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“Amazing historical fiction book!!!!!!!!!!!”
Hercules wrote this review Wednesday, November 14, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Joe's first book club book pick”
miss shari wrote this review Wednesday, November 14, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Action field book that uses both historical and fictional events. Great how it is set here in the state of Kansas.”
Perla Hernandez wrote this review Thursday, February 23, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Elijah is home on his farm and he see's one of his dad's friends coming. So there dad's friends Mr.Brown leave to go free slaves and they free seven of them. They are gone for a while and lije watches the farm, and these people come and ask for there friend. When they get back Mr. Brown goes north to free the slaves. Then these people come back and just start killing every man and boy they seen. Now the army is after them and they run and lije wants to help but he's only 16 and they stole his horse.
D.L.H wrote this review Thursday, December 22, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“pretty good”
Reese T wrote this review Monday, May 9, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A lot of action. Makes history very entertaining. Recommendation. ”
Vanessa V wrote this review Tuesday, April 13, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Using this as part of a collab unit for Kansas history. It is a pretty good book. It has a lot of details about the Bleeding Kansas days. My students don't seem to hate it. There just isn't a lot of historical fiction that supports this piece of history. ”
TLC wrote this review Monday, December 14, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“What worked for me…
Heather M wrote this review Friday, November 6, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The history learned from this novel was quite substantial. Even after previously studying many facets of the Civil War, I was still able to gain a lot of new information from this book.
What didn’t work for me…
Although I enjoyed the book, I feel like the story’s climax was long coming. I think there were several points in the book that were slow, and for that, I fear some readers may lose interest in the story.
A year from now, I’ll remember…
One thing I will remember about this book a year from now is the origin of the word “Jayhawker”. Being that the University of Kansas’s mascot is the “Jayhawk”, I always wondered what a “Jayhawk” was. Now I know that the word Jayhawk refers to the anti-slavery militant group that was originated in Kansas.
Rating:
"Four Stars" - I Really Liked This Book
”“Its ok ”
mallory k wrote this review Sunday, August 23, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Elijah Tully’s family lives in Kansas just over the Missouri line. His parents are staunch abolitionists and want Kansas to be a slave-free state. Elijah’s father goes on slave stealing (also called liberating runs) with John Brown, the famous abolitionist. ON a raid into Missouri, Elijah sees his father and their neighbor killed. Elijah is severely beaten. Eventually Elijah is recruited by the abolitionists to be a spy in Missouri. Elijah stays at a slave owner’s house and listens for information about raids into Kansas. Elijah gets word out that a raid is being planned and warns his remaining family. The raid leaves Lawrence Kansas burned to the ground.
GEPLYS Historical wrote this review Tuesday, August 26, 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
As a fellow Kansan I learned about John Brown and the burning of Lawrence in school. This was an exciting and accurate account.
Highly recommended.
KRL
(1991) 214 pages”
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