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Title: Read first before you read it to children !
Review: I read Slave Dancer to my 9 and 11 year old sons. I selected it because it was a Newbery award winner and I wanted to read a book about slavery. Oh My, although we did read the whole book it was outrageous. It was too horrifying and it made my kids feel sick. I tried to explain that by being aware of the atrocities in life we can change the world and do things better. That still didn't help. It was a vivid description of the inhumane ways Africans were kept on slaveships. I can't believe this book won an award ! I wish I had read it first before reading it aloud. Beware ! Possibly older children could handle this author's delivery of the subject, but not the young ones !
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