Great Episodes The Letter Writer, (Paperback)

from HeatherLINC

This was a great story seamlessly weaving fictional characters with actual people. Based on a true event, the Nat Turner rebellion, the author has created a story leading up to this uprising where over 50 people were left murdered. Eleven-year-old Harriet, the narrator of the book, is a terrific ...

from shsunon

It is 1830. I Harriet Whitehead age 11, live on a successful Virginia plantation with my stepmother and my half-siblings. I don't lack for material things, but I feel alone in this family, like I don't belong. I don't get along with Margaret. My brother Richard is now a Methodist minister who pre...

from SamanthaMarie

Nat Turner's rebellion would not have been so murderous if he had not had a map of the local plantations. But where did the map come from? This book follows the story of Harriet Whitehead, an illegitimate daughter living with her father's estranged family in Virginia. She chafes under the rule of...

from xicanti

Harriet, a young girl living on a Southern plantation, provides a rebel slave with a map in this fictionalized account of Nat Turner's slave uprising. Rinaldi's strength definitely lies in her ability to evoke the time period. This book feels just as you'd expect a book set in the early 1800s to ...