Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lily's Crossing
Book Review: Lilly's Crossing
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book. Lilly is a great character because she acts like girls' really do. I love World War 2 fiction and this is a great story.Giff gives a lot of detail. I really reccomend this great book. I finished it really fast.Book Review: Lily 's Crossing
Summary: 5 Stars
Lily 's crossing is a very exciting book. You never know what is going to happen next. Its about a girl named Lily and she is living in the time of World War two. Lily goes to stay in Rockway every summer with her grandma. This summer she gets alot of surpizes. When she gets there she meets up with her bestfriend Margret who has bad news for her that she is moving away until the war is over. Now Lily is worried because she doesn't have any friends. Then when she finds out that her dad is going to war she feels like she has no one. She finally meets Albert. Soon they become friends, but she tells him a lie hat could put both there lives in danger.Book Review: Lily's Crossing
Summary: 3 Stars
Lily starts out in the book feeling lonely and sad. The book takes place during world warII. Lily's father has to go to war, her friend Margaret is moving, and she lost her purse with all the money in it she had saved. Lily is afraid it will be a lonely summer until she meets Albert, and they become friends. Lily almost loses Albert's friendship when she tells lies. The book is about the importance of friendship and honesty. I enjoyed the book. It is was fun to read, but it is not one of my favorite books.Book Review: Lily's Crossing
Summary: 5 Stars
Lily's Crossing was written by Patricia Reilly Giff. The genre of this book is Realistic Fiction. The characters in the book were Lily, her grandmother, her father, and her friend Albert. The setting of this book was Rockaway during World War II. The problem was that Lily's father had gone to fight in the war. Lily was really mad that her father was leaving because her mother had died and she would have to stay with her grandmother. She did not want to stay with this relative. Then to make matters worse, her friend Margaret had moved away because of the war. She thinks she's all alone until she meets a new friend, Albert. She and Albert understand each other better then anyone else. Albert had been separated from his family because of the war. To see if Lily and Albert get reunited with their family read Lily's Crossing.Book Review: Lily's Crossing
Summary: 5 Stars
Lily's Crossing is a great book filled with what it was like to live during World War Two. The book starts out when Lily moves to Rockaway and her dad is out helping U.S.A. on the battlefield. She only has her grandma to accompany her during her stay. Another family called the Orbans have a boy called Albert who fleed from Hungary to be safe from the war. Albert and Lily build a relationship starting with Albert asking for swimming lessons. They later find a lost kitten and sneak into a movie for fun. They steadly bond closer together when one day Lily finds out Albert wants to learn to swim, across the Alantic Ocean to get his sister back from Europe where she is being taken car of when she was sick. Then, one day, Albert tries to go to Europe on a boat during a storm in the bay. Luckly, Lily saves him be grabbing onto his lifejacket against the wave and pushed Albert into the boat that goes to shore. This book's end is filled with understanding and heart touching. I recommend this book because it contains many things that lead to understanding life and friendship. Lily's Crossing shows this in the adventures Albert and Lily had together, like care for the kitten or sneaking in to watch a movie. Understanding life in displayed in when Lily is thinking about the war and looking for Albert in the bay, or when Grandma was explaining to the two friends why pappa is at war, Albert's parents at Hungary, and Lily's friend is away. This Newbery shows life changing in World War Two, and how a person is affected. These are the reasons why I would recommend this book to be read.
My favorite part of this Newbery is when Lily rescuses Albert during a small storm in the bay. But in the meantime, she thinks of what her father told her in the letter and her and her lies. The pappa (who is at war) told Lily in a letter about the promise, a promise that her friend (Albert) had made to her. And the next thing was about her lying. Lily lied a lot and it was like a habit. Lying had also caused Albert to be stuck in a boat during a small storm because Lily lied saying a ship was going to be waiting to take them to Europe. The reason a choose this as my favorite part is it taught lying's consequences and a promise means a lot.