Title: Solider's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Author: Gary Paulsen
# of Pages: 128 (hardback)
Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, War
Rating: ★★★★☆
Synopsis: Charley goes to war a boy, and returns a changed man, crippled by what he has seen. In this captivating tale Paulsen vividly shows readers the turmoil of war through one boy's eyes and one boy's heart, and gives a voice to all the anonymous young men who fought in the Civil War.
Review: I didn't read this book in a very critical sense, just for fun.
It wasn't a fun book.
There were some pretty crazy details about what happens to the soldiers when they're in battle (and even after that). It's pretty amazing. But I was so sad at the end!
SPOILERS AHEAD
This review is really short for two reasons; the book's based off a true story and I can't even remember half of it.
I read while I was reading a whole bunch of other books, so I can't quiet remember what happened in the very beginning. But I do remember some of my favorite detailed scenes.
One of them was when Charley (our protagonist) drank some water that was dyed red from the blood in the dead bodies. Another was when Paulsen said there was a pile of amputated limbs stacked in a pile. And when Charley had to stack the bodies of the dead to form a wind barrier.
But, it's too short.
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