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Angel Of The Battlefield #1 (2012)

by Ann Hood(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0448454718 (ISBN13: 9780448454719)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

series

The Treasure Chest

review 1: I never read the “Bobbsy Twins” but that was all I could think of when I saw “...the Adventures of the Robbins Twins” on the cover of this complementary teacher’s edition. This edition includes materials for teachers, and along with the newest fad, are aligned with the Common Core. I wonder why the author spent over a third of the book just setting up the time travel piece. Usually the travel is earlier in the story. By the time I got to reading about their encounter with Clara Barton, I had forgotten we were supposed to meet her. I did enjoy the twins’ exploration of the home, which gave a strong sense of place, and their discovery of the time travel mechanism. The reader is certainly poised to come back to find out which object they will pick up next, and to ... morewhere it will take them. I wonder if they will start looking around the room a bit more to try to guess where an object would take them.Maisie seems to lead Felix around, and he gives in way too easily, never thinking for himself. It is predictable that Great Aunt Maisie isn’t as senile as the adults around her think!
review 2: Great book for students in grades 4-6. 12 year old twins become involved in time travel back to historic people. Angel of the Battlefield is about a young Clara Barton. The twins can't return home until they do what they were sent to do. What they are sent to do is part of the mystery they must solve. The items that propel them back in time come from the room called the Treasure Chest. Mystery and history makes a great combination. less

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