Omgee i love this book. Im a peprson who loves black history books,etc. and i absolutely aprove of this book. in the middle i thought i would lose interest but...I DIDN'T! This book was interesting all the way through. It is my first time reading a book by Walter Dean Myers but i will deffinately continue reading his books!!!!! p.s Another author i like is Sharon M. Draper!

This book was very interesting. It was kind of confusing at first, but then if you look deep within the pages, it contains messages that are great messages for not giving up and standing up for what you believe in. It also can show readers how things changed during the time of the Civil Rights Movement.

You got to read this book, it is amazing I read it, I think Teens Should read this book. I loved it

I think that this book is verry interesting. I had to read this book for a summer reading project at my school, and i would read it again and again if i could. It really helped me understand how the "blacks" became free. Not only did this book help me in english class but also in history class!

i think it is good to inform other black families to know about some of the hard things our past life went through. It kind of is like roots but this book is less harsh but the same information.

Im only 13 and my self personlly I thoughts its really good. If you like reading about slavery I would say it will be a good book for you. I think that it is sometimes you will get lost but it has a timeline to help you firgure out the people are. So if you get loss just look about the time line that is closest to where your reading

This is the most boring book ever written. It has no plot and spends the entire book introducing the boring characters. If you are unfortunate enough to have this book, burn it. You will have more fun watching it burn than you will in reading it.

I'm only 14 however I loved this book. It was a bit hard to follow at first, in fact to be honest I hadn't read the Elijah and Lizzy/Moses sections at first because when I had to read them for class I couldn't get into it yet. However, once we got to Luvenia, I was getting more and more into it and Tommy was a pretty cool section, and by Malcolm I couldn't put the book down. I think it was probably because I couldn't understand the earlier sections as much because I really don't know and can't sympathize or understand what it was like so long ago. Because I got really into it once I got to Luvenia, Tommy, and Malcolm. The book gives off some great messages and is a great read for anyone 12+ I'd say.

It's history people. It's all about maturity. Know that Congressman who said we should segregate? Yeah well look what black people had to suffer.