Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
Hazel (Ivy #2)
by
Julie Hearn
Sweet but dull - that's how life has always been for Hazel Louise Mull-Dare. With money pouring in from the family's Caribbean sugar plantation, a father who spoils her rotten, and no pressure to excel in anything whatsoever, her future is looking as prim and proper as one of her hats. But on the day of the Epsom Derby - June 4th, 1913 - everything changes. A woman in a da...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
October 5th 2010
by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
(first published September 6th 2007)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
625)
This book didn't really stand out to me. Don't get me wrong, it's enjoyable but it really didn't hook me like 'Ivy' did.
That said, there seemed to be something very authentic about it. Hazel's life in London, which wasn't the largest chunk of the book, was well described.
On the island, there were some neat characters and interesting developments. There's this thing about a ghost or something which goes nowhere.
I honestly didn't think it should have been a sequel. Ivy was only featured in it onc...more
That said, there seemed to be something very authentic about it. Hazel's life in London, which wasn't the largest chunk of the book, was well described.
On the island, there were some neat characters and interesting developments. There's this thing about a ghost or something which goes nowhere.
I honestly didn't think it should have been a sequel. Ivy was only featured in it onc...more
Hazel--who turns 13 on Friday, June 13, 1913--has led a privileged and extremely sheltered life at the Kensington School for Daughters of Gentlemen in London, but she loses her naivete over the course of this story. First is a woman who marches in front of the horses at the racetrack, allowing herself to be trampled to draw attention to her suffragist cause. Soon after, a rebellious schoolmate points out that their teacher is skipping words as they read Shakespeare, words like "womb" and "bosom"...more
I think I've discovered a pattern in the Julie Hearn books that I've read: They are all easy to read, and they all develop rather slowly.
I loved Ivy and was glad that she made a reappearance here, but she was the only part of this book that I really liked. Hazel herself was irritatingly naive, the plot moved as quickly as molasses in January, and the subplots just didn't feel as expertly executed as in Ms. Hearn's other novels. The first half of the book is all about the suffragette movement, ye...more
I loved Ivy and was glad that she made a reappearance here, but she was the only part of this book that I really liked. Hazel herself was irritatingly naive, the plot moved as quickly as molasses in January, and the subplots just didn't feel as expertly executed as in Ms. Hearn's other novels. The first half of the book is all about the suffragette movement, ye...more
Meh. This book was one big "meh". It felt like the author had read a bunch of other books about suffragettes, London, and sugar cane slavery....and wrote her own book without doing any further research. None of the pieces to this book felt real and fleshed out. The first half of the book was largely about Hazel being fascinated by the suffragettes in London after seeing one get trampled by a horse....but that whole story line gets dumped when she is sent to live with her grandparents on their Ca...more
I might have liked Hazel or at least given it another star if it had a different title,(Why does every book with a main character with an interesting name have to use this name as a title?!)I didn't have to trudge through 200 pages of boring text punctuated by the aforementioned inspiration for the title making incredibly stupid mistake after stupid mistake(nobody's perfect, but seriously, I'm starting to think there's somthing wrong with her brain)before reaching the very short climax, if the i...more
Well, the historical representation was interesting... the rest didn't really flow.
For the first half, it's about sufragettes, and her obnoxious/evil friend. We think this will be useful, we hope that Gloria will return in the ending and be vital to the story, but nope. She never reappears.
Around page two hundred, Hazel's sent to the Caribbean, and deals with slavery. I'd rather she was dealing with Pirates. See, pirates are awesome, and talk funny, and chug rum, and wear funny hats while debati...more
For the first half, it's about sufragettes, and her obnoxious/evil friend. We think this will be useful, we hope that Gloria will return in the ending and be vital to the story, but nope. She never reappears.
Around page two hundred, Hazel's sent to the Caribbean, and deals with slavery. I'd rather she was dealing with Pirates. See, pirates are awesome, and talk funny, and chug rum, and wear funny hats while debati...more
Feb 14, 2010
Alana
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
historical,
young-adult
Hazel is definitely not a simple escapist read - rather it is a historical novel that deals with burgeoning political awareness, votes for women, depression, gambling addiction, slavery and its aftermath, adolescent rebellion and betrayal. In short, Hazel is a realistic snapshot of the many pressures and influences an actual teenager of her time might have faced. She's not just a character with some fleshing out to capture the reader's attention - she's a full-fledged person The novel is more of...more
Hazel’s life is not perfect.
Her father had a breakdown.
Her mother is infatuated with dogs.
And Hazel’s teachers are trying to teach her Shakespeare—with all the interesting bits blocked out.
Salvation must be somewhere.
Perhaps in the American girl who drew the scandalous picture during the class trip to Kensington Gardens. Or in the suffragette martyr—trampled at the racetrack. Or in the Caribbean—which, apparently, is where young ladies who fail to behave as young ladies are exiled.
Hazel is histo...more
Her father had a breakdown.
Her mother is infatuated with dogs.
And Hazel’s teachers are trying to teach her Shakespeare—with all the interesting bits blocked out.
Salvation must be somewhere.
Perhaps in the American girl who drew the scandalous picture during the class trip to Kensington Gardens. Or in the suffragette martyr—trampled at the racetrack. Or in the Caribbean—which, apparently, is where young ladies who fail to behave as young ladies are exiled.
Hazel is histo...more
As a student at the Kensington School for the Daughters of Gentlemen in 1913, Hazel Louise Mull-Dare has lived a privileged life - albeit a sheltered one. She experiences a state of shock at the Epsom Derby when a suffragette throws herself in front of the king's horse, and dies days later. When fellow student Gloria cooks up a way for some of the girls to become suffragettes and honor the memory of this woman, Hazel jumps at the chance without giving it a second thought. The plan backfires, and...more
Jun 04, 2010
Deborah
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
young-adult
Hazel is intrigued by the suffragette movement in England after a woman throws herself in front of the king's racehorse and dies in protest of women being denied the right to vote. She and some girls from school decide to participate in the movement, but Hazel is tricked into being the fall guy and is arrested. Because Hazel obviously needs to learn proper behavior for a woman in order to marry up, she is shipped off to live with her father's parents in the Caribbean and learns about other disen...more
I enjoyed most of this book, but was so disappointed by the last line. The thing I liked most about the main character was her unfailing honesty. She was just such a nice, honest, clean girl - so innocent and naive at times but always trying to do what she thought was best. It greatly saddened me that the author chose to have the last line of the book be a lie, spoken by her.
This book covered ground and went places that I really did not expect it to go, and for the most part I thought it was wel...more
This book covered ground and went places that I really did not expect it to go, and for the most part I thought it was wel...more
May 18, 2010
Tracie
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
high-school,
historical
This book seemed like it should be two different stories to me. In the first half, spoiled, rich Hazel witnesses a suffragette jump in front of a race horse and around the same time she befriends a brash, new girl at her school - both give her new ideas and questions. In the second half, after her father attempts suicide, she is sent to stay with her grandparents on the family sugar cane farm in the Caribbean where deep family secrets are revealed. The linking thread in both stories is that Haz...more
meh, it was fine. Hazel wasn't as compelling to me as Ivy, and it seemed like the book was too short for the scope- either pick the slaves in the carribean or the problems with people who don't fit into a prim and proper education or the dad loosing all his money or any of the other plot lines... there was just too much happening in this book for me, and i think it meant she couldn't really deal with any of it all that well. Also- one down, 99 to go! i don't know why i set a book challenge again...more
I really really enjoyed this book.The plot might have been lacking at times but overall the novel was very enjoyable.
Hazel is a girl that I would say feels like she knows herself & where she stands in her life,but when she is sent to live with her Grandparents while her Father is recovering from a breakdown,she discovers a world of secrets & maybe also disappiontment.
I really liked the ending & how things were left;With her Father not knowing about Tommy John or his daughter.It gave...more
Hazel is a girl that I would say feels like she knows herself & where she stands in her life,but when she is sent to live with her Grandparents while her Father is recovering from a breakdown,she discovers a world of secrets & maybe also disappiontment.
I really liked the ending & how things were left;With her Father not knowing about Tommy John or his daughter.It gave...more
The book starts off with the the suffragist woman running in front of the king's horse, and right from the get go, I could see that Hazel would be a bore. She was portrayed, quite accurately, as one of those delicate English roses who couldn't do anything that might injure their delicate senses. Her father seems to be that sort of person as well, only in male form. In fact, of the family the author introduces us to in the first few chapters, only Hazel's mother is of any interest whatsoever. She...more
May 16, 2010
travelmel
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction
It's weird to me that even though this is a sequel and was published a few years ago it only has 3 or 4 reviews whereas the first book, Ivy, has numerous. Interesting. Anyway, I'm going to give it a go.
FINISHED: Wow, this was not my cup of tea. The protagonist is a baby. The first and second halves have nothing in common and seem like two different books.
The first half is an ode to Sufferagette's .... but in a bad way. The second half is an ode to slavery... also done poorly but at least with a...more
FINISHED: Wow, this was not my cup of tea. The protagonist is a baby. The first and second halves have nothing in common and seem like two different books.
The first half is an ode to Sufferagette's .... but in a bad way. The second half is an ode to slavery... also done poorly but at least with a...more
Loved it! Especially the first half, set in 1913 London. 13-year-old Hazel becomes very interested in the suffragettes, as well as in her classmate Gloria, I thought. Which ends in disaster and her being sent to her grandparents' sugar plantation in the Caribbean... the book here felt a bit bi-polar I thought, as much as I did love it. The two halves were two very different stories for a lot of the time! And as interesting as it was to suddenly be on the other side of the world, in the wilds, wi...more
The sequel to Ivy (actually it's Ivy: the Next Generation) It's an interesting story set in 1913, just before the war and England is a fairly Victorian world. Hazel is in a small school for young ladies and she's being taught to be a wife, to expect that she should marry well. She knows little about her mother's past.
Her world changes when a sufragette steps out in front of the King's horse, dying later from her injuries. Hazel's father had a lot of money riding on that horse and now things have...more
Her world changes when a sufragette steps out in front of the King's horse, dying later from her injuries. Hazel's father had a lot of money riding on that horse and now things have...more
So it turns out certain types of feminists have always been annoying. I normally love this author, but I knew there was a reason I spent the whole story wanting to slap the title character and read about her awesome mum instead, and that's because Ivy was amazing and Hazel is a tedious bunch of cliched PC whining disguised as a historical novel.
Hazel seems like an incredibly ignorant spoilt brat, particularly in the first half of the book, plus this seems like two separate stories: one about a gentleman's daughter living in 1913 London and learning about suffragettes, the other about a girl in a plantation learning about slavery. Hazel indeed seems more of a character study than a story and is somewhat anti-climatic. However, I did enjoy this book nonetheless.
I read the book IVY before (by this author) and was pleasently surprised to find Ivy reccurs in this book as Hazel's mother. The details from Ivy, which I read months ago, kept comeing back as I read this book. I enjoyed Ivy more than this book, because Hazel was umm, a little bit dumb sometimes, but I enjoyed this book.
This is an odd melding of the women's suffrage movement in England, a privileged young woman's coning of age, and the effects of slavery in the Caribbean with Hearne's usual lovely writing.
This was a good book about womens rights. It's a little provacative and I would suggest it to someone around or older than eleven or twelve. But, as no two books are alike no two children are alike, some are ready and some are not.
This was lovely. Just when I thought it was about a girl who admired suffragettes, it transitions to the Caribbean and a whole different story.
Awful book. The plot was too messy, too many threads that went in too many directions. The characters were flat, and their flaws never corrected.
The book had good character development, but failed to suck me in at all.It did make me want to visit the Caribbean though...
This book was okay for anyone to read...no swearing, sex... I just didn't like it.
I really enjoyed this book.Hazel is the main character. She goes to the Carribean with her Mother,and discovers a big secret that everyone knew exept her...
I really liked this book! It was really fast paced, and suspenseful. I recommend it.
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,
click here.
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
