Silent Thunder
A Civil War Story

Silent Thunder is about a brother and sister who work as slaves in the southern United States during the start of the Civil War. It’s told from each of their viewpoints, so it was nice to have two narrators for each viewpoint and helped me quickly transition to each one’s story when listening to the......more

This is a great book to have in the classrooms. It teach the students a bit about slavery and how it was while back. The book is about a 12-year-old slave, Summer, and her 13-year-old brother, Roscoe. They find out from a wise old slave named Thea, that everyone has a "silent thunder." Summer wants......more

This was a great book. The author got inspiration from civil war era photographs of unknown slave children. She wondered about who they were, what were their lives were like and she created the characters of Summer and Roscoe based on those unknown children. The details of her writing enable you to......more

It was just okay for me, probably because I've read better. It is a children's book, so I appreciate that it wasn't graphic or anything like that.......more

This book was pretty good. Although the language wasn't that descriptive, the images put into my head were pretty vivid. Both of the voices of the narrators were very strong, and everything was generally well-written. But, it could have been better. The fact that Gideon Parnell was Summer and Rosco'......more