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Carry Me Home: A Novel
by Sandra Kring
from Delta

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Carry Me Home
  This is the best book I've ever read. Could not put it down. It's absolutely wonderful. The characters are well drawn. Every word is gold.

• An Endearing Read
  Earl "Earwig" Gunderman is 16 years old and growing up in Wisconsin in the 1940's. His best friend is his older brother Jimmy and Earwig follows his brother and his brother's friends looking at life through his own perspective. And one thing that he realizes is that life as he knows it is going to change. Soon Jimmy is off to war and Earwig is left behind to live his life and he watches as thing in his once routine life fall apart, his parents have a secret he probably shouldn't know about, his brother is... more info

• fabulous historical thriller
  In 1940 Wisconsin WWII sixteen year old Earl "Earwig" Gunderman understands from his mom that the fever he suffered fried his brain leaving him struggling with learning new concepts. His older brother Jimmy tries to help Earwig as much as he can. That ends when a drunken Jimmy enlists in the National Guard. With no training, he is sent with equally raw recruits to serve in the Philippines where his unit is destroyed at the Battle of Bataan. With no word about how Jimmy fared, his family except Earwig... more info

• positive message
  After reading the truly wonderful "Book of Bright Ideas," I was anxious to read more of Kring's books. "Carry me Home" didn't disappoint. As with "Book of Bright Ideas," she used an innocent child, in this case a learning-challenged boy, to give insight into the world and send a positive message of hope and renewal. The book clipped along with its storyline, introducing a variety of well-developed characters set in the period of WWII. Yes, the book had quite a bit of swearing or sometimes funny references... more info

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