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Title: Sisters/Hermanas by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0-15-275324-9 Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks Pub. Date: 30 November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Still waters run deep
Comment: I read this book because it was assigned to my son's 7th grade class. To him it was just another reading assignment, but I couldn't put it down. Sisters/Hermanas is a fascinating look inside the minds of two 14 year old girls, both striving desperately to market themselves in a cynical adult world where only appearances count. Both girls are despised "types" - Rosa a prostitute, Traci a nearly mindless puppet of her ambitious, gold-digging mother - but in describing the minutiae of the girls' lives Paulsen helps us see their confusion and vulnerability and the way each is trapped in her role. The story builds to a climactic confrontation in a shopping mall and then ends abruptly. If you have read Paulsen's novels about boys (e.g. The Island, Brian's Winter, Canyons) you may expect a coming of age story here, in which the protagonists learn, grow, and take command of their lives. Paulsen breaks off the story before this can happen, leaving it up to the reader's imagination, along with the depressing possibility that nothing at all will happen and that both girls will remain trapped forever. This book cries out for a sequel - or even better, multiple sequels describing different outcomes, as Paulsen wrote for Hatchet.
Rating: 4
Summary: A short story about growing up in a world of prejudices.
Comment: The book is a series of concise scenes showing one day in the lives of two 14-year old girls living their lives in similar ways despite the fact that they are from different worlds. Traci is focused on becoming a member of the elite, the cheerleading squad. Rosa is interested only in surviving, day by day, doing whatever is required to keep her alive.
The contrast between the two lives of the girls in this story becomes the similarity that makes them "Sisters/Hermanas."
I liked the book because it was short yet moved me in a way I would never have expected. I put down the book asking myself "What prejudices do I hold against other people that are really the things that tie us together?" This book can make students think about how they feel and may intrigue reluctant readers. It may also be very useful in the bilingual classroom because the book is written in both Spanish and English.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sisters / Hermanas
Comment: This book are a educational and real. This book talk about the younger's dream, because they don't have school or can't go to school because they don't are resident or citizen, and need to work for send money to their family. Some of this people came to U.S.A. because they don't have support on the family,and they don't have money for education, food, rent, dresses they have only one way is work on fiels but some of the supervisors dont't like work with young people, in to much job's are the same problem. The government don't have programs for this people they only work on the prostitution, because on this kind of job want to young people don't matter boy's or girl's.
I know some times the mother's work very hard for their kida can study,it's fine but a don't like when the mother are very stronger, because kids can't play, see television or due any other activity, and they grew up very fast.
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Title: Brian's Hunt by GARY PAULSEN ISBN: 0385746474 Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Glass Cafe : Or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started a War with the System ThatMade Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous by GARY PAULSEN ISBN: 0385324995 Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hush by Jacqueline Woodson ISBN: 0142500496 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Tent: A Parable in One Sitting (Laurel-Leaf Books) by Gary Paulsen ISBN: 0440219191 Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler ISBN: 0763619582 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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