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Title: Wolf by the Ears (Point) by Ann Rinaldi ISBN: 0590434128 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book for both young and old
Comment: Wolf by the Ears, by Ann Rinaldi is a great book for both young and old readers. It sets back in the time right after Thomas Jefferson was President. Now living a Monticello, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence has his own servants. Harriet Hemmings, one of his servants has lived there all her life. She is called a slave, but that's is not the only thing she has been called. There are rumors going around Monticello, that Harriet and her bothers are Thomas Jefferson's children. On Harriet's twenty-first birthday, she has the choice to leave the only people she's known, for the free world. Harriet realizes that she does get special attention, privileges that other slaves don't normally get, and that she is lighter skinned than other servants, but that doesn't mean that Thomas Jefferson, her master and the former president, is her father... or does it? In this story of freedom and slavery, a girl and her brothers have to choose between the life they are living, with there family and friends, and the life where they could be free, but alone.
I feel that this book is a book everyone should read. It shows that one girls' determination to make a difference in her life, can make a difference in many others. It shows that with determination, someone who was a slave, can become a free person. Rinaldi did a great job at capturing the emotion, and determination of one person, and showing that with help, and a little bit of luck, any thing can happen.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Life of a Slave
Comment: This is a story about Harriet Hemings, a slave who lives on Monticello, a plantation owned by Thomas Jefferson. She loves were she lives, but since she's getting older, she has to start thinking about if she'll take her freedom or not when she turns twenty-one. Harriet's mama made a deal with Thomas Jefferson that when her children turned twenty-one they could decide to leave and be free, if that was what they wanted. Her mama wanted her to leave and take her freedom because she wanted the best for all her children, but Harriet wasn't sure if she could leave all these things and people she loved. Even if she did take her freedom, she would still have problems out in the world as a black. She had a lot of white blood in her along with some African, but she was light enough she could easily be mistaken as a white woman. So could Harriet not only leave every thing she knew and loved but also turn her back on her black people?
I thought this was a really good book. Most books about slavery make it seem like all slaves had an awful life and were treated terribly, but this book made me hope that there were some slaves that as good of a life as Harriet had. I recommend this book to anyone who cares about or is interested in the life of a slave.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: I think this book is one of the best books I,ve ever read. Its one of those books that you cant put down. After I finished reading it I started reasearch on the Hemings family, and sure enough, it is known for Harriet Hemings to be Jefferson's slave daughter. ; Harriet Hemings is called a servant on Thomas Jefferson' beatiful plantation, Monticello, but she's not. She is mulato slave. Slave and servant aren't all that she is called though. Her brothers and her beleive that the rumors of Thomas Jefferson being their father. Why not? He knows them by name, and gives them small gifts when he sees them. Each of Sally Hemings children recive their freedom when they reach the age of 21. Harriet will turn 21 in 1822, two years away. How can she leave all she has ever known at Monticello? Then she finds out that the Master is is debt. Will he sell or marry her off before she reaches the grand age of 21? When Jefferson's son-in-law encorages her to pass as white, life is looking better, but if she passes as white will she be turning her back on her people? How will she leave? Will she leave like her brother, Tom, in the middle of the night? Will she pass as white?
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Title: In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi ISBN: 0590447319 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi ISBN: 0440228611 Publisher: Laureleaf Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi ISBN: 0590543199 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi ISBN: 0440228506 Publisher: Laureleaf Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi ISBN: 0152275177 Publisher: Gulliver Books Paperbacks Pub. Date: 30 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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