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Author Sandra Forrester, acclaimed for bringing to life little-known aspects of American history, weaves an engrossing tale about a girl of mixed race in nineteenth-century New Orleans. Simone Racine wants only to be like her cousin Claire-Marie, with beautiful ball gowns and a white gentleman in her future who will be her "protector." But as Simone grows from being a self-centered girl to a courageous young woman, she decides to take a tremendous risk, she helps her aunt's slaves escape. This is historical fiction that will captivate young readers.
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Sandra Forrester is the author of Sound the Jubilee (Dutton) and My Home Is Over Jordan, both National Council for the Social Studies/Children's Book Council Notable Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies. She recently obtained her master's degree in library and information studies and lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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Far more engaging for its history than its story, this novel in the form of a diary never catches fire. The diary is 13-year-old Simone's, writing from April to July 1838 in New Orleans. Simone and her extended family are ``gens de couleur libre''free people of colorof African and European parentage. Simone is perfecting her English, since French is her usual language; readers glimpse her pampered but insecure existence through her adolescent habits and desires. She loves her beautiful cousin Claire-Marie, as creamy-skinned as her father, a Creole aristocrat who also has a legal wife and children. Simone is fascinated by the slave Azura's voudou practice, by her father's stone carving, and most especially by her Tante Madelon, who sweeps in from Paris to visit Simone's dying grandfather. It may be a weakness of the diary format that too many plot strands are told rather than shown: sibling rivalry among Simone's mother and aunts; Tante Madelon betraying one niece while assisting another; Claire-Marie's father abandoning her family with no support; Grandfather's death bound with some dark family history; Simone's tentative grasp of the horrors of slavery and her decision to aid Azura's daughters. The novel is flawed by wispy characterizations and Simone's whiny voice, but the preface and afterword tell of a fascinating and little-known piece of American history that may draw readers in. (Fiction. 10-14) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0688162029
- ISBN 13 9780688162023
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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