If you can stand reading about the Civil War from the perspective of a massively spoiled Southern girl, then this book is for you. Bear in mind, you'll run into several very racist sentiments, mostly from a neighbor and the girl's father.
Emma is an extremely shallow character and I have a hard time caring about any Southerners who faced hard times during the Civil War, because the sucky things the Yankees may have done were flanked with racist crap from the Southerners.
I suppose it's good to tell both sides of the story, but that doesn't mean I enjoy putting down a book with the sense that the main character never learned that slavery and white supremacy are wrong.
This one sadly got picked for the reissue, although I do find it amusing that this fancy girl got saddled with some very sedate cover art for the new version.
Emma was one of the dolls in the second set of Dear America characters that would have been produced by Madame Alexander if the line continued. Naturally, she's in a giant frou frou dress that only appeared in one scene in the book and her hair's all fancy. I find it pretty poor that whoever designed these catalog images thought it okay to stick the slave-owning character next to the slave character. Come on, Madame Alexander. Really? I'd give it a semi-okay if they were shown in chronological order, but they're not. Tzipporah, who is the latest chronologically, is shown on the far left, next to Sarah Nita, then Emma and Clotee. Chronologically, it would have been Clotee, Sarah Nita, Emma and Tzipporah, which would have been much better.
Anyway. On to the next book.
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