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A Drowned Maidens Hair is a well written tale about a girl named Maud trying to be loved by keeping secrets that should not be kept.
It is a very good book for girls of the age of 9 to 12. It is written by Laura Amy Schlitz.
“Maud first appeared to me- I [...]

A few days ago my class wrote poems on the Amistad. Mine is called There was Cargo on the Amistad. It was inspired by Elizabeth Alexander’s Other Cargo. For my back round calloge I tried to make it colorful but not to wild. I made my poem short because I think [...]

Historical Fiction
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is a very good work of historical fiction. Because it is based on a real person so the author could almost make it real. In this book it seems real also because it uses real (or almost real) places such as the ranch in the beginning [...]

Africa Magru Kinson By Ms. Edinger is a heart moving story of a girl pawned by her father and put on the Amistad. It is poetic and is very well written “My mother cries I remember her cries as I left” is from a quote from a poem in the book about [...]

Hey do you know about the poet Elizabeth Alexander? You probably don’t know her by name but I bet you know her because she was the inaugural poet!
2/6/09 Elizabeth Alexander came to my school to tell us stories, read her poems and talk about her poems, she also answered one question many times, “What [...]