Tag: Book Report

Homesick

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Homesick is technically a fiction book. It is an autobiography of a author, who filled in blank spots in her memory with fiction. She grew up in China, but was of American blood and American upbringing, until she was 12. At that point the Communists tried to take over China and foreigners were ordered to leave.

The main character is very spoiled and the book does not acknowledge that. She is overly American and seems to want to change “foreign” to “almighty american”. She even hates China and Britain because they aren’t american.

The House of Sixty Fathers

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The House of Sixty Fathers is about a boy named Tien Pao. He lives in China during WW2. His village is destroyed by Japanese fighters. He and his family are the only survivers. Taking someone else’s sampan found floating on the ocean during the attack they rowed upstream as far as they could go. And there his parents found work. On only the second day, while his parents were out at work with their baby, he and the family pig are yelling and running around in the sampan it becomes untied to the mooring and the river takes him all the way back to his village, being guarded by Japanese soldiers. He makes his way slowly back to the city he came from.

Along the way he saves and travels with a soldier. With and without his friend he makes his way back to his city. Which at the moment he gets there being attacked by the Japanese!

Redwall

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Redwall is a facinating book about Mathias, a young Monk in training. Cluny, a evil Warrat, attacks the mouse abbey. Now Mathias must find an ancient sword to defeat Cluny. A must read with a very complicated plot. A mystery and war book in one.