[.ca] Dream Freedom (ISBN 0152024042)

Dream Freedom:
I really liked this book and I would reccomend it to people who like realilistic fiction. This book was about how there is still slavery in Sudan, Africa. It is also about this class in America who raises enough money to buy back some of the slaves. It has a lot of different narrarators, such as the slaves, Marcus, one of the students, the guy who buys back the slaves, and familys who have been ruined because people took away their family. This book by Sonja Leviton was the best book I have read in along time. It is so touching and it makes you notice about other people's struggles. -H.H

DREAM FREEDOM SHOULD WAKE US ALL UP:
DREAM FREEDOM is a wonderful book - devasting, yet inspiring. It tells of the slavery and genocide taking place in Africa's largest country, Sudan, and of the response of a class of elementary school children in America. The class, like teacher Barb Vogel's amazing students in Colorado, on which they are patterned, consider it their moral responsibility to fight Sudan's slavery and tell the world about it. The realistic portrayal of American life is contrasted with the realistic portrayal of life in Sudan. Each chapter brings another perspective, another insight, that makes the tragedy in Sudan more real and personal. In one such chapter the sudden, shocking slave raid on a Dinka village in the midst of a joyous rite of passage celebration is devastating, and will, hopefully, turn the reader into an abolitionist, too.