

The Fighting Ground
Author: Avi
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 3 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/15/2013
Author: Avi
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 3 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/15/2013
Avi is the author of more than seventy books for children and young adults, including the 2003 Newbery medal winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead. He has won two Newbery Honors and many other awards for his fiction. He lives with his family in Denver, Colorado. Visit him at Avi-Writer.com.
If you've read All Quiet on the Western Front, you'll know what I mean when I describe this book. This twenty-four hour glimpse at war is not just profoundly and intensely moving to the character, but to the reader as well. It's sobering, confusing, horrible, raw, and gritty. Simply put, it's the st......more
I really liked this book as it made me feel like I was experiencing the revolutionary war myself. If I remember correctly it was written in first person so it really made it all feel more real.......more
As a part of my eigth grade english class, we had a year long reading assignment in which we were forced to read 2 books per quarter; one of our choice, and one from a list our teacher compiled of a certain genre. At the third quarter of school, a list of "war books" was forced upon us. I found Avi......more
A good presentation of the realities of war for a younger audience. Though Avi includes the translations from German to English in the back, I felt like I understood the book way better than a kid would because of my admittedly limited German from high school and college. However, I also think that......more