Harriets Daughter

by Marlene NourbeSe Philip

Book Overview

"Harriet Tubman was brave and strong, and she was black like me. I think it was the first time I thought of wanting to be called Harriet -- I wanted to be Harriet'. Margaret is determined to be someone; to be cool, with style and class and to have a blacker skin. More than anything else she wants to help her best friend, Zulma to escape from Canada and fly back to Tobago to live with her grandmother. She compiles a list: 'Things I want changed in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889611343
• ISBN13: 9780889611344
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Women's Press (CA)
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Harriet's Daughter

The book deals with racial discrimination and how a young girl copes with it. However, more importantly the book is really about a dysfunctional family into which Harriet does not fit; her father dislikes her and keepts threatening to send her back to Jamaica and as well she has two sisters with whom she cannot associate. (like Cinderella and her stepsisters). The book is a good read for adolescent girls.

dreams and aspirations

TO HELP MARGARET HERBEST FRIEND GO BACK TO TOBAGO.

Chapter log

Can i get a chapter log of Harriet's Daughter?

A good read.

While this wasn't the best written book that I've ever read, nor the most touching, it is definately worth reading. As a Jamaican, I could relate to Margaret's childhood and her father's constant threats to send her to Barbados and get some 'Good West Indian Discipline'. This book gives a good picture of a young girl's coming of age, I wish there was a part 2.