Party Girl

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Summary: Ewing's Party Girl
Review: Kata and Ana became best friends in the fourth grade---"That was the year it took two of us to make one person." Ewing writes a compelling story of a young girl coming to terms with the death of her best friend from a drive by shooting after winning a dance contest. Telling Kata she's pregnant, Ana confesses she wants out of the gang life and is scared. Kata tries to reassure her, "Don't think about the future, I said,"We're party girls, esa." "Yea, don't think about the future, because we don't have one," she said. Moments later Ana is shot down by an enemy gang. Written in a vivid but simple way, the story draws the reader into Ana's and Kata's lives. Ewing creates a small window looking into a world of macho posturing, drinking and violence. Kata struggles to survive without Ana but life is too difficult. Bent on seeking revenge for Ana's death, she finds the alleged killer and discovers she cannot kill him. Growing weary of gang life, Kata must decide if she will "face out." Kata sees her friend, Ana, and an old "party girl" in visions of what the future may hold. A decision is made. Ewings's usage of gang language, Spanish, Quechua and the background of a Los Angeles neighborhood gives this grim book an edgy feel and the reader a glimpse of a violent world and the possibility of hope.

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Summary: Ewing's Party Girl
Review: Kata and Ana became best friends in the fourth grade---"That was the year it took two of us to make one person." Ewing writes a compelling story of a young girl coming to terms with the death of her best friend from a drive by shooting after winning a dance contest. Telling Kata she's pregnant, Ana confesses she wants out of the gang life and is scared. Kata tries to reassure her, "Don't think about the future, I said,"We're party girls, esa." "Yea, don't think about the future, because we don't have one," she said. Moments later Ana is shot down by an enemy gang. Written in a vivid but simple way, the story draws the reader into Ana's and Kata's lives. Ewing creates a small window looking into a world of macho posturing, drinking and violence. Kata struggles to survive without Ana but life is too difficult. Bent on seeking revenge for Ana's death, she finds the alleged killer and discovers she cannot kill him. Growing weary of gang life, Kata must decide if she will "face out." Kata sees her friend, Ana, and an old "party girl" in visions of what the future may hold. A decision is made. Ewings's usage of gang language, Spanish, Quechua and the background of a Los Angeles neighborhood gives this grim book an edgy feel and the reader a glimpse of a violent world and the possibility of hope.

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Summary: More than just about gangs and violence
Review: Kata and Ana loved to dance together, and throughout the book Kata goes back to her dancing and choosing the right music, I loved it because I am a dancer myself, and I recommend it to anyone who has any interest in dance at all, because it is about so much more than just violence and gangs, its about personal discovery and finding yourself. A great book, and I didn't want it to end.

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Summary: Great Read!
Review: Kata must face life without her friend Ana when Ana loses her life in a drive-by. Now she must choose--revenge Ana's death and remain part of the gang or face any equally uncertain future once she quits "the life". Choosing is not as obvious as you think. Lynn Ewing gives a voice to any teen struggling to come to grips with a life-changing decision. The characters are memorable, the portrayals of street life realistic and the story thought-provoking.

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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: Ms. Ewing writes in a unique style that really gets her message across. I would really recomend reading this book!

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Summary: PARTY LIFE
Review: Party Girl is a good book to read. It shows you how you should at least reflect on your actions and the way to see life and how to learn to appriciate.In this book you will find something totaly diffrent from real life that no teenager should want in a young age. Girls in this community want and have an obssecion over this HUGE problem that can't be solve once its done,they dont understand that this is a huge responsibility and lots of patience to handle this. In this book you will also read how one of the main characters tells her own mom that her friends are more important than family and they come first. Lots of kids live in this community and some just love to get in trouble. In one point of this story you can read how DANGEROUS the neigborhood can be and how something bad happends to her and how bad she risks her life...i really do recommend this book it will make you see how some peoples life is in the "hood", and how much probems they go trough.

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Summary: Party Girl
Review: Party Girl is an extremely sad and moving book. This story begins with a funeral and goes back in time from this sad event. I wonder if this was a life experience of the author Lynne E Wing. I loved this book it really held my interest.
"It helps to go back in time when you've lost someone forever epically if you've know them forever". This book is extremely sad because it starts with the main charter Kata's best friend's funeral. From the funeral the book goes back in time telling you about Kata and Anna's exiting adventures. Kata and Anna do so crazy thing like sneeking out. No matter how much trouble they get in there in it untill the end.
One major emotions in this book was sadness an example of this was Kata gets in a ton of trouble for something she didn't do. A second emotion is that it was moving, one example of that is when something happens there in it together untill the end and will see each other through thick and thin.
This is a wonderful story about how people can be kind hearted and best friends forever!! I loved this book because of that. If you like sad and moving books you would love Party Girl.

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Summary: Gangs and violence
Review: Party Girl
By:Lynne Ewing
Have you ever been involved in gangs? If you had or you want to know how it is like, you will get into this book as I did. In this novel you will learn how being in a gang it's not only about having friends and parties. It has more involve in it.
Kata is a teenage girl who loves to dance with her best friend Ana. Kata is involve in gangs and violence in the streets. When she looses her friend Ana in a drive by, she gets in to a dilemma, either to go and look for revenge or look out for a better future. Dealing with these problems in the streets and an alcoholic mother at home makes everything harder for Kata to make a decision.
In this novel the author did a really good job at getting you to not stop reading. Reading this story will really make you think of what you would do in a similar situation Kata is going through. Also it will make you put yourself in Kata's shoes, and make you think how hard it is to make the right decision when you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders. For example when Ana's boyfriend was pushing Kata to go for revenge, Kata didn't know if she should take revenge or quit the gang because all the pressure that was on her shoulders.
The author wrote so realistically that you feel how difficult it is to be in a gang. It showed you that being in a gang it's not only having friends, have fun and go to parties. When you read this book you realize that when you are in a gang you put at risk a lot of things that that you don't realize how important they are to you until they are gone.
When you are finished reading this book it will leave you a lasting impression. Even if you don't believe it at first; deep inside your head you'll think twice before getting in a gang. One way or another we are all involved in gangs and violence in the streets. Read Party Girl and you'll find out why.

Review by: Yitzy Trejo

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Summary: Gangs and violence
Review: Party Girl
By:Lynne Ewing
Have you ever been involved in gangs? If you had or you want to know how it is like, you will get into this book as I did. In this novel you will learn how being in a gang it's not only about having friends and parties. It has more involve in it.
Kata is a teenage girl who loves to dance with her best friend Ana. Kata is involve in gangs and violence in the streets. When she looses her friend Ana in a drive by, she gets in to a dilemma, either to go and look for revenge or look out for a better future. Dealing with these problems in the streets and an alcoholic mother at home makes everything harder for Kata to make a decision.
In this novel the author did a really good job at getting you to not stop reading. Reading this story will really make you think of what you would do in a similar situation Kata is going through. Also it will make you put yourself in Kata's shoes, and make you think how hard it is to make the right decision when you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders. For example when Ana's boyfriend was pushing Kata to go for revenge, Kata didn't know if she should take revenge or quit the gang because all the pressure that was on her shoulders.
The author wrote so realistically that you feel how difficult it is to be in a gang. It showed you that being in a gang it's not only having friends, have fun and go to parties. When you read this book you realize that when you are in a gang you put at risk a lot of things that that you don't realize how important they are to you until they are gone.
When you are finished reading this book it will leave you a lasting impression. Even if you don't believe it at first; deep inside your head you'll think twice before getting in a gang. One way or another we are all involved in gangs and violence in the streets. Read Party Girl and you'll find out why.

Review by: Yitzy Trejo

Rating:
Summary: Gangs and violence
Review: Party Girl
By:Lynne Ewing
Have you ever been involved in gangs? If you had or you want to know how it is like, you will get into this book as I did. In this novel you will learn how being in a gang it's not only about having friends and parties. It has more involve in it.
Kata is a teenage girl who loves to dance with her best friend Ana. Kata is involve in gangs and violence in the streets. When she looses her friend Ana in a drive by, she gets in to a dilemma, either to go and look for revenge or look out for a better future. Dealing with these problems in the streets and an alcoholic mother at home makes everything harder for Kata to make a decision.
In this novel the author did a really good job at getting you to not stop reading. Reading this story will really make you think of what you would do in a similar situation Kata is going through. Also it will make you put yourself in Kata's shoes, and make you think how hard it is to make the right decision when you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders. For example when Ana's boyfriend was pushing Kata to go for revenge, Kata didn't know if she should take revenge or quit the gang because all the pressure that was on her shoulders.
The author wrote so realistically that you feel how difficult it is to be in a gang. It showed you that being in a gang it's not only having friends, have fun and go to parties. When you read this book you realize that when you are in a gang you put at risk a lot of things that that you don't realize how important they are to you until they are gone.
When you are finished reading this book it will leave you a lasting impression. Even if you don't believe it at first; deep inside your head you'll think twice before getting in a gang. One way or another we are all involved in gangs and violence in the streets. Read Party Girl and you'll find out why.

Review by: Yitzy Trejo