Reviews by Tag: civil war

Teen Review
Big Bad Ironclad! by Nathan Hale

Big Bad Ironclad!

By Nathan Hale
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Neil
Jun 14, 2024

Big Bad Ironclad! is part of the series called Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale. This book is about the race between the North and the South during the US Civil War to build bigger and better ironclad warships. The North tries to sabotage the ships of the South, failing and instead indirectly helping them get ideas about how to improve their ships. The South first builds the Viriginia, a giant Ironclad, so the North builds the Monitor, which is smaller but faster.

Teen Review
Gone With the Wind

Gone With the Wind

By Margaret Mitchell
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Sam
Apr 4, 2023

I never expected to read Gone With the Wind. It was a classic and extremely long– but
that was about all I knew. My grandmother one day recommended that I read it, and so I
impulsively decided to. This book is extremely detailed, but not too much so. It treads the line
very close, but I feel the detail is what makes the book good.
 

Teen Review
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad

By Colson Whitehead
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Leilani G.
Jan 24, 2023

The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead, is a creative imagining of the Civil

War. Whitehead takes the concept of the Underground Railroad, which is ironically visualized as

a real railroad that runs under America. The novel follows a young slave, Cora, after her

mother’s escape from their plantation. After years of torment and abuse, Cora and a new slave,

Caesar, escape the plantation and make their way North by underground trains. Throughout her

Teen Review
Lincoln

Lincoln

Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Aadhya B
Jan 5, 2023

I have never been a big fan of war movies, so I expected to spend an unpleasant two-and-a-half hour watching a boring movie centered around politics. Surprisingly, this was not the case with Lincoln. The movie takes place mainly in the year 1865, during President Abraham Lincoln's second term. Along with managing all the stresses in his life and in society during this time period, he was also figuring out how to successfully pass the 13th amendment.

Teen Review
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

By Louisa May Alcott
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Gemma K.
Apr 21, 2021

Little Women is a classic realistic fiction novel. It is divided into two parts, both telling the story of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. The first part is set at the end of the Civil War, and relates the story of these four loving sisters and their mother waiting for their father to come home from the war. They each have different temptations and struggles, but ultimately they bond together to create a loving household filled with laughter and joy.

Staff Review

Burning Nation

By Trent Reedy

Rated by Chris K.
Aug 23, 2016

Don't be fooled by the opening battle scene and continuous conflict that drives the story into thinking this is a simple action book. It's tense and fast-paced, yes, but it is also full of moral, psychological, interpersonal, and political conflict. It is a book whose external action deeply considers complicated internal issues.

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