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Rebecca To The Rescue (2009)

by Jacqueline Dembar Greene(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1593695284 (ISBN13: 9781593695286)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

American Girl Publishing Inc

series

American Girls: Rebecca

review 1: This review is from teh perspective of a mother. I am reading the Rebecca series to evaluate when they will be appropriate to share with my daughter.Here's another one that requires suspension of disbelief, but I'm sure it provides enough adventure for the target audience!The opening of the book, with its emphasis on the bar mitzvah rite of passage for Rebecca's older brother, was interesting, if a bit pedantic. The story quickly shifts to fun and adventure at Coney Island. Although I found the rescue a bit melodramatic, I appreciated that when Rebecca and Ana disobeyed parental instructions, there were both negative consequences and punishment, something that has been lacking in many of the AG books.While I haven't rated any one particular book of Rebecca's very high, I t... morehink the stories as a whole are timeless and relevant to the target audience - they deal with teasing, accepting someone who is different, judging others, celebrating your heritage/faith/traditions, and I think Rebecca grows throughout the series. I like the emphasis on Rebecca's emotions as she grapples with issues - this is a well-rounded series, and even exceeds some of the earlier AG historical series.
review 2: The AG formula requires a brave rescue, so the author had to create a conflict of some kind, but let's just say I've read more thrilling plots in my time. I did think the trip to Coney Island was well done, though, and it wasn't too farfetched that they did it to celebrate a bar mitzvah. The reader gets the sense that this family doesn't go there often, so it was a special adventure.I have seen Hester Street many times, so I recognized the up-side-down-Hebrew-book trick right away. Why did Greene include it, I wonder? A child that age would have known which way is up. less

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