BOOKS: My brother's keeper by Johnson

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@SATURN.PLANET.NET>]

My brother's keeper
by Nancy Johnson
        This is a thoughtful story of the Civil War based on actual letters
from a decendent of the author.  Two young brothers leave Rochester
to go off to war.  While there is much discussion of what happens in
war, it is not an action adventure.  The experiences the boy goes
through and writes about gave me a personal feeling for the many
brave souls in that war.  The books starts to moralize about war at
the end but it is in keeping with the feeling of the whole book.  The
book is 130 pages but because of the lack of "action" and the
thoughtful nature of the book I would only give it to certain
students who will thoroughly enjoy it.
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Frederick Muller
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