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  <title><![CDATA[If You Come Softly]]></title>
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  <default-description>Miah and Ellie are in love. Theirs is a rare and special first love. But the people around them don't see it that way. They can only see black and white: Miah is black, Ellie is white, and Jewish; and their love, no matter how real, is too strange and scary for the world they live in.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quiet, beautifully etched portrait of a first love that is shattered by the racism, If You Come Softly traces the relationship of two teens whose lives intertwine for a short but life-changing time. Ellie is Jewish and white. Jeremiah is black. Both are from well-to-do families where it's sometime...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27782738">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you come softly<br/>as the wind within the tress<br/>you may hear what i hear<br/>see what sorrow sees...<br/><br/>and if you come i will be silent<br/>nor speak harsh words to you<br/>i will not ask you why, now.<br/>or how, or what you do.<br/><br/>we shall sit here softly<br/>beneat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15956527">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Bi-racial lovers, or any girl looking for a love story so she can forget her own.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[OH MY GOODNESS!! I wasn't looking forward to reading this book, because most books I read with books clubs as far less than enjoyable, but OH. MY. GOODNESS. I think this book touched me in the most ways, more than any other book. It contained so many issues, and so many problems. The book is split u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48029241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[YA/romance/interracial love<br/><br/>Surprisingly gripping from the start, &quot;If You Come Softly&quot; has a powerful voice which carries the reader through the story of Jeremiah, a black kid from a Brooklyn neighborhood, and Ellie, a white girl who lives right off of Central Park - who both ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75312680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't know about Jacqueline Woodson. I don't even remember where I got the recommendation to read her books.<br/><br/>But I'm glad I know now.<br/><br/>If You Come Softly is about a Jewish girl and Black boy at a mostly white New York prep school who come together in love.<br/><br/>No, it's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69032361">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is written beautifully. It is easy to read - not only because of its simplicity, but also due to its enjoyability. If You Come Softly deftly weaves many complex and confusing relationships into the same story. The main conflict concerns a white, Jewish girl who falls in love with a black ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63738121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the most beauiful, heart-wrenching,all-engrossing book i've ever read! Elisha &quot;Ellie&quot; Eisen, a white Jewish girl, has just been transfered to Percy School, a private school in Manhattan, for her sophomore year. So has Jeremiah &quot;Miah&quot; Roselind, a black boy from Brookl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66307673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before I'd even finished reading this book, I'd gone onto the online catalogs of my public libraries (I belong to two) to find other <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74640.Jacqueline_Woodson" title="Jacqueline Woodson">Jacqueline Woodson</a> books.  It turns out that if I want any more I'll have to get them on inter-library loan, which will cost a couple of dollars each time.  But I don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48899405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is about a boy named Jermiah but Miah for short and a girl named Elisha but Ellie for short. Miah is black and Ellie is white. they start to like eacother but the color of there skins is a problem. They soon start to date and hold hands at there school called Percy acadmey its mostly only ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76959564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jacqueline Woodson can slip into the soul of her characters, and she has two Newbery Honor Books (Feathers; Show Way) and a Margaret A. Edwards Award (given to an author for the “body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature”) that attest to her gift...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66786633">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why are people looked differently at cause of their race and color?<br/><br/><br/>This book is great.! Miah and Ellie are in love. They feel is love when they first saw each other. They were each others first. But as in everylove story their was a problem Miah was black and Ellie was white and je...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70473386">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[                     If you come softly <br/>                     Jacqueline Woodson<br/><br/>Woodson writes a compelling story of young love, not the - I think you’re cute – love but the soul mate at first sight love.  High school students at a prestigious New York private school, Ellie and Mia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62056608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was about how a girl name Ellie and a boy name Jeremaih had met in school. Ellie was white and Jeremaih was black. They had became closer ever since they have been seeing eachother in their classes. Jeremaih and Ellie had always hung out after school and even on weekends. He took Ellie hom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73640235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this novel was absolutely beautiful! It is the story of Miah--a fifteen year old African-American boy who starts at a new high school to play basketball and meets Ellie, a Jewish white girl. From the moment they meet they feel a connection and are able to share with each other their fears,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71302088">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ThisBy Jacqueline Woodson<br/>If you come softy and she also write lomotion<br/><br/>This book is about a little girl and a little boy named Micah and elite and they are in love but the people around them don’t see it that they see it that way. By Jacqueline Woodson<br/>If you come softy and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53701191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	This book is about love between Jeremiah and Ellie who fall in love, and yet their love do not get supported by others.  This is because they have different race; (Jeremiah is black and Ellie is white).  The story continues with their obstacles and hardships they face and the way they deal with how...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42003972">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was immediately drawn into this book because it's set in New York City and I know many of the places the characters appear. Like always, Jacqueline Woodson tackles an important issue in this book: interracial dating. Jeremiah and Ellie are high school sophomores. Jeremiah is black and Ellie is whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52101245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lyrically written tale of the love between African-American Miah, whose divorced parents are a well-known movie maker and an author, and Jewish Ellie, whose dad is a workaholic doctor and whose mom has left the family then returned twice. When Miah comes to Ellie's posh prep school the two bump into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75075962">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fifteen year olds Jeremiah and Ellie share one common bond...they are falling in love with one another. However, there is one barrier standing in their way- the colors of their skin. Society and the couples high school academy reject the interracial couple as they try to break through this racial ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72592112">more...</a>]]></body>
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