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Summary: beautiful but so sad
Review: I cried at the end of this book! Oh, to be in high school and fall in love for the first time-such love and sorrow at the same time.If you live in a very multicultural city you will relate very well to this book. Excellent-like all of Jacqueline Woodson's books
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Summary: Good introduction to issues of race and relationships
Review: I've recommened this book for my students to read because I think it provides a love story woven together with much needed insights about race, racism, and personal relationships. Woodson writes about these issues critically without being preachy. It would be a great to teach this work at the 7-9th grade level, for often students will miss the subtle points the author is making about race and racism. I look forward to more books like this being written.
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Summary: Excellent writing and plot, and very believable characters.
Review: If You Come Softly is an excellent book. It describes the powerful feelings of love, and the sad shape this world is in. I would recommend it to anyone. Jacqueline Woodson is a great writer.
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Summary: A heartbreaking novel about love and loss.
Review: I thought that this book was exceptionally well-written. Ms. Woodson's shift between the first-person and third-person narrative allows the reader to more fully comprehend the story that she's telling. I thought that the two teen major characters were well drawn and sympathetic, and it broke my heart when it became clear what was about to happen. It is a novel that I hope will get us to think, once again, about the fictions that we live by in this country when it comes to race, and how ultimately, the human heart knows no color.
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Summary: .... Left me with a lot of unanswered questions
Review: When I first started reading this book, everything was really foggy and a bit complex. The way that the chapters go from Jeremiah to Ellie is unique but, a little confusing at first. I really would have liked to see how Ellie's parents would have reacted to seeing Jeremiah but, the book ends with a twist which in my eyes, was not very well done. I had to read the last 4 chapters again to get what actually happened and when I finally found it out, I was shocked and saddened with a lot of questions in my head... "Why did it happen?" "Who did it?" The big problem is there's a lot of "flowery" writing in the book that I feel dosen't get to the point. It's a good reader for teen girls but, I would'nt recommend it for teen males.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: The book was so totally awesome. I was so close to crying at the end. No book has ever got that big of a reaction out of me.
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Summary: Great for all ages
Review: I am fourteen and havn't read young adult books for years- I've had a college reading level since fourth grade. The library youth commitee I am in asked me to reveiw this bok, so I read it and have to say that I am impressed.
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Summary: this book is wonderful
Review: When I first read this book i couldnt put it down i think i finished it in a few hours it is the most beautiful story. The whole thing like everything about it is beautiful the love jeremiah and ellie have for eachother and how the ending is just really wonderfully put together. i definately have this book in my favorites, and you should too.
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Summary: Come softly
Review: I can't believe it. I picked up this novel after some silly english test and was just using it to pass the time during that class period. Well, i ended up falling in love with it. Swift, just like Ellie and Miah. Who would have guessed?
Ellie and Miah are High School sophmores going to Percy Academy together. When they literally collide into each other in the hall. cliche but it worked, quite well actually. They meet and have the sweetest romance ever. GOSH i wish i could find a guy willing to take me to the park and ask to kiss me. Then hold my hand...*sigh*
The author does an excellent job of portraying the prejudice that most of us have when we see an interracial couple walking hand-in-hand. But the prejudice doesnt stifle the love between Eliie and Miah, and that is more important and a stronger aspect of the book.
The end is tragic. I cannot and will not tell you, a potential reader, the outcome of the book. Needless to say that i cried, and when a novel can make someone cry, then it is definately worth the time it takes.
It took me 2 days to finish. Even if your a slow reader, it will not take long.
Please Read and Enjoy.
Yours Truly
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Summary: Breath Taking
Review: If You Come Softly is an outstanding novel that Woodson delivers beautifully, and will leave you pondering a question when you near the conclusioin, as to why the world looks upon love and race so negatively. Many in the world feel that relationships need to stay in the race and no one should ever date outside the race. But isn't change good? Woodson delivers the topic of racial differences and love in a modest yet eye-opening manner.
Woodson depicts two characters Jeremiah and Elisha who are of a different ethnic background, but are drawn to each because of their love for one another.
As Jeremiah and Elisha struggle with the similarites and differences they are facing such as school,getting prepared for college, how to express their feelings for each other, and how to deal with what the world sees as "not appropiate" , they find out that despite their racial differences they are very much alike.
Jeremiah and Elisha discover they attend the same high school unwillingly, and find out that there is more to a person than just judging them from what they see on the outside, or by their color. Spending more time together initiates a relationship, and they fall in love. Now this is more than just your typical fairytail ending, the conclusion is what really takes your breath away and if you had to wipe a tear from your eye, join the club.
If You Come Softly goes beyond the notion of two teenagers falling in love with each other in high school, but expresses the emotional issues that they have to deal with digging deeper into what really goes on in a relationship. Woodson leaves you astounded and makes you ponder about the real issues facing todays society.
Do not hesitate to read this novel over and over again, and if this is your first time hearing of If You Come Softly, place this on your Winter or Summer reading list, because Woodson delivers this piece outstandingly!
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