Historical Fiction – Good Books For Boys http://goodbooksforboys.com A book review site for young boys Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:03:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 214630380 The Bronze Bow http://goodbooksforboys.com/the-bronze-bow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-bronze-bow Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:56:29 +0000 https://goodbooksforboys.com/?p=455

Bronze Bow

By: Elizabeth George Speare

Age Recommendation 12+

4.7/5

Daniel ran away to the mountains and joined a rough band. He was running from his apprenticeship and the Romans who killed his uncle and father. Five years later his grandma dies and he has to take care of his demon possessed sister. Dan is not happy; he wants to kill romans, not babysit. What will Dan decide?

]]> 455 The Shakespeare Stealer http://goodbooksforboys.com/the-shakespeare-stealer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-shakespeare-stealer Fri, 15 Jul 2022 23:07:18 +0000 https://goodbooksforboys.com/?p=391

The Shakespeare Stealer

By: Gary Blackwood

Age Recommendation 7+

4.2/5

 

Widge is a fourteen year old orphan that gets taken in under the wing of a preacher, who makes him learn the art of shorthand, a writing method where you use abbreviations for words using symbols, dots, or dashes and writing down peoples exact words as they are being said. The pastor then has him copy other pastors’ sermons down. The pastor then gives him away to a complete stranger who brings him to his new master and his new master gives him his first assignment “steal Shakespeare’s new play, Hamlet or else.” This is the exciting story of Widge and how he wrecks The Globe.   

]]> 391 The Cay http://goodbooksforboys.com/the-cay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cay Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:18:04 +0000 https://goodbooksforboys.com/?p=363

The Cay

By: Theodore Taylor

Age Recommendation 8+

3.5/5

11-year-old Phillip Enright and his mother had just boarded a ship to Virginia, because it was unsafe to stay in Curacao with the German submarines surrounding the area. The ship gets torpedoed and Phillip is stranded at sea with an old black man named Timothy and a cat named Stew Cat. At sea he gets blinded and eventually they get stranded on a cay and have to survive there until help comes.

 

This book is a little violent and tense, but it isn’t really bad. There is some weird rituals in it, but the author didn’t get into very much.

]]> 363 Rifles for Watie http://goodbooksforboys.com/rifles-for-watie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rifles-for-watie Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:15:45 +0000 https://goodbooksforboys.com/?p=284

Rifles for Watie

By: Harold Keith

Age Recommendation 10+

3.5/5

 

Jefferson David Bussey was living on a farm in Linn County, Kansas when Watie men came to raid his farm. His family put up a fight and the Watie men eventually took off when men from neighboring farms came to help, but they gave Jeff a hit from a gun barrel that he would remember that rendered him unconscious. He was so angry about the raiding Watie men that he went and joined the Union army. The army was not what he thought it would be, which was all splendor, glory and victory. The army was actually hard work with lots of bugs, hunger, sickness, and death. He doesn’t think that the Union army is in the right, they raid the south’s farms which shocked him and they did not show mercy to any of the spies they found. Jeff refuses to the spies, landing him in trouble. As the years drag by, Jeff is praying this war will end soon.

 

This book definitely has some violence, because it does take place in the civil war.

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