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by: Ann Rinaldi
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780590434126
ISBN: 0590434128
Label: Scholastic Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 01, 1993
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 326686
Studio: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Product Description:
The acclaimed author of The Last Silk Dress and Time Enough For Drums tells the intense, provocative story of a slave, Harriet Hemings, who some believe was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson. 'Tantalizing . . . history brought to life by a skillful and imaginative author.'--VOYA. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. HC: Scholastic.
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great book
"Harriet Hemings has always been happy in the comfortable, protected world that is Monticello. She's been well treated there; no one has ever called her a slave. But that is what she is, a slave of the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence. And there are rumors that she might be more then Thomas Jefferson's slave- she might be his daughter..."
This is one of my favorite books I've read it several times since I was 12. In it we meet a slave of Thomas Jefferson's, a young woman ... Read More
Rating:  - Had to read it for school
This book kind of boread me. I had to read it for summer reading. The whole book was about the charcter compelling the whole time. It was really boring the first time.
Rating: - Wolf by the Ears
Wolf by the Ears is an exellent book that identifies and defines predjudice. It is also great if you would like to learn history during the 1800's.
Rating:  - Taking the wolf by the ears and giving it a little shake...
Told through Harriet Hemings, a slave/servant of Monticello, this story is based on Thomas Jefferson's conflict of slavery by his feelings toward the Hemings and all others living/working at Monticello. Throughout this story, Harriet and her brothers look toward their Master as their father figure with uncertain love, never finding out if he actually is their father. But deep in their hearts they know, or why else would he treat them such respect and kindness, a white man to his slaves?
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Rating: - Escaping the Velvet Trap
Narrated in the first person by Harriet, daughter of slave
Sally Hemings of Monticello, this story presents serious historical fiction at the YA level. Meticulously researched by author Rinaldi--who excels in this genre, the book was inspired by a quote from the author of the acclaimed Declaration of Independence. Jefferson himself agonized over the institution of Slavery, describing it as a wolf by the ears, which the country could not handle safely, yet without which the South could not survive ... Read More
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