Product Details:
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (February 24, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374380473
ISBN-13: 978-0374380472
Product Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
Editorial Reviews From School Library Journal Grade 6-9-sensitivity and characteristic optimism, Mead represents the struggles Linda Berati, which seeks to discover to share a past that their parents refuse fidic torrent. A project of the family, his school in Brooklyn encouraged only them, with his workers, a domineering mother, to demand answers a lot: why did she flee Albania, as was his scarred face, and why Linda having recurring nightmares of drowning and asphyxiation fidic torrent? Moreover, the reduced compatibility with old friends, the role of Donna and Crissy focus on boys, clothes and social conformity. Linda identified more with other eighth year Ramon, a Cuban refugee. Comes to a strange on the scene, Linda discovered a connection between him and criminal brother Ramon, Miguel. In an effort to his friend with his family crisis, Linda contacts the police and ultimately to help share his worries with his parents. With renewed confidence and respect, they finally embrace his desire to sign in training in an academy nearby. Linda and Ramon from immigrant families to survive the determination to integrate and to conflicts with the authorities that could jeopardize their future in America to avoid. By the two main characters, this fight is personalized and enriched with universal questions of the independence of the teenager, responsibility and self awareness. Realistic dialogue, an engaging plot, and Linda rollercoaster emotions effectively counter the reluctance probably prolonged the girl's parents to share their past and reprimanding amazingly brave Linda by Miguel and his colleagues, the drug trade. Nevertheless, readers are finding this as an information, sensitive, contemporary portrait of the immigrant experience. Gerry Larson, Durham School of the Arts, NC
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