Ame a Jacob (Jacob Have I Loved) (Paperback)

from MissBoyer3

Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future. For once in her l...

from lillybennett

Louise is determined that she will brake out of her sisters shadow. They live in Rass Chesapeake Bay were Louise is stuck in her twin sisters shadow. she keeps wonering will it take for me to brake free. I liked this book because it really put you in the book thought in the beginning it is a bit ...

from Omrythea

Sara Louise is intensely jealous of her twin sister Caroline who is beautiful, fragile and musically talented. They live on a Chesapeake Bay Island with their dad, who is a fisherman/crabber/oyster gatherer, their mom, who is busy and kind, and their grandmother, who is devout, grumpy, spooky, me...

from Whisper1

Paterson is one of the few recipients of two Newbery Medal Awards. This winner in 1981 follows Bridge to Terabithia. While I enjoyed the first, I found Jacob Have I Loved more profound. Set in the 1940's small island located on the Chesapeake Bay, this thought provoking book is a tale of twin sis...

from countrylife

A coming of age story, somehow both blunt and sensitive, about one girl's growing up on the Chesapeake. The back of my book says, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated...." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her ...