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Jacob Have I Loved: A Newbery Award Winner Paperback – May 5 2020
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Katherine Paterson's remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and coming of age.
A strong choice for independent reading, both for summer reading and homeschooling, as well as in the classroom, Jacob Have I Loved has been lauded as a cornerstone young adult novel and was ranked among the all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal.
"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 selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved.
Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island, angry Louise reveals how Caroline has robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. While everyone pampers Caroline, Wheeze (her sister's name for her) begins to learn the ways of the watermen and the secrets of the island, especially of old Captain Wallace, who has mysteriously returned after fifty years.
The war unexpectedly gives this independent girl a chance to fulfill her dream to work on the water alongside her father. But the dream does not satisfy the woman she is becoming. Alone and unsure, Louise begins to fight her way to a place for herself outside her sister's shadow. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is...
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication dateMay 5 2020
- Dimensions13 x 1.37 x 19.35 cm
- ISBN-100064403688
- ISBN-13978-0064403689
- Lexile measure880L
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"A novel of special brilliance." — New York Times Book Review
"Simply irresistible." — Publishers Weekly
"With wry humor, Sara Louise recalls her turbulent adolescence on Rass Island and her intense jealousy of her twin sister. Strength of characterization and memorable external and internal action mark this superbly crafted novel about a quest for self-knowledge." — Newbery Committee
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Katherine Paterson is one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved authors. Among her many awards are two Newberys and two National Book Awards, and she was recently named a "Living Legend” by the Library of Congress. She has been published in more than 22 languages in a variety of formats, from picture books to historical novels.
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- Publisher : HarperCollins; Reissue edition (May 5 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0064403688
- ISBN-13 : 978-0064403689
- Item weight : 179 g
- Dimensions : 13 x 1.37 x 19.35 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #252,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Katherine Paterson is the internationally acclaimed author of over 35 books for children and young adults.
She has twice won both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. She received the 1998 Hans Christian Andersen Medal as well as the 2006 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for the body of her work, and was the National Ambassador for Children's Literature for the Library of Congress.
Two of her best-selling books have been made into feature films - "The Bridge to Terabithia" and "The Great Gilly Hopkins". An active promoter of reading, education and literacy, she lives in Barre, Vermont. She has four children and seven grandchildren, and her beloved dog, Pixie.
Visit Katherine Paterson on her web site at www.terabithia.com
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"Momma, I wanted to cry out, tell me I'm not in danger of hell fire. My childhood nightmares of damnation were rising fast, but there was no place for me to run. How could I share with my mother the wildness of my body or the desperation of my mind?" "Feminist scholars have theorized how patriarchal suppression of female sexuality is a key aspect of women's oppression...Buried within an ostensibly objective stance is the historical denial and denigration of female adolescent sexuality." (Tolman 8) Louise is scared to tell her mother because she has spent so many years watching her mother be called a whore by the grandmother, though she had no grounds to do so. She has no positive reinforcement because her mother is also an example of this suppression of female sexuality. Her mother is her only teacher so Wheeze learns about this suppression early by observing her mother and grandmother. Therefore, Wheeze has to hide her feelings and spend her days feeling inferior and dirty for her feelings until she finally escapes the island. This escape is what makes Paterson's book so inspiring, to adolescents and adults alike. I felt the hurt Wheeze felt from her family, I fell in love when Wheeze fell in love, I lost hope and found it again as Wheeze did. I couldn't put the book down until I knew Wheeze had escaped the island because she showed that adolescents, especially females, can overcome suppression, they can escape restrictions, and they can make things happen.
By: Katherine Paterson
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Louise hates her twin sister Caroline Bradshaw. They live in a small Chesapeake Bay island, Rass Island, in the mid 1900's. Caroline is loved by everyone because of her sweetness and voice, and Sara Louise is always ignored, even her family always ignores her. This book is the story of the twin's lives. When Sara Louise, also called "Wheeze" was 14 years old, she wanted to own a boat and be just like her father, but at Rass Island, women are not allowed to own boats, they are housewives. Louise goes with her best guy friend Call, who is also always ignored, to look for crabs and make money off them. They stay with half of the profit and give the other half to their families.
One day when Louise was helping her mom and Caroline with the groceries, a weird man came out of the ferry. Only the old people knew him. His name was "Hiram Wallace" and Louise did not believe that he was the real Hiram Wallace; she thought he was a spy. Call and Louise visited Hiram Wallace, the captain, every day. And as each day passed he convinced them he was Hiram Wallace. Hiram Wallace was the Captain Wallace son, who died a long time ago. He was coming to the island because his father's house was still there. Later on Caroline started visiting the captain. Louise fell in love with him. The captain was a 70-year-old man! A hurricane came to Rass Island and the captain had to stay at the Bradshaw's house because his house flew away. Louise's grandmother did not want the captain there because he was sleeping in her bed and she knew Louise had fallen in love with him. So, the captain decided to leave and got married to Auntie Braxton because he realized they needed each other. Auntie needed someone to take care of her since she was sick, and the captain needed a home. Auntie Braxton died and left lots of money to the captain. The captain said that since Auntie loved hearing Caroline sing that she would love for him to use the money to send Caroline to Baltimore Boarding school and continue singing. That's what Caroline had always wanted but her parents did not have the money. What about Louise? Cant her wish also come true?
Louise missed Call, since she only saw him on Sundays at church. He was becoming a real waterman. One afternoon Louise heard her grandmother say, "Jacob have a loved, but Essau have I hated." Which has to do with this twins from the bible like Caroline and Louise. Jacob was the hated one. Louise came with the conclusion that God hated her. She decided not to pay much attention to school and do what she wanted, which was to pay more attention to the water. She was becoming a man while Caroline was in Baltimore. Louise's mom offered her to go to Crisfield, but Louise got it the wrong way and thought her family wanted to get rid of her, since God already hated her. AT age 17 Caroline and Call got married in New York for Christmas and Louise parents went to the wedding. Louise stayed with her grandmother in the island. For Christmas, the captain went to have dinner with them and convinced Louise to go study what she really wanted to which was to be a doctor. When Louise told her mom, her mom said she would miss her even more than Caroline. Louise went to study nursing to a mountainous island, which was her dream. So later in the future she could study to be a doctor. Her grandmother, the captain, and her father died while she was in this island. The only persons funeral she could not go to was her fathers. What happened to her in the island? Did she have a better life?
This has been one of the best books I have ever read, since it is a total page-turner. The best thing about the book is that if you don't understand something, it will be explained later in the book, so you will not miss any special details
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