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Little Sacrifices
by
Jamie Scott (Goodreads Author)
How much would you risk to stand up for your beliefs?
When Duncan and Sarah Powell move with their daughter, May, to Savannah Georgia in 1947, they hope against hope that they’ll be welcomed. But they’re Yankees and worse, they’re civil rights advocates almost a decade too early.
At first May can pretend they’re the same as everyone else. It means keeping quiet when she know...more
When Duncan and Sarah Powell move with their daughter, May, to Savannah Georgia in 1947, they hope against hope that they’ll be welcomed. But they’re Yankees and worse, they’re civil rights advocates almost a decade too early.
At first May can pretend they’re the same as everyone else. It means keeping quiet when she know...more
Unknown Binding, 233 pages
Published
March 22nd 2012
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The story is definitely a change of pace from the normal zombie apocalypse, murder mysteries, tales of the supernatural I can typically be found reading. The setting is Savannah in the late 1940s with the primary character a 16-year-old girl who had moved with her parents (who possessed rather radical ideas for that time - her father is a history professor with bold ideas, especially for someone newly transplanted in the deep South) from Massachusetts.
The story is actually told in first person...more
The story is actually told in first person...more
Jamie Scott’s Little Sacrifices takes its fifteen-year-old protagonist, May, from the North States to the South in 1947, landing her in a beautifully evocative Savannah, Georgia, where the air is “humid and strong with the smell of green things” and the pace of life is “like a long exhale.” Suddenly there are black people everywhere and May's parents struggle to balance their Northern sensitivities with providing a living for their maid and remaining convinced no-one should need to be waited on....more
This story did take me a little bit longer than usual to get into. I was not exactly sure which direction the author was going to take the story. At first I was expecting a drama filled story of an unhappy teenager, running away from home and possibly getting caught up with an older man. But after the bus ride and the conversation that she had I was warming up to the idea of it being more like a historical novel, and a coming of age story.
When May's family moves into the new house she soon disc...more
When May's family moves into the new house she soon disc...more
Kindle Edition:
This was a pretty quick read for me and although I wasn't crazy mad about the story, there were some aspects of it that I liked and some that I didn't.
What I didn't like about it was the fact that the main character was a teenager and this read more like "young adult historical fiction" to me. I checked twice and this is listed as women's historical fiction so I am a bit perplexed here. I don't have anything against Y.A. but I was expecting something different and I wasn't really...more
This was a pretty quick read for me and although I wasn't crazy mad about the story, there were some aspects of it that I liked and some that I didn't.
What I didn't like about it was the fact that the main character was a teenager and this read more like "young adult historical fiction" to me. I checked twice and this is listed as women's historical fiction so I am a bit perplexed here. I don't have anything against Y.A. but I was expecting something different and I wasn't really...more
Absolute 5-star read!!
One short week ago, I ranted to my husband about not having come across a 4½ or 5-star read in far too long. Thank you, universe, for hearing my rant and offering up Jamie Scott’s absolutely excellent historical fiction novel, Little Sacrifices!
Set in 1940s Savannah, Georgia, Little Sacrifices follows the life of May and her parents as they relocate, under duress, from the North to the South. May’s parents are outspoken integrationists who have not only instilled their beli...more
One short week ago, I ranted to my husband about not having come across a 4½ or 5-star read in far too long. Thank you, universe, for hearing my rant and offering up Jamie Scott’s absolutely excellent historical fiction novel, Little Sacrifices!
Set in 1940s Savannah, Georgia, Little Sacrifices follows the life of May and her parents as they relocate, under duress, from the North to the South. May’s parents are outspoken integrationists who have not only instilled their beli...more
Great freebie on kindle. Life in 1940s savannah with some life in the 1900s thrown in!!
Little Sacrifices by Jamie Scott is an historical novel about the American South just after World War II. But it's also about a young woman dealing with life and its curve balls.
I was instantly drawn in to the story. So much so that I'd forgotten I was reading and wasn't sitting in a hot car under the Savannah, Georgia sun myself. The characters are interesting and the history was well-integrated. The dialogue was a little hard to follow at times because the characters all seem to have the same...more
I was instantly drawn in to the story. So much so that I'd forgotten I was reading and wasn't sitting in a hot car under the Savannah, Georgia sun myself. The characters are interesting and the history was well-integrated. The dialogue was a little hard to follow at times because the characters all seem to have the same...more
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What is worse than moving away from all your friends and familiar places when you are a teenager? Having parents who don't fit in and are "before their times" with their view of things that's what. May is a typical teen who just wants to have friends to hang out with and parents that don't embarrass her every day. She hates that they had to move from her long time home all the way to another state, Georgia. She hates being the new girl and she worries that...more
What is worse than moving away from all your friends and familiar places when you are a teenager? Having parents who don't fit in and are "before their times" with their view of things that's what. May is a typical teen who just wants to have friends to hang out with and parents that don't embarrass her every day. She hates that they had to move from her long time home all the way to another state, Georgia. She hates being the new girl and she worries that...more
This book was a Fun read. I was intrigued by the subject matter and it didn't really disappoint. The book takes place (mostly) in the 1940s Georgia with the story centering around a family of a teenager who recently moved from the north after her father needed to find another job.
Overall, great story line. The characters were well planned out and had serious depth to them. The interactions and connections between all the characters was interesting and really helped drive the story forward. My o...more
Overall, great story line. The characters were well planned out and had serious depth to them. The interactions and connections between all the characters was interesting and really helped drive the story forward. My o...more
One of those books that you start reading and keep reading--thinking it will get better. The setting is 1947 in Savannah, Georgia. The nation has just come out of WWII and the civil rights issues are just around the corner. May Powell, a young teenager, and her parents have relocated to Savannah from their home in Massachusetts. May's father is a history professor and starts at new job at a local college. May experiences the usual "new" student syndrome in high school. The story never does come...more
Jamie Scott captured the feelings of the South, mainly Savannah, leading up to the civil rights movement.
Little Sacrifices follows May and her parents move from the North to the South. Mays parents make the move difficult for May due to their outspokenness for Negro rights and other controversial beliefs. May finds herself struggling to hold onto her beliefs and still fit in with her peers.
I felt that this is a story a friend would tell me and many times had to remind myself that it was just a s...more
Little Sacrifices follows May and her parents move from the North to the South. Mays parents make the move difficult for May due to their outspokenness for Negro rights and other controversial beliefs. May finds herself struggling to hold onto her beliefs and still fit in with her peers.
I felt that this is a story a friend would tell me and many times had to remind myself that it was just a s...more
This was a quick read, and a great book for a loaner on Amazon. I always love historical fiction, but haven't read much about the South. I did feel like the book was a little disjointed. It could have been three different stories: about a teenager growing up with liberal parents in the divided South, about that same teenager delving into the history of a woman that lived years before her, and a civil rights story complete with Ku Klux Klan. Instead it just combined all three ideas and never real...more
Dec 09, 2012
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Little Sacrifices is an extraordinary read! I have read a lot of history books about the South in the 40's and I have to say that Jamie Scott got her descriptions very accurate. I loved the back story about how the family moved from Massachusetts to the Savannah Georgia.
May has moved to Georgia from Mass with her family in the 40's. She is not so excited to be moving down south but her parents are civil right activists and very outspoken. So when they move down south they try and keep to themsel...more
May has moved to Georgia from Mass with her family in the 40's. She is not so excited to be moving down south but her parents are civil right activists and very outspoken. So when they move down south they try and keep to themsel...more
I am so very, very different from May and her family. I am a born and bred Southern Georgia girl. I am a very conservative Christian, and I am very supportive of America's place in protecting the world from dictators and megalomaniacs. So, Duncan and I would have probably been debating on different sides of most political issues. I grew up in the seventies and witnessed very few incidents of racism in my county of less than 10,000 people, over 50 percent of those are black. I have seen and heard...more
I loved this book! The subject matter was serious and thought provoking about life in the south in the 1940s/50s. The author was incredibly talented at creating a stimulating visual so I felt that I could "see" everything as it happened, yet I wasn't overwhelmed with non-consequential details as can often happen with very descriptive writing.
The characters in this book were well developed and true to themselves and overall I loved this. Definitely the best book I've read all year.
The characters in this book were well developed and true to themselves and overall I loved this. Definitely the best book I've read all year.
This was a great story about a girl growing to understand and take a stand for what she believes in. I loved watching May as she matured. The characters appear as real people with real strengths and flaws and that is what made the book. My only small drawback is that the flashbacks from the letters disrupted the flow a bit, but I did like the information they contained, and am unsure how it would have been added best to the story. I would enjoy reading another book by this author.
I was not very impressed with this book. The story seemed to be a bit overdone, with the continuing repeat of history throughout the generations. Every generation of female encounter the same problem as young woman. It became a bit repetitive to me. The writing at times was very confusing to me. It seemed as though many thoughts from the characters throughout where left unfinished or with no closure at all. From about 80% on, I barely skimmed pages just to get to the end.
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Little Sacrifices in a bit on a coming of age story, as well as an interesting historical account of life in the American South in the 1940's. The main character does a lot of growing up as she learns about the pre-civil rights South as well as her own sexual growth. The author might have tried to create too many different story lines, and linking them together was just a bit too coincidental. In spite of this, however, the book is an enjoyable quick read.
Young adult, coming of age novel. 1940's beginnings of Civil Rights struggle in the south.
I received a free digital copy of this novel on my Kindle. This is the first book I've ever completed on the Kindle.
I might have only given the book 3 stars, but the ending was strong.
The "good guys" in this book are very modern for their time (don't believe in organized religion, lots of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, anti-establishment types). No Christians are admirable characters.
I received a free digital copy of this novel on my Kindle. This is the first book I've ever completed on the Kindle.
I might have only given the book 3 stars, but the ending was strong.
The "good guys" in this book are very modern for their time (don't believe in organized religion, lots of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, anti-establishment types). No Christians are admirable characters.
Read on Kindle. I liked the storyline, the characters, and what the author was saying. But, when writing about pre-civil rights South, care has to taken not to blur with very well-read books. This one, to me, was well-conceived and was healthy enough with good characters and situations (if a bit cliche') to reach full gestation. But, it became the love child of The Help and To Kill A Mockingbird, with Gone With The Wind in the family tree somewhere. I do recomment it, though, it's a good read.
I really enjoyed this book about a family from Massachusetts who moved to Savannah in the 1940s. The story is all over the place with incest, teen pregnancy, many family secrets and people who have beliefs that go against the grain. It was interesting to see how May just wanted to fit in to finding her own beliefs and standing her ground.
This was a free Kindle ebook and I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the writing and really enjoyed the story of a teenage girl who moved from Massachusetts to Georgia in the 1940s. There is a second storyline about some letters that May, the main character finds in their new house.
This book was less about standing up for one's beliefs and more about the different choices women make with an unwanted pregnancy. Not bad.
Meh. Where's the plot? Meandered around several ideas but didn't really develop any of them.
Love love loved this book. It is wonderful and should be on the best-sellers list!
This one was entertaining enough. I don't really remember it enough to say more!
Great Book! And I loved the author's writing style!
May 17, 2012
Therese
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Jamie Scott is the pen name of Michele Gorman, who writes chick lit under her own name.
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