Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Latest News. About Bat Articles. I love practical effects, stop-motion animation and gore, but most of all I love a good story! I adore B-movies and exploitation films in many of their guises and also have a soft spot for creature features. I review a wide range of media including movies, TV series, books and videogames. I'm a massive fan of author Hunter S. This novel is another enjoyable book written by Audrey Couloumbis.
In this book, she uses many literary devices like imagery to help the reader understand the setting. Couloumbis also uses irony and juxtaposition to make the story more interesting and enjoyable for the reader. Jan 23, Lydia rated it really liked it Shelves: for-my-classroom. I appreciated how the author developed the characters in this book.
Oct 01, Tim C rated it liked it. Petros was used playing with marbles with his friends and getting in fights with Zola, his older brother. Overnight friends become bitter enemies and Petros and Zola wonder if they can make a difference like their resistance fighter cousin.
Couloumbis uses an unusual way of telling a historical fiction. He tells it through a family in Greece, which For Petros, a 12 year old boy living in a small town in Greece, WWII seems out of the way and not his problem.
He also uses suspense often in this book. On the other hand, Couloumbis can be overly detailed sometimes in this novel as well.
I would suggest readers 12 years or older read this novel. There are some drugs involved and a little bit of violence, which kids under 12 might not be ready for that kind of stuff yet.
In this case, I think boys would like this novel more than girls because I think boys relate to it more than girls do. The reason being is because boys with brothers tend to fight a lot, and so do Petros and Zola. I also suggest that patient readers read this novel because it can get a little slow moving at times. Sparrows were sharp-eyed and smart, therefore nervous. A reader like me wants to get to the action fast which is why I only game this novel a 3 out of 5 instead of a 4 or 5 out of 5.
This book reminds me of the book Tunes for Bears to Dance to, because it is set in the same time period. Finally, those books are similar because the main characters, Petros and Henry, have brothers who influence them throughout both stories.
Thanks, Tim Crane Mar 29, Jean Areecharoenlert rated it liked it. In this book, Akila is resembled as a character named Petros. Petros lives in Amphissa, Greece but was born in America making him have dual citizenship. Not only Petros, but his siblings also have dual citizenship. And Germans shoot people who were American, so Petros's family had to hide the secret of the family bein I recently finished a book called War Games written by Audrey and Akila Couloumbis.
And Germans shoot people who were American, so Petros's family had to hide the secret of the family being American. They had to bury and burn everything in the house that had English on it, like books, and plates. The family even had to stop speaking English, and started to speak Greek only. This book is a very slow book.
It has a lot of details about the event the author is describing. Even so, I still have a favorite part in the book. In my opinion, that was the most exciting part out of all the other parts in the book. It was the part where Stavros, Petros's cousin, got shot by the Gestapo. Stavros's brother, Lambros, was a soldier who fought the Italian and German soldiers and had escaped. Somehow the Gestapo found out that Stavros was Lambros's little brother and he came to search for Lambros.
Stavros didn't know where his brother was but the Gestapo thought he was lying so he held up a gun to Stavros's head and shot him. Eventually, he almost head-shotted Stavros but something made him miss. The bullet instead, shot near Stavros's ear and may have caused his hearing to suffer.
Villagers believed that Stavros had died but Petros's dad sent him to the mountains to recover and stay with Uncle Spiro. If you like reading a true story or a nonfiction, this book may be something you'd like to read. Overall, I kind of liked this book. Later on, the author starts explaining about what Petros has to do to help his family and his dad.
They had a secret to keep, hide their cousin Lambros, and live with a commander in their house. I really liked how the author does a good job of describing what life was like during war. View all 3 comments. Feb 03, Marsha rated it liked it Shelves: juvenile. This was an interesting story, but I didn't care for the writing. It is based on the true story of the author's husband. His family had come to America, where he was born an American citizen, but had gone back to Greece in because their store failed during the depression.
When the Germans occupied the small village in which they lived, they were terrified the Germans would find out they had ties to America, and so they buried or burned ev This was an interesting story, but I didn't care for the writing. When the Germans occupied the small village in which they lived, they were terrified the Germans would find out they had ties to America, and so they buried or burned everything that had any reference to that.
The children were forbidden to speak English, or any language but Greek. Petras and his older brother want to be brave and defy the Germans, but they find out that just surviving requires bravery. The writing seemed stilted to me--I thought maybe it was a bad translation from Greek, but it was written in English. The sentences were short and choppy, and sometimes I didn't quite get what the author was trying to put across. For example, at one point Petras feels bad about a small argument he had with a friend and is thinking that he was glad he had had something to reply to him.
I wasn't sure if he was glad he said something nice or something snide, so I went back and reread the conversation and still couldn't figure it out. Just little things like that. A lot of culture was woven into the story which was very interesting, and in the afterward the author told what happened to the different people that the characters were based on.
Feb 27, Nolan rated it liked it. It is based on a true story about a family who left the US and went to Greece. As the war broke out, they found themselves stuck there, no way home to america. Petro's, the younger brother is 12 years old and very sweet hearted. Now his brother, Zola, is competitive and a couple years older. Zola has to be number 1, he has to be first. The boys feel like the war is years away, when yet, it is right around the cor this book was reaaaaallyyyy sloww, in the beginning and really hard for me to read.
The boys feel like the war is years away, when yet, it is right around the corner. They are staying at their Papa's house and play the game called marbles in the garden to waste time. Now yes, Zola has to come first and beat his brother every time in this too. As the boys felt as if the war would never reach them, it did over night.
They could hear shooting, bombs, yelling and banging. This made their neighborhood paranoid. No body would share things, they were all basically living under their own rock now. And soon, what were just games they played in the garden, turned into life and death situations. Petro's wanted to show Zola he too could step up and make the difference they are striving for. The book War Games is about a bunch of kids that have to live on the army base because there loved ones are in the army.
The main character in the story is pedros. He as at the age of So the group of kids find marbles and a deck of cards to play with to occupy them during the day and during the week wh The book War Games is about a bunch of kids that have to live on the army base because there loved ones are in the army.
So the group of kids find marbles and a deck of cards to play with to occupy them during the day and during the week while barely anyone entertains them. No, Final Destination is not based on a true story. Yes it is based on a true story. No, it is not based on a true story, actually it's based on a book by Dennis Lehane. The book is based on a true story.
So therefore, the movie is also. The movie Holes was not based on a true story. The movie was based, however, on a book by Louis Sachar. The book isn't based on a true story either. It was based on his experience with hot summers when he moved to Austin, Texas. There is no movie called Jason. If you were referring to the Friday the 13th movies, then no, they are not based on a true story. It was alleged to be based on a true story, yes. The movie, 'Castaway' is not based on a true story.
This movie stars Tom Hanks, which movie won him many awards. Log in. Computer History. Study now. See answer 1. Best Answer. No, it was not. Yeah, It was. As for Brest, he landed on his feet. This led to frequent arguments over story points as the writers crafted a second draft, until one day a phone call ended not with an argument, but with Brest telling Lasker and Parkes to just try things their way.
As soon as he hung up the phone, Parkes knew something was wrong. According to Lasker, he and Parkes finished and submitted a second draft of WarGames to the studio, but no one read it, at least not while Brest was directing the film. Then, when Badham came on board, he looked at the shooting script and found it to be too long and too crowded with contributors, so he called Lasker and asked if there was another version.
Lasker replied that he and Parkes had submitted a second draft that no one read, but that Goldberg had a copy if Badham wanted to read it. To craft the character, the filmmakers actually drew on two real people. I've got 50, men under my command. You think I can't get you back to your hotel? Plus, I can't drink off the base. So c'mon. I sleep well at night knowing I'm in charge.
It was Badham who brought in Corbin to play the role after he came on board as director. Badham saw many elements of his father, a U. Air Force Brigadier General, in the character, and cast Corbin as a reflection of that.
Falken flying a remote-controlled pterodactyl during his introduction. As a result, Broderick was asked to learn to type for the film. He was also given a Galaga video arcade console to keep in his room during filming, so that he would look very experienced at the game during the introductory scene in which he plays it. The typing, not so much. By the time Badham was signed on to finish directing WarGames , he was working with the new draft contributed by Parkes and Lasker, but felt the film was still missing one key moment.
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