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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
Excellent book! I love the perspective and pace of this true story of such a powerful woman!
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Really great informative book about Harriet Tubman, her family, and what slavery was like. She did so much to get her family free from slavery but still faced the racism and sexism of the 1800s.
I listened to the audio version, and the narrator was quite good as well.
I listened to the audio version, and the narrator was quite good as well.
A light biography about an extraordinary person. The title and headings throughout this book seemed like something concocted by the publisher to sell product. The actual text is very straight forward - all high school textbook, no JVN.
“A Woman like no other”
I loved this book. I only had a surface level recollection of Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments and she is so much more than a conductor in the Underground Railroad. A Civil War spy, nurse, a caretaker not only to her own parents but her entire extended family and was known to never turn away any one - she was a true servant and visionary. The author did an excellent job, and this was a great audiobook performance. One of my favorite books I’ve read so far this year!
I loved this book. I only had a surface level recollection of Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments and she is so much more than a conductor in the Underground Railroad. A Civil War spy, nurse, a caretaker not only to her own parents but her entire extended family and was known to never turn away any one - she was a true servant and visionary. The author did an excellent job, and this was a great audiobook performance. One of my favorite books I’ve read so far this year!
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I finished this in one day, which is saying something because reading has been difficult for me lately. But this is a conversational and engaging book. We have it in our adult collection at the library, but I would absolutely say it's a good fit for high school and even middle school readers. It's got plenty of detail about aspects of Tubman's life that I'd never heard about previously, as well as a style that manages to make her story feel almost intimate. I don't really know how to describe it well, but the author's style manages to challenge that pedestal we put certain historical figures onto that can make even the most fascinating or heroic of actions dry to read about. It's a page turner! And the art throughout is really excellent. Highly recommend, as if you're anything like me you'll definitely learn at least one or two things about this amazing women's life and work.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Slavery