Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lily's Crossing
Book Review: One of the best books!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a awesome book!!! Read it. Its about a girl named Lily, and she is staying at her summer home in Rockaway. Her father goes away to war in another country and she is very mad. Lily's neighbors have a guest over named Albert. Lily does some spying and Albert catches her. At first Lily thinks Albert is a bit...well..weird I guess, and then after Lily has gotten to know him, they become good friends. They have adventures together and get in a bit of trouble. If you love things with some war and touching moments this is the book for you! It even won a Newbery Honor award! :PBook Review: Samantha's Book Review
Summary: 5 Stars
Say if you were in the time of World War 2 and you had to leave your hometown for a long time and live in your vacation cabin next to
a lake that leads to nowhere. Then this book is like your life. With danger, sadness, and curious to know where that lake leads to.
Patricia Reilly Giff calls this book Lily's crossing a very interesting realistic fiction book. This book is about an 8-year-old girl named Lily with her angry dad, Sick mom, and many brothers and sisters.
A very interesting part of the story was when Lily sneaked out the cabin and crosses that mysterious lake. At the end of that lake Lily finds a little town with many Jews. She realized that the german Natsic hasn't invaded the little town yet. Instead of going back to her cabin she went to see what that little town was like. Lily liked that little town, but that town didn't have a name. The next day wanted to take her family to see that town she was talking about, but when they got their there was fire and sparks. The German found that island and started to attack. Lily didn't want that town to fall down so she told her family a plan that she has. The mom, one sister and one brother toke out the soldiers next to the historical land marks. Dad and the rest toke out the soldiers in the homes. Lily had the most important job; she went to the boats and gets the explosives. When the Natsic got to they're boats Lily fired up the explosives and through them to the boat. Good-bye Natsic. Lily got to name the town, she named it Peaceful Town. They thought it was weird, but they liked it.
If you ever see this book you should read it and you will have a great time reading it. Seeing Lily make new friends and save the island from the German Natsic. Have a great time!
Book Review: Something Fun to Read.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book. It starts somewhat slow, but once you get into it is a fantastic story. The main character is,as the title suggests, Lily. This book is fun for people who like friendship stories. For those who want action, this book might not be for you.
Lily is a girl growing up without a mother. Her mom died when she was little. It is sad that Lily is so much more interesting than she thinks she is, and that her self esteem is so low. Lilv's Crossing is a story of family and friends. It has been recommended to me by many other people. I liked it a lot.
Book Review: Stupid, uninteresting, and predictible book.
Summary: 1 Stars
I would give it no stars but i cant do that. I read this book in class and the whole class ended up begging the teacher not to read it and we were in the middle of the book. It was one of the worst books I ever read, and I read alot of books!
The story's about Lily who has to be at least 8 and who lies alot. Her, her gradma(who is very mean to lily), and her father go to rockaway for the summer. Her
father then gets drafted into war to work in a factory in war. To make it worse Lily's best friend is moving to. Lily then mets albert some guy from Hungary who sister is in France. Lily lies to albert and says the he swim to find a war ship and then get on the war ship to find his sister, Ruth. This idiotic moron belives her and swims out in the middle of a hurrican. Lily finds out and goes to save him. She apogizes to Albert. Her evil Grandma dosn't punish her she just tellls Lily to stop lying. And as you can guess Lily's Father comes back and for some strange reson he comes w/ Ruth.
See it is very very stupid!
Book Review: Summer of Change
Summary: 3 Stars
Every summer Lily looks forward to her vacation with her father and grandmother at Rockaway, on the Atlantic Ocean. She loves to go to a place where no one really knows her--they don't know she doesn't do well in school, she lies all of the time and makes up stories, and she doesn't have friends. Lily does have a friend in Rockaway--Margaret has been her friend since they could walk.
This summer is different, though. First Margaret's family has to move away to a wartime factory to help with World War II. Then Lily's own father finds out he has to go to war as an engineer, helping in Europe. He may be gone a very long time, and he has to leave Lily all alone with her grandmother. Terrible!
But then Albert, a boy about Lily's age, arrives at Rockaway. He speaks English with a heavy accent, and Lily soon learns he is a refugee from the war. Will Lily be able to become his friend and stop her cycle of lies?
I liked that over the course of the summer, Lily discovers things about her grandmother she hadn't seen before, and that strengthens their relationship. I liked the descriptions of the town of Rockaway. I didn't like the fact that Lily's personality isn't very well described. I couldn't really get a feel for the character.