Friday, February 8, 2013

Book Reveiw: War Horse


War Horse
Reveiwed by Amellia Lowe, high school student, USA. Target age:12 to 16 (maybe?)
Page count:165 pages
Paragraph length: 145 words approximatly
Words on a page: 300 approximatly.
Chapters: 21
Readablity: Fairly easy
  War Horse is a beautifully writen book from the veiw of a farm horse turned war horse named Joey. This book shows the harsh treatment of the horses and the hard life of the soilders. This will rip your heart apart and then put it back together.
  Joey was taken from his mother at a young age and harshly forced into submission after being bought at auction by a drunk. Take to the farm where he will spend most of his young life, joey enjoys the company of Zoey, an old plow horse and his young master Albert and learns to trust. About when Joey turns three the farm he lives on is struggling to get by. Alberts father sells Joey to the army and into a life of Hell, pain, and heart break. Joey meets friends in his hellish world, namely Topthorn, a powerful, tall, shining black stallion who is Joeys rock. together they will charge into artillery fire, pull the dead and wounded out of the trenches, and pull monsterus guns up muddy hills in rain.
  War horse is a beautiful historical fiction that should go on the shelf of any World War 1 collection. This book has an air about it that screams Black Beauty by Ann Sewel, and even starts with the phrase "My earliest memories..." which I belive started off the book Black Beauty. Michael Morpuggo has writen another book in sequence to War Horse. I belive it is called Farm Horse is a great author and I enjoy his writting greatly. I would encourge all to pick up this quick read master peice and devouer it and take in the world of World War 1 that Michael Morpuggo has made jump out of the paper and into our hands.

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