Jacqueline Woodson

Fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is Black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue.

If You Come Softly

Samantha 

It’s one of the only books to ever have me hanging onto the edge of my seat. I couldn’t put the book down, and I ended up reading it in one sitting. Be prepared for a heartbreaking, yet timeless story.

*read for class*

how sad and tragic the ending is. how could you do this to me @ the author. 🥲

Katelyn Broad

This book was short and sweet but don't let that fool you. It was heart breaking, emotional, and the ending killed me.

Despite their strong love for one another, Ellie and Jeremiah quickly realize that they are going to experience great difficulties in life because of their different religious and racial backgrounds. Reprint.

Kate

oh man. this is very sad and yet very gentle. heartbreaking in its softness.

Sarah

How can a story of only 180 pages break me this way? I went into it knowing it was going to end in tragedy, but that ending was so abrupt, I was caught unprepared. Literally left me without air for a few moments. Such a deep and heartbreaking story.

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

Joana Rodrigues

leila

A lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson--now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together--even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. Jacqueline Woodson's work has been called “moving and resonant” (Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeous” (Vanity Fair). If You Come Softly is a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering "why" and "if only . . ."

If You Come Softly

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