I read Night John for my first book. Night John is a good story. It is about black slaves trying to make a living. The book is very detailed.  That is what makes it good.  The detailed  parts are when a slave is getting punished.  I would read this book for a choice.  I liked reading this book.

I read the book Night John.  The main character is Sarny.  Sarny is a little slave girl.  She doesn’t know how to read or write but she wants to learn how.  Her owner buys a new slave.  The new slaves name is John.  John was taught how to read and write when he was young.  [...]

I think the book Nightjohn is a good book. Reading this showed me that slavery is brutal because of the things they did to the slaves. They would whip and hang them for different reasons. Nightjohn was a free slave who taught Sarney how to read.

The book I just read is called Nightjohn. This book is about a little slave girl named Sarny and a male slave Nightjohn.  Sarny has been a slave for a long time actually since she was little. Then when she was in the garden she heard the maids talk about the new slave.  Sarny first [...]

In this book (NightJohn) one of the characters tells you about the book. This character’s name is Sarny. She is a twelve year old slave. The last time Sarny saw her mom she was four years old. Her masters name is Waller. Waller has mean attack dogs that he has track slaves that ran away. [...]

In the book Nightjohn, a guy comes to a plantation to teach people about reading. A girl named Sarny is daring enough to take on the reading under the develish eyes of their master. His name is Waller and he is a mean man that is completely against the reading. Will Sarny get away clean [...]