IF YOU COME SOFTLY by Jacqueline Woodson Book Review #2

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


If You Come Softly is about Jeremiah who is fifteen and black and Ellie who is fifteen and white. They meet at a private school and fall in love and then have to deal with how society treats them because they’re an interracial couple. This book was inspired by a poem by Audre Lorde. As Jeremiah battled with his parents’ separation and his grandmother’s death, he felt the need to have someone understand him. Ellie had felt this same needing ever since her mother’s frequent disappearances. So, when the two finally started seeing each other on a regular basis, it appeared as if their union was sealed by fate. Only, the world did not see it that way. As they grew closer, they were determined to look past society’s disapproval. But, when Ellie decided to inform her parents, it was too late. Jeremiah was killed.







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THE DEAR ONE by Jacqueline Woodson - Book Review #1

The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This book was really good considering that I don’t really read book like this. I only read books like this for school. This book was about: a twelve yea old girl name Afeni and a fifteen year old girl named Rebecca. Rebecca is pregnant and poor. Afeni is wealthy, spoiled, and doesn’t care to have a pregnant girl living in her house even if the girl is the daughter of her mother’s best friend from college. In the beginning of the book Afeni and Rebecca hated each other and must figure out how to live under the same roof with each other and all of their opposing ideas. Afeni couldn’t understand how a girl so young could get herself into so much trouble. Afeni didn’t want not be under the same roof with her. When Rebecca arrives: she is mean, bossy, and uneducated. But it’s hard not to be curious about a girl so close to her in age who seems so different. This was the second book Jacqueline Woodson wrote. She said “I wanted to write about teenage pregnancy. At the time I was working with runaway and homeless young people—many of whom were pregnant. I wanted to write a novel that spoke to them.”





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