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A Medal For Leroy (2012)

by Michael Morpurgo(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0007487517 (ISBN13: 9780007487516)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harper Collins Children's Books

review 1: Is it a crime to protect your families with secrets and lies? If it's the only thing that can warrant a normal life for your child and comfort your loved ones, why would it be wrong? This is a beautiful story about familial ties. Also, on how love transcends beyond society's ill remarks against the African Americans during the era of WW1. Times when discrimination was close to abusive. I have chosen the perfect book for my sister's first English reading!
review 2: I felt like this story could have been better than it was. To me it was a long telling narrative where showing would have made it more poignant and exciting. I didn't feel much of anything for the young main character, Michael. His aunts, particularly Auntie Snowdrop, were more interesting. But even s... moreo, I found myself skimming, particularly towards the end. I kind of wish the story had been a YA novel told from Auntie Snowdrop's POV. Telling her story, as an aging aunt to her young nephew, and in the process, explaining to Michael who HE was, would have been a much more powerful story. less

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