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Title: Before We Were Free by JULIA ALVAREZ ISBN: 0-375-81544-9 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Interesting topic, poor writing...
Comment: Anita's like most girls her age, except she lives in the Dominican Republic under a bloody dictatorship. Not knowing anything about this time in history, I was excited to read this book. Anita learns her family in smack dab in the middle of the uprisings against El Jefe. However, I found the fact that things such as exclamation points being overused (there was like one every page!" sort of annoying. However, the author provided some very interesting and intense moments as well. I would have to stay it was believable for the most part. I only wish Anita had been a bit older, for a think it would have been more interesting to have a 15 or 16 year old telling it to us.
Rating: 5
Summary: Suspense, love, adventure? This is your book!
Comment: As a 6th grade teacher, I like to keep on top of recent novels published for young adults. I read this and found it to be one of the best novels to be written recently for teens. I have also recommended it to many of my students who in turn have read it and have thoroughly enjoyed it as well.
Full of suspense (what will become of Anita and her new love for Oscar? what will become of the family? what will happen to the country?), Before We Were Free keeps students' interest yet does not steer away from good writing. Beautiful writing, suspenseful action, and characters worth caring about make this a book every young adult should read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly moving!
Comment: Before We Were Free precisely tells us how it is like to grow up underthe dictatorship. It is so scary that they have to live surrounded by the secret police. Yet, the depiction of Anita, the protagonist, is so real that one can feel compassion sympathy toward her. The ending is somewhat sad, but I rather feel the power of human beings to survive.
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Title: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson ISBN: 0689849222 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes ISBN: 0060535431 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy ISBN: 0395776082 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Cuba 15 by NANCY OSA ISBN: 0385730217 Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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