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1: A SUMMER READING I ACTUALLY ENJOYED
I chose this book off a list of books to read over the summer. I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes a good WWII story that really shows the psychological toll the war took on its soldiers as well as page-turning action. A book that I thought would take me a month to read, I read in three days. Its one you can't put down.
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2: A World War II Story
" We tumbled down in a circle of fire, corkscrewing down to the ground. I could see my parachute but couldn't reach it." This is a quote from the book B for Buster written by Iain Lawrence. B for Buster is a book about a 16 year old boy named Kak who lies about his age to join the Canadian Air Force during World War II. Kak soon finds himself in England where he becomes the radio operator on an old Air Force bomber called B for Buster. Kak is terrified and discovers very early that the Air Force is not at all what he thought it would be. He realizes that he made a terrible mistake enlisting.
I really enjoyed this book. Although it is fiction, I think it accurately portrays the feelings and experiences of bomber crews during World War II. The book is filled with action and suspense and I didn't want to stop reading. If you like books about World War II, this is a book for you. I give it a five star rating.
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3: B for Buster
B for buster is a wonderful book and it is about a young boy who joins the canadian airforce and starts to fly ops and is put in a old fighter plane called B for buster and one night he is in the plane looking around he thinks he finds a ghost of the people who flew before him and his crew and flew
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4: A wild ride
My 10 year old son was given this book for his birthday. It took him a while to get around to reading it, but once he did his comments were,"When Kak joins the Air Force you're in for a wild ride". He has put this book on his 5th grade class 5 star list.
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5: B for Buster: unfortunate title, great book
I am a school librarian and probably would not have picked up this book if it weren't for the fact that I bought it for the library and thought I should read it. Well, it was wonderful and having just finished reading The Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger, another WWII book, it was a great follow-up. Granted, the two books are very different in tone and setting, but both do a excellent job of telling a story of a young man growing up in a very difficult time. I highly recommend it for teens and adults alike. It's simply a good read and what can be wrong with that?!?
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