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Who Comes with Cannons?

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Truth Hopkins, a twelve-year old Quaker, is forced to leave her father and move to South Carolina with her Aunt and Uncle. At first she is not well received and thought of as a kettle cousin, or a person who just going to eat food and not help. Soon though, she proves herself. She finds out that her relatives are conductors on the Underground Railroad. She travels with her Uncle on the underground railroad to New York to retrieve her cousin, who was captured by the Union when he was forced to march in the front of the Confederate lines at Gettysburg.

Patricia Beatty's story is very fast paced, and major events are happening all the time. This makes for a very quick read. I like her writing because she describes the setting, before she tells you what is happening. She is also very descriptive. This book was very interesting, and a great historical fiction, but I didn't care much for the particular area of the Civil War it is about, so that made it hard for me to like it much. I recommend this book to intermediate grades and above, because I doubt anyone younger would be interested, or be able to comprehend much of it.

Truth Hopkins is an orphan and now living with her aunt,uncle and two cousins. When she finds out they are a station on the underground railroad she does everything she can do to help them. This is an exciting story about the Civil War and the QUakers who did not believe in war. The book shows how one girl van make a big difference. I like it when Truth saves her cousin from a prison in the North. It is a wonderful way to learn about the Civil War from different points of views.

Have you ever been in the middle of a war? The book I read was "Who Comes with Cannons". The book was about a girl whose parents died. She was sent to her grandparent's house to live there. She had cousins that she didn't get along with. Her grandma taught her how to live in the South, since she was from the North. In the North, a lot of things were done differently. Like, for example they did not have any slaves. Also, they talked differently from people of the South. In the South, people did own slaves and that's why the Civil war started. It started because the North did not want slaves and they thought that was cruel. But, on the other hand, the South did want slaves and they fought so they could keep it that way. Her disliked cousins were sent to war on purpose because they refused to go, but they sent them anyway. So they sent the girl, whose name was Anne Hanick, to go save her cousins. She went with her grandpa through the Underground Railroad. I like this book because it was very interesting and it was hard to keep your hands off it. It was an easy book to connect to because it was very non- boring. The one thing that I didn't really like was that it had some parts where nothing happens and it is just boring. But, overall it is a very good book. If you really like war and really good climax, then this is a very great book for you.

This book was good i liked the part where Robert got captured and got put in the army.then he ran away from them and then got caught again and got put in prison.My favorite character was Robert because he was the bravest out of all the characters that's why i liked him.It was a very good book and everyone should read it.

this book was terribly boring its about a little girl who goes and stays with her uncle because her parents are dead dont buy or read its horrable i though it was going to be a goodbook i guess not but i like action books if you like slow boring books here you go.