What significant historical events take place in the book you are reading? Be sure to include the title of the book!
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In the book "Soldier's Heart" it talks about a boy who joins the civil war at age 15. He was in 4 or 5 major battles including Gettysburg and Bull run.
The significant events in the story of Wong Ming-Chung are Wong's uncle wants to go over to America to look for gold and Wong's parents are forbidding him because they say they do not have enough money to afford the trip. Another significant event in the story is when Wong's uncle asks for Wong's brother to help him in America and his parents refuse and instead send Wong who is the weaker of the two brothers, and also younger. Then Wong takes a boat to America and meets up with his uncle to help his uncle mine gold.
My book is called "Don't You Know There's A War On?" A significant event that happen is that in the story there are family going threw a lot of things because of the war. Like they have sons, husbands, dads in the war that they worry a lot that something bad might happen to them.
A significant event that happened in this book is that as Annie help the family get throw hard times , they learned that they can start to trust her even more. Later in the day as she worte in her diary she remebereed what her mother useed to say "thought my soul would rise and fly" which ment in hard time her soul would rise and all of her stess would fly away I thought that was a really nice saing it made me think how back in the day people were so poeatic. Even though they had a hard life.
A significant event on the story "Don't You Know There's A War On?" is that a boy name Howie and his bestfriend denny goes to school at Brooklyn P.S.8.They like going to school because of their teacher she is really nice her name is Miss.Gossim. One day Howie found out that she was going to get fired, but he didn't know why so he went and found out. Finally he found out she was going to get fire because she was expecting a baby.
A significant event on the story "Don't You Know There's A War On?" is that a boy name Howie and his bestfriend denny goes to school at Brooklyn P.S.8.They like going to school because of their teacher she is really nice her name is Miss.Gossim. One day Howie found out that she was going to get fired, but he didn't know why so he went and found out. Finally he found out she was going to get fire because she was expecting a baby.
MY book is called " justy Jane" in just jane the main significant event is that when she came to virginia to live with her dads brother because her dad died, so she is on her way to virginia and when she gets there she finds her self in the middle of the revolution and the revolution is tering her family apart.
Cusi the main character found his history of his familly in (Peru). In the hidden mountain vally. through out his search he was successful on finding his familly history.But not just being successful in familly history he was fortunit in discovering more about his birth
The most significant event in Bella at Midnight is when there were going to kill prince julian for tresion aganst the kingdom. Another event is when Bella seeks out of her stepmothers house to warn prince julian.
My book The journal of Finn Reardon Is about the poor time of New York City During 1899. To Make money Finn sells newspapers. So one event that happened was the appartment building 3 down Frow their's burned down. So finn reardon sold newspapers about it but he stretched the truth. So a reporter that writes the stroies saw him doing that and paid him 4 time as much as usual. Now everytime a big story comes around Finn tells that same guy and earns that much.
In the book "When Will This Cruel War Be Over" it talks about this girl named Emma Simpson and she has just lost her brother Cole in the Civil War. It was a few days before Thanksgiving. Can you just imagine that cause I don't think I could.
significant events that take place in my book is the prince getting introubke and an orphan named Jeremy getting whipped for it. since the prince cant get hit the whipping boy gets whipped. then the prince gets kidnapped because the whipping boy was trying to run away. the title is called whipping boy.
My book is "My Secret War" and it is the World War 2 diary of Madeline Beck. She talks about how her father is in the war and how her father tells her details about the war and things that the military is doing. She also describes her life of how she doesn't have a lot of friends except a boy named Johnny Vecchio and her families/roomates difficulties with where they live and the things their going through because of the war.
The major event in the book "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", is the Vietnam War. The main character's brother is a soldier fighting in the war, and she is not sure if she supports the war or not.
In "Number The Stars" by Lois Lowry, there were many historical events that took place. One of these events was World War I and World War II. Since these Wars were taking place around the time that the characters in my book were living, many other historical things happened too. For example, the German soldiers were stationed in countries all over that they had taken over. The soldiers were limiting things that the citizens of these countries could do. The characters in my book lived in Denmark. Here, the soldiers were capturing Jewish people, telling the citizens what type of food they can eat, and running some of the personal businesses that were in the country. The Germans did many similar things in other countries they had control over.
In my book " A Light in the Storm " it takes place on fenwick island and during this time it is when georgia is leaving the union. but some signifucant events are that wickies (main character) friend has died because he went skating on the ice and he fell through and drowned.
in my book "on the wings of heroes" includes a every specific event that changed the world .the event in my book is world war 2.its the begging of the war and every thing in Americas changing people are throwing away all made in "Japan" products and people start getting drafted away from there homes and its a dark time
The significant event that happen in my book is a slave girl who lives in a planation who reads writes and works there but if she gets seen writeing she will get beat by her master.One day her mother got seen reading and she got hung by her slave owner.
In the book "I had seen castles" there is a man that is 18 that joins the army for world war 2 and his girlfriend doesent want him to go so they got in a fight and werent talking. Just before he leaves she comes over to his house and tells him she is sorry and they have fun that day. T he next day he leaves for war.
My book is Sarah`s Ground and it talks about an 18 year old girl who tries to get a job to help an old lady named Mrs Cunningham, she goes all the way to North Carolina in the year 1861. Her parents only let her go b/c they think that on her long journey she will finally find a husband. Once she gets the job she is very exited. After a while she meets many young man who are willing to marry her, but the civil war happens. She lives in mount vernon and durin the whole book she tries to not get the war going to where her friends and family are.
The Significant thing that happened in this book "Pandora Of Athens" Is that the WIse One named Socrates had been accused of 'Tainting' the minds of the young people of Athens. He was sentenced to a jury where the city could listen to him plead and the rulers could decide what his penalty was. they voted and it was close but his penalty was death. People said he would run away from the city so he wouldnt be killed. But he stayed and drank the poison and awaited his death.
In the book "The Voyage On The Great Titanic" by Ellen Emerson White, there are not many signaficnt events, but the few that are there are very life changing and sad. One historical event that happened in my book is the titanic sinking. This is a significant event because the titanic only had so little life boats and life jackets on board. So the the woman and children went first. But the water was so cold that if you were in there more then about 30 minutes to an hour you could die! This is also life changing because alot of lives were lost that night!
In my book, "look to the hills", in the story the slave Zettie had to be sold because her owners father died and the oldest son took charge and he spent to much money and put the family in big dept. This was bad because they had to sell every slave they had to the working fields, Zettie has been a compainon slave her whole life and wouldnt last two weeks in the fields. Her owner Ree was very concerend and got her best guy friend to buy her, King James. King James had a big crush on Zettie and he knew she wouldnt make it so once he bought her they ranway from England, and ran to spain.
In my book "Under the Blood-Red sun" it Takes place during world war two and the bombing of pearl harbor and Tomi(main character) grandfather is hanging out the japanese flag and they almost get thrown out of there house because of it but he takes it down in time. and he doesnt get in a fight with the house owners son for messing with their chickens so that also helps with not getting thrown out. So the significant events in my book are WW2 and Bombing of Pearl Harbor.
In my book The Royal Diaries of Marie Antionette Princess of Versailles takes place in 1769 during a time when Marie Atoinette was a young teenager. Also in this book Marie tells you how she is preparing to marry the young Dauphin of Austria-France.However, Maria Theresa if Hasburg, Emperess of the Holy Roman Empire of the the Germanic nations or as known as Marie Atoinette's mother has had a contract or agreement setteled for all of her children to marry off to princes and princesses. Marie Antoinette must learn to read, write, gamble, dance and have exellent table manners, and to see the Opera.
This book " Girl in blue" takes place 1861 where a young lady named Sarah louisa whhelock dresses up as a man and says she's 18 and joins the flint union greys for two reasons, 1.) she wanted to serve her country and 2.) ran away from home to join the Flint union greys because her father was going to let her wed Ezkiel Kunkle, a guy she knew her whole life and is a jerk. She fights as Neddy compton and becomes a regiment that becomes part of the 2nd michigan infantry during the civil war. She is discoverd to be a woman and a guy named General McClellan introduces her to his friend Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who gives her a position as a woman "operative" Sarah's first assignment was to investigate Rose Greenhow who is thought to be a spy for the south. Sarah is a maid for Rose Greenhow and later meets her righthand man named Sergeant Steven. Steven and Sarah finds Rose's diary and later in the story Rose finds out that Sarah was a spy for her enemy Allan Pinkerton, by the time she figures out it is too late.
In my book "A Single Shard" there is a boy named Tree-ear and he lives under a bridge with his friend Crane-man.Tree-ear finds a house in this village that is right next to the woods. So he hides behind a tree and then peers out a little bit when he spots a man name min. Min is a pottery maker and he makes all kinds of pottery. Tree-ear likes to watch Min work at his pottery wheel and he comes back too watch him every time he makes a new pot and hides behind the trees. One day Tree-ear came to watch Min but he is not there so Tree-ear goes towards the house and pickes up a box on a shelf in Mins backyard. Then Min comes out the backdoor of his house and yells at Tree-ear and he drops the box and it breaks. So for payment he works for Min to pay for what he broke.
my book is the shakespeare stealer. in this book widge is a poor orphan with a rare ability to shorthand write. and he has to fellow orders of whatever his master tells him. he was born on 1587, the twenty-ninth of Queen Elizabeth's reign. when he was born his mother died. mr. bright sold him to some stranger that did not live close to them. and he was mad at mr. bright could give him away to a stranger just like that.
The significant events that happened in my book The Kite Fighters are the New Year celabration in Korea. This is a big tradition and event in Korea. It is considered everyones birthday. In this book one of the main characters Kee-sup had his capping ceromony which symbolizes him becoming a man. Young-sup the other main character and Kee-sups younger brother who was too young and not going through the capping ceromony was jealous of his brother going through this ceromony but at the same time happy because this is when he could start flying kites with his brother again since it was a winter sport. Also coming up was the New Year Kite Fighting Competition which was a big event in Korea since it was a part of their culture. Young-Sup was the launcher and flyer where Kee-sup was better at making beautiful kites.
The significant historical events that take place in The Whipping Boy is the Prince getting in trouble a lot and not getting hit. The Prince is'nt a loud to be hit so the king had a whipping boy named Jeremy amd every time the prince got introuble or did something bad the whipping boy would get whipped for it. The whipping boy was an orphan named Jeremy and one day him and the prince went on a ride on horses where Jeremy was trying to run away. Since he was like a prisinor when he was about to run away when two crooks came up and kidnapped them and took all the prince's gold.
In this story, Lily's Crossing, there is a girl named Lily that is moving to Rockaway for the summer. Early in the book she is packing, getting ready to leave for Rockaway. Her mother died when she was really little, still just a baby. She can’t even remember her mom or anything they might have done together. She wishes that she could, so badly. Lily lives off the memories that her Poppy and Gram tell her about her mother. Although she lost her mom, at a very young age, she still has her father and her sister. She leaves for Rockaway on Monday, which is also her birthday. She is so excited about going to Rockaway but then she arrives at Rockaway and there is nobody there her age.
In "Mine Eyes Have Seen", most of the book so far is background detail about where the book takes place - Northern United States - and about Annie Brown's family. I just got to a place where Annie's mother recieves a letter from her father that went from Kansas to Maryland. Her father, currently in Maryland, bought the Kennedy Farm to hide slaves and wants his family to come to Maryland so the farm looks normal and no one will get suspicious.
In my book "The sign of the Beaver" the significant events are that a boy named matt 13 years old and his father have built a cabon in the middle of the wilderness. matts father had to leave matt because matts mother was having a new child. matt was left in the wilderness for 7 weeks all by himself.
in my book, "Thursday's Child" a young girl named Harper Flute talks about how her family is struggling to make ends meet in the great depression.And to make matters worse,Her Mother just had another baby who has reoccuring health problems. And since they have no money, they can't afford a real doctor.Since the money is so tight, Harper's older brother Devon has to take a job at 13 years old. AND not only does the Flute family have to struggle monetarily...But Harper's little brother Tin, is the black sheep of the family who almost died in a mudslide. So he is very resentful and lives under the house. And the family has to try to figure out how to make Tin feel important.
In my book "The World War 2 Diary of Madeline Beck" Madeline of course is needing to live through War World 2. She lives in a small house with her mother, Mrs.Hawkins, Theo Hawkins, (their landlord) Miss Burke, && Mrs.Rosenthal with her daughter Clara. The Rosenthals are Jewish && are from Germany because during the time Hitler ruled Germany && he did not like jewish people. As for Madeline && her mother they don't spend much time together since her mother is tryring to volunteer to help the war && Madeline && her friend Johnny are alsays figuring out ways to get involved to help too.
The significant events in my book "The Journal of William Thomas Emerson" are when Will runs away from his home because if Mr.Marsh who adopted him and is a drinking man and beats him alot. Another significant event is when Mr.Wilson finds him on the street sleep and decides to take him in and give him work.
"If I Should Die Before I Wake" happens during War World II. Obviously, this was when The Holocaust was happening. Most children where either living in misery, killed , or "becoming a Nazi". Well, my character (Hilary) thinks she has become a Nazi, that is until she met Chana. Well they didn't really meet but Hilary dreamt about her when she was in a coma. See, Chana is Jewish and thats not a good thing because the Germans are coming to take them away, they think.
in my book "on the wing of a hero" there is a big thing happening it World War two. but thats not what im writing about .during the war there was a shortage of metal in america. and because of this there where metal drive .which were when people whent to your house and took absoultely every peice of scrap metal you had and they uaed to to make guns and bullets and supplys
My book "Beware Princess Elizabeth" the significant event is King Henry the 8th has died and 13 year old Elizabeth and her 9 year brother Edward and 31 year old sister Mary are orphans. And they all are scared about what will happen to them. Elizabeth knows that one day they all will have to take the throne and with the kids her little brother will produce. But her sister Mary turns into despising her and will do anything to make her not to take the throne since she will have it first because she is the eldest of them all. She turns Elizabeth into a prisoner in her own tower and is forced to practice a religion that she does not believe in. Elizabeth is determined to stay alive and do whatever it takes to one day rule over all of England.
The significant event that takes place in my book is when the little girls started making jerking movements and that's when the Salem witch trials happpened and because that was happening the people thought that the little girls were witches so they would hang them!
In my book "The Amazing Thinking Machine", Patrick and his brother Roy are building their first invention together. It is a thinking machine, it answers their questions.
jared hallet- in your book the "thinking Machine" what questions do the two brothers ask that help them out. Also how did they make this machine like what items or objects did they use ?
The ways that Madeline is helping out with the war is that her && her freind Johnny walks the beach to look for battle ships that could be coming to attack the United States. && Mdaeline's mother helps by collecting food and books to send to soliders.
The significant events of my book Weetamoo Heart of the pocassets is that the the pilgrams came to the shores of Massachusetts there were indians already living there but the Indians welcomed the english but later things changed for the bad and the english and some native americans soon became enemys because the english wanted the native Americans to convert to there ways and customs.
In my book "The journal of Rufus Rowe" the one significant event that happens to Rowe is he witnesses the battle at Bowling Green. Since he has seen this he doesnt want to be where he is. He saw a whole line of Union soldiers fall right to the ground.
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In the book "Soldier's Heart" it talks about a boy who joins the civil war at age 15. He was in 4 or 5 major battles including Gettysburg and Bull run.
The significant events in the story of Wong Ming-Chung are Wong's uncle wants to go over to America to look for gold and Wong's parents are forbidding him because they say they do not have enough money to afford the trip. Another significant event in the story is when Wong's uncle asks for Wong's brother to help him in America and his parents refuse and instead send Wong who is the weaker of the two brothers, and also younger. Then Wong takes a boat to America and meets up with his uncle to help his uncle mine gold.
My book is called "Don't You Know There's A War On?" A significant event that happen is that in the story there are family going threw a lot of things because of the war. Like they have sons, husbands, dads in the war that they worry a lot that something bad might happen to them.
A significant event that happened in this book is that as Annie help the family get throw hard times , they learned that they can start to trust her even more. Later in the day as she worte in her diary she remebereed what her mother useed to say "thought my soul would rise and fly" which ment in hard time her soul would rise and all of her stess would fly away I thought that was a really nice saing it made me think how back in the day people were so poeatic. Even though they had a hard life.
A significant event on the story "Don't You Know There's A War On?" is that a boy name Howie and his bestfriend denny goes to school at Brooklyn P.S.8.They like going to school because of their teacher she is really nice her name is Miss.Gossim. One day Howie found out that she was going to get fired, but he didn't know why so he went and found out. Finally he found out she was going to get fire because she was expecting a baby.
A significant event on the story "Don't You Know There's A War On?" is that a boy name Howie and his bestfriend denny goes to school at Brooklyn P.S.8.They like going to school because of their teacher she is really nice her name is Miss.Gossim. One day Howie found out that she was going to get fired, but he didn't know why so he went and found out. Finally he found out she was going to get fire because she was expecting a baby.
MY book is called " justy Jane" in just jane the main significant event is that when she came to virginia to live with her dads brother because her dad died, so she is on her way to virginia and when she gets there she finds her self in the middle of the revolution and the revolution is tering her family apart.
Cusi the main character found his history of his familly in (Peru). In the hidden mountain vally. through out his search he was successful on finding his familly history.But not just being successful in familly history he was fortunit in discovering more about his birth
The most significant event in Bella at Midnight is when there were going to kill prince julian for tresion aganst the kingdom. Another event is when Bella seeks out of her stepmothers house to warn prince julian.
My book The journal of Finn Reardon Is about the poor time of New York City During 1899. To Make money Finn sells newspapers. So one event that happened was the appartment building 3 down Frow their's burned down. So finn reardon sold newspapers about it but he stretched the truth. So a reporter that writes the stroies saw him doing that and paid him 4 time as much as usual. Now everytime a big story comes around Finn tells that same guy and earns that much.
In the book "When Will This Cruel War Be Over" it talks about this girl named Emma Simpson and she has just lost her brother Cole in the Civil War. It was a few days before Thanksgiving. Can you just imagine that cause I don't think I could.
My book The Journal fo ben Uchida takes place during WWII when the japanese were treated badly in the us.
significant events that take place in my book is the prince getting introubke and an orphan named Jeremy getting whipped for it. since the prince cant get hit the whipping boy gets whipped. then the prince gets kidnapped because the whipping boy was trying to run away. the title is called whipping boy.
In The book Thursday's Child an historical event that takes place is the great depression.
My book is "My Secret War" and it is the World War 2 diary of Madeline Beck. She talks about how her father is in the war and how her father tells her details about the war and things that the military is doing. She also describes her life of how she doesn't have a lot of friends except a boy named Johnny Vecchio and her families/roomates difficulties with where they live and the things their going through because of the war.
The major event in the book "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", is the Vietnam War. The main character's brother is a soldier fighting in the war, and she is not sure if she supports the war or not.
In "Number The Stars" by Lois Lowry, there were many historical events that took place. One of these events was World War I and World War II. Since these Wars were taking place around the time that the characters in my book were living, many other historical things happened too. For example, the German soldiers were stationed in countries all over that they had taken over. The soldiers were limiting things that the citizens of these countries could do. The characters in my book lived in Denmark. Here, the soldiers were capturing Jewish people, telling the citizens what type of food they can eat, and running some of the personal businesses that were in the country. The Germans did many similar things in other countries they had control over.
In my book " A Light in the Storm "
it takes place on fenwick island and during this time it is when georgia is leaving the union. but some signifucant events are that wickies (main character) friend has died because he went skating on the ice and he fell through and drowned.
in my book "on the wings of heroes" includes a every specific
event that changed the world .the event in my book is world war 2.its the begging of the war and every thing in Americas changing people are throwing away all made in "Japan" products and people start getting drafted away from there homes and its a dark time
The significant event that happen in my book is a slave girl who lives in a planation who reads writes and works there but if she gets seen writeing she will get beat by her master.One day her mother got seen reading and she got hung by her slave owner.
In the book "I had seen castles" there is a man that is 18 that joins the army for world war 2 and his girlfriend doesent want him to go so they got in a fight and werent talking. Just before he leaves she comes over to his house and tells him she is sorry and they have fun that day. T
he next day he leaves for war.
My book is Sarah`s Ground and it talks about an 18 year old girl who tries to get a job to help an old lady named Mrs Cunningham, she goes all the way to North Carolina in the year 1861. Her parents only let her go b/c they think that on her long journey she will finally find a husband. Once she gets the job she is very exited. After a while she meets many young man who are willing to marry her, but the civil war happens. She lives in mount vernon and durin the whole book she tries to not get the war going to where her friends and family are.
The Significant thing that happened in this book "Pandora Of Athens" Is that the WIse One named Socrates had been accused of 'Tainting' the minds of the young people of Athens. He was sentenced to a jury where the city could listen to him plead and the rulers could decide what his penalty was. they voted and it was close but his penalty was death. People said he would run away from the city so he wouldnt be killed. But he stayed and drank the poison and awaited his death.
My book is Soldier's Heart and it is about a young boy who is 15 and joins the Civil War.He is 15 and he is fighting in the Civil war ,that is crazy.
In the book "The Voyage On The Great Titanic" by Ellen Emerson White, there are not many signaficnt events, but the few that are there are very life changing and sad. One historical event that happened in my book is the titanic sinking. This is a significant event because the titanic only had so little life boats and life jackets on board. So the the woman and children went first. But the water was so cold that if you were in there more then about 30 minutes to an hour you could die! This is also life changing because alot of lives were lost that night!
In my book, "look to the hills", in the story the slave Zettie had to be sold because her owners father died and the oldest son took charge and he spent to much money and put the family in big dept. This was bad because they had to sell every slave they had to the working fields, Zettie has been a compainon slave her whole life and wouldnt last two weeks in the fields. Her owner Ree was very concerend and got her best guy friend to buy her, King James. King James had a big crush on Zettie and he knew she wouldnt make it so once he bought her they ranway from England, and ran to spain.
In my book "Under the Blood-Red sun" it Takes place during world war two and the bombing of pearl harbor and Tomi(main character) grandfather is hanging out the japanese flag and they almost get thrown out of there house because of it but he takes it down in time. and he doesnt get in a fight with the house owners son for messing with their chickens so that also helps with not getting thrown out. So the significant events in my book are WW2 and Bombing of Pearl Harbor.
In my book The Royal Diaries of Marie Antionette Princess of Versailles takes place in 1769 during a time when Marie Atoinette was a young teenager. Also in this book Marie tells you how she is preparing to marry the young Dauphin of Austria-France.However, Maria Theresa if Hasburg, Emperess of the Holy Roman Empire of the the Germanic nations or as known as Marie Atoinette's mother has had a contract or agreement setteled for all of her children to marry off to princes and princesses. Marie Antoinette must learn to read, write, gamble, dance and have exellent table manners, and to see the Opera.
This book " Girl in blue" takes place 1861 where a young lady named Sarah louisa whhelock dresses up as a man and says she's 18 and joins the flint union greys for two reasons, 1.) she wanted to serve her country and 2.) ran away from home to join the Flint union greys because her father was going to let her wed Ezkiel Kunkle, a guy she knew her whole life and is a jerk. She fights as Neddy compton and becomes a regiment that becomes part of the 2nd michigan infantry during the civil war. She is discoverd to be a woman and a guy named General McClellan introduces her to his friend Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who gives her a position as a woman "operative" Sarah's first assignment was to investigate Rose Greenhow who is thought to be a spy for the south. Sarah is a maid for Rose Greenhow and later meets her righthand man named Sergeant Steven. Steven and Sarah finds Rose's diary and later in the story Rose finds out that Sarah was a spy for her enemy Allan Pinkerton, by the time she figures out it is too late.
In my book "A Single Shard" there is a boy named Tree-ear and he lives under a bridge with his friend Crane-man.Tree-ear finds a house in this village that is right next to the woods. So he hides behind a tree and then peers out a little bit when he spots a man name min. Min is a pottery maker and he makes all kinds of pottery. Tree-ear likes to watch Min work at his pottery wheel and he comes back too watch him every time he makes a new pot and hides behind the trees. One day Tree-ear came to watch Min but he is not there so Tree-ear goes towards the house and pickes up a box on a shelf in Mins backyard. Then Min comes out the backdoor of his house and yells at Tree-ear and he drops the box and it breaks. So for payment he works for Min to pay for what he broke.
my book is the shakespeare stealer. in this book widge is a poor orphan with a rare ability to shorthand write. and he has to fellow orders of whatever his master tells him. he was born on 1587, the twenty-ninth of Queen Elizabeth's reign. when he was born his mother died. mr. bright sold him to some stranger that did not live close to them. and he was mad at mr. bright could give him away to a stranger just like that.
The significant events that happened in my book The Kite Fighters are the New Year celabration in Korea. This is a big tradition and event in Korea. It is considered everyones birthday. In this book one of the main characters Kee-sup had his capping ceromony which symbolizes him becoming a man. Young-sup the other main character and Kee-sups younger brother who was too young and not going through the capping ceromony was jealous of his brother going through this ceromony but at the same time happy because this is when he could start flying kites with his brother again since it was a winter sport. Also coming up was the New Year Kite Fighting Competition which was a big event in Korea since it was a part of their culture. Young-Sup was the launcher and flyer where Kee-sup was better at making beautiful kites.
A major event that happens in the story, Pearl Harbor is Burning, iswhen Pearl Harbor got bombed and the main characteris right next to the base.
The significant historical events that take place in The Whipping Boy is the Prince getting in trouble a lot and not getting hit. The Prince is'nt a loud to be hit so the king had a whipping boy named Jeremy amd every time the prince got introuble or did something bad the whipping boy would get whipped for it. The whipping boy was an orphan named Jeremy and one day him and the prince went on a ride on horses where Jeremy was trying to run away. Since he was like a prisinor when he was about to run away when two crooks came up and kidnapped them and took all the prince's gold.
In this story, Lily's Crossing, there is a girl named Lily that is moving to Rockaway for the summer. Early in the book she is packing, getting ready to leave for Rockaway. Her mother died when she was really little, still just a baby. She can’t even remember her mom or anything they might have done together. She wishes that she could, so badly. Lily lives off the memories that her Poppy and Gram tell her about her mother. Although she lost her mom, at a very young age, she still has her father and her sister. She leaves for Rockaway on Monday, which is also her birthday. She is so excited about going to Rockaway but then she arrives at Rockaway and there is nobody there her age.
In "Mine Eyes Have Seen", most of the book so far is background detail about where the book takes place - Northern United States - and about Annie Brown's family. I just got to a place where Annie's mother recieves a letter from her father that went from Kansas to Maryland. Her father, currently in Maryland, bought the Kennedy Farm to hide slaves and wants his family to come to Maryland so the farm looks normal and no one will get suspicious.
In my book "The sign of the Beaver" the significant events are that a boy named matt 13 years old and his father have built a cabon in the middle of the wilderness. matts father had to leave matt because matts mother was having a new child. matt was left in the wilderness for 7 weeks all by himself.
in my book, "Thursday's Child" a young girl named Harper Flute talks about how her family is struggling to make ends meet in the great depression.And to make matters worse,Her Mother just had another baby who has reoccuring health problems. And since they have no money, they can't afford a real doctor.Since the money is so tight, Harper's older brother Devon has to take a job at 13 years old. AND not only does the Flute family have to struggle monetarily...But Harper's little brother Tin, is the black sheep of the family who almost died in a mudslide. So he is very resentful and lives under the house. And the family has to try to figure out how to make Tin feel important.
In my book "The World War 2 Diary of Madeline Beck" Madeline of course is needing to live through War World 2. She lives in a small house with her mother, Mrs.Hawkins, Theo Hawkins, (their landlord) Miss Burke, && Mrs.Rosenthal with her daughter Clara. The Rosenthals are Jewish && are from Germany because during the time Hitler ruled Germany && he did not like jewish people. As for Madeline && her mother they don't spend much time together since her mother is tryring to volunteer to help the war && Madeline && her friend Johnny are alsays figuring out ways to get involved to help too.
for khill. how did you person help in the war, like what things did they do.
The significant events in my book "The Journal of William Thomas Emerson" are when Will runs away from his home because if Mr.Marsh who adopted him and is a drinking man and beats him alot. Another significant event is when Mr.Wilson finds him on the street sleep and decides to take him in and give him work.
"If I Should Die Before I Wake" happens during War World II. Obviously, this was when The Holocaust was happening. Most children where either living in misery, killed , or "becoming a Nazi". Well, my character (Hilary) thinks she has become a Nazi, that is until she met Chana. Well they didn't really meet but Hilary dreamt about her when she was in a coma. See, Chana is Jewish and thats not a good thing because the Germans are coming to take them away, they think.
in my book "on the wing of a hero" there is a big thing happening it World War two. but thats not what im writing about .during the war there was a shortage of metal in america. and because of this there where metal drive .which were when people whent to your house and took absoultely every peice of scrap metal you had and they uaed to to make guns and bullets and supplys
My book "Beware Princess Elizabeth" the significant event is King Henry the 8th has died and 13 year old Elizabeth and her 9 year brother Edward and 31 year old sister Mary are orphans. And they all are scared about what will happen to them. Elizabeth knows that one day they all will have to take the throne and with the kids her little brother will produce. But her sister Mary turns into despising her and will do anything to make her not to take the throne since she will have it first because she is the eldest of them all. She turns Elizabeth into a prisoner in her own tower and is forced to practice a religion that she does not believe in. Elizabeth is determined to stay alive and do whatever it takes to one day rule over all of England.
The significant event that takes place in my book is when the little girls started making jerking
movements and that's when the Salem witch trials happpened and because that was happening the people thought that the little girls were witches so they would hang them!
In my book "The Amazing Thinking Machine", Patrick and his brother Roy are building their first invention together. It is a thinking machine, it answers their questions.
jared hallet- in your book the "thinking Machine" what questions do the two brothers ask that help them out. Also how did they make this machine like what items or objects did they use ?
The ways that Madeline is helping out with the war is that her && her freind Johnny walks the beach to look for battle ships that could be coming to attack the United States. && Mdaeline's mother helps by collecting food and books to send to soliders.
The significant events of my book Weetamoo Heart of the pocassets is that the the pilgrams came to the shores of Massachusetts there were indians already living there but the Indians welcomed the english but later things changed for the bad and the english and some native americans soon became enemys because the english wanted the native Americans to convert to there ways and customs.
In my book "The journal of Rufus Rowe" the one significant event that happens to Rowe is he witnesses the battle at Bowling Green. Since he has seen this he doesnt want to be where he is. He saw a whole line of Union soldiers fall right to the ground.
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