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Summary: Freedom Riders
Review: Freedom RidersSheryl is a fourteen-year-old girl living in New York in the 1960's. Her family decides to go "down south" for Easter. While they are there, her Uncle Pete decides to be a freedom rider. Later on Uncle Pete gets injured fighting for his rights to vote, got to a white school and eat and drink wherever he wants to. In the meantime Sheryl and her friends are planning a concert to benefit the freedom riders.
I really enjoyed the book. It showed all the problems that a girl or even a boy living in the 1960's would go though. It wasn't too romantic or too gory. But it still went into a lot of detail about some of the things that they had to overcome, but the author didn't make it sound like a history book. It really made you think about what people did to African Americans just because of their race. After you read the book you knew you never wanted those mistakes to happen again. It was the right length without going on and on but not leaving you hanging. I think both boys and girls would enjoy the book. The reading might be a little hard to comprehend for younger ones who don't know about the conflicts between white and African Americans. So kids anywhere from sixth grade and older would probably like it.
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Summary: Sheryl's Freedom Song
Review: I read Freedom Songs by Yvette Moore. If I were to rate this book I would give it 4 out of 5 starts because it has a good meaning and it was interesting to read but it was also slow at times. Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry is similar and just as good as Freedom Songs. They both have lots of kids (and adults) that felt very strongly about what was happening to blacks around the world. Freedom Songs was a little different because the people in this story actually did something about the way they were being treated, the other characters in the other book didn't. For instance, they sat in whites chairs and drank from the whites drinking fountains to show that they were just as equal as anyone else in the U.S.A. I would recommend this book to any people (kids mostly) that like reading about black history because these things that happened to the characters really happen in real life. Its a real life story that people could probably relate to it and say that it really did and does happen. I think (my opinion only) that what whites did to blacks back then, and even now, is cruel and uncalled for since we are all equal in every way.
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Summary: Sheryl's Freedom Song
Review: SHERYL'S FREEDOM SONG Sheryl and her friends are trying to help the freedom riders with things like black people being able to vote. Or no white only restaurants, white only drinking fountains, or white only bathrooms. She organizes a number of events to raise money for the freedom riders. Such as a choir concert they raised enough money to help the freedom riders, in fact she raised over the amount she needed. I enjoyed the book very much so. I thought it was very ambitious for her to want to raise money to help people. She was very courageous. I don't think I could do that I'd be afraid that the people who didn't like blacks would try to hurt me. But she wasn't afraid she even went to the white only restaurants and ordered food, of course they didn't serve it to her. They told her that they didn't serve food to nigras (the southern term for the word nigger).
I liked the book a lot. It was good to hear how Sheryl overcame the obstacles in her life. It always left me wondering about what exciting thing would happen next. She was always getting involved, and helping the freedom riders with there quest for freedom among the blacks. It amazed me that every time she didn't succeed she would try, try again. I could take lessons from her. I often give up very easily. I would give it 4 stars out of 5. By:Kayla
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Summary: Freedom Songs
Review: This book is about a 14-year-old girl, Sheryl, whose family decides to go "down South" for Easter. She learns two very important lessons. She learns that the smallest things in life are sometimes the most important and that you can defend yourself against discrimination without using violence. I liked this book because it shows you the struggles an African-American had to go through in the 1960's.
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