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Book Reviews of Lily's Crossing
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: 3 Stars
Abby Reed
December 12, 2005
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Good Book! **
ISBN#:0-400-41453-9
Ever wonder what it would be like if you were in the Nazi war? Also, if your child was living with her aunt because your wife had died. It is both a sad and exiting book to read. If you like true stories and action this is the book for you. Lily's Crossing took place in Rockaway in a summer house near the Atlantic Ocean. She would swim every day and was a really good swimmer. She was a little girl and she had no friends at all in the town because her best friend Margaret moved away. However, after living there for awhile she met a boy named Albert. Albert came from Hungary. He was the same age as Lily. They got along very well. Albert didn't know how to swim no one ever taught him how to. One day Albert and Lily went out there for there after noon swim and they noticed something in the water that was moving. If you want to find out what that was you will have to read this exciting book to find out more! Lily did some bad things and told lots of lies. After she figured that lying would get her no where she stopped doing that bad thing.
This book was very exiting. If you like page turners this would be the book for you! At times this book could be a bit confusing because they kept referring back in time. When you read the story you may be able to connect to the story because Lily is a great swimmer and sometimes needed to have somebody there for her besides her aunt. The style of writing is very explicit. The person reading could see the ocean and waves and different things that were described. I don't feel like every chapter ended with a page turner, however some chapters did. Sometimes for me my mind would wander because I don't really like stories about the war. People who are more interested in history and wars would love this book.
Book Review: Lily's Crossing
Summary: 3 Stars
I would recommend Lily's Crossing to other readers because it is an interesting book, which describes the life of a young girl during World War II. What I liked about the genre of this book was even though it was fiction; it still had true facts about life during the war. Typically, girls would appreciate this book more because it is based on a young girl's life. In some parts of this novel I just could not put down the book because there was a cliffhanger at the end of a chapter. An example of a cliffhanger in this story is," She sat there a minute longer, her heart pounding, thinking that this was truly the worst lie she had ever told." Lily's Crossing would be an educational and interesting book to choose.
Book Review: Lily's Crossing
Summary: 4 Stars
Although not one of my absolute favorites, this book was entertaining, and had an inspirational story to tell. Lily was quite mischievous, making the story more exciting. Mischievous people tend to take risks.
Lily is a girl suffering from World War II. Not suffering physically, but mentally. Her father was called to France to help fight, leaving Lily and her grandmother to a lonely summer at their beach house. Lily's best friend temporarily moved with her family to a factory in another state because the military needed her father, and all Lily's favorite stores don't carry as much anymore because of the war. Everything seems to upset Lily, until she meets a Hungarian boy named Albert, who just might make her summer better.
I would recommend this book.
Book Review: Lily's Crossing
Summary: 3 Stars
Imagine..Your best friend moves away and your father is somewhere in France, just when you thought your life couldn't get any worse you meet a boy whose life is even more messed up. Welcome to Lily's life. In the book Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff, Lily is 12 year old girl about to spend the summer in Rockaway, her favorite place ever. But her father is in France working as an engineer in the war and Gram is taking care of her for the summer. Albert is a boy who came all the way from Hungary to escape the Nazi's. His sister Ruth is stuck in France and his parents were both killed by the Nazi's. Lily and Albert spend the summer together and become the best of friends. Together they dream of swimming to France to find Ruth and Lily's father. Patricia Reilly Giff really captures the emptiness Lily and Albert both felt for their close ones. Will it end in a happy ending? You will have to read this extravagant novel to find out..