[LM_NET] BOOK: Come Juneteenth by Rinaldi

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>]

Rinaldi, Ann. Come Juneteenth. Harcourt, 2007 [978-0-15-205947-7]
Luli and her family live on a plantation in Texas as the Civil War
draws to the end.  Like most of the other slave owners in Texas, they
decide not to tell their slaves of Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation.  Ruth (or Sis Goose as she is called) is a slave who was
raised like a sister to Luli.  She becomes very bitter when she finds
out that the family hid the fact from her (and the other slaves) that
they were free for two years.  Will Sis Goose ever feel like part of
the family?  How will the family react and survive when a small group
of Union soldiers occupy the plantation after the war?  This 246 page
book is a great piece of historical fiction as is usually the case
with Rinaldi.  What I liked about this one is that it is a little less
meaty and therefore more approachable to greater number of students.


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Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
mullinator52@gmail.com
My book reviews are compiled at http://www.mullersreviews.com
My book review blog is at http://MullerInTheMiddle.blogspot.com

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