Eli the Good by Silas House

House, Silas Eli the Good, 295 pgs. Candlewick Press, 2009. Language- PG-13(37 swears, 0 “f”), Sexual Content- PG; Violence- PG; Eli Book, a 10-year-old, lives in Kentucky during the summer of 1976. His dad has nightmares of being in the Vietnam war, his sister Josie rebels against his mother, and his and Nell was a war protester coming to live at his house. These conflicts are the bases of the conflict of the whole book. I really enjoyed this book, and learned a lot from the message that radiated from it. I would advise it to middle school-age students and up because I think this book would need an older audience to understand the message well. MS-HS- ESSENTIAL. Reviewer: A.W.