2+Contrasts+and+Contradictions


 * **Book Title** || **Author** || **Comments** ||
 * Pink and Say || Patricia Polacco || A story of a white Union solder helped by a negro Union soldier - Civil War: slave states against the north. Pinkus was taught to read by his master [contradiction]; they know they must go back to the war, but they don't want to. Say holds Pink as Pink had once held him when they are scared ||
 * Chrysanthemum || Henkes || Chrysanthemum LOVES her name until someone at school makes fun of it. Eventually the music teacher reveals her name, also a flower, and she is comforted that she isn't alone. She learns to love her name again. ||