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White Lilacs
by Carolyn Meyer
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Gulliver Books Paperbacks (1993-10-31)
ISBN: 0152958762
EAN: 9780152958763
Binding/Media: Paperback - 256 pages
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
SKU: 04255
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: SIGNED by author, some edge wear and small crease on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Based on a true story set in 1921, this thought-provoking novel chronicles the response of a Texas town's black community when they learn that local whites plan to raze their section of town in order to build a park.
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Customer Reviews
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A Wonderful Story
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-07-09
I enjoyed this book very much. It is set in 1921, in Dillon, Texas. In the midst of the city of supremacist whites, there is an all black neighborhood called Freedomtown. The majority of the residents of Freedomtown make their livings by working for the white residents in one way or another. Life goes on peacefully enough until Rose Lee Jefferson, a young girl who resides in Freedomtown with her family, discovers that the whites are planning to raze the neighborhood to build themselves a park.
This story chronicles the struggle between the oppressed residents of Freedomtown and the racially prejudiced whites determined to have their way. Obviously I won't reveal the outcome, but I'll say that the characters are developed so that they are quite endearing, especially Rose Lee's jovial Grandfather Jim, obstinate Grandmother Lila, and schoolgirlish Catherine Jane Bell. This book shows very well the frustrations of the segregated South in the early twentieth century, and one can relate to the helpless feeling that the Jim Crow laws created amongst the Black community. A definite must-read.
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White Lilacs
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-09-15
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
In 1920's, Dillon Texas, Negroes worked like slaves, but the really were not. Rose Lee, a young girl not more then twelve years of age, lived with her mother, father, older brother, and two younger sisters, in their small house. Dillon is a very racist city. The Negroes had to stay in their own territory, which they liked to call Freedom, except for when they had to work. Rose Lee, along with her cousin, Cora, aunt, Tillie, and grandfather, Jim, worked at a white family's house, the Bell's. The Bell family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Bell, son, Edward, and daughter, Catherine Jane.
All seemed to be going well until a vote to change Freedom into a park changed the lives of these Negroes forever. People try to speak out to the public and try to get the public and try to get them to vote to let Freedom stay. The book includes the Ku Klux Klan, and they do some pretty mean things to the people of Freedom and their town. You will have to read the book to find out what happens.
I thought the book is definitely a book everyone should read. Carolyn Meyer teaches the people that read this book she wrote, about how some black people were treated many years ago, and how some may still be treated like this in some places of the world. The Ku Klux Klan is still in the world today, when they should not be. When you read this story, you feel poorly for the Negroes. The majority of the White people in this book do not care about the black people. Some of the characters, like Catherine Jane, are friendly to the Negroes.
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White Lilacs Book Review
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-05-18
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
In 1921 some of the white folks decide to move the "coloreds" out of the middle of Freedomtown because it is in the middle of Dillon, all the coloreds must take action. The only reason they are making the coloreds move is because they don't want them right smack in the middle of Dillon and they want a park built in Freedomtown. The whites decide to take a vote the day after July 4th about whether they should keep the coloreds in Freedomtown or move them, and Rose Lee finds herself in a mess, she must be a food server to the Bells because her cousin Cora has fallen ill and she also finds herself a spy, giving any information that she hears about Freedomtown to the colored men of Dillon. Rose Lee also finds herself getting Henry out of two sticky situations and helping out an old friend, Catherine Jane. Soon Rose Lee has to answer these questions to herself, will she ever see her friends again? If the families of Freedomtown are kicked out of Freedomtown where will they move? Also, will she be able to find a way to save Henry's life?
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I LOVED THIS BOOK BECAUSE...
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-01-18
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The characters were so realistic and I think that the author did a good job of describing places and things and people. But I think that Henry is so mean. I think that this book wasn't boring so anyone who does, i don't agree. Why does this book even be considered boring? I think it is very cool. I wish I could tell Carolyn Meyer that. I like meeting authors face to face. Teacher's like this book also, because it receieved a teacher's choice award in 1991.
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This is a great book!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-04-24
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I loved this book. It told the facts, while also telling the story of a young girl. This book is showing Denton that we don't have to hide our past. It's better to get it out in the open. I read this as a class assignment, but I loved it. I truly recommend it.
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