from the My Name is America series
The Journal of Scott
Pendleton Collins:
A World War II Soldier
by Walter Dean Myers
Published by Scholastic, New York, 1999.
Recommended by:
ALA Booklist
Bulletin of the Center for Children's
Books
Horn Book
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January 24, 2001
Review by RYAN GRADY, Grade 6 - Sharks - Hosman
The author of this book is Walter Dean Myers
and the title of the book is The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins.
This book is about a World War 2 soldier fighting for his life.
The book's genre is historical fiction.
This book took place on the battlefields in
Normandy, France, which is in England. The place does not look too
bright because the shelling destroyed most of it. The years and days
go from May 25, 1944 to August 24, 1994.
I picked Scott Pendleton Collins.
He is very nice and kind. He does not want to die and is petrified when
they go into battles. He has dark black hair. He is medium size and skinny.
The reason he is so important to the book was because the book was on him
and he is the character. He also helps out other characters in the
story.
My favorite part was when they were coming
to Omaha Beach and the Germans were ready and waiting. "We had stepped
right into their trap, and they gunned down a lot of us. We were
not ready for the attack and had trouble fighting back. A lot of
us had died in the water and the water wasn't blue it was red, filled with
blood."
I really liked this book. It was a lot
of fun to read. I think one of the main reasons this book was so
good was that it gave A LOT of details. I think kids between the
ages of 9 to 15 would really like this book. This book also taught
me a lot about being in a war and what World War 2 was like for all of
the soldiers.
Written permission is required to copy this work.
Please contact the Cullen Memorial Library at smollers@peabody.k12.ma.us.
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