the best one I ever read by Ann Rinaldi. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who either liked her other books, or who likes historical fiction. It tells the story of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, a much more brutal one than the war in the North.
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Summary: Dan's Cast Two Shadows Review
Review: I liked this book very much and it taught me many interesting facts about the American Revolution. From much investigation on the Internet, I have learned that the author has "incorporated prodigious historical research and provocative themes to produce a deftly plotted and fast paced novel." (Starr E. Smith, Marymount University Library, Arlington University).
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Summary: wonderful as always!
Review: I love all of the Ann Rinaldi books I've ever read. This one is great too. I'm a teacher and as I read it I was coming up with all kinds of ways I could use it in the classroom. It's worlds better than reading about the Revolutionary war in text books.
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