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The Letter Writer
The Letter Writer
Author: Ann Rinaldi
Eleven-year-old Harriet Whitehead is an outsider in her own family. She feels accepted and important only when she is entrusted to write letters for her blind stepmother. Then Nat Turner, a slave preacher, arrives on her family?s plantation and Harriet befriends him, entranced by his gentle manner and eloquent sermons about an all-forgiving God....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780547327853
ISBN-10: 0547327854
Publication Date: 5/24/2010
Pages: 224
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Graphia
Book Type: Paperback
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Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com

Harriet knows her place in society.

She's the half-sister of the plantation owner. She does little jobs and writes letters for his mother.

She notices the differences in treatment of all people and has a hard time dealing with the injustice. When Nat Turner comes to work at her plantation, she finds herself drawn to him. His God seems quite different from her brother's.

When he asks for her help, she doesn't refuse him. What she doesn't realize is the part she might play in changing history.

This gripping tale imagines the story of the bloodiest uprising of slaves in American History.
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