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Hello! ! I just read a book called Sarah Margru Kinson. I thought it was really sad that a young Mende girl was taken away from her home in Sierra Leone and smuggled illegally into the United States of America to be a slave for white men. I think it was very cool how the author kept saying, “I dreamed of Africa. I dreamed of home.” Monica Edinger, 1998. The illustrations are very good and I liked the pictures when she was dreaming of home. They were very elaborate and it made me feel bright and happy! What surprised me was how mean people can be just about someone’s skin color and religion. I learned that parents sometimes pawn their children for food and crops. I noticed that it has Cinderella elements to it and it’s sort of a riches to rags to riches story. I would like to know how her father felt about pawning her. At the end of this post, I posted a picture of a collage and a poem I did about how a boy found a rusty nail to pick the locks on everyone’s shackles.