Sweetgrass

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Summary: A Book For Anyone
Review: Sweetgrass is a wonderful story about a young Native American girl named Sweetgrass. Sweetgrass feels that no one in her Blackfoot tribe takes her seriously. She wants to prove her to father and her almost-mother that she is ready to get married. Her father and her almost-mother do not feel she is mature enough. However, during the hard winter Sweetgrass is forced to become a woman. Smallpox becomes a severe threat to her family and her tribe. Sweetgrass helps to nurse her family and helps them to overcome death. I recommend this book because it describes Native American culture in a way that is beneficial to the reader. It is full of excitement and suspense, which allows the reader to become fully involved. It is a great book for anyone!

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Summary: Sweetgrass; the book I enjoyed
Review: Sweetgrass, a phenomenal book, by Jan Hudson is a suspenseful and informative book. Sweetgrass, a Native American teenager, describes her everyday life in such a way that you learn a lot about Native American lifestyle. All through the book, Sweetgrass experiences difficulties, which she deals with in different ways. When Sweetgrass's mother falls into a depression over her dead baby, Sweetgrass has to "grow up" and become the new mother in a matter of hours. While acting as "mother", the disease, smallpox hits her tribe and Sweetgrass has to help those with smallpox, while caring for the rest of her family and proving to her father that she is mature enough to marry.

I recommend this book because it teaches you a lot about Native American culture and because it is very exciting! Sweetgrass tells about her everyday life, so it is easy to learn about life as a Native American teenager. I hadn't known that Native American men usually had more than one wife. The book also taught me that young girls were usually married to men, almost twice their age. The book was suspenseful, because while Sweetgrass's mother is in a depression, her brother catches the disease smallpox, and Sweetgrass is forced to take over the household. Sweetgrass also has to find ways to prove to her father that she is mature enough to become a wife. These are just two of the many aspects of the book any reader can take away from this book! Though I thoroughly enjoyed the book, others might not because it is slow to start. The book is slow to start which makes reading the beginning difficult to enjoy. Even thought the book takes a while to get going, the information you learn and the agony you feel for Sweetgrass makes it a wonderful book! I thoroughly enjoyed this book and feel that it would be a great read for anyone!

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Summary: LOVE AND ACTION!
Review: This book is sooooooooo good! It says that it is for childern from ages 10-12 but I am 13 and I think that it was great! If you love Native Americans this is a book for you!

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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK!
Review: This book is sooooooooo good! It says that it is for childern from ages 10-12 but I am 13 and I think that it was great! If you love Native Americans this is a book for you!

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Summary: LOVE AND ACTION!
Review: We had to read 4 books for English, one of my choices was SWEETGRASS! When my teacher explained it to my class she said there was just enough romance for the girls and enough action for the guys! I recommend this book to everyone!!!