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Rating:  - Holocaust history retold in a children's fairytale
Again, Yolen has written another sure to be classic for all ages. Yolen's deep passion for people to learn the truth about the holocaust has sparked her imagination once more. The story seems to be s fiction story and grabs you by the scruff of the shirt and drags you in. The story line has immense emotion and symbolism. I would recommend this to anyone interested in hearing about "first hand accounts" of the holocaust or for people trying to find out about their heritage whether they were directly involved with the traumatic history or not. This is an excellent read that you will want to read time and time again!
Rating:  - Briar Rose
I did not really enjoy this book. The story of a girl trying to figure out her past is a great idea. However, the story was very dull and boring. Their were times in the story when Jane would ramble on and on about stuff that was not even imporant to the story plot. If you get easy confused this is not the story for you becasue the chapters go back and forth from past to present tense. Jane Yolen seems like a very talented author but this was a very boring story. I did think that the last four chapaters inculding the ending were very clever and intersting. I would not recommend this book.
Rating:  - Briar Rose
I did not really enjoy this book. I thought the the middle was very boring and it kind of just rambled on. However, I thougt the ending was very clever. The last 4 chapaters of the book were intersting but leading up to that the story was a little dull
Rating:  - One of the most unique Sleeping Beauty tales ever written
Briar Rose is a tale of Sleeping Beauty written in a different time and a different way of telling the story. In this story, the main character Becca made a promise to her grandmother, Gemma that she will solve the mystery of Gemma's secret identity and history. It was unclear as to why out of all the stories that she could tell, Gemma only told one repetitively, which was Briar Rose. When her granddaughters asked why, Gemma simply answered that she was the princess who had once lived in a castle in Briar Rose. Of course her 2 older granddaughters except for Becca thought she was crazy when she said that. But after Gemma's death, her mystery still remained unsolved and Becca was determined to solve it.
This story not only retells the famous fairy tell of Sleeping Beauty, but also educates and reminds us all about the horror of the Holocaust. Although the author's writing style wasn't the best that I've read so far, I do love how she went from past to present in odd to even numbered chapters. Thus, after finishing the book, I was still pretty mesmerized by her descriptions of the towns, the dead people, the camps, and such.
Rating: - An Awesome Novel
I thought Briar Rose was as awesome and chilling story. This story is about a granddaughter who tries to uncover the lost memories of her recently deceased grandmother or Gemma. The only clues Becca has on her mystery are a box of old photographs, newspaper clippings, an old passport, and an entering visa. She also has the story of Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty, which Gemma used to tell her, as she was growing up. Even with these clues, Becca still doesn't even know her grandmother's real name.
Becca and her whole family are Jewish and were somehow involved with World War II and Hitler's plan against the Jews. Becca looks through her clippings and sees that they were written by the Palladium Times in Oswego off the coast of Lake Ontario in the late 30's early 40's. The Editor of the Times sent Becca more newspaper clippings and the information that there was a war refuge shelter in America and that it was the only refuge shelter. Becca's own Editor, Stan became interested in the story and had recommended that he knew an old collage friend who happened to have lived near Oswego.
Becca and Stan journeyed to Oswego where Stan's friend Sam had invited some of the local veterans over for dinner. That night when Becca passed around the photos, she discovered that Gemma had a nickname in one the camps. It was Ksiezniczka, which meant "Princess". When Becca and Stan drove back home the next day, Becca remembered that the veteran who recognized Gemma said that the camp that was shown in the picture was in Poland, a camp called Chelmno.
Becca traveled to Poland where she visited the town of Chelmno. No one in the town would speak to Becca except the priest in the town who had heard stories in confessions. The priest had given Becca the name of a resident in Poland who was involved in the Holocaust. When Becca met up with this stranger, she unveiled the truth of Gemma's excruciating prior.
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