Book Write Up #3: Chapter Book #6

Author: Bodil Bredsdorff

Title: The Crow-Girl

Genre: Fiction

Subgenre: Young Adult

Theme: Bravery and courage is within our soul.

Primary and Secondary Characters: Crow Girl, her grandmother, Rossan, and Eidi.

Awards and Date of Publication: Winner of the Mildren L Batchelder award, published in 2004.

This book is about a girl named Crow Girl, she gives this name to herself. She loves looking at crows, and she feels that they will guide her through her life. She lives with her grandmother, who is real old and is dying. They live in a cottage by the sea. They live all by themselves, and they live off the land eating claims, and fishes. Crow Girl collects all the food, does all the cleaning, and cooking. She is very strong and has a peaceful soul. Crow Girl's grandmother eventually dies, and Crow Girl has no other family or friends. She has to fin for herself at such a young age. When her grandmother dies, she is alone and leaves the cottage. She comes across this little boy who is two years old, his name is Doup. She takes Doup in and cares for him and herself. She eventually makes a friend named Eidi. Eidi's father beats her mother. One time he beat her mother real bad, and they decided to stay with Crow Girl. However, a man named Rossan takes them all in. He sells mostly everything he has, to feed them all. Eidi and her mother eventually leave Rossan's house. About a year later Eidi and her mother come back to see Crow Girl. By this time Crow Girl and Doup are still staying with Rossan, and they are doing real well. Crow girl went through a lot, but now things are looking up.

This book is a good book to read to children to show them that through bad times people grow, and to show that we all have control of our own destinies.

Book Write Up #3: Chapter Book #5

Author: Judy Blue

Title: Are You There God: It's Me Margaret

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Subgenre: Young Adults Book

Theme: Adolescents is made easier when you get to talk to someone, even if that someone is God.

Primary and Secondary Characters: Margaret, Nancy and Laura

Date of Publication: 1970

Publishing Company: A Dell Yearling Book

This book is about a girl names Margaret who is in sixth grade. She grew up with no religion since her mother is Christan and her father is Jewish. She has to do a year long project in school, and she decides to do it on different religions. Margaret also confronts many other pre-teen female issues, such as buying her first bra, having her first period, and having jealousy towards another girl who has developed a womanly figure earlier than other girls, liking boys, and whether to voice her opinion if it differs from those of her friends. She gets comfort from spending time with her grandmother on her father's side, who is Jewish. On Margaret's quest of finding a God, she also finds herself. This quest helps her deal with the real life issues that are going on around her. At the end of the story she believes there is a God, but just not sure what kind of God. But, she knows there is a higher power.

This is a good book for pre-teen girls to read. This will help them adapt to the changes that are going on with themselves from puberty.

Book Review #3: Chapter Book #4

Author: Mary Borsky

Title: Benny Bensky and the Perogy Palace

Illustrator: Linda Hendry

Genre: Fiction (mystery)

Subgenre: Children's Book

Theme: The bad guy always gets caught.

Primary and secondary characters: Benny, Rosie, Fran, and their parents.

Date of Publication: 2001

Publishing Company: Tundra Books

Benny Bensky used to be a happy dog living with his humans, Rosie and her parents. But things are not happy in the Bensky house. Rosie’s mom and dad operates the most popular restaurant in town, the Perogy Palace. At least, it used to be popular. Now customers are staying away in droves. Even Benny will not eat there anymore. Benny, Rosie, and Fran try to solve the mystery, on why people are not coming to the restaurant anymore. They use their detective skills, but get into a little mischief, and Benny gets sent to obedience school. This stalls their mystery, but when Benny comes back they are better then ever. They realize that someone is switching out the labels to the ingredients, and putting different stuff in each container. Benny catches Ms. Viola Pin, and traps her. Mrs. Viola gets startled and falls into a bucket of soapy water. The cops come in, and they were about to take Benny, when Rosie and Fran tell them what happened. They take Viola instead.

This book is a good book to read to students to teach them that they are not too young to be detectives.

Book Review #3: Chapter Book #3

Author: Lois Lowry

Title: Number the Stars

Genre: Realistic History

Subgenre: Young Adults

Theme: Courage comes at any age.

Primary and Secondary Characters: Annemarie, Ellen Rosen, Lise

Awards and Date of Publication: Newberry Award Winner, published in 1989.

Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Company

Number the Stars is a courageous story about a ten year old girl named Annemarie Johansen. In 1943, Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, has been occupied by Nazi soldiers. Soldiers stand on every street corner. Wartime food shortages and the psychological terror of the Nazi takeover have made life difficult for Danish citizens. Nazis have decided to relocate all of Copenhagen's Jewish families. Soldiers stand on every street corner, and life is changed irrevocably for ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen. Ellen is Jewish, and is scared the Nazi's will come to get her and her family. Annemarie lost her oldest sister, Lise, just two weeks before her wedding day. When Nazis raided a resistance meeting. She was intentionally run down and killed by a military car. Later in the novel, Annemarie follows her sister's example, risks her own life to help Jews. Jews and non-Jews alike among Denmark's population suffer terribly at the hands of the Nazis. Ellen and her family flee Denmark on a boat, with Annemarie's help. They flee to Poland where they are safe. After the war Annemarie asks her daddy if she can get Ellen's Jewish necklace fixed so she can give it to her when she comes home.

This book is a good book to read to students to teach them how devastating life was for Jews and non Germans during this time. Also, to teach them that even kids can have courage to help people that need it.

Book Write Up #3: Chapter Book #2

Author: Lois Lowry

Title: The Giver

Genre: Chapter book

Subgenre: Young Adult

Theme: Feelings are powerful, and what makes us human.

Primary and Secondary Characters: Jonas and the Giver

Award and date of publication: Newberry Award Winner, published in 1993.

Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Company

Jonas lives in this community where people do not think on their own. In this community there is a committee that matches marriages together by compatibility. These couple are assigned two kids, one of each gender. In this community the people can not have any emotion or feeling, they have to watch what they say, and the world is pretty much mapped out for them. When Jonas turns twelve he is given a job as a receiver. It is the receivers job to hold keep the memories and feelings away from the people. There is a receiver who teaches him how to perform his job, and his name is the Giver. The Giver helps Jonas store these memories, and deal with these foreign feelings. The first memories are happy memories, that Jonas enjoys. However, soon enough he was given memories of grief, loneliness, and despair. He has never felt these feelings before. The community is denied these feelings. Once Jonas started realizing there is another way of living he decides, everyone should experience these feelings and become individuals. With the Givers approval Jonas decides to flee his town and run away to another town, so the memories will be lost. Once the memories are lost the town will be able to get these feelings back. Jonas went on a hard, long, difficult journey to lose these memories, and give this gift to his town. In the end, he accomplishes this dreadful task.

This is a good book to read to students and to express how wonderful feelings are. Each feeling that we have expresses the way we feel, and this is what makes us human.

Book Write Up # 3: Chapter Book #1

Author: Patricia MacLachlan

Title: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Genre: Chapter Book

Subgenre: Children's book

Theme: When tradgadie strikes, there is always hope.

Primary and seconday characters: Anna, Caleb, their dad, and Sarah.

Award and date of publication: Newberry Award Winner, published in 1985.

Publishing Company: A Charolotte Zolotow Book

This book opens with a young girl, Anna Witting, telling her younger brother Caleb the story of his birth. She always ends the story early, not wanting to discuss how their mother died the next day. They talk about their mother this time anyway, with Caleb fixating on their mother’s singing and wondering why their father, Jacob, doesn’t sing anymore. When he brings this up with Jacob, the man responds by saying he has put an ad in the paper for a wife and mother to come join the family on their farm, and has received an answer from a woman named Sarah in Maine. Sarah and the Witting family decide to give each other a one-month trial. Sarah experiences everyday life and a few adventures with the Wittings, but she also misses her family and the sea. Sarah leaves on a train to go visit her family. Caleb and Anna begin to worry: at the end of the month, will Sarah decide to leave? Sarah comes back and the children are so excited. She tells them she will always miss her old home but she will miss them more.

This book is a good book to read to students to teach them that when tragedies happen, there can still be a happy ending. In the end Caleb and Anna get the mother they lost.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #10

Author: David Elliot

Title: In the Wild

Illustrator: David Elliot

Genre: Realistic History

Subgenre: Children's book

Theme: The animals in a safari jungle.

Primary and secondary characters: All the animals in a safari jungle.

Date of publication: 2010

Publishing Company: Candlewick Press

This book describes all the animals in a safari jungle. The author spends a page on each animal. For example in talking about an elephant the author explains, "Big, yet moves with grace. Powerful, yet delicate as lace. As to color, plain and ordinary gray. But once we start to look, we cannot look away. When peaceful, silent; when angry, loud. Who would have guessed the Elephant is so much like a cloud." In another example the author explains a panda, "You're a bamboo bandit; You're a piebald dream. You're a bear in silk pajamas; you're cookies and cream. You're the wizard of the mountains; you're pres-ti-di-gi-ta-tion! You're nature's best example of bear imagination." This book does a good job in explaining animals of a safari jungle in a poetic way.

This book is a good book to read to students, and to introduce to them animals of a safari jungle.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #9

Author: Calvin Alexander Ramsey

Title: Ruth and the Green Book

Illustrator: Floyd Cooper

Genre: Fictional History

Subgenre: Children's book

Theme: Segregation in 1952.

Primary and secondary characters: Ruth, her mom, dad, and grandma.

Date of Publication: 2010

Publishing Company: Carolrhoda Books

Ruth's daddy brings home their first car. It is a 1952 Buick that is sea mist green. The family is so excited, and the next day they are going to travel cross country to see their grandma in Alabama. As they drive out of Chicago, Ruth and her family are very excited. Ruth loves to see the green grass and the scenery. However, eventually Ruth has to use the bathroom. The man working at the service station did not let Ruth use his bathrooms. Ruth uses the bathroom in the woods, she is very embarrassed. Her dad explains to her about the Jim Crow Laws, and that these laws are to keep white and black people separated. They continue the drive, but they all become real tired. her father walks into an Inn to get them a place to sleep, but they did not let them stay there. When the father gets back in the car, her mother decides they need to sing to keep their moods high. When they reached Tennessee they stayed at a friend's house. Ruth is so happy she is able to finally sleep on a bed. The next day they stop at an Esso service station. A man sells them a Green Book. This Green Book has a list of places that African American travelers can use. this book helps them get to Alabama. The trip becomes a lot easier with this book.

This book is a good book to read to students to explain to them how the world was segregated in the 1950s. This book is a good book to read during African American month, or any day.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #8

Author: Chris Barton

Title: The Day-Glo Brothers

Illustrator: Tony Persiani

Genre: History

Subgenre: Childrens book

Theme. Bob and Joe Switzers invention

Primary and Secondary characters: Brothers Bob and Joe Switzers.

Award and date of publication: Robert F. Sibert award, 2009.

Publishing company: Charlesbridge

This book is about brothers Bob and Joe Switzer. Bob is the youngest of the brothers, by fifteen months. They invented the fluorescent glow and the dark paints. Joe exerted himself less than his older brother. As they became older Joe wanted to become a magician and was very interested in light. Bob wanted to become a doctor to help people. While Joe was studying lights for his magic tricks, Bob was studying medicine. Joe discovered that fluorescent lights could jazz up his magic tricks. Together the brothers built their own ultraviolet lamps. One day they were shining the light on their dad's medicine. A chemical stained label on a bottle of eyewash emitted a yellow glow. That glow lit up the Switzers' imaginations. They brought a lot of library books home, and studied different chemical that make glow in the dark paints. Under a regular light they looked plain, but under and ultra violet light they glowed. They took their ideas and inventions to make glow in the dark paints. They painted all their mother's things with this paint. People loved this invention and they started making glow in the dark costums, books, decorations, clothes and all sorts of other things. They were very impressed with their inventions, and how it made people happy.

This is a good book to read to student to teach them that hard work, and dedication pays off in the end. The Switzer brothers had an idea, and they did not lose sight of their idea. In the end, they changed the lives of many.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #7

Author: ReNbecca L. Johnson

Title: Journey Into the Deep Discovering New Ocean Creatures

Illustrator: Thee is not an illustrator the pictures are real life pictures.

Genre: Science, History

Subgenre: Realistic History

Theme: There is life in the deep sea.

Primary and Secondary Characters: The deep ocean and its surprising creatures.

Awards and Date of Publication: Orbis Pictus Winner, published in 2011.

Publishing Company: Millbrook Press

This book is about the deep sea. This book takes young readers into the deepest parts of the ocean, six miles down. Scientist did not realize there was life this deep into the ocean, until 1960. The ocean is dark and desolate this far down, and it is amazing that life still exist. In 2000, the census of Marine Life put a team together to discover how many creatures are in the sea, how they live, and how the sea was centuries ago. This team discovered the Antarctic ice fish. These fishes rests on the sea floor surrounded by brittle stars. Ice fish can survive in waters cold enough to freeze the blood of other fishes. Scientist classify these under water creatures by species. Species are categorized by creatures that can mate together and produce offspring. Similar species are grouped together into a larger category called a genus. Together, a living thing's genus name and species name make up its scientific name . On coral reefs along Australia's northeaster coast, census scientist discovered more that one hundred new kinds of soft corals. Unlike reef building corals, soft corals have rubbery bodies. This book is filled with interesting facts about the ocean, and the new discoveries that scientist have found in just this decade.

This is a good book to read to students to teach them how diverse the world is. Also, to teach them that there are discoveries about the world that scientist have not found. That some day when they get older and they can become scientist and discovers some of these mysteries.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #6

Author: Barack Obama

Title: Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters

Illustrator: Loren Long

Genre: Picture Book

Subgenre: Children's Book

Theme: We are all unique, but we are all Americans!

Primary and secondary characters: Barrack Obama (narrator), and many historical figures.

Date of Publication: 2010

Publishing Company: Alfred A. Knopf

Barack Obama narrates this book to his daughters. This is an inspirational book. In this book he expresses to his daughters have I told you lately how wonderful you are? How you laugh and sunshine spills into the room? He then compares his daughters characteristics to historical figures. Some of these examples are: have I told you lately that you are smart? Then he gives examples. A man named Albert Einstein turned pictures in his mind into giant advances in science, changing the world with energy and light. Have I told you that you are brave? A man named Jackie Robinson played baseball and showed us all how to turn fear into respect and respect to love. He gave brave dreams to all the dreamers. Have I told you lately that you are kind? A woman named Jane Addams fed the poor and helped them find jobs. She opened the doors and gave people hope. Have I told you that you don't give up? A man named Martin Luther King Jr. taught us unyielding compassion. He gave us a dream that all races and creeds would walk hand in hand. He marched and he prayed and, one at a time, opened hearts and saw the birth of his dream in us. Have I told you that America is made up of people of every kind? Barrack Obama keeps on complementing his daughters, by comparing their personal strengths to strengths of historical figures. In the end, he tells his daughters have I told you that I love you?

This is a great book to read to students to teach them about the past of america, and to introduce historical figures that changed America.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #5

Author: Leslea Newman

Title: Donovan's Big Day

Illustrator: Mike Dutton

Genre: Picture Book

Subgenre: Children's Book

Theme: Just because a wedding is different, it is still a wedding and strong.

Primary and Secondary Characters: Donovan and his mothers.

Date of Publication: 2011

Publishing Company: Tricycle Press

Donovan is so excited he has a big day today. He wakes up at his grandparent's house and quickly eats breakfast. He cleans up real well and puts on a suit. He can not play with his cousin or get dirty. He needs to make sure he stays clean. His uncle comes to get him, and he jumps in the car with a satin box in his pocket. When they get to the church, he is the first one out of the car and up the steps. He takes pictures with his grandparents, and his cousin who has flowers in her hair and a flower basket. He waits in the hall for awhile and then it is his turn to walk down the isle. He is nervous he has to walk not jump, run, or skip. He walks down the isle and stays still by the wedding party. He waits and has to listen to grown ups talk, sing, and play the piano. Then, his turn comes he pulls out the satin box and hands one gold ring to his mommy and another gold ring to his Mama. They stare at each other all mushy eyed, and laugh and cry at each other. The tall man then says, "I know pronounce you wife and wife." Donovan throws his arms over both his mothers and kisses them.

This is a good book to read to students, and to share with them that the typical man and woman marriage is not the only type of marriage there is anymore.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #4

Author: Ian Schoenherr

Title: Don't Spill the Beans!

Illustrator: Ian Schoenherr

Genre: Picture Book

Subgenre: Animation

Theme: It's hard to keep your birthday a secret.

Primary and secondary characters: Bear and all his friends.

Date of Publication: 2010

Publishing company: Greenwillow Books

It is bears birthday and he is trying not to tell anyone. He can not hold it in. He tries to button his lips, but he can not. He needs to share it. So he tells elephant and toucan. Then he sees auk and Kangaroo and tells them too. He then blurts it to turtle and baboon too. He alerts rabbit and raccoon. He then breaks it to bat and alerts hippo. In the end, all his friends surprise bear with a birthday party.

This is a good book for students to explain that it is hard to keep surprises from friends but that's okay.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #3

Author: Corinne Demas

Title: Saying Goodbye to Lulu

Illustrator: Art Hoyt

Genre: Children's Book

Subgenre: Realistic Fiction

Theme: Morning the lost of a dog.

Primary and secondary characters: Lulu (dog), and Lulu's owner a little girl.

Date of Publication: 2009

Publishing Company: Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers

This book is about a dog named Lulu and her owner, who is a little girl. She talks about when Lulu her dog got real old, she could not climb up the stairs anymore. She just waited at the bottom of the stairs. When Lulu could not walk anymore, she would carry her to the grass and feed her with her hands. The little girl is very upset, because she can not make Lulu well anymore. Her parents tell her they will get her another dog when Lulu dies, but she does not want another dog. She wants Lulu to run, jump and swim again. One day Lulu could not even stand anymore. The next day when she comes home from school her mom tells her that Lulu is dead. She was very upset and sad. She planted a cherry tree for Lulu. A year later she gets another dog. She holds the dog and says, "your not Lulu, but I'll love you too."

This book is a good book to share with students, to show them that death is normal and good can come with death.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #2

Author: Liz Garton Scanlon

Title: All the World

Illustrator: Marla Frazee

Genre: Children's Book

Subgenre: Realistic Fiction

Theme: All the world is all of us.

Primary and secondary characters: People of the world.

Awards and date of publication: Caldecott award winner, published in 2009.

Publishing company: Beach Lane Books

Rock, stone, sand! Body, shoulder, hand all the world is wide and deep. The world is a garden bed with bee's, corn and tomatoes. Trees, trunks, and branches, with people climbing up and sitting down all the world is old and new. The land and cars, water and boats all the world is moving around. People have good days and bad days, all the world goes around this way. With family and music, all the world is you and me. Everything you hear, smell, and see all the world is everything. Everything is you and me. Hope, peace love and trust. All the world is all of us.

This book is a good book in teaching students the important parts of life, and that is the people in it. And the every day things that make the world go round.

Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #1

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

Title: Moses

Illustrator: Kadir Nelson

Genre: Children Book

Subgenre: Fictional History

Theme: The underground railroad.

Primary and secondary characters: Harriet Tubman and her family.

Awards and date of publication: Winner of the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Published in 2006.

Publishing Company: Hyperion Books for Children

This book is about Harriet Tubman and her spiritual route to freedom. Harriet is a very spiritual person and a slave. She talks to God throughout the book, and asks for his help to freedom. Harriet's spiritual journey takes her to freedom, with God's help. On her journey to freedom she talks to God constantly, and he talks back to her and leads her to freedom. God shows her signs throughout her journey to freedom. Throughout her journey God reassures her that he will carry her through her journey. When she finally reaches Philadelphia and freedom, God speaks to her and tells her to continue her journey and help save others. God uses her to plan the Underground Railroad and to set up food and shelter for slaves. On her journey to freedom God reassures her that she will eventually be reunited with her family. In the end, she brings her family to Philadelphia and leads them through the Underground Railroad. God never left Harriet, and carries her just like he promises.

This book is a good book to teach students about the Underground Railroad, and the fear and tragedies slaves went through to become free.

Write Up #2 Book #12 (Chapter Book)

Author: Ron Roy

Title: Mysteries April Adventures

Illustrator: No Illustrator

Genre: Chapter Book

Subgenre: Children's Chapter Book: Mystery

Theme: The Mystery of the golden eggs.

Primary and Secondary Characters: Bradley, Lucy and Nate.

Date of Publication: 2010

Publishing Company: A Stepping Stone Book

This book is part of a series of books written by Ron Roy, for beginning readers. This book is about three kids who have a sleep over Bradley, Lucy and Nate. They wake up in the morning to find Easter eggs right by them. Bradly sees a shadow leave as he wakes up, and they all believe that shadow is the thing that brought the eggs. As they open up their plastic eggs they realize there are notes in them (it is a scavenger hunt). Lucy is so happy she loves scavenger hunts. Their notes tell them to go where roses grow and find twelve plastic eggs and four real golden eggs. The note states that once they finish this, they will get a treasure. The children go to a nearby park and find the plastic eggs, but not the four golden eggs. The children look everywhere. After a long time they run across a mother swan. They realize her nest is stranded in the middle of the pond. Finally three men go into the water and grab the nest out of the pond and put it by the swan. The children realize that the four golden eggs are the eggs in the nest. They then watch as the eggs hatch. They all start to talk and realize that this is their treasure! It was an awesome day for everyone!

I will use this book with my students to show them the fun and rewards in adventures. This book is also a good book to stress to students that treasures can be something to do with nature, and it does not always have to relate to toys or money.

Write Up #2: Book # 11 (Chapter Book)

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Title: It's a Fiesta, Benjamin
Illustrator: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Chapter Book for children
Theme: Having a fiesta that brings everyone together.
Primary and Secondary characters: Benjamin, Adam (his brother), Senora Sanchez, Mrs. Munoz
Date of Publication: 1998
Publishing Company: Gareth Stevens Publishing
This book is about Benjamin and his brother Adam. This book really expresses the Hispanic culture and language. Before every chapter there is a glossary with the Spanish words that the chapter uses and there meanings. Benjamin and the entire neighborhood are planning a fiesta to have to raise money for Mrs. Munoz, because she will be buying a pool (piscina) soon. The entire neighborhood helps to plan this party. Benjamin is upset, because his brother will not leave him alone. Benjamin finds out Senora Sanchez and her cousin do not talk anymore. This bothers Benjamin. While Benjamin cleans the neighborhood for the fiesta he realizes he lost Adam. He looks everywhere and cannot find him. Benjamin starts to feel sad, because he was mean to Adam earlier. Benjamin looks everywhere for Adam, and finally finds him at the Bakery. Adam is sad and explains to Benjamin that he ran away because Benjamin does not like him. Benjamin is real sad by this, so he makes a pack that he will try his best to always be nice to Adam. On the day of the Fiesta everyone has so much fun. Benjamin surprises Senora Sanchez and invites her cousin, they make up and everyone has a blast.

This book is a good book to read to my students and to explain that the way we act and the things we say, can really hurt someones feelings. We need to think before we speak and make sure nice things are coming out of our mouths.

Write Up #2: Book # 19 (Chapter Book)

Author: Allison Lassieur
Title: The Underground Railroad
Illustrator: This book doesn't have an illustrator, but it does have historic pictures taken in the 1800s.
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Historic fiction
Theme: How life would be if (you) as the reader was born during slavery.
Primary and Secondary Characters: It is in the point of view of (you) as the reader. The reader makes the decisions and lives the life of a slave.
Date of Publication: 2008
Publishing Company: Capstone Press
This book helps (you) as the reader live life as a slave during the 1850's. This book is written to (you) as the reader, and the reader has to make decisions throughout the book. The decisions that the reader makes can change the outcome of the slaves life. For instance, in the book you have to chose if you will stay with your momma with your former master or if you will flee with your papa. The decision is hard and unthinkable, but these are the types of decisions that slave children had to make. If you chose to stay with your momma you will end up getting sold and leaving your momma. If you chose to go with your dad you have to make other choices. In going with your dad you both are fugitives and have to hide and travel at night, so nobody will see you. You both run across this white man. Do you chose to ask him for help or not? If you ask him for help you both will get captured and sent back to your masters, because he is a trap for run away slaves. If you chose not to ask him for help and continue you will both stumble upon a lake. On this lake there is a man in a boat. Do you chose to as him for help of not? If you chose to ask him for help he will take you to a house that helps slaves, and is part of the underground railroad. There you will get sleep, food, and help. The next day you and your father will venture off to Canada with help from the Underground Railroad. In Canada you both will be free, because in Canada it is illegal to own slaves. Your father will buy land, grow crops and try to earn enough money to one day buy your mother and your baby brother.
I will read this book to my students, and let them chose which path they want to take. Then I can read it again and try another path to see where it takes us. I can relate this book and the many different choices and paths to how it really was for slaves during this time. The decisions that they made could lead to them being sold, death, or even them getting beat. This book will help my students relate to what slaves had to go threw and how horrible they were treated.