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Schwartz, Virginia Frances
3 Reviews
(3)
4-6
Through writing assignments, three boys and one girl chronicle their fifth-grade year in a New York City public school. Each has his or her own personal issues, detailed in the writing. The children are well realized, and though the classroom setting might be idealized, the situations each child must deal with are engaging. Reading list. Bib., glos.
Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman
(4)
YA
Born one week after her father's death in a mining accident, narrator Frances is blessed with the mystical ability to relate events starting before her birth. More the tale of her hard-nosed Croatian-immigrant mother than the somewhat transparent Frances's own coming-of-age story, this sprawling but well-written novel follows the struggling family across Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.
Reviewer: Norah Piehl
(2)
YA
Julius Lester's To Be a Slave includes an account of the auction-block rescue of Eliza, sold by a master who had fathered her: a northern abolitionist bought and freed her. Schwartz extends the brief eyewitness account into a compelling first novel, writing passionately of the privations and cruelties of the old South, and of the love and loyalty of the slaves for one another.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2000
3 reviews
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