Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley — Content Guide for Parents
Found in this book
- ViolenceSupporting
- Scary contentSupporting
- ReligionBrief
- Race & cultureCentral
- Gender rolesBriefChallenges traditional roles
Not found
- Climate
- Sexual content
- Gender & orientation
Couldn't confirm
- Profanity
- Profanity: The sources do not describe the book's language apart from a reader's note that racial slurs appear.
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Religion
PRESENTContains references to prayer and church attendance. A minister character plays a supporting role in two chapters.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley appropriate for a 7-year-old?
The story includes a child being kidnapped and sold into slavery, the horrors of the sea passage, physical and child abuse, and the Boston Massacre. Phillis is taken from her home as a child and sent across the ocean on a slave ship, and the story includes a smallpox epidemic and abuse.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have violence?
Found (Supporting): The story includes a child being kidnapped and sold into slavery, the horrors of the sea passage, physical and child abuse, and the Boston Massacre.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have scary content?
Found (Supporting): Phillis is taken from her home as a child and sent across the ocean on a slave ship, and the story includes a smallpox epidemic and abuse.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have religion?
Found (Brief): A reader's content list notes religious bigotry in the story, and clergy are among those who question Phillis at the hearing; the sources give few details.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have race & culture?
Found (Central): The story follows an African girl sold into slavery in colonial Boston who is limited all her life by racism, and a reader notes racial slurs.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have profanity?
Couldn't confirm: The sources do not describe the book's language apart from a reader's note that racial slurs appear.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have climate?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have sexual content?
Not found in the sources we checked.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have gender roles?
Found (Brief, Challenges traditional roles): A reader's content list notes sexism in the story, and a young woman poet must prove she wrote her own work; the sources give few details.
Does Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley have gender & orientation?
Not found in the sources we checked.
