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Summary: Sisters/Hermanas
Review: ... The story was too easy to end, too simple. It really made mefeel sort of dumb, like I couldn't figure out the parallel between tothe girls myself. It had some good points though, and it wasn't a complete waste of time; it was only takes about thirty minutes to read anway. The fact that it was bilingual was the real reason I purchased it anyway, so I wasn't too upset with the lack of story.
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Summary: What a waste of money
Review: I bought this book but the story was way to short. I thought it would take me an hour or so to read but I was finished in about 15 minutes. I thought the ending was terrible. How could a story ever end the way this one did. Unless you get this book for free, don't even bother to pay for it. It was money wasted.
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Summary: Sisters/Hermanas/Hermanas/Sisters
Review: I expected more from a top notch writer like Paulsen. Whilehedoes draw the characters in depth, engaging the reader, the abruptending severs the connection which has been established. He points a finger at the shallowness of a culture which is based on youth and beauty, admittedly fleeting virtues, but it is a brief, cursory glance. It's unsettling that the female characters apparantly lack the necessary attributes to succeed, unlike his male characters who valiantly, intellegently, and wonderfully overcome insurmountable obstacles. Although this book has been highly praised, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Sisters/Hermanas/Hermanas/Sisters
Review: 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.
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Summary: Still waters run deep
Review: 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.
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Summary: A pair of wonderful sisters
Review: Sisters was a wonderful story.The setting was a city in Mexico around the 1980's where Betty and Carmelita were born.The main characters are the Paulsens ,Betty, and Carmelita. The Paulsens were a great great family but after years past they told Betty and Carmelita that they were their step parents. The part that I like is when their step parents told them that the they're not the girls real parents and told the girls the true story about their parents' death.I recommend this book to people 13-15 years old because it's a good book about life. Also, I recommend this book because it's a very interesting book to read because it was sad and funny too.
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Summary: A short story about growing up in a world of prejudices.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Interseting....But it needs more
Review: The one thing that I noticed right away about this book is that it was very short. I found it enjoyable and interesting, but I had some questions about it after I finished it. I think that the author should have expanded the story a little more and have it make a little more sense. I didn't quite get why Traci thought that they were "the same and meant for each other". I just didn't get it. I think that he needed to go and explain it a little more.
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Summary: Two Stories = Too Much
Review: The stories are two separate ones and I think they should have been treated as such. Either the story of a young mexican hooker or the story of a girl trying out to be a cheerleader would have been better than this combination where nothing really happened anyway.
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Summary: Sisters / Hermanas
Review: 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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