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**My first runner up is chose was Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a powerful book that reflects one of our countries biggest tragidies, SLAVERY. This book was written to show people in the North why slavery should be abolished. It showed many people how horribly slaves were treated and the terrible conditions they lived under. People in the North knew it was tough being a slave and a lot of people wanted to end it but they had no idea that slaves were treated so creuly. After reading about how slaves were whipped, how they had to carry 40 pound chains around all day as they worked in the fields also with the owner watching them with a whip in his hand incase they refused to anything or if they weren't working hard enough, how they had to lay in the damp earth ground all night, how they couldn't eat breakfast, how they had too drag borrow and other extremely heavy objects to the fields when previously that was an animal's job. This is such an important book because it led to more people joining anti-slavery groups and bigger protests and was one of the causes of the civil war which ended slavery.**


 * My second runner up is Farenheit 451. I chose this book because everyone complains about how they hate books and hate school, but if they didn't have those then they wouldn't gain any knowledge and it would tear a society up just. And that is what this book is about. It is a book about how too much censorship can destroy a society. In this book they burn books and try to prevent people from gaining too much knowledge so people become upsessed with TV or as they call it their "families." They also stop caring about anything and just do as they they have been told because they have no knowledge and can't think for themselves. **

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