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Summary: Sarah Bishop? Who is she?
Review: SARAH BISHOP by Scott O'Dell is a revolutionary war book. It is about a girl named Sarah and she becomes an orphan. Her father is killed by some of the men of his village (kind of like KKK). After that happens then she goes and works at a tavern. That is also where she stays. Until she hasn't heard from her brother who joined the army. She goes looking for him and somehow she gets put in jail by the British. She escapes and when she finds her brother he is DEAD. Now that she is running, the British are looking for her. She keeps running and running. Till she finds a cave in a clearing. She makes a home there and the only things she has for company is a bat and rodent. As time pases and problems arise, she still is weary about the British. She keeps wondering and wondering, waiting and waiting. She is wondering when she can live in peace. Will peace ever come????
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Summary: the book to read
Review: Sarah Bishop is a book about a girl named Sarah. Sarah's father is killed early in the book, and Sarah is accused of starting a fire. Sarah flees into the woods and lives in a cave, starting a new life. This book is based on the times of the Revolutionary War, and is very good. Scott O' Dell really puts you into Sarah's shoes with a well written book.
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Summary: Parts of Sarah Bishop are scary
Review: Sarah Bishop is a book about a girl whose father dies when he is tarred and feathered by Patriots. (Her father is loyal to the king of England.) Sarah is accused of starting a fire by the British. The author does a good job of writing this true story about a 15-year old girl. I learned more about the American Revolutionary War and how it was fought, but I was scared when I heard that Sarah Bishop was in the war.
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Summary: This book is a story of courage and bravery.
Review: Sarah Bishop is a book of freedom. Sarah will stop at nothing to find peace. Braving the cold in the winter and the heat in summertime,Sarah manages.Learning to trust again takes along time for Sarah. Sarah realizes that throughout her long and difficult life, there has been one person that will always have faith in her, God
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Summary: Sarah Bishop
Review: Sarah Bishop is a girl born in Midhurst, West Sussex, England. She was fifteen when she came to the colonies shortly before the American Revolution and with her family, settled on Long Island. After the battle for Brooklyn Heights and while New York City was still burning, she fled into the wilderness of Northern Westchester Country. There she finds a cave in the woods. Alone,she makes her home there.The Patriots have made her an orphan without a home. Now the British army is after her for a crime she did not commit.The wild animals, the terrible hardships are not as what she has left behind. Now she will not trust anyone again.
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Summary: Overcoming hatred
Review: Sarah Bishop is a girl who faces hardship at every turn.
After her father and brother die, she is accused by the British of a crime that she didn't commit. So with the British after her, she takes to the woods.
In the woods she learns to cope with all of her feelings: feelings of hate for the men who murdered her father, hate for the men who killed her brother, hate in general against the world, and hate for herself for having no control.
I would recommend this book to people who like wilderness survival books and also to people who like the Revolutionary War.
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Summary: A Captivating story about a struggling young girl
Review: Sarah Bishop is a story about a 15-year-old girl named Sarah Bishop, who lives during the American Revolutionary War. Sarah's father is a loyal Patriot who reveres King George by framing his picture above his bed. It is for this reason that the rebels tar and feather him. Sarah's father soon dies. Sarah has no one to sympathize for her, so she leaves her hometown to live on her own. She establishes a home of her own within a cave. During the story's climax, Sarah is wrongfully accused of practicing witchcraft. Overall, Sarah Bishop is an interesting and accurate rendition of the revolutionary war era. I highly recommend this book to people who enjoy historical fiction.
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Summary: An 8th grader from Michigan- sarah Bishop
Review: Sarah Bishop is a story of a young girl who is orphaned after two tradgic events in the American Revolution. She then decides to runaway from the British and the Patriots to a town filled with Quakers. The end of her troubles do not stop here, but the Quakers are only part of the reason. I did find, though, that the book was to similar to Island of the Blue Dolphins. This book was interesting in the beginning and is an easy read for most people.
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Summary: Sarah Bishop is a page-turner that relives the Revolution.
Review: Sarah Bishop is a wonderful novel about a young women's perspective of the American Revolution. Her life is full of irony, and the characters have interesting personalities. I have read it 4 times already, and I love it each and every time.
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Summary: Overdone, Teen-Targeted Twaddle
Review: Sarah Bishop is a Young Adult novel of the worst kind. It panders to the lowest common denominator, sensationalizing in a way that will alienate most intelligent readers. Not only does O'Dell employ insultingly obvious symbolism, he manages either to underdraw or overdramatize all of his characters, which consequently leave the reader dissatisfied and repulsed. The novel also relies on the most overplayed of issues, particularly religion and family. These are powerful when delicately treated, but with such a heavy hand as O'Dell's they nauseate.Unfortunately I was forced to read this rubbish in eighth grade, which did not go down well as I am a literature snob. Keeping that in mind, I recommend Jane Austen to all thinking teenage girls. Love her or hate her (most reactions are one or the other), at least her novels are worth your time. They benefit both your vocabulary and your reputation with English teachers even if you don't enjoy them. Pride and Prejudice is a good representation of her style and humor. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte successfully mixes character, romance, drama, and excellent writing and is also a favorite of many reading high school students. If something lighter sounds more to your taste, Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson books are offbeat and hilarious. The first in this Bridget Jones-like series of four (so far) is Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging.
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