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Summary: I Actually Learned Something!
Review: Although some may consider this book boring, I, as well as the main character, learned something by the end of the book, so it was definitely worthwhile to me. Naledi travels with her younger brother to Jo'Burg, where their mother works, to bring their mother home to help their sick sister. While in Jo'Burg, however, Naledi learns about the hardships that her people faced in the past, and are still present. I learned about some of these hardships from this book, and that was a good enough reason for me to keep reading!
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Even Through I am a sixth grade this book was great. This book was short and to the point and kept my attion well in reads in about 2 and 1/2 hours
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Summary: A good book
Review: I found this a good book. When Naledi and Tiro's baby sister Dineo, gets sick, they decide to leave their small village and go to Johannesburg to call their mother to help Dineo. They discover so much about their country, about the way their skin colour changes their future and start to ask questions about why life is so unfair. Though readers found it very uninformative, at the time this book was written people were not allowed to write about how unfair the situation in South Africa was. This book said so much that it was banned for many years! It is designed to tell CHILDREN about the situation, so it can't be very gory, its just to give them an idea of the apartheid. I lived in South Africa and have studied the apartheid, this book gives the basic idea. Read it, its good.
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Summary: Journey To Jo`burg Review
Review: I think that Journey To Jo`burg was a good book but not that well explained. I think this because you really didn't know what Mamgwane was. She never talked or anything so there wasn't a real reason of her even being in the book. Another thing, in the United States, most people don't measure in kilometers and they do in miles so in the book they could have told us how many miles 300 kilometers was. I also don't think that Naledi and Tiro would get in the back of a truck in which a man they did not know. There were good parts of this book but there were few. One of them was when they woke up and they were in the shed and they were afraid of the farmer coming out to get them. The farmer would have killed or punished them. You really didnt know what was going to happen so I did like that part. This is what I thought of the book and I hope you liked it to. (GT Level Reader)
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Summary: What I think about Jo'burg
Review: I thought that the book Journey to Jo'burg was o.k. I decided to give the book 3 *'s. I did this because I thought the book would mostly be about a journey to johannesburg but in the book it only took tiro and naledi about 2 chapters out of the book to go on the journey. I think they should have named the book journey in jo'burg because the whole book was them in Jo'burg, meeting new people and doing other things.
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Summary: Jo' Burg Book Review
Review: In a short and simple book, "Journey To Jo' Burg" informs us about the system of "apartheid" - the worse form of racial segreation that existed in South Africa. It's really the only book that introduces kids to apartheid. I also thought Naledi was very brave to go to Jo'Burg to get her mother home. I admire her courage to take risks in order to save her baby sister's life. But what I would like the author to do is to describe the evils of the apartheid a bit more. Overall, this is a very good book.
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Summary: It's Okay, Not Great
Review: Journey to Jo'burg is an emotional novel about blacks in South Africa during the 1980's. The story has cliffhangers, but they are not as surprising as we thought or hoped. We rated this novel two stars because it was too predictable and too short. It did not contain enough description of the actual journey, and we did not feel that we really got to know the characters very well. We were emotionally disappointed.
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Summary: A Rating for Jo'burg
Review: Journey to Jo'burg wa an O.K book. It wasn't a topselling thriller like Harry Potter or something, but it was overall an O.K book. Although this book was good it was to short. It didn't let you get to know the characters to have that emotional connection with them. Also the chapter titles gave the whole book away. Like you could predict the book by the chapter titles. Also this book needs more detail. You could describe this book in a couple of sentences. To really get into this book you would have to really stop and take a couple of paragraphs to describe each character, then a couple of pages to tell their background and features. This book is also not sixth grade level. The words are simple, it is more like a third grade reading novle. That is what i think about the novel Journey to Jo'burg.
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Summary: A Review On Journey to Jo'Burg
Review: Journey to Joburg is a well written and compelling book. I was assigned to read to read this as an end of the year book. It is not as good or bad as you think it is. The book should be called "Saving Dineo" beacause it is more about telling their mother about their sisters life threatening illness than traveleing to Jo'burg. I think this book would be excellent for a third grader. It is right along their level of reading.
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Summary: It is a good book
Review: Mma is given only a week from her employment, so they hurry back to the village. Mma took Dineo to the hospital; the doctor kept Dineo until her fever was broken. Mma was told to be sure that the baby had plenty of milk, fruits, and vegetables. However, they rarely have money for any of these things.
On their journey to Johannesburg, Naleda learned about the older students who were trying to change the unfair practices of apartheid. She is determined to find out about this and become part of the change. They are going on the bus and they did not read the sign it was a white sign they had to walk to the black sign because they was that the white sign. The mom wanted to see her girl because see was sick. The owner was going to a dinner and the owner said that you can see your little girl tomorrow. A woman said that it is not right that they have to but kids in jail. Grace had a passport but her friend didn't. when they went home two boys ran out the house. One of the girls was splashing water and the girl said do not do that because she remenber when she had to buy water. The mom said that the kids need schools and but the black and white tougher. On the banner that Dumi and his friends carried, they had written on the back of a paper they wrote BLACKS ARE NOT DUSTBINS. Dineo the baby is very sick; Naledi was afraid because so many babies have died from this sickness. She and her brother Tiro traveled to Johannesburg to get Mma. Mma was a maid in a white lady's home, and the lady grudgingly allowed Mma to return home to help Dineo.
On their trip to Jo'burg, both Naledi and Tiro learn about the things that happen to black people under the white government called apartheid. They discover that they could be shot for picking and eating an orange just because they are hungry. In the train depot they discover that there are trains for blacks and for whites; they must ride the black cars even though they are overcrowded and have no seats. In Soweto, a place in which Mma fears for their safety, they see the police raid, looking for people who do not have their passbooks. The police even try to say that some of the children are older so that they can imprison them. Mma is given only a week from her employment, so they hurry back to the village. Mma took Dineo to the hospital; the doctor kept Dineo until her fever was broken. Mma was told to be sure that the baby had plenty of milk, fruits, and vegetables. However, they rarely have money for any of these things. On their journey to Johannesburg, Naleda learned about the older students who were trying to change the unfair practices of apartheid. She is determined to find out about this and become part of the change. Thirteen-year-old Naledi, her younger brother Tiro and baby sister Dineo live with their grandmother while their mother works as a maid in Johannesburg. When Dineo gets sick, Naledi and Tiro walk to Johannesburg to bring their mother home. On the way, Naledi sees a new world, and learns about the cruelty of Apartheid for the first time. This journey, which saves Dineo's life, causes pride to burn in Naledi, and makes her determined to hold her head up high. They don't understand the song's warning until they arrive in Jo'burg. There they watch, in amazement and fear, while the police storm their train, attacking and arresting people, and the song takes on new meaning. On the crowded city buses, in the sprawling suburbs, and on an unexpected visit to Soweto, Naledi and Tiro begin to see the painful struggle for freedom and dignity going on in the 'City of Gold. ' And slowly they realize that their own journey has just begun.
By Jakeba Henry
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