A Girl Called Boy

by Belinda Hurmence

Book Overview

A pampered young African-American girl finds herself mysteriously transported back in time to the days of slavery.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395310229
• ISBN13: 9780395310229
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

O BOY

The story "A Girl Called Boy" is about a young eleven-year-old black girl that hates her name. She disslikes her name because it's innitials spell "BOY" (Blanche Overtha Yancey). She also disslikes her name on the account that it is a direct connectionwith traditional names that her ancesters, whom were bonded in slavery, had. She thinks that her family's traditional past is a weakness for her. One day though, her entire world changes; she gets lost in the mountain forest of North Carolina. while wandering around she gets caught in the space-time continuum and is sent back to the 1850's. It's a story about embracing who you are by repecting the heritage of which you are made. It's a great book; I recommend it!

A Girl Called Boy

The story takes place in North Carolina were Blanche Overtha Yancey (Boy) is living with her family, They often talk about her ancestors who were once slaves. She is tired of hearing about the issue. She then magically gets transported back to the 1850?s where blacks are slaves. She is learning how to live her new life and how to be a slave. She realizes that being a slave is difficult. Boy now understands what they had to go through and why this is an important subject to her family. She is learning to live as a slave and realizes that they depend on each other. Whenever one would need something they would ask another slave. Most owners were very brutal to their slaves and would beat them constantly whenever they would do something wrong. This is a great book if you want to better understand slavery. I thought this book was kind of boring at the beginning but towards the middle and the end it got interesting. I would rate this book a six out of ten because it was boring at first but then started to pick up towards the middle and the end. It was still very difficult to understand, so you would probably have to be a good reader to better understand and like this book.

Good Book

I think this book was boring at first, but as I read farther into the book, it got more interesting. Boy is a stubborn girl that goes back in time and doesn't realize it at first. I think what makes this story interesting is how she learns to survive through her new life. What I learned from this book is slaves count on each other, no matter where they're from, because they really believe in friendship and they have to trust each other. It's a very good book.