White Lilacs

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Summary: Moved to Tears
Review: Being the person I am, it is not easy to make me cry. I am just naturally happy. It gets especially hard when it's a book. They always just seem unreal as they are. This book however (based on a true story) is so well written and is about something so sad that I was crying my eyes out at the end of the book. I won't tell you why the end was so sad (read it!!!). It's written from the point of view of an older Rosa Lee Williams looking back from adulthood. It's written beautifully with great compasion. One of the great parts about the books is that it makes clear that not all white people are unfeeling and prejudice and that they are taught to be that way from the time they are born. This is showed by the character Miss Emily Firth, Rosa Lee's older, white, lady friend, who just moved to Dillion from the North and offers to give Rosa Lee free art lessons. Rosa Lee William is a great heroine and appears in a great book about the prejudice south at the turn of the century. It well worth the money you pay and the time you spend reading it.

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Summary: Moved to Tears
Review: Being the person I am, it is not easy to make me cry. I am just naturally happy. It gets especially hard when it's a book. They always just seem unreal as they are. This book however (based on a true story) is so well written and is about something so sad that I was crying my eyes out at the end of the book. I won't tell you why the end was so sad (read it!!!). It's written from the point of view of an older Rosa Lee Williams looking back from adulthood. It's written beautifully with great compasion. One of the great parts about the books is that it makes clear that not all white people are unfeeling and prejudice and that they are taught to be that way from the time they are born. This is showed by the character Miss Emily Firth, Rosa Lee's older, white, lady friend, who just moved to Dillion from the North and offers to give Rosa Lee free art lessons. Rosa Lee William is a great heroine and appears in a great book about the prejudice south at the turn of the century. It well worth the money you pay and the time you spend reading it.

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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: For those of you who aren't fammiliar with AR, it is Accelerated Reader, a program in which some books have points, and you test them when your done with the book. White Lilacs was 7.8 points at my school, and I got 100% on it! Mosty because the book was excellent,reasonable reading, and it explained everything in the book thouroughly.

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Summary: White Lilacs
Review: I am a college student, and I read White Lilacs for a class project. This book is a valuable supplement to any middle school curriculum because it thoroughly presents elements of history that social studies textbooks often overlook: namely, that of African-Americans. White Lilacs is very well written, and offers a poignant illustration of true events in the 1920s. It accurately portrays black church tradition, the experience of black soldiers in World War I, and the different attitudes blacks and whites had towards race in the 1920s. As I am personally very concerned with the issue of racial reconciliation, I find this book a valuable tool in helping both white and black people to understand from whence we have come, and what prevailing attitudes have caused race relations in the U.S. to develop as they have.

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Summary: White Lilacs- The forgotten parts of American History
Review: I am a college student, and I read White Lilacs for a class project. This book is a valuable supplement to any middle school curriculum because it thoroughly presents elements of history that social studies textbooks often overlook: namely, that of African-Americans. White Lilacs is very well written, and offers a poignant illustration of true events in the 1920s. It accurately portrays black church tradition, the experience of black soldiers in World War I, and the different attitudes blacks and whites had towards race in the 1920s. As I am personally very concerned with the issue of racial reconciliation, I find this book a valuable tool in helping both white and black people to understand from whence we have come, and what prevailing attitudes have caused race relations in the U.S. to develop as they have.

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Summary: worst book to read--painful
Review: I beg to differ with the other reviewers. For summer reading at my school, they assigned this book and the much more interesting and riveting book, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. White Lilacs, though, was an awful book with a pointless plot that isn't good enough to write an entire novel about. I mean, sure, "slavery is evil" to many but this book was sooooooooooo stupid! DO NOT buy this book unless you are extremely bored and are on your deathbed. or see for yourself

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Summary: worst book to read--painful
Review: I beg to differ with the other reviewers. For summer reading at my school, they assigned this book and the much more interesting and riveting book, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. White Lilacs, though, was an awful book with a pointless plot that isn't good enough to write an entire novel about. I mean, sure, "slavery is evil" to many but this book was sooooooooooo stupid! DO NOT buy this book unless you are extremely bored and are on your deathbed. or see for yourself

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Summary: A very well writen book with shoking facts
Review: I like how Carolyn Meyer wrote this book. It can be sad but it was really the best book I've ever read. Carolyn Meyer did a great job of describing the way blacks had to live. I recomend this book to anyone at any time.

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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: I loved this book. It told the facts, while also telling the story of a young girl. This book is showing Denton that we don't have to hide our past. It's better to get it out in the open. I read this as a class assignment, but I loved it. I truly recommend it.

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Summary: The book "White Lilacs" was ok..........................
Review: I read the book "White Lilacs" for a school project, and to me the book was kind of boring except with one or two parts that made me not want to put the book down. I would recommend this book for older adelescents and not for young elementary school children. The book's comprehention was quite difficult at some parts, and unless you really get into the book it may be hard to understand. Finally, honestly the book just basically bored me, but that's just my opinion, and all of you reading this right now may have a different opinion, so if you just want to find a book that you are not expecting to be filled with action and violence, then you may like to try and take a look at this book.