Chains (Chains Series) by Laurie Halse Anderson (2014-10-28)

My 5th grader was assigned this book as an assignment. Me being the extra involved Mom, decided to read it and couldn't put it down. I actually bored it from the teacher, then purchased a copy. This was only book of the series that interest me.

Assigned by my son's fourth grade teacher, I decided to read it with him. Its a good story to introduce children to the disparity between our founding fathers fighting to gain American independence while simultaneously oppressing other human beings in a manner out of all proportion to there own oppression. Told from the perspective of a little slave girl, it gave my child an awareness of this sad chapter in the story of American independence in a fair and even handed manner.

Read this book because it was required summer reading for my 8th grader. I could not put it down! It was so well written, with so much history- things I never knew-just fascinating! We also read FEVER 1793 by the same author, and it was just as wonderful!