by Howard Fast
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When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout at the top of your lungs because you are there, at the birth of freedom -- you're a veteran of the Battle of Lexington, and you've helped whip the King's best soldiers...
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent, eye-opening , 2006-08-31
"A boy becomes a man" is been the theme of countless novels. April Morning, written in 1961, reveals what a skilled writer can do with a basic idea. The novel starts innocently with Adam Cooper, a 15-year-old Lexington boy, being scolded by his stern father for laziness in doing his afternoon chores. But today is no ordinary day. As the evening progresses, Adam's dad is called to a town committee meeting--it seems the British are marching out of Boston to seize the colonists' arsenal and put them back in their places.
April Morning is a short book, but it at first seems to unfold quite slowly. There is plenty of time to see Adam clash with his pompous dad, seek solace from his tart-tongued grandmother, argue with his little brother, and grab a furtive kiss with his young girlfriend. The modern reader, used to each book opening with an exploding helicopter, might be forgiven for wondering where Fast is going with all this.
Then something happens that is so shocking and so unexpected, that we, like Adam, are thrown forever out of the ordinary world and into the nightmarish beginning of war. In the course of the next hours, Adam is forced to confront the realities of a war he never asked for and a world that is forever changed.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Required Reading, 2006-06-30
This book should be read by all young adults, as well as adults of any age. Along with Howard Fast's book The Hessian, these books are excellent lessons in tolerance, compassion and war.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
A High School Junior Remembers, 2006-01-25
I read this book my freshman year of high school. Looking back, it was a slow book in my mind. However, that was mostly because we read it section by section and discussed each one. If I were to have read it on my own I would have been through it in about a day or two. While not everything in it is exactly accurate, the story of Adam is an inspiring one.
I feel that this is a book for a high school level reader and maybe at the least a mature high school reader. A lot of the events and ideas presented are not for those who do not take war and death seriously.
While a lot of people have said they read it and would never want to read it again, I have to differ. I would gladly read this book over and over. It sits on my shelf of classics that include A Separate Peace, The Great Gatsby, Les Miserables and the like.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 April Morning, 2006-01-05
I read this book knowing that the story would go on for a space of 24 hours. Little did I know that the plot would be tiresome and the family relationships stereotypical. I found this book slow and dull and I could not bring myself to read it again. However the character Adam is fun to watch grow as a boy in the Revolution. The description of the Battle of Lexington was precise until I talked to a history whiz and realized its facts were not all true.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 April morning, 2005-11-02
I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 because it was a little slow paced at the beginning. Like in the first part of the story they just introduce main characters and tell you who does what. The next parts are very exciting like, when Adam and the father have to go to the common (field) for important information from a distant rider. Some parts in the book are very sad that I do not want to give away. This book you sould think about reading, Howard Fast makes it very suspensful at times.I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do,----Jake----
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