Elliot, L.M. Annie Between The States. NY: Scholastic, 2004. 535 pages. (Historical Fiction)
The main characters in Annie Between the States are, Annie, her mother, her brother Jamie, Thomas walker, and her other brother Laurence. The story takes place during the Civil War down South. Annie has to look after her mother and younger brother, Jamie, while her brother, Lawrence, is at war with the Blue Coats. She solves her problems by trying to help her brother, Lawrence, keep track of the Blue Coats that he is fighting against. She also has another problem when she falls in love with a Blue Coat named Thomas Walker. She doesn’t know what her brother will think. Her little brother, Jamie, is trying to gain independence by joining the Confederate side and show his older brother that he can manage on his own. Annie is a lot like me because she is a young spirited girl who loves to ride horses and climb trees. Her brother, Lawrence, even had to get her out of a tree once when she was ten. When she goes to a prison for murder, she goes through a lot of neglect, she has to sleep on a cold stone floor with hundreds of rats and mice. . The ending was very extraordinary because she ends up with one of the Blue Coats as her husband. The author is one of the best writers that I have read.
Reviewed by: BlackPearl
The main characters in Annie Between the States are, Annie, her mother, her brother Jamie, Thomas walker, and her other brother Laurence. The story takes place during the Civil War down South. Annie has to look after her mother and younger brother, Jamie, while her brother, Lawrence, is at war with the Blue Coats. She solves her problems by trying to help her brother, Lawrence, keep track of the Blue Coats that he is fighting against. She also has another problem when she falls in love with a Blue Coat named Thomas Walker. She doesn’t know what her brother will think. Her little brother, Jamie, is trying to gain independence by joining the Confederate side and show his older brother that he can manage on his own. Annie is a lot like me because she is a young spirited girl who loves to ride horses and climb trees. Her brother, Lawrence, even had to get her out of a tree once when she was ten. When she goes to a prison for murder, she goes through a lot of neglect, she has to sleep on a cold stone floor with hundreds of rats and mice. . The ending was very extraordinary because she ends up with one of the Blue Coats as her husband. The author is one of the best writers that I have read.
Reviewed by: BlackPearl
