Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island, angry Louise reveals how Caroline has robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved. ' With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. 'Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Katherine Paterson's remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sister’s struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and coming of age.Ī strong choice for independent reading, both for summer reading and homeschooling, as well as in the classroom, Jacob Have I Loved has been lauded as a cornerstone young adult novel and was ranked among the all-time best children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. Keywords: girls and women, jealousy, twins, sisters, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, 13 year old, Newbery Medal This is the 1981 winner of the Newbery Medal. Caroline seems to take everything, leaving Wheeze with a life of working in the world of the waterman alongside her father and accepting her second place status in her family, town, and world. Wheeze, on the other hand, struggles with life. She is musically gifted with a beautiful voice, which gives her opportunities in school, in the town, and then leads her away to the finest schools and love. For Caroline everything seems to come easily. Twins, Caroline and Sarah Louise (Wheeze) grow up in a small fishing town on the Chesapeake Bay back in the 1940's.

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