I read this aloud to my 12 and 7 year olds as we studied the Revolution and they both really liked it. They liked the suspense and adventure.

Honestly, I read this book 2 years ago, so I don't remember much of it, but I do remember liking the book, and always wondering what was going to happen next. (sorry this review want very helpful)

Fun read for kids of all ages. Lots of historical facts in the story as well as an age appropriate lesson on the costs of war. Found it on vacation at Mt Rushmore.

C-. Fiction, children's fiction, historical fiction, time travel, Revolutionary War, fantasy, Mom's stash, discard

Made like absolutely no sense at all!

Our teacher read this book to us in our fifth grade class. I remember she started crying when the young soldier dies.

A bunch of kids are transported back in time with the help of a mysterious row boat and find themselves in the middle of the revolutionary war. They get to experience first what it was all like and they also get to meet George Washington!

Read this as a read-aloud to my 4th grade class while we were studying the American Revolution, and they absolutely loved it! Full of action and adventure as a group of kids accidentally time-travel from the 20th century back to the time of George Washington as he crosses the Delaware River. Good peek into the sobering realities of war.

I really didn't care for this book. It seemed like it was written more like a textbook more than a novel. The book begins with some kids camping in the woods in an "adventure club" and at every meeting, they read books about adventures. I thought that the plot wasn't as exiting as it looked like it would be, because she didn't spend as many pages as she should have where the main characters were with George Washington. I didn't enjoy it, and I wouldn't reccomend it.

This time-travel story for 5th graders really draws you in! I could not put it down. Well-done but parents should be aware that is spells out the Shem H' on p.152. Also, the descriptions of 2 soldiers dying are scary.

Matt, Q, Tony, and Hooter are starting a "secret club" and having their first campout. Matt's little sister is tagging along. A mysterious rowboat in the middle of the lake takes them back in time to Trenton in 1776, where they learn about the Revolutionary War first hand. But will they get back home again?

Loved this book. Read it with my kiddos as part of a Revolutionary War study. It was interesting to contrast the differences between then and now, and to have someone stand at ground level and look at the war. Woodruff did a good job of conveying the essence of the fight. Nice contrast to some of the dark childrens' fantasy stuff out there today.

Will be reading the sequel George Washington's Spies.

This book was bad. I read it for school and i hated it. Worst book of the year.

Read this book to see if it would be good to use when I’m teaching about the Revolutionary War. Thinking about the target audience (5th graders), I believe the kids will enjoy it. Just enough truth about life/war to help give them some perspective, without getting into deep details.