Seymour ReitRecensioni

The true story of Will Knox, a nineteen-year-old young man who transported 183 cannons from New York's Fort Ticonderoga to Boston--in the dead of winter--to help George Washington win an important battle.

Paul Revere's midnight ride...Washington crossing the Delaware...the winter crisis at Valley Forge... Some events in America's War for Independence are known to all. This book brings to history fans the story of another true episode, just as dramatic but not nearly as well known.

Great illustrations and a pleasant format, I learned some new things myself.

This is a light retelling of Emma Edmonds' adventures during the American Civil War. She enlisted as a man and served in several capacities as a male soldier for the Union Army. This book is definitely written for young readers but provides an engaging overview of this brave woman's life. It has inspired me to read Emma Edmonds' own telling of her story.

Pooh and Piglet want an adventure and settle on hunting for colored pebbles since, "They're easier to find than heffalumps." A hole in the sock they are using to collect pebbles at first seems to ruin the fun but becomes most fortuitous due to a little twist.

This story is surprisingly cute and funny, and it actually made me chuckle out loud a couple times.

Seymour Reit's name has been added on many book sites as the author even though my copy and all the editions for which I can find title page images online do not include creator credits. But his authorship can be verified by the inclusion of this book in his collection of manuscript papers at the University of Southern Mississippi:
http://manager.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG08...

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )

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“But how could you know the limits of your courage if you never put it to the test?”
― Seymour Reit, Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy

This book is at once educational, inspiring and just fascinating.

Emma Edmonds was a smart and I'd say fearless, woman who was just a girl during the Civil War. She wanted to help the Northerners in battle but how could she? Women, after all, were not allowed to fight. And she did not want to stay on the edges doing something like sending Postcards. She wanted to make a difference. She wanted to change the world.

And she did.

Emma joined the forces by posing as a boy. At the time, they were desperate for troops. She slipped into costume easily. And nobody found out her secret during the entire time she was with them.

She started as a Nurse but in time, she would become a super spy, utilizing various disguises to penetrate the Confederate armies. She posed as a Slave. As an old lady. And even as a "distinguised gent".

Nobody ever found out her secret and her reputation as a Spy grew. It was only that she was known as a "he"

I had never heard of Emma but am sure glad I read about her. The book is short and those who expect alot of detail maybe let down. This is a good book but it is light on details and I am sure any reader will have additional questions. Luckily, at the end, the writer includes an index on other works where we can read more about Emma.

If there is one thing that saddens me it is that Emma wrote her own memoir but the writer explains it is very difficult to find and only a few copies even exist anymore. That is sad because I'd have adored reading her own Memoir.

This woman had so much courage and she made a difference. I mean..I could never do what she did and I doubt many people could. Her story is a fascinating one and for people who enjoy Historical Bios, you should read this book and get to know Emma and her story of courage, hope and salvation.

A nicely recounting of the day in 1911 the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. Short, fast read.

Nº 16 de 24 de la serie "blanca" de libros juegos. A excepción de otras series en esta solo había un final y un solución correcta, y se te ofrecían pistas sobre la época en la cual realizabas tu misión. Este numero se centra en el Londres del principio del s.XX en el que (obviamente basado en S. Holmes) ayudaras a resolver un difícil caso.

This book takes place during the winter 1775-76, General George Washington needs guns and ammunition to help reclaim the city of Boston, which is currently blockaded by the British. Nineteen year old, Colonel Knox and his brother decide to move 183 cannons from New York's Fort Ticonderoga, captured by the Americans the previous May, to Boston. They need to transport the guns over mountainous wilderness in snow and mud, while keeping hidden and plans a secret from the British.

Three of Aesop's fables are retold with rebuses and repeatable refrains.

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it was good. quick read. not awful but not a wow either. She's an interesting woman I just feel like either there wasn't enough information or wasn't elaborate enough.

I'm surprised it took until #17 to explore a setting that's an homage to an Agatha Christie mystery. The association is loose, but Scotland Yard Detective has more fun with the puzzles and mysteries than in the previous books. As a bonus, you can certainly here the early 20th century British accents in your head.½

This quick story made me want to know much more about the fascinating Emma Edmonds. HOw could she have pulled off these disguises so convincingly? My two star rating is due to the fact that this is a book clearly meant for a younger reader and I don't think the author puts some of the racial commentary in the proper context for a student that does not know much about this period of history.½

This was a charming chapter book. Yes, it is for kids, but I'm just kid too. The fact that it was illustrated by Quentin Blake made it even better! I know of him from the Roald Dahl books he has illustrated.

Andy is just an ordinary boy who has an extraordinary experience while on a field trip to an historic mansion that is now a museum. He meets a ghost! Not just any ghost, but one named Mr. Pettigrew who once worked there.

While talking, Mr. Pettigrew explains why he is there to Andy. It seems that the only way Mr. Pettigrew can leave is if he finds a letter that was written in 1874 that will clear the cloud that hangs over his name. Andy takes heart and agrees to help search. The problem is Mr. Pettigrew only has one hour a day to work and Andy has to be in school. They come up with a plan and things seem to be going well until...

I took my time reading this just for the enjoyment and pleasure. For me it was a Goodread.

What a wonderful story. We see a young Canadian girl determined to stand up for her country and her people. Her only problem is that she is a woman. This did not stop her, Emma Edimonds decides to enroll in the military and fight in the Civil War as a man! She disguised herself as just that. She fooled them all and was able to fight for freedom. This book takes the readers through the good and the bad times of her courageous journey. While this book is very entertaining there are many moments where the author takes us through Edimond's hardest of times. We see the times of sorrow, loss, and fear but we also see a beautiful story with great memories made and lessons learned. The author wrote a very organized and well written story but what I liked the most is that it was written in third person. This way, we see a different perspective of the story. Edimonds is not the average woman of her time. She was a strong minded, strong willed, and strong headed woman who would not let any obstacle come between and her goal. What was surprising to me was the amount of other woman who were doing the same thing. It was estimated that there were actually around 400 women disguised as men during the Civil War. I think this book would be an excellent read for children between the ages of 9-12.

5th grade civil war biography for fifth graders

interesting so far..........

I absolutely love this story. It's about Emma Edmonds, a Canadian who disguises herself as a man to fight for the Union army during the US Civil War. While in the army, working as a nurse, an opportunity arises for her alias, Frederick Thompson to cross rebel lines as a spy. He does this many times under the assumed identities of a contraband slave named Cuff, a middle aged Irish woman named Bridget O'Shea, and a Confederate sympathizer named Charles Mayberry. She is forced to desert because she got very ill and didn't want to reveal her secret. Later on after the war, she did get the honorary discharge she deserved after coming clean about her real identity. As it turns out, she wasn't the only woman who went into the army as a man. Nearly 400 women did the same things. It's a very inspirational story and is great for kids to read. It's not well-written, but the story is amazing. I would recommend that copies be kept in classrooms.

Hot on the heals of his best selling book 'All Kinds of Ships' Seymour Reit has followed up with another tribute to the wonders of human engineering called 'All Kinds of Planes' (okay, I may have been going a little over the top suggesting that 'All Kinds of Ships' was a best seller, but then again it may well have been, though I am not sure if it ever actually made the New York Times best seller list – I wonder if children's books actually make it to that list – I'm sure they have).
Where the previous book was about ships, this book is about planes and if you like planes then you will probably like this book, though he does not mention anything about retractable landing gear in this book (the other children's book on planes did mention retractable landing gear). Like his previous book he starts off by looking at the history of flight (going back to the era where people threw themselves off of towers to see of their 'wings' would work – which inevitably didn't) and then has a look at all of the planes that we have around these days.
Unfortunately this was written in 1978 so it does not mention the Stealth Bomber, the Apache Gunship, or many of the other military planes that are out there. However, he doesn't really mention many military planes at all, except for a few that came out of World War I and World War II. He does suggest that the first plane that broke the speed of sound was a jet plane built by the Americans, though I always thought that it was the Germans who did that during World War II (however it could have been that the Germans built the first jet plane and the Americans were the first to break the speed of sound).

This is one of those books for children (and adults) who like anything and everything to do with boats (or should I say ships). Okay, it doesn't tell you how to build one (though it does suggest that a simple boat consists of a log floating down a river, and you can add to that by either attaching other logs to form a raft, or hollowing out the inside to create a dug out) nor does it give you intricate instructions on how to manipulate the sails of a sail boat, but it does have lots of nice pictures of boats, and also follows the evolution of the boat from the primitive log to the modern supertaker and cargo carrier.
It even has some pictures of military ships such as aircraft carriers.
We also can't forget the humble sailing ship, though I liked the idea of a clipper, which I knew about when I was a child but the realisation of its existence had been pushed back somewhere in my brain only to be brought back to the surface by reading this book and looking at a picture of it.
So, if you like ships, then this is a good book to start your investigation into what ships look like, what you can do with them, and how to get rid of them once you have finished with them. Mind you this book doesn't tell you how to scuttle a ship, and neither will I, though I suspect that somebody has written a book called 'Scuttling Ships for Dummies' or 'The Complete Idiots Guide to Scuttling Ships'.

Imaging that you are accepted into the Union army during the civil war. This may sound daring and exciting, but think about needing to hide your identity! That was the life of Emma Edmonds, a teenage girl who disguised herself as a man to be accepted into the middle of the Civil War. Emma’s great battlefield adventures are told in the book Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit. This nonfiction book describes her journey as a Union spy, and gives a great sense of what life was like during the war as a soldier and as a girl. I believe that the book Behind Rebel Lines was very inspiring because it shows Emma’s great bravery and strength in hard times.
This book displays many very important topics of the civil war. One major topic that he included was the life of a girl during the civil war. It stated that Emma was not one to sit around and watch things happen, rather than to make things happen. The main point of this book is that even in the toughest situations, Emma showed true bravery, intelligence and kindness. Emma shows her kindness in many places. For example, when Emma went to the rebel side in disguise to hear of some of their battle plans, she goes to what seems to be an empty house. Inside, she discovers there is a dying Confederate boy in one of the rooms. Instead of abandoning him like another Union spy would, she stays with him until the end. I believe this shows that even though she was serious about her orders, she would still attempt to help someone in need. Emma also strayed from one of her most important missions to send a message to someone as a Confederate soldier’s dying wish. This great book discusses many important and relevant topics of the Civil War.
This book is very organized and told from a third person point of view. In this book, the story of a young teenager name Emma Edmonds is told. Emma was born in Canada. Her father wanted her to be a boy, so she always tried her very best to impress him, and to prove herself. So, when she was just a teenager in the middle of the Civil war, she disguised herself as a boy over eighteen by the name of Franklin Thompson. After she was accepting, she was transferred to a camp in Virginia. There, she heard that her old childhood friend was also nearby in another camp, and was visiting hers. Shortly after, she hears that he took a shot to the neck and bled to death. After she received this startling news, she decided to become a soldier, so her friend wouldn’t have died in vain. From then on, she dresses up as different made up characters, including Cuff, a black slave, Bridget O’Shea, a Confederate peddler and many more. After her Union spy journey, she settles down with a man from her childhood and they had three sons. She was accepted as an honored GAR ex-soldier. She died in 1898, on September 5th.
I believe this book was a great book, and that the author achieved his purpose of writing an exciting story about Emma’s adventures. The writing was easy, and also very powerful and inspiring. The strengths of this book are the amount of information then author had to add, and the easy chronological order they were in. I believe the weaknesses of the book are its lack of quotes from her, and its lack of knowledge of where exactly everything took place. I fully agree that the author did a great job in writing this book, and that all of the information is accurate. I found this book very interesting and a fun read. This book is an easy read with simple vocabulary. I would recommend this to kids in 6th grade, specifically girls, who might relate to it better and find it much more inspiring. I would give this book 7 ½ stars out of 10 stars.
The book Behind Rebel Lines was a great, interesting book. Emma was a very inspiring historical figure in my eyes. This book left me with the impression that you can do anything if you set your mind to it. I would like to emphasize that even though she was a girl, Emma still played a huge role in the Civil War.

Imagine disguising as a guy and a girl. In the book Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit, the main character, Emma Edmonds, disguised as a guy soldier for the union side. This book is nonfiction. Behind Rebel Lines was a very interesting because it shows what war was like back then and showed what the consequences were.
Emma Edmonds disguised as a guy to go in the war but she was also a spy on the union side also, which was very risky to do considering the consequences. If she was caught she could’ve been hung! The time period was the 1860’s. The main important event was when she decided she wanted to go in the war to be a spy for the union.
The war needed American men to join the army. Despite Emma being a girl she was determined to enroll in the army. When she finally got in the army she saw her childhood friend who eventually died. This was hard on Emma. Emma was a union soldier who spied on the confederate side and reported back to the union. The consequences for being caught as a traitor were very harsh.
Behind Rebel Lines was a very good book. The book was not a difficult read at all. This book was very detailed and really went in depth. Seymour Reit wanted to write about this concept because it’s obviously a very interesting topic about the civil war. I would recommend it to middle schoolers because I thought it was detailed, easy read, and a good book. I would give it 10 stars.
Before I read this book I didn’t know that much about what the war was like back then but this book gave me a new perspective on what war is like. The reader should be prepared on changing what they think about the war, also. Read the book to experience a really good book.

“There would be thousands dead before the country was whole again.” The book Behind Rebel Lines showed the hardships that were faced throughout the Civil war. It was nonfiction, so the events and facts in this book all took place. Behind Rebel Lines was good but sad. It showed people from both prospective during the war, and how they were affected.
This book took place in 1861. The author, Seymour Reit, was describing the journey of a woman who was determined to defend her adopted country by going to war.
Emma Edmonds - a woman who strongly believed in Union causes – decided to help fight in the war, because she wanted to make a difference. Because women were not allowed to fight in wars, she was forced to disguise as a man to enlist. After receiving saddening news while working as an army nurse, Emma decided to become more influential in the war. She became a spy, and was a very important asset.
The author did well connecting you to the character and her beliefs, but at the same time having you relate to both causes. In chapter 9, she said “Typhoid Fever was a killer that took no sides.” It showed that the country, as a whole, was all dealing with that. On page 25, she said “In war there was no safety.” That showed how at risk everyone - including Emma – was, even though she was only working as a nurse.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. Because it was true, it made it even more suspenseful. I would recommend this book mainly to teenagers. Girls may find it more intriguing because they can relate to the main character, but anyone would definitely enjoy it.½