OR Blog #42: Today I read the first chapter in "Don't You Know There's A War On?" by Avi. Even in just the first chapter you can tell how things are different because of the war. People are missing family members and there are rations on things. There is also a lot of suspicion of the people around you, like thinking they're spies. These are usually the descriptions of the home life while there's a war going on. In the book, it said that you can tell which house has someone in the war because of the stars the put on their windows. The number of stars says how many people and the color says if they're alive or not. Blue stands for alive and gold stands for dead. When I read this it kind of reminded me of how people would put ribbons around their trees on my street if one of their family members was in the war. From the first chapter it seems like a good book. The main character is from Brooklyn and they way the author has him talk gives him that Brooklyn accent. That's what I read for today's outside reading blog on war.

Citation:
Avi. Don't You Know There's A War On. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2003.