Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A kid's eye on history

This new and riveting book will open young readers' eyes to a place and time they probably are not familiar with: New Orleans before the Civil War, swelled by hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants who reached America through this port.Mrs. Gaus has richly portrayed the teeming port and its thriving slave trade, through the stunned eyes of a young boy who is reeling from his transplantation to this strange new world. Having escaped to the freedom of America, he comes face to face with the reality of slavery, a confrontation that will change his life dramatically.It's a short but rich read, ideal for middle schoolers, a vivid historical view they probably won't get in their history texts.