Hope's Crossing

by Joan Elizabeth Goodman

Book Overview

They came from across Long Island Sound, Tories in search of plunder and ransom, bringing terror to Hope Wakeman's Connecticut home. The family is defenseless now that Father is away serving in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395861950
• ISBN13: 9780395861950
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Why I like this book

This book is an inspiring book. One reason is because Hope Wakeman tries to get to her family after Tories raid her home and put it afire. Every chance I got, I would read "Hope's Crossing". Joan Elizibeth Goodman is a really good author. Goodman really can make a boring book into a really good book(keeping it as the author's book.) But one thing I don't get is that a Loyalist(like Pruitt Jones) would help a lonely Patriot. Joan can really think about what she writes into a book. I would have never thought of that sort of book!!! It was a REALLY great book. FOR ANYONE WHO READS THIS REVIEW: It was written by my daughter who is 10 yrs old...I'm very proud of her and her opinions and how well she stated them....Thank you!!

A Girl's Review

In just one November night one girl's life can change forever! READ THIS BOOK if you want to find out why an around thirteen- year old girl named Hope Wakeman has to be called Hope Jones! During the Revolutionary War, Hope gets taken from her home in Connecticut and made a slave for Noah Thomas and his family. His family includes him, his selfish wife, Mother Thomas (who really didn't want to make Hope work), and their baby. My favorite part of the story was when Hope climbs out of a window and climbs down a tree when she is afraid of heights! The saddest part was when someone dies of small pox but I'm not going to tell you who. Mother Thomas is a gentle woman, and she and Pruitt Jones are Hopes foes (from the war) but help her anyway! At the opening of this book I told people to never ever read it but later on in the story I would definitely recommend it. It turns out to be really dramatic, but the beginning was kind of dull. That's my opinion. If you want to find out your opinion... READ THE BOOK!

READ THIS BOOK!!!

Hope's Crossing is a great and funfilled book. Joan Elizabeth Goodman really details her writing to make you feel like you are Hope, and makes you think what you would do if you were in the situation that she is in. It is about a girl named Hope who gets kidnapped from tories after they raided her home in Fairfield, Connecticut. She is taken to Long Island, New York where she works for one of the torie's wife Elspeth. Then one night she plans to run away with another character in the book. This book will make you never want to stop reading it. Find out what she does on her escape by reading this book. I really suggest you do. Enjoy!!!

Hope Wakeman and her Adventure

I really liked this book. Of course, I like most books having to do with the Revalutionary War. I thought that this book was really good and I liked how each character was interesting in their own ways. Hope, a patriot, had to live with, and pretend to be, tories (British) for months, plus she contracted the small pox, was used as a slave, and many other things happened. This is a good book althought the ending could have been made more interesting. Plus, I would like to have known what happened to the family and the town.