But we also watch Patsy’s evolution: the inner one in which she comes to understand why the people around her act as they do and the external one in which everyone around her comes to see her value. it’s also a secondhand view as Patsy includes what the other slaves are saying and thinking. While it is particularly about Patsy whom everyone believes is mentally slow.

It’s a different perspective, seeing the effects of the end of the Civil War from a slave’s viewpoint.

One that belongs to her and means something. She also wants to be her own person, so part of the story is of Patsy’s search for her own name. It breaks my heart to read how badly she wants to be part of a family, to be loved, to be wanted. It’s also sad from a very personal standpoint as Patsy is both the least of the slaves, the most unwanted, and with no family. Her own rebellion, and I’m with Patsy at the joke. I just kept wanting to cry throughout this story, but I had to laugh as well, for Patsy had everyone fooled. In 1998, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 won the Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor. This chapter book is part of the Dear America series from Scholastic with a story based from the viewpoint of a young, recently freed slave girl in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, in 1865. It is part of the Dear America series and is a picture book in Hardcover edition that was published by Scholastic on Novemand has 208 pages. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

One true friend by joyce hansen