If You Come Softly
by Jacqueline WoodsonSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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if you come softly is a very sad book about a black guy who falls in love with a white girl but because of racism, it was impossible for them to be together. Ellie is a white jewish girl and jermiah is a black guy. they go to the same schools and they fall in love with each other. when ellie decides to tell her parents about jermiah, everything goes wrong because they are not the same race. they went through a lot of hardships but still never gaved up loving each other. until the end of ...more
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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 sometimes hard to be yourself, and both are new students at Percy Academy. It was Jeremiah's father, a well-known African American filmmaker, who wanted Jeremiah to attend a private school. Jeremiah doesn't l...more
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Read in February, 2008
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Elisha (Ellie) and Jeramiah (Miah) attend the same fancy prep school. They are both new to the school, and they literally bump into each other. They are instantly attracted to each other. Though their lives are outwardly very different, they are very much alike on the inside.
Ellie is white and her parents are still together, but no longer in love. Ellie has several older brothers and sisters who have all moved away from home. Miah is black, the only child of a celebrity couple who has...more
Ellie is white and her parents are still together, but no longer in love. Ellie has several older brothers and sisters who have all moved away from home. Miah is black, the only child of a celebrity couple who has...more
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Read in January, 2006
i loved woodson's autobiography of a family photo so much that i looked her up to see if she had any other work, only to find that she was prolific in the world of young adult writing. i was really curious about that--i wondered if she would deal with the same issues of sexuality, race and abuse in her kids books? i was introduced to the changing world of y.a. literature that has far extended beyond the paula danziger and judy blume of my youth. scoliosis, sex and summer camp are surely impor...more
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Read in October, 2007
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I loved this book so much. This book is about a white girl and a black boy who fall in love. Everyone should read this book because you can learn what I learned. I learned that race doesn't matter when it comes to the heart. Jeremiah and Elisha didn't care about hoe each other looked but how they felt about each other. Well, the best part of the whole book is the ending.(There's also a sequel) I can connect to this book because racism is a huge issue in today's world. For example, whenever I pla...more
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Read in November, 2008
I liked the idea of this book much more than I liked the actual story. I felt like there was a certain amount of depth that was just lacking because of how the story was told. Too much of the action was saved for the middle of the book so there was a little of build up but then the ending just seemed too abrupt.
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Read in May, 2008
If You Come Softly is about Jeremiah who is fifteen and black and Ellie who is fifteen and white. They meet at a private school and fall in love and then have to deal with how society treats them because they’re an interracial couple. It was inspired by a poem by Audre Lorde.
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If You Come Softly is a novel that shows to the world how racists humans can be. Elisha and Jeremiah. Supposedly forever. But that doesn't happen. Jeremiah gets killed by a white man when he is playing basketball. When that man killed Miah there love becomes...nothing. You can't love someone that's dead.
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Read in October, 2008
I thought this was such a good book. I thought be begining was kind of strange but I could not put the book down as soon I got to the middle. This book is about two teenagers, Ellie and Miah. Ellie is white, Miah is black and the story takes place during times when people aren't really for that, or racism. Ellie and Miah are in love...but things just dont always last forever. " Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while.......Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.&
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Read in February, 2008
Jeremiah Roselind is an intelligent black teenage boy who has to attend a fancy prep school. He bumps into Ellie Eisen, a white girl, in the hallway, and they are immediately attracted to one another. Disapproving glances, whispering voices, snide remarks -it isn't the reactions from other people that tear this young couple apart before their relationship has a real chance to grow, but a tragic event.
This was an interesting, well-written story about interracial dating. I was saddened by the e...more
This was an interesting, well-written story about interracial dating. I was saddened by the e...more
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Read in September, 2007
The book If You Come Softly. Is about a white girl named Ellie and a black boy named Jeremiah. Both attend the same school but were raised in different backgrounds and different cultures. But who knew that in the end these two would fall madly in love? No one, not even them. Until, they find that in realtiy they have so much more in common then they could even imagine. The only problem is that Ellie's parents don't exactly approve of them being together. So what will Ellie do in order to ...more
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Read in March, 2008
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I loved this book! This book talks about the love between Jeremiah and Elisha that didn't get supported by everyone else. That is because Jeremiah is black and Elisha is a white girl. This story continues to talk about the hardships that they faced trying to maintain their relationship and the racially world that they lived in. The story ended up with a tragedy and to find out what is that, read it yourself. I think everyone should read this book and learn that, the thing that matters is not the...more
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Read in February, 2006
I learned that LOVE has no color, and thats what people failed to focus on in this book. All they saw was a White girl and a Black boy that liked eachother and everyone thought it was a crime.
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