false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg 26480 5 2836113 book 2001 Witness total:516|5:134|4:187|3:139|2:47|1:9| 516 1938 694 129 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 4 1 false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 20:35:25 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 14:09:19 -0800 2008 Witness difficult to get into, and I was a little skeptical of Karen Hesse's chosen format, namely, writing the book somewhat like a play, insofar as characters switching off in dialog, but poetry because the "dialog" consisted of free verse poems of varying length. Towa...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 4 0 false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 14:07:53 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 19:17:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 5 1 false Tue Oct 13 11:41:53 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 19:14:57 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 11:41:53 -0700 2009
First of all, I have to say that this book is amazing. At first, I wasn’t sure how a novel could be made using verse; however, Ms. Hesse has shown me that not...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 5 0 false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 18:16:59 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 18:23:28 -0800 2009
This refreshing free verse novel tells the story of a sleepy Vermont town infiltrated by the grips of the Klu Klux Klan. Each page gives a brief account of a townsperson and how racism is affecting them. The point of view ranges fo...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 5 1 false Thu Oct 02 10:24:57 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 10:30:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 3 0 false Mon Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 14:39:28 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 11:50:08 -0800 2009
I checked this book out before reading Out of the Dust<\i> and when I didn't love that book, I started to wonder if I would like this one. Luckily, this one was much better. In this book of poetry, Hesse has managed to write a story ...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 3 0 false Sat Dec 05 22:42:29 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 12:43:27 -0800 2009 Out of the Dust--I remember getting frustrated with the poetry in the latter because I tend to read too much into poetry, and many of those pieces didn't work as standalone poems. Witness avoided that problem by using narrator names instead o...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 4 0 false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 06:15:28 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 06:30:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 4 0 false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 20:40:50 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 20:57:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 4 0 false Wed Dec 17 13:51:21 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 13:51:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 5 0 false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 14:08:18 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 09:32:19 -0700 2009 Witness is set in Vermont in 1924, and events are set in motion when the KKK comes to a small town. The story is told in many voices, ranging from six-year-old Esther Hicks who arrived as part of the fresh air fund, to the sixty-year-old town doctor, Fitzgerald Flitt. Karen Hesse does an excellent j...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 5 0 false Wed Mar 11 08:46:52 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 08:53:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 13:59:46 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 14:02:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 5 0 false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 15 15:13:53 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 15:17:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 3 0 false Mon Nov 03 09:47:27 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 09:46:15 -0800 2008
The book Witness by Karen Hesse is historical fiction. It has to deal with the Ku Klux Klan, and what happens when they move into the Northern States. The K.K.K. arrives from the south looking for followers to join their “Klan.” Some will be sucked in and forced to look down u...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 4 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 20:50:30 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 20:50:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 4 0 false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 09:39:26 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 09:47:50 -0700 2009 2 This book grabs my attention mainly for the stlye in which it is written. Also, for the circumstances in which the story occurs. I love the fact that the author lets each character tell the story from his/her own point of view. It not o...more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 5 0 false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 07:08:42 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 07:20:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 3 1 false Mon Oct 26 19:48:46 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 19:53:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 26480 0439272009 9780439272001 499 127 3.76 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167811819m/26480.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26480.Witness 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 14 23:32:24 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 23:36:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=26480