The Grave

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Summary: good combtnation
Review: good combtion of histrocal fiction and sicne fiction, time travel in one book. the stroy is good to your really feel from and understand tom.

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Summary: One of The Best!@!
Review: I found this book to be amzingly well written and the characters were built carefully and slowly. I am 12 and found this book to be one of the best I've read! WONDERFUL BOOK! You'll never be able to put it down so quickly order it now and read the best book of your life!

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Summary: The Grave
Review: In the beginning things are a little confusing but as you continue it gets really ineresting. It starts with Tom Mullen. That's not his real name though. It's the name one of his "fozzies" gave him when he was young. He considers himself a loner but at the Two Peas (his new fozzy) its a bit difficult. There is another kid there, Brian, who is a little slow and totally dependant on Tom. Brian annoys Tom very much but later on he realizes he really likes him.
A new school is being put up but something delays the construstion and Tom drags Brian along to find out what it is. The discover a mass grave. The grave is what takes Tom back in time to the 1800's to help the Mohanagans. Tom even starts to like the daughter, Hannah. Now I won't ruin this book for anyone who hasn't read it yet, but it is a really good book.

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Summary: Decent historical novel
Review: The teen book club at the neighborhood branch of our city library system chose The Grave for the February book -- but I was the only one who showed up for the discussion!

What was the book about? Well, the construction of a new school is no secret, but something the builders find is. Tom and Brian decide to check it out. What they learn is extraordinary: the excavation site is a grave with hundreds of coffins! When a guard discovers the youths and comes running, they begin to flee the gruesome site, but Tom stumbles into the grave. The next thing he knows, he's flying through time back to 1847, back to the Irish Potato Famine.

Well written, suspenseful historical novel that teaches as it entertains.

~ JFS

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Summary: For Time Travel and Historical Fiction Fans!
Review: Tom Mullen is a foster child in 1974 Liverpool, England. He becomes curious about the rumors of a mass grave found near his school. While exploring the grave, he falls into the open pit and is transported to Ireland during the Irish Potato famine. He befriends the Monaghan family after saving Tully's (the oldest son) life. The descriptions of the Monaghan family and the others suffering in the potato famine are vivid. Readers will become engrossed in this part of the story. One feels empathy for the family and the horrors they must face daily. Tom travels back and forth in time regularly and readers may find this confusing. Only at the end of the story will this constant travel make sense. Also, the book is full of British slang. Those that are unfamiliar with British slang may find some of the slang confusing. I would recommend this book to those that enjoy time travel and/or historical fiction.

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Summary: For Time Travel and Historical Fiction Fans!
Review: Tom Mullen is a foster child in 1974 Liverpool, England. He becomes curious about the rumors of a mass grave found near his school. While exploring the grave, he falls into the open pit and is transported to Ireland during the Irish Potato famine. He befriends the Monaghan family after saving Tully's (the oldest son) life. The descriptions of the Monaghan family and the others suffering in the potato famine are vivid. Readers will become engrossed in this part of the story. One feels empathy for the family and the horrors they must face daily. Tom travels back and forth in time regularly and readers may find this confusing. Only at the end of the story will this constant travel make sense. Also, the book is full of British slang. Those that are unfamiliar with British slang may find some of the slang confusing. I would recommend this book to those that enjoy time travel and/or historical fiction.