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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this little trip into American History.  Most of the book (and it's a small one - easy read) takes place at the start of the Civil War, although it starts and ends in the year 1916.<br/><br/>A steamboat whistle splits the air one April evening in 1861, and with it, all is changed for 15 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46324182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary-<br/>The River Between Us is a chapter book for 7th to 12th graders.  It is a story that takes place in Illinois in the beginning of the Civil War.  The narrator is a 15-year-old Caucasian girl named Tilly Pruitt.  She lives with her mother, her twin brother Noah, and her younger sister Cas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76397624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary-<br/>This novel is intended for students in junior high or high school.  The River Between Us is a novel that is set during the Civil War, but begins in 1916.  A 15 year old boy remembers a trip he took with his father and brothers to visit his father's family in Grand Tower, IL.  Once they...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76270355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I really love about this book are the descriptive words that really make you see what the Civil War was like for the regular soldiers, and for the folk back on the farm, really getting across the idea of being dirt poor in that era, of what the clothes were like, the level of technology availab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44617632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[*Audio Version<br/><br/>Grade/Interest Level: 5-8  <br/><br/>The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76583833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The core narrative here centers on one family at the beginning of the civil war and how their lives are changed when Delfin, a woman from New Orleans, and her companion join their Southern Illinois household. The gradually unraveling mystery surrounding Delfin provides an unusual perspective on race...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41949303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Book! Startign to make sense. A little confusing in the beginning!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This little gem won the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction - a little publicized award that has recognized some really excellent children's titles.  Last year The Green Glass Sea, one of my 2006 favorites, snagged the medal.  Between that book and this one, I'm now convinced that I have to ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6705294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Civil War Novel Unit.  This book really looks at a side of Civil War history that I was not really aware of until I read it.  I have really enjoyed reading it.  The main characters are all women and it has a unique perspective of the woman's side of the war.  There are no battle scenes but some rath...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56316549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like novels about the Civil War and slavery.  This book was a different take.  I liked how it started and ended with a boy going with his dad and brotheres to and from his Grandmas house and then going back in time to tell the story.  It was well written and really expressed how it was for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45560620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The River Between Us by Richard Peck<br/>(prop: parasol)<br/><br/>Fifteen year-old Tilly Pruitt’s world is quickly turning upside down. It is 1861, the eve of the Civil War; all the young men in town are drilling for battle, including Tilly’s beloved twin brother Noah. But their small Illinoi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17560076">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book set during the Civil War. It is about a family wiht two children who encounter two girls that come in on a steamboat and the family takes them in, even though one of the girls is an African American. This girl is portrayed to be the other girls slave. However it turns out this i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39862372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Told primarily from the point of 15 year-old Tilly, The river between us tells the story of Southern Illinois at the onset of the Civil War.  Some townsfolk side with the new president, some with the old south.  Their small town of Grand Tower is split further when two young women from New Orleans a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51847377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peck grew up in Decatur, Illinois, so I have to toot his horn.  But he's one of the best YA writers, too, so everyone is tooting his horn, too.  The book is set in southern Illinois![return][return]During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73024164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is in the class with Tuck Everlasting and The Book Thief. Peck says just enough, never too much and there are no unbelievable bee-charming events. It is superior to his Newberry medal and honors books - and they are good.<br/><br/>River pulls in non-traditional elements of Civil War storie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20063672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a little slow at first, but it really picked up and it really packed a punch!!  I learned so much about from this different view of the Civil War, and things I never knew about the culture of New Orleans.   There is a small amount of graphic violence in a battle scene. Richard Peck is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54263374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned a lot from this slim, quick read. I learned about the quadroon culture in New Orleans before the Civil War, and I learned about the split loyalties in southern Illinois at the time. This is good historical fiction told from a young woman's point of view; it isn't often that you get to see/...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12985300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest I would not have read this book if I had not listened to it on CD.  I picked it because it was only 4 hours.  I did enjoy it and it was an interesting look into civil war history.  It also had a bit of a ghost story/mystery to it with a great twist at the end. If you like historical nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78789185">more...</a>]]></body>
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