Nightjohn - Gary Paulsen

I heard someone read an extract from this book a week ago and I asked that person if I could borrow the book. I received the book on Friday and it took me 50mins to read it. It is a short book about someone teaching a slave to read which was a punishable offence for slaves. Slaves were not allowed to read or write.

I found it very emotional and at times it made me very angry.

The book was written in meory of Sally Hemmings who was also a slave and who was owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult