Well, this is actually not a Newbery book. But I read this book recently and I enjoyed it a lot. My mom did not read this to me. People might think she read it to me. She didn't. Frederick Douglass tells this book very realistically, you can picture everything that is happening. He goes into the hardships of slavery, he gives examples. The way Frederick Douglass lived made this powerful and interesting. He lived in an uncanny place. The one downside was, he didn't tell about how he escaped. He didn't want to tell how he escaped because he didn't want the people who helped him to get in trouble, but this story would have been better if you learned about his escape. This is fair that he didn't want to endanger the people's lives, but it sucks for the reader. Now, I wouldn't mind finding out how he escaped, if he just told us, even without giving names. He could have used fake names.
It's a great story, though. He tells this story in a powerful, realistic way. Even though the book is short, he is very thorough. He never messed up in terms of losing my interest. The book feels like a novel in parts because of the way he tells it, but it isn't, which is cool. Plus, he tells a lot more than what our textbooks just do. He really magnitudes it.
