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Even going so far as to inform the other slaves the only reason they were brought out of Africa is to save them from heathenism WHA Ryder is not right in the head His loyalty to the estate and the family knows no bounds It causes him to behave like the very people who keep his people enslaved This is what made me incredibly uncomfortable with the novel Then the novel adds in the usual tropes There s lots of commentary on women s rights and how women were enslaved by men Ain t I a woman and a sister kept ringing through my head I liked Willow and wanted her to be happy and get an education but knowing history.

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It was only ok Actually I thought it was pretty boring until about 1 2 way through I had high hopes for it it sounded good but not my cup of tea It was about a young slave who is treated well by the master of the plantation It is implied that he is actually an uncle She is going to be married off to a man from another plantation who she does not know nor love The she meets a young free man who she begins to love Eh. Willow pharmacy It sounded great but it was pretty dull 384 Could have been shorter I found it to be a bit drawn out 384 From the first page I could feel the constricting world Willow lives in and it was both fascinating and painful. William mapother books The book is slow paced with not much happening but description of life at Knotwild with the owner being as good as a slave owner can be in that time especially compared to the terrible neighbour while still being cruel Willow s entire world is the relatively good and kind Knotwild with her father and the other slaves and she is reluctant to leave it behind out of fear for worse and love for the people she know. Willowood nursing home I received a digital ARC and this review is based on the proof 384 This is a coming of age story about a young slave girl and the family she lives with on a plantation in Maryland near the Mason Dixon line The MD line is historic for many reasons but one of which is that it became the border between the North and South or the border between Pennsylvania had abolished slavery and Maryland had not abolished slavery. Willow ptarmigan The young girl Willow meets a free born black boy Cato who had crossed over the MD line in hopes of helping slaves escape Their meeting takes them both on a different road than they had planned and this book is their story. Pdf will not download on iphone 15 While a clean read it does contain some scenes that might not be appropriate for younger children due to the nature of slavery However I think it is quite appropriate for pre teens and older and anyone interested in the historical fiction For me it began a little slow but it wasn t long before the rest of the story flowed easily. Willowood delight I received this book for free from Candlewick as part of a Goodreads Giveaway and in thanks wanted to write a quick review 384 Two lives become intertwined in unexpected ways in 1848 when Willow a fifteen year old slave on the Knotwild Plantation in Maryland meets Cato a seventeen year old educated free black man Cato has come to the area to help fugitive slaves escape something that Willow has never really considered doing Willow has led a relatively easy life on the plantation since she is allowed to ride her beloved horse Mayapple and is able to read and write Her master faces harsh criticism for how he treats his slaves since he s deemed too generous Willow often writes letters to her mother who died many years ago and the writing helps her feel connected to the woman But when her father hatches plans for her own marriage and her master brings home a new bride who is far from generous Willow chafes under her new responsibilities and wonders if there is to life than this A chance meeting with Cato who has stumbled upon her writing opens her mind to new possibilities But how can she ever dream of leaving her family and home While I appreciated the insight this book provides into a slave who was privileged than others and the exploration of gender roles and equality the romance seems to have taken off too quickly and Willow s father s anger seemed out of character for him There are many secrets about Willow s past that propel her into a very different future than she might have dreamed In the end readers can easily see that slavery is slavery and no matter how comfortable the situation might seem to be there is no freedom or choice given to the individual who is enslaved I found the book s shifts from Willow s perspective and letters to Cato s a bit abrupt at times and had to take a moment to understand how the author was handling this because of the odd shift in time 384 Willow of Knotwilde Estate in Maryland is technically a slave but her life on the estate with her father is fairly comfortable She knows herbal remedies for her asthma and other ailments from her grandmother how to read and write a horse a gift from her owner and light household duties What could she ask for As Willow grows older she yearns for She has a thirst for knowledge and can t get enough of reading Willow writes letters to her dead Mama under her favorite tree each day Nearby is the Mason Dixon line and across that freedom Freedom is a scary thing Willow doesn t want to or need to know about Then she learns of some runaways and sees a young man beckoning her to freedom How can she leave her Papa and her home Why would anyone want to run to freedom Then on her birthday Papa springs the news that Willow will soon marry a slave named Raymond from a nearby plantation and her son will one day inherit the care of Knotwilde just as Papa inherited it from his grandmother who helped build the estate with her blood sweat and tears literally Willow would like to marry and raise a family one day but not now and shouldn t she have a say in who she marries and when What about her children Will they be ripped from her side by Raymond s cruel owner Across the Mason Dixon line Cato Freeman longs to prove to his father a former slave that he is a man Cato sets out on a journey to help free slaves from plantations in nearby Maryland He plans for every eventuality bringing his free papers his gun food and water What could go wrong When he s injured in an escape attempt Cato must use his wits to survive When he discovers Willow s journal he learns what it truly means to be free He must help her but how I don t know what to say about this book It made me very uncomfortable in different ways than the usual fictional slave narrative or even a real slave narrative The author crammed a LOT of experiences of enslaved people into one novel and added a teen romance drama I m sure the author intended her readers especially white readers like myself to be uncomfortable Master Rev Jeff is a man of a cloth yet still owns other human beings He uses numerous excuses and even cites religion as a reason for hanging on to his family s slaves Rev Jeff is a benevolent slave owner yet he still believes in the same stupid unfounded racist junk that everyone else believed in He taught Willow to read but doesn t believe a black person is capable of understanding literature beyond the Bible While he leaves Ryder Willow s Papa in charge of the estate and the workers he doesn t hesitate to threaten selling a slave when they won t comply with his wishes The most uncomfortable thing for me is that Ryder actually believes the nonsense his owner spouts I knew her dreams could never come true Did Rev Jeff do the right thing educating her and spoiling her She isn t fit to work anywhere else because of her gentle upbringing and also because she suffers from asthma attacks What happens when Papa and Rev Jeff die Who will protect her then As the story progresses we are introduced to Mistress Evelyn a southern belle stereotype whom Rev Jeff is courting She is not a pleasant woman and I don t feel sorry for her in the least bit I think she can make life difficult for Willow Mistress Evelyn naturally has a young adult son Philippe a typical southern gentleman who always gets what he wants What he wants is his mother s maid Sylvie of course I felt empathy for Sylvie while not always agreeing with her choices Introducing her little brother Little Luck gives Sylvie depth He is an adorable boy who can t hear or speak but somehow knows everything that is going on People tend to dismiss him and that works in his favor He is clever and cunning I can see why Sylvie adores her little brother so much aside from the fact they re always together and separated from the only other family they know Other people in Willow s life include Cholly Dee a recalcitrant slave at Knotwilde He s pure African and therefore somehow less manageable than African American slaves He is a very proud man and slavery does not agree with his sense of manhood He longs to be free His character is interesting once the story gets going At first he seems like he is going to be a villain but he has depth than it seems His revelations are surprising and heartbreaking Tiny Willow s adoptive aunt came from the next plantation where she was used for breeding She s very sweet and kind Tiny sounds grandmotherly but is in actuality a young woman Sadly her youth was cut short given her cruel owner and drunken overseer s plans for her Her words about freedom broke my heart and illustrate exactly WHY many people chose to stay after the Civil War not out of love or loyalty to their former owners Tiny s former owner Rawlins is the type of slave owner commonly appearing in novels His nephew Hendricks is the overseer and enjoys drinking and whipping slaves sometimes both at the same time Both are evil men who serve to heighten the drama of the story. Kindle nederlands The story alternates from Cato s point of view Cato comes from a safe place Haven a free black community in Pennsylvania He s never known cruelty or hardship like his father Atalantus Educated by a Quaker gentleman Cato is determined to right the wrongs of his people Like most teens he acts first and thinks later This gets him into trouble but I admire the way he handled his problems and how he came to appreciate the lessons his father tried to teach him I don t buy his suddenly modern feminist viewpoint he takes after reading Willow s journal and the love story happens ridiculously fast For Willow I do believe in the decisions she makes and how quickly she makes them Normally I wouldn t approve of a teen romance like that but given her situation as an enslaved woman she doesn t have many life choices Her father is determined to give her in marriage to a fine buck whom she doesn t love and isn t attracted to It s her body and she s determined to take agency over it The drama is a bit too much for me. Willowood prosthetics I think teens that haven t studied slavery extensively may enjoy this novel but as an adult and a scholar I wanted less drama and history The author needed to have included a historical note or bibliography 384 is a story written for young readers but this book is perfectly suitable for all ages. Willowood nursing home The storyline in this book is really quite nice There is enough excitement to keep the reader entertained while still allowing ample room for character development The story follows a young educated slave girl Willow as she faces challenges on the plantation she lives Willow spends time each day writing letters in a journal to her long dead mother One day when out writing at her usual spot Willow sights some escaped slaves as they cross through the plantation she lives into the North Then the story really takes off The characters in this book are really phenomenal All of the characters are easy to relate to and understand but Willow is especially so All of Willow s emotions just seem so real and true It s easy to image her as an actual young slave girl living on a fair plantation. Book willow the white house cat The writing in this book is very pleasant The author does a really good job of writing dialogue in an easy to understand manner even when the accents are heavy The dialogue is also written in a very believable manner making it easy to imagine the characters actually conversing The author also does a really good job of writing for a younger audience The vocabulary isn t as intense as it would be in an adult book but the story doesn t lose anything because of it. Willowood prosthetics Overall I really enjoyed this book While it wasn t one of the best books I ve ever read it was certainly an enjoyable and emotional young adult story that does a fantastic job of bringing a face to slavery I would highly recommend this book to any young readers or teachers looking for a book about slavery and the true meaning of being free. Willowpaw I received this book for review purposes via NetGalley 384 This review and others can be found on My Full BookshelfWillow was a conflicting book for me because I think that this is an important subject but the way it was written wasn t so great and I didn t think the romance was necessary at all It ended up being somewhat mediocre of a read for me which was disappointing since I d been looking forward to this book. Adult willow Something that really bugged me was the way Willow wrote as opposed to how she spoke In her diary there would be grammatical errors like putting glare instead of glared but she does not talk this way When she speaks in the book there is not one grammatical error to be seen This inconsistency confused me What confused me even is that sometimes her writing would be one hundred percent grammatically sound and the next entry would not be Secondly there were characters I didn t like first being the Rev Sometimes he would be nice and rather fatherly to Willow other times he was racist and awful I didn t know what to think of him at all I also did not like Cato all that much I suppose I would have if there had not been the awkward romance between him and Willow Quite frankly I don t know why it was necessary except for the fact that the book is Young Adult and it seems like romance in YA is just expected Also it happened so quickly I couldn t even tell when they fell in love On one page Willow slaps Cato and is furious at him and it basically seemed like the next time they met they were kissing and in love I ve read my fair share of unrealistically quick romances but it seems like a worse offense to me when it makes its way into historical fiction for some reason. Pdf will not download on iphone 15 At the beginning there were times when I felt I was reading out of a textbook talking about women s rights However this issue didn t come up for the rest of the book I appreciated the fact that the author wrote about slavery since it seems to be a topic that doesn t get mentioned a lot in the YA genre The other books on slavery I have read were middle grade Still I am not sure I would recommend it or not I suppose it really depends on the person 384 Willow lives on Knotwild a Maryland plantation just south of the Mason Dixon line owned by a relatively broad minded slave owner Rev Jeff Willow s father is related to the Reverend so he and Willow have somewhat privileges than the other slaves and the Rev has taught Willow to read and write By the large willow tree on the river at Knotwild Willow keeps a secret diary in which she addresses entries to her dead mother Her life hasn t been bad until now but it is 1848 and she has just turned fifteen a time when her father deems it essential she gets married He has selected a husband for her from an adjacent planation but Willow doesn t love this boy she doesn t even like him No one except Willow considers that to be important. Willow name meaning Meanwhile a young free black named Cato 17 has come to the Mason Dixon line area to help rescue runaway slaves and take them across the line to the North He and Willow see each other and he starts leaving her messages in her diary They fall for each other and Cato tries to convince Willow to run away with him She doesn t consider it until Cato gets caught and then her eyes open and her world changes. Willow plant Discussion The story line is a good one but the execution isn t as smooth as it might be The author wants to educate readers on too many things and I think perhaps she takes on too much The dialogue comes across as didactic and awkward at times Moreover the characters aren t entirely consistent Some of them are well drawn and some are caricatures The Rev and Papa seem to switch personas depending on the situation The romance between Willow and Cato is rather insipid it seems mainly to serve as a vehicle for the author to air her views on gender equality. Willow taylor swift I think the author does a good job however in showing the ways in which slavery corrupted the mind and spirit not only of those who were inherently evil but even among those who thought themselves enlightened. Willow pays Evaluation For those who know little about slavery in the near North this book will prove most informative There is a fair amount of suspense and Willow is an admirable character The young romance aspects of the story are not as compelling as the exploration of the feelings Willow has with her father the Rev and another slave who loved Willow s mother and tries to protect her as a father would 384 The story of a content slave girl and a discontent freedman finding each other and their place in the world Fifteen year old Willow is a slave but she doesn t mind she has been cosseted most of her life made almost like a pet to her indulgent master Her master has even gone so far as to defy the law and teach her to read intending her to derive spiritual improvement from the study of the bible but Willow also sneaks in Shakespeare and from that acquires a longing for than the life she is expected to lead and so when she is told that she will soon be married whether or not she wishes it she feels angry and betrayed and begins to see for the first time the inequalities surrounding her Meanwhile Cato was born north of the Mason Dixon line and has been free all his life and believes that freedom is the right of every human being black or white and so he becomes involved in the Underground Railroad He is wounded on his first mission and seeks refuge near where Willow hides to think and write letters to her dead mother in a book she leaves hidden in a tree which he reads and thereby comes to know and care for Willow. Willow park The historical aspects are intriguing but the prose is mediocre when the dialects don t make it actually annoying and the premise and characters are unremarkable 384

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In 1848 an educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice between bondage and freedom family and love. Willow taylor swift On one side of the Mason Dixon Line lives fifteen year old Willow her master s favorite servant She s been taught to read and has learned to write She believes her master is good to her and fears the rebel slave runaways On the other side of the line is seventeen year old Cato a black man free born It s his personal mission to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can Willow s and Cato s lives are about to intersect with life changing consequences for both of them Tonya Cherie Hegamin s moving coming of age story is a poignant meditation on the many ways a person can be enslaved and the force of will needed to be truly emancipated Willow author Tonya Cherie HegaminTonya Cherie Hegamin is the author of the young adult novel M O 4EVR and the coauthor with Marilyn Nelson of Pemba s Song She received an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award and a Christopher Award for her picture book Most Loved in All the World illustrated by Cozbi Cabrera Tonya Cherie Hegamin is the creative writing coordinator at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Willow booker As the story goes on the terrible world of that time closes in on both the reader and Willow getting and constricting by the page.A beautifully written story highly recommended..