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Book Review By Miss. Becky the teacher
Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi

It is a story about a 13 year old slave who is a daughter of her master. Her master is a weak man emotionally and marries women who are abusive to his slaves and manipulates him into doing their whims.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1600-1899
Political/social activism Yes
Plotlet:
Ethnic/Regional/Religion
Is this an adult or child's book? - Age 11-14
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Deep South
Forest? Yes
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm - lot of descript of crop raising - lot of descript of animal care
Misc setting

Writing Style
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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