They have spent their lives entwined - sleeping in the same room, eating at the same table, learning in the same classroom - and yet somehow nothing can bring them together. Growing up on the small island of Rass in Chesapeake Bay, Caroline seems to do nothing but take from Louise: their parents love, Louises chances for an education, her dreams for the future. Louise has had enough of her twin sister. From the Back Cover I was proud of my sister, but that year, something began to rankle beneath the pride. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is. Alone and unsure, Louise begins to fight her way to a place for herself outside her sisters shadow. But the dream does not satisfy the woman she is becoming.
The war unexpectedly gives this independent girl a chance to fulfill her dream to work on the water alongside her father. While everyone pampers Caroline, Wheeze (her sisters name for her) begins to learn the ways of the watermen and the secrets of the island, especially of old Captain Wallace, who has mysteriously returned after fifty years. 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 grandmothers taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin.
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. A 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 childrens novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. Book Synopsis Katherine Patersons remarkable Newbery Medal-winning classic about a painful sibling rivalry, and one sisters struggle to make her own way, is an honest and daring portrayal of adolescence and coming of age. About the Book Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
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