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Early Thunder

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Early Thunder is about a boy, Daniel West, who is caught in the middle of the battle between Tories and Whigs during the American Revolution. It wasn't the best book I ever read, and as another reviewer mentioned, it has a slow start. The book is mostly centered on Daniel's personal conflict, so if you are looking for action, you won't find it here.

Besides that, the book was okay. I guess I am a little miffed because I have to do a project on the book (LOL), but I wouldn't recommend it. People interested in the ordinary people of the Revolutionary War might enjoy this book, so don't let my opinion stop you! A friend of mine read the book and throughly enjoyed it.

Early Thunder is a book about a boy grwoing up right before the Revoloutionary War. He is a Tory, which means that he supports the King and British rule.
Daniel West, a 13-year-old boy, is a loyal Tory with a father who happens to be a doctor. He has a little sister and brother, and a best friend named Beckett Foote.
Daniel watches as the events that lead to the American Revololution take place. He questions his loyalty to the King, and in the end, shows whom he supports loud and clear.
I would recommend this book to people who are interested in The American Revolution. If you aren't, you probabaly will be after reading this book. It has a lot of historical facts and places, plus some not so important events. If you combine these, you have a very cool historical fiction book.

I thought the book moved very, very slowly. I like action, adventure, and/or survival books. This was not any. I don't read much and this is the kind of book that makes me not want to read. I read the back, looked at the cover, and thought it had to be one of those. I thought Daniel would run into trouble more than he did. I thought there would be more action and excitement. The book isn't even a good for telling you what it was like in the 1800's. The book didn't go into enough detail in anything (except that new governor.) I would suggest pick it up from the library, and if you really do like it then buy it.

It's been quite some time since I've read this book (I think I was in 8th grade), but it really struck a nerve in me when I did.

Early Thunder is one of those books that you can tell is going to drag on with little payoff early into it. Do you want to read a few pages about tea and the tea tax with dull, irrelevant detail? Don't worry, you don't have to go far, that happens within the first ten pages.

The story is filled with really unspectacular moments attempting to be bold and thrilling. Wow, someone threw a rock threw a window! WHAT BALLS! It's all a tremendously pathetic build up culminating in an underwhelming climax where Daniel takes a stand to defend a boat against a British soldier. I guess it's supposed to be touching, but it's like a kid telling you a story about how he made sure the school bully didn't push kids off of the swing by shoving him to the ground. You can pull the "symbolism card", but it's a cheap out and really doesn't excuse the mundane storytelling.

If you want you want a good book set around the same time period, I suggest The Winter Hero. It's a perfect example of mixing fiction with reality, actually involves a real event (Shay's Rebellion) to help set the tone, and has a protagonist with a more understandable motivation for his actions.

Leave Early Thunder for the fireplace.

This book is about a 13 year old boy named daniel who must make the choice of a lifetime.He must decide between whig and tory ,tory meaning loyalist to britian and whig meaning patriot.This book is a very good historic-fiction book it includes many good facts and many made up interesting parts,so if you like historical fiction than this is the book for you.

I liked this book very much because it was about the Revolutionary War and I'm very interested in that

Danial West has trouble figuring out whether he is a whig ( unloyal to the king ) or a Tory ( loyal to the king ). He is so sick of those liberty gifts,rotten eggs and anything nasty, the liberty boys puts on his porch. "It's the eve of the revolution and Danial must make the most crucial decision of his life."

This book would only be liked by people who love American history, like me. It's not really whether you're a boy or girl, but this story is about a boy so boys might like it better. If I were to rate this book 1 to 10 on its difficulty level with1 being the easiest and 10 being the hardest book I've ever read, Id rate it a 7.

Early Thunder is a book about a boy grwoing up right before the Revoloutionary War. He is a Tory, which means that he supports the King and British rule.
Daniel West, a 13-year-old boy, is a loyal Tory with a father who happens to be a doctor. He has a little sister and brother, and a best friend named Beckett Foote.
Daniel watches as the events that lead to the American Revololution take place. He questions his loyalty to the King, and in the end, shows whom he supports loud and clear.
I would recommend this book to people who are interested in The American Revolution. If you aren't, you probabaly will be after reading this book. It has a lot of historical facts and places, plus some not so important events. If you combine these, you have a very cool historical fiction book.

I think this book did several things well. It showed what was going on in the colonies from the view of tories and patriots. It also includes a lot of every day life stuff as well giving you an idea of what day to day living was like back then for grown men, women and children. Anyone should be able to relate to the main characters search for truth and identity. Its a great coming of age story set in the revolutionary war and written by one of the best authors of historical children's books.

My 6th grade class read this book in school and I must admit that no one thought highly of it. It was unbelievably boring and the plot wasn't great. The teacher didn't think it was a good book either and in the end we agreed that Jean Fritz has written better books. If you are looking for a book on the Revolutionary War I'm sure you can find better than this.

In my opinoin, this book is a poorly told and poorly sturctured novel about the Revonluntionary war. Although I'm sure many people enjoyed this story, I found it slow and pointless. Also, the plot was hard to follow. The end of this novel was bearable, but I strongly recommed that you stay away from this book.