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report on the Vietnam War, black family Another book for my YA Lit class, An interesting idea guiding the book an AfricanAmerican Charlie girl decides to do a project on the Vietnam War to learn more about it since both her father and uncle are veterans.
Her father's very closed about the war and is very strict, and always avoids talking about it as much as he can, I don't know that much about the Vietnam War myself, so the little bits of new information that the book contained made me wonder more about it, and I liked that the book focused on an AfricanAmerican perspective about the war, with different people in Charlie's family still either supporting or opposing the war.


Unfortunately, this book had too many problems for me to really enjoy itI almost stopped reading it within the first chapter which is really a rarity for me because the dialogue is just so incredibly stilted and unrealistic.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLERS DO NOT TALK THIS WAY I don't care if it was thes, I liked the characters in the book, and the idea about how love is complicated and how that was developed, but the action of the story itself was all over the place.
I felt like I came to at least two points where the story probably could

have concluded even though it didn't "feel" completely finished, so as you might expect, that made things drag on.
The language was also not that interesting and at times was repetitive or flatout boring, An okay read with some preachy sections, Charlie Pippin was my fifth childrens book and WOW was it ever thought provoking and realistic, The story follows Charlie a little girl in sixth grade struggling to get along with her father, All of Charlies good intentions dont seem to work out and she gets in more trouble at home and at school, When Charlie does her report on the Vietnam War, a war her father fought in, somehow she gets in more trouble, She doesn't know what else to do, Three copies The author does a great job of balancing a fictional story with facts, As a fifth grade teacher, I am always looking for stories that inspire students to find out more information about history, Students will relate to Charlie, this novel's main character, because she is spunky and flawed and hardheaded and above all else, really just wants her dad's love and approval,

I look forward to using this novel with my students as a companion to our study of the Vietnam War, While it does not delve deeply into issues of the war itself, it touches on many, The story will humanize this difficult period in history and will lead students to further questions, research, and learning, Chartreuse "Charlie" Pippin just can't seem to keep out of trouble, At school, she finds herself at odds with the principal when her entrepreneurial skills lead her to break the rules, At home, her father Oscar, a Vietnam veteran, is outraged by her refusal to play it safe like her sister, Sienna, and always do as she is told, But it is when Charlie's restless curiousity leads her to try and learn more about the Vietnam War that the sparks between Charlie and Oscar really begin to fly, Caught between her father's bitterness about his past and her own unflagging need to understand, Charlie wonders for the first time in her life if she is fighting a battle that no one can win.
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