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- Publisher: Harper & Row (1984)
- ASIN: B000OEQI5I
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The fragile flag (Hardcover)
'The Fragile Flag' is, without question, the best book I have ever read. The well potrayed main character is a young and vulnerable girl named Georgie. When she finds out the President is planning on launching a bomb that can destroy the entire world, she takes it upon herself to walk from her home in Concord, Mass to the White House with only the company of her brother and sister. No one thought that she could make it. No one believed she'd be joined by 16,000 other children. And no one dreamed that a
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an important book for parents to discuss with their children,
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I read this book many years ago and I still have a copy on my shelf. I think all parents who have strong feelings about nuclear disarmament should read this to their children and use it as a jumping off point to discuss nuclear weapons, war, and the impact that softspoken leaders like Mahama Ghandi and little Georgie (the book's main character) can have when our nations' leaders let fear prevail over morality. I also believe it reminds those who seek to use the flag as a symbol of blind patriotism and allegiance to American military actions that pacifists can be patriots, too. There is so much to carry away from this simple, but elegantly written book that an elementary or junior high school student can understand and appreciate... it certainly speaks to many of the issues that are being debated in the current political climate.
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The fragile flag shows how one person's convictions can change the world. I was impressed by the author's lesson to children about their rights as Americans; that if you do not speak up to defend your rights, they will be taken away.
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TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO, when my wife, Margaret, and I first moved up to the country from New York City and bought an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Pleasant Valley, New York, not far from Pough-keepsie, we didn't give much thought to our new neighbors, who were mostly hardworking dairy farmers of seventeenth-century Dutch or English stock and, while not exactly unfriendly, were reluctant to enter into conversation with people who didn't raise Holsteins and weren't interested in the price of milk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new flag bearer, new marchers, green horror, presidential flag, silver car Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Alex, Uncle Freddy, Children's Crusade, White House, Robert Toby, Charley Chase, Peace Missile, New York, Derek Cherniak, Oliver Winslow, Rhode Island, Oval Office, President of the United States, Weezie Hoskins, Veronica Glassmore, Harper Flint, President Toby, Sidney Bloom, Director of Grass Roots Information, General Sedgewick, Henry Thoreau, Silver Spoon, Walden Street, Alfa Romeo, Bag Person New!
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TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO, when my wife, Margaret, and I first moved up to the country from New York City and bought an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Pleasant Valley, New York, not far from Pough-keepsie, we didn't give much thought to our new neighbors, who were mostly hardworking dairy farmers of seventeenth-century Dutch or English stock and, while not exactly unfriendly, were reluctant to enter into conversation with people who didn't raise Holsteins and weren't interested in the price of milk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new flag bearer, new marchers, green horror, presidential flag, silver car Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aunt Alex, Uncle Freddy, Children's Crusade, White House, Robert Toby, Charley Chase, Peace Missile, New York, Derek Cherniak, Oliver Winslow, Rhode Island, Oval Office, President of the United States, Weezie Hoskins, Veronica Glassmore, Harper Flint, President Toby, Sidney Bloom, Director of Grass Roots Information, General Sedgewick, Henry Thoreau, Silver Spoon, Walden Street, Alfa Romeo, Bag Person New!
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson by Amos B. Alcott on page 11
- The Swing in the Summerhouse (Hall Family Chronicles, Book 2) by Jane Langton in Back Matter
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- What Else Should I Read? Guiding Kids to Good Books, Vol. 2 by Matthew L. Berman on page 147, and page 152
- The Fledgling (Hall Family Chronicles, Book 4) by Jane Langton in Back Matter
- The Diamond in the Window (The Hall Family Chronicles) by Jane Langton in Back Matter
- The Astonishing Stereoscope (Hall Family Chronicles, Book 3) by Jane Langton in Back Matter
- Children's Literature for All God's Children by Virginia Thomas on page 71
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