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Summary: A difficult but brilliant book
Review: I read this book in 1976 when I was in sixth grade. It still occupies a space on my bookshelf. More importantly, I remember its message. Yes, it can be horrifying at times, but so is slavery. It is a book that should be read.
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Summary: It was a very good book
Review: This was a very good book and it informed me a lot about slavery. I read it for a 7th grade project and still liked it. It looked boring but it was good.
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Summary: One of the BEST books I have read
Review: I had to read this book last summer for school, and I loved it. It was so detailed and so sad. It told me a lot of things I didn't know about slaves, and their way over to America.
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Summary: Exciting!
Review: This was a great book! I gave it 4 stars because at first I thought it was going to be a typical boring summer reading book. It turned out GREAT! It is now one of my favorites! It kept my attention because it was a short, quick read.
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Summary: Read first before you read it to children !
Review: I read Slave Dancer to my 9 and 11 year old sons. I selected it because it was a Newbery award winner and I wanted to read a book about slavery. Oh My, although we did read the whole book it was outrageous. It was too horrifying and it made my kids feel sick. I tried to explain that by being aware of the atrocities in life we can change the world and do things better. That still didn't help. It was a vivid description of the inhumane ways Africans were kept on slaveships. I can't believe this book won an award ! I wish I had read it first before reading it aloud. Beware ! Possibly older children could handle this author's delivery of the subject, but not the young ones !
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Summary: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Wake me up when I finish the book!
Review: This book was totally boring. I had to force myself to finish it. Even though it was very short, it took me about three months to finish it! I really do not recommend this book to you unless you're the type that snores while reading. Oh well, I don't think I should be giving such harsh comments to this book. Bye!!
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Summary: This book really made me think about life.
Review: I have no problem with this book. I only dislike the fact that the scenes are too long so I don't pay as much attention as I usually would. I admire the fact that it's realistic and has alot of action, that was what kept me interested. I hope Paula Fox will write another book as good as this one.
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Summary: I thought the book was great!
Review: I thought the book was exciting,energetic,and sad
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Summary: The lives of slaves on their journey from Africa to America.
Review: Jessie Bollier, a fourteen year old boy, is heard playing his fife in an American market and is kidnapped by a man named Claudius. He is told he is going on a ship that is sailing from America to Africa to trade gold, guns, and other weapons for African slaves. On the ship he is forced to do daily tasks such as washing the deck and cleaning his crewmates quarters. He is also to play his fife for the slaves, once they come on board. This will make them dance in their shackles for exercise.On the way to the island where they will be picking up the slaves, the crew encounters a ship that is trying to prevent them from picking up the slaves. Overnight they notice that the look-out on the other ship leaves his post and doesn't come back for over ten minutes so they send the first canoe acrost. Once the slaves board the larger ship the crewmates fill the canoe with old partially rusted guns. When they had completed their misson, over one hundred slaves were on the ship. On the journey to America, they have to go off course to purchase supplies. When they set off again, a few of the slaves died Then the crew and slaves started to go blind. The only two people that were unaffected by the disease were Jessie and a slave boy named Ras.The blind captain and Jessie navagate the ship but neither notice the storm generating ahead. By the time Jessie notices, it is too late. The winds were picking up speed and the waves were getting larger. The ship finally capsized...
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Summary: Accualy a Good Book!
Review: I didn't think it would be any good, but I was wrong! It's a touching story of how a young boy is kiddinaped and forced to play his fife and exersize the slave cargo of the ship he was placed on. I was impressed with how vivid the details were
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