posted by anna on Oct 26
This book is is about the life of Ben Uchada who being a Japanese American citizen was moved to mirror lake interment camp.
He tells of the hot sun (since it is in CA and not near a lake at all). The thing he does the most is play baseball with the other people in the camp.
posted by anna on Jul 6
I started learning about the great depression. The most recent book I read was The children of the Depression, it had lots of stories and pictures about the poor children in the 1930’s.
The depression started when the stock market collapsed in 1929, the richest people were pulled down to to the poorest community’s, and the poor were always near to starvation. The worst off place was the areas in and around Alabama where the soil tuned to dust making it impossible to grow anything, so thousand of family’s were not making any money and by 1939 40,000 family’s had pack what belongings were left in to their old truck and moved to Californa.
posted by anna on May 7
I just read a book called Great escapes of world War 2, it is a very good book.
The book is filled with stories of escapes form prison camps by the Germans, Australians, Americans, and Japanese. My favorite story was of a group of Americans, led by Roger Bushnell, dug three tunnels named Tom, Harry, and Dick, though in the end they only had one tunnel left. It took a full year to dig them but they never gave up. The final escape was made in March 1944.
posted by anna on Feb 1
All of a Kind family is about a Jewish Family living in New York in the 1800’s. They had 5 girls and a baby boy.
The story is just about them trying to “make do” when money is scarce, I read two books in the series out of 4, These books were written by Sidney Taylor.
posted by anna on Jan 26
Written by Patricia Beatty, this book is about a 12 year old girl Hannalee and her brother Jem, they and the other mill workers that made clothes for the confederate army were taken captive by the union army and taken to Indian from Georgia away from their parents.
on train they were taken to Missouri Where thy were sold. Some went on to Indian to work there Jem and Hannalee were taken away from each other by separate people to different states.
Hannalee was taken by a mean owner and lived there working as a maid for 6 months. When one day her owners went to the market she escaped the house and started to run away, she went to where her brother was and dressed as a boy got him and went home together fulfilling her promise to her mother to return.
posted by anna on Nov 28
This book was about a pioneer girl in Wisconsin during and after the Civil War.
She had 3 sisters and 3 brothers. She would spend all her day playing with her two older brothers and sometimes make trouble. When her cousin from Boston came (who was very “lady like”) Caddie (and her brothers) started quilting, sewing, and cooking.
near the end of the book they got an offer to inherit a castle in England but turned it down, and Caddie realized how much their home meant to them and so ended the book.
posted by anna on Nov 14
I have moved on to the next part in history, Recontruction age.
I have read Patsy, a freed girl. she was a slave after the Civil War. They still lived like slaves but where supposed to be free. She had secretly learned to read and write while she was a slave. Then when they where freed she became the “school teacher and had a room bult for it. This happend when she was 12 so she was teaching people twice her age!
Finally she whent with a group and went to live as free people.
posted by anna on Oct 16
Ok, just one more book on the Civil War.
The Wonderful Story of Lincoln. Lincoln was born in a small log cabin in Kentucky, on February 12 1809.
Abe had one older Sister, Nancy, named after her mother. When Abe was 8 his his Mother died of a fever,
and Tom Lincoln (Abe’s father) got remarried to a women named Sarah, after that Nancy changed her name to Sarah. Sarah had 3 children when she married Tom. As Abe grow up he became a shop keeper, than a lawer, than the President. Abe always said that a country coulden’t be half slave and half free so that’s when the Civil War started.
After being elected for a second term, Abe and his wife where at a theater and there was a shot that killed Abe rite away, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth, he was still mad about the south losing the War.
And there ended the story.
This book was written by: C.M.Stevens
posted by anna on Oct 4
The most recent book I have finished is Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
It is about Harriet Tubman. She was born in Maryland on a plantation. When she was 17 a slave was escaping and she blocked the doorway when the Master was chasing the slave, so the Master took a rock and through it to her head. After that she would fall asleep when she wasn’t expecting it, in the middle of conversation, walking, and so on.
When she grew up she escaped and became free. She than went back and took more slaves to freedom. She did this for many years and finally went back to get her parents.
Harriet freed over 300 slaves from various plantations.
posted by anna on Sep 26
I have just finished another book!!! The Civil War diary of James Admond Peas a Union soldier.
He was orderd to keep a journal for their company. In one of the battles he was knocked, out by being thrown by a grenade and woke up after every one had left. So for acouple of days he wondered around the woods until he came to a shack with a lady. She brought someone to help him find his camp.
He than found them and whent alone to find the battle of Bullrun!!! and that was the end of the book.