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Summary: Wonderful book I LOVED IT
Review: This is a great book and gives a wonderful over view of the life of Phillis Wheatley. It is one of my favourite books and I will never forget it.
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Summary: A young African-American girl becoming a wonderful poet
Review: Phillis Wheatly is a slave girl who learned how to read and write in secret. As a slave in the Wheatly home she practices her writing and becomes aware of her talent as a poet. She goes on in a struggel because of her race to prove that she wrote these wonderful poems and finally gets them published durinng the 1700's. Phillis meets many people such as Ben Franklin and lives in London for awhile. With her success came fame and people acsepted her for what she was. A brillant poet.
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Summary: Not so good
Review: I'm a fan of Rinaldi's books, but I was disappointed in this one. Some may like it, but I didn't. The story doesn't GO anywhere...in the beginning she falls in love with her master's son, but marries someone else. It just didn't really "catch my eye"
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Summary: Quite possibly my favorite book yet!
Review: I consider my self "well read" in young adult, Adult, and middle reading levels of historical fiction. I have read at least 7 of Rinaldi's book's and out all of them this is the best I've read yet. It has even provied competition for my favorite (a place long held by, Kathrine Paterson's, Jacob Have I Loved).
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Summary: A fair book, but NOT Ann Rinaldi's best
Review: I've only read four of Rinaldi's many books, yet I can clearly see that this will probably always be among my least favorites. Perhaps it was the harshly realistic fact that Phillis Wheatley was a slave, and thought of by Nathaniel Wheatley and his family as just that, but it could also be that it seems unrealistic for a young slave to love a man (a white man; the son of her master) who always considered her property to be treated as property. Also, it seems out of character for her, a headstrong young woman, to SETTLE for the man she eventually did marry. She seemed to be a somewhat better judge of character than to wed someone of his personality. I wouldn't recommend this work over her others, such as A Break With Charity, The Blue Door, etc.
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Summary: Ann Rinaldi's masterful job on yet another book
Review: Ann Rinaldi has done a masterfully wonderful job in telling the story of a young African poet. The words she uses fit perfectly in the time period. She uses many, many histroical facts in telling the tale of Phillis Wheatley. Once I started reading this book I did not want to put it down.
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Summary: A fabulous book to which anyone can relate to.
Review: 'Hang A Thousand Trees With Ribbons' can be described in one word. Powerful. The book chronicals the life of the first published black poet in America, Phillis Wheatly, and how she came to be published. The story is told in very solid prose, using terrific characterization, and makes for a book that you just have to read over and over again. This book isn't just about the struggles of a slave and how she works to become a published poet, but about something everyone has experienced ever since the world began; growing up. The way Ann Rinaldi takes Phillis from a scrawny, little girl slave, and makes her into a young woman is amazing. Even though the story takes place during the 1760s-70s, Phillis still experiences the same trials that we do today. From learning to read and being instructed in religion, to falling in love with someone who doesn't love her back, Phillis is a character that we can see ourselves in. The book also has the deeper meaning about what blacks had to go through in their hard lives as slaves, including several very emotional scenes from the Middle Passage (the dreaded voyage to America). This is a story that everyone should read. It's not only factual, but emotion-filled and enjoyable.
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: This book was a true wonder. I read this book in 2 days! It was awesome. Ann Rinaldi really told this story. It was historical and readable. Not too "factual" but actually readable with all the facts. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Keeps your attention through the whole book
Review: I've only read one other of Ann Rinaldi's books, and that was The Secret of Sarah Revere, and I liked this book better. I've read other reviews about this book saying that Phillis was a spoiled brat, but I disagree. She seems like a very normal girl. I personally did not like Nathaniel all that much. He seemed like he was always being subtly mean to her, although I do realize that he was trying to tell her what the real world was like. Towards the end I personally though it was sad and I even cried, although I wouldn't say it was THAT sad. But I read the author's note afterwards, and that just made me depressed...Still, I recommend this book because it is very interesting and informative about the first black American poet.
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Summary: Do Not Read This Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: When I first learned that I had to read this book for school and what it was about, I began being pessimistic about how interesting the book would be. I was very wrong, though...very wrong.
This book is a fiction AND non-fiction book about Phillis Wheatley, a girl who was kidnapped at the age of seven by her greedy uncle's people, as the story says. The rest of the book is about the Wheatleys and their kindness, Nathaniel and Phillis's surprising love for him, Phillis's childhood and entry into young womenhood, her relationships with everyone, and how her intelligence made her different from every other Negro. Phillis tries to discover who she is, as she feels white on the inside, Negro on the outside, on the side of the British, and American. She is shameful of her looks, as most teenagers are, but she wishes to be white. Her Negro friends try to tell her, but she never listens. The plot is wonderful!!!!
I am astonished at how wonderful this book was and how well explained it was. I love how Rinaldi makes up her own story at times to fit what she thinks of Phillis. The book is one of the best I have read in a while. I am amazed!!!
Now that I know what a greatr author Rinaldi is, I will now read "The Fifth of March", which is also on my summer book list.
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