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Title: Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0-440-21936-1 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (39 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best!
Comment: This is my fourth year to teach the book, Nightjohn, in my sixth-grade classroom. Nightjohn is set in the 1800's on a plantation. Sarny, a slave girl the age of most of my sixth graders, is the narrator. As the book unfolds, we get to experience the life of a slave during this period of time in America's history. It has thirteen curse words in it, and I had to black them out before letting my students have a copy. I did that job during the summer so my students could have the privilege of reading this one-of-a-kind book. Only by looking at the past can we possibily hope to make the present better. Nightjohn will evoke laughter, sadness, and despair as you read. As I teach children everyday how to read, it breaks my heart to realize that slave children were deprived of this great gift. I recommend this book highly. It has an extraordinary message that everyone needs to remember!
Rating: 5
Summary: Simple and Sweet
Comment: I had to read Nightjohn for school and it was a truly fabulous book. Gary Paulsen did a great job crafting this. The book is about 12 year old slave Sarny, that lives on a plantation with her caretaker Mammy. One day the mean old master buys a slave named John. Sarny makes a deal with John that she will give him tobacco if he will teach her to read and write. This he does. She learns letters and them spells a word. The master finds her writing and whips Mammy and cuts off two of John's toes.
This is a great book for black history month and a great book to read all year round. I highly reccomend this book for a lover of slave fiction, Gary Paulsen, or a great read. Buy and enjoy this great book. Be sure to catch the film adaption of the book on the Disney Channel.
HAPPY READING
Rating: 4
Summary: The Real Thing
Comment: NightJohn was one of the few books that stuck in my mind. This book taught me to appriciate that I live in the time where we moslty always get along. This book is about a 10 year old African American slave that lives on the Waller plantation. people think she is dumb because she is quiet, but that is how she learn she listens and learn things. then one day while working on the roses in the garden by the "white house" where Sarny over heard that Mr. Waller bought a new slave. the wife said that he cost one thousand dollars. later that day there came Mr. Waller with a man nadked as the day he was born came to the main yard. then he just runns him in to the faild to start working. later that night he sits alone in a corner of the quaters. he asks for a lip of tobacco. since Sarny was working in the flower bed she had to chew and spit tobacco on the roses to keep the bugs away. she still had some left over and wonders what he could have to offer for he had nothing. then he says that he would trade it for letters. Sarny wondered what these "letters" he was talking about. will she trade or not?
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Title: Sarny by GARY PAULSEN ISBN: 0440219736 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 10 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Soldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440228387 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The River by GARY PAULSEN ISBN: 0440407532 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Brian's Return by GARY PAULSEN ISBN: 0440413796 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Giver by LOIS LOWRY ISBN: 0440237688 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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