Kid reviews for Elijah of Buxton

It's incredibly boring. chapters take 1 hour to read and nothing interesting happens.

This book was a bit disappointing for me. The main plot did not happen to almost the end of the book. I hated the "preacher" in the book; he was a charlatan, I thought! The violence in here was intenser than I expected: two deaths is mainly involved in the violence; mild bloody moments, that is about all but the book made it a bit more intenser! There is some swear words: nigg- spelled like that in the book- and d-a-m(spelled like that). Elijah swears now and then. This book is for older tween. It really isn't for young ones. It has some high role models/messages and the ending was amazing. The ending could not make up for the rest of the book!

i didn't like this book because the plot was hard to follow and it was very boring in my opinion.

I did not enjoy this book at all. Don't waste your time reading it.

I bought it at the used book store and by the start it was very boring and hard to read because its written where people talk like "he ole know hes gone" for example and thats not from the book

I had to read this for a book report a few years back, and I loved it! It started out a bit slow, and there wasn't really a main plot until the last half of it. The beginning was kind of like a collection of funny stories that Elijah told, and I got some good laughs out of it. Towards the end of the book, it got a bit dark. For younger ages, this would be a good book to read with a parent or listen as an audiobook because it could be a bit scary or they might not understand some of the dialect or the history part. Overall, this is an amazing book! I loved the characters, I thought it was funny, and this book was the one that made me more interested in the historical fiction genre. I learned things without realizing it. Would definitely recommend.

It’s a great book.

Elijah overcomes his faults of being fra-gile and learns about the horrors of slavery and learns important life lessons.

it is very good

this book is a really good one im not saying i would lat a 5 6 7 or 8 year old read it but for 10 years of age in upthey should tey to reead it in undersand that it was a long time ago and what they used to do back than to black people