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Jefferson's Sons (2011)

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0803734999 (ISBN13: 9780803734999)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Dial

review 1: Bradley, K. (2011). Jefferson's Sons. New York: Young Readers Group.Special treatment, half white half black, living a secret, and are still slaves, Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Estom are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.Jefferson's Son's was told in three parts from three different points of view. Beverly, Madison, and a third boy close to the Hemings family are the voices told of what life was like as one of Jefferson's secret offspring. 5-7th gradeReview Questions1. What is Beverly hungry for?2. On page 105, what does Beverly say out loud?3. What are some messages Mama teaches the children throughout the book?4. Who is baby Peter?5. At the end of the story who was sold and who were they sold too?
review 2: This book just neve... morer quite moved into suspension of disbelief for me. The characters always felt a little too much like set pieces used to teach me a history lesson. Now, it was a very full, and rich, history lesson, but it was too long to be just that.Part of the problem for me was the unmentioned switching of point-of-view characters. I could never get comfortable with a character's mindset or motivations, knowing that I may be jolted out of them at the end of the chapter.Also, since the author kept doing this, I wanted to have at least one female point-of-view. The book is named Jefferson's Sons, and I understand that the accounts we have may favor Beverly, Madison and Eston, but when taking so much license anyway, it feels like we could also stand to hear from Harriet. Or Sally. It would be amazing to get to see the world of Monticello through their eyes too. less

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