![]() ![]() While I still think it's a fairly rich work of historical fiction, I now recognize that I don't have much reason to like the heroine. I'll admit my youth and the newness of it all for me back then had me more entranced (so to speak) than I was this time. ![]() It was quite the experience for me, getting me to chew on layered concepts that were still new to me at the time, such as the practice of some light-skinned people of color passing for white. I was thirteen or so the first time I read this YA novel. Now the impending choice of whether or not to leave her home forever to live life as a free woman is breaking Harriet's heart in Wolf by the Ears by author Ann Rinaldi. Although Harriet calls Jefferson "Master," she's never felt the reality of her enslavement, and rumor has it that she and her siblings are the master's mulatto children. Harriet Hemings loves her life at Monticello, where the former president Thomas Jefferson is head of the plantation. ![]()
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