In the post-Civil War in the South. Virgie, the youngest in a family of boys, vows that she will accompany her brothers when they walk the seven miles to school every Monday morning. All Virgie wants is to go to school with her brothers George, Will, Nelson, Val, and C.C. But they keep saying she's too little for the long, seven-mile walk, and that girls don't need school. Nelson believes that girls need to read and write and do arithmetic too just like boys. Well, Virgie doesn't agree, and she's not gonna let anything stand in her way. ( )

Good book about the distance a young girl is willing to travel with her brothers to attend school. A long wearisome 7-mile journey isn't enough of a deterrence for Virgie. Her ambitions will not be thwarted by any means, her going to school and learning is a dream and urgency. I enjoyed the story, however, I think it was contextually thin. ( )

Young Virgie does not get discouraged as her male siblings try to discourage her from going to school. She insists that school is just as important for girls as it is for boys and her persistence influences her parents to allow her to go to school the following school year, although she may tire by the 7 mile trek to school. Virgie endures the obstacle of the long hike with a light and ever persistent heart. Upon arrival to school she is amazed by all of the books and exited to share all that she has learned with her parents. ( )

Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys was a good book. It showed that for the most part, boys would go to school rather than girls during the Civil War. This concept did not sit well with Virgie, the boys youngest sister. She wanted to go to school with her brothers. After days of asking to go to school with the boys, her parents finally told the boys that the next Monday they go into town for school that Virgie would go with them. When they all got to school Virgie was amazed by all of the books on the bookcase and everything in the classroom. Virgie wanted to go back home and tell her mother and father all about school and how learning was free.
I think it was good that Virgie was able to experience school during this time. The world we live in is a free place and we have equal opportunities for everyone no matter their race or gender. We should never leave people out because they seem "different" than we are, everyone has equal rights. ( )

The narrator is named C.C. but the story is about his sister, Virgie. She wants to go to school with all her brothers. This is around the time Lincoln abolished slavery. Black people can go to school now and get educated but most women didn't. A lot of people believe women don't need education, including some of the brothers. After Virgie non-stop asks her family/ parents to go school, they finally agree. They say when the next school year starts, she can go. She waits for summer to pass and can finally take the 7 mile walk to town where the school is. Some of her brothers think she still is too small for school but she makes the walk, keeping up with her brothers the whole way. She meets the headmaster and introduces herself. Virgie can't wait for Friday to come to so she can tell her parents what she learned; that way, they'll be learning too. ( )