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Haters
by
Alisa Valdes (Goodreads Author)
From the fist day at her new Southern California high school, Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta ("Paski") learns that the popular students may be diverse in ethnicity but are alike in their cruelty. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot Chris Cabrera, she is troubled by the beautiful and wicked Jessica Nguyen. He...more
Hardcover, 351 pages
Published
August 1st 2009
by Little, Brown Young Readers
(first published January 1st 2006)
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Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.com
HATERS is the first young adult book by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, but anyone who reads this book (myself included) is sure to hope it's not her last! In the novel, readers are introduced to Paski (her full name is Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta, but that's way too much of a mouthful). She's a New Mexico teenager who, because of her father's new job, moves to Orange County, California. Yeah, the O.C. And it seems a lot like the television show....more
HATERS is the first young adult book by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, but anyone who reads this book (myself included) is sure to hope it's not her last! In the novel, readers are introduced to Paski (her full name is Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta, but that's way too much of a mouthful). She's a New Mexico teenager who, because of her father's new job, moves to Orange County, California. Yeah, the O.C. And it seems a lot like the television show....more
Apr 15, 2008
Laura
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of Meg Cabot's Jinx and Mediator series
The author's first foray into young adult fiction is a mostly strong one. Pasquala aka Paski is moved from her life in Taos by her soon-to-be-famous cartoonist father to Orange County. In addition to not being able to fit in with the uber-rich crowd, Paski is psychic, and can forsee a terrible thing happening to the most villainous popular girl in school.
Putting aside the psychic thing, this book is mostly realistic about being the new kid and trying to fit in. However, the actions of the antago...more
Putting aside the psychic thing, this book is mostly realistic about being the new kid and trying to fit in. However, the actions of the antago...more
This is a truly excellent coming-of-age/finding-self story.
Paski Archuleta's world goes topsy-turvy when her dad returns to Taos from a trip to LA looking, acting, and behaving like a person gone insane. He's dressing like an idiot, he's acting like an idiot, and to top it all off, he tells her they're moving to LA. Like, immediately.
Paski loves her life in Taos. New Mexico is the only home she's ever known. Her friends are here. Her mountains are here. Not that she has much choice.
The U-haul ge...more
Paski Archuleta's world goes topsy-turvy when her dad returns to Taos from a trip to LA looking, acting, and behaving like a person gone insane. He's dressing like an idiot, he's acting like an idiot, and to top it all off, he tells her they're moving to LA. Like, immediately.
Paski loves her life in Taos. New Mexico is the only home she's ever known. Her friends are here. Her mountains are here. Not that she has much choice.
The U-haul ge...more
I'm so pleased that Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez has ventured into the YA genre, because it seems to suit her well (although I really enjoyed her two adult books, too). (For clarification, I don't mean "Adult" with a capital A, as in XXXX "Adult". I just mean "adult", as in "written for an adult audience". You probably already know that, though.) (Man, I am off my game today. Excuse me, por favor.) I'm no expert, but I feel that the pre-teen population can always benefit from a book with a strong, bad...more
I really liked this book! It's about a girl who loves to mountain bike and lives in a small town called Taos. Shes got the man of her dreams, awesome friends and a great life. It seems everything is going perfectly...until her crazy wannabe-teen father announces theyre moving. Not only does she have to cope with her embarassing father but she has to keep up with the popular group in her new town called the haters while getting humiliated by them.
It seems like another girly book that are sometime...more
It seems like another girly book that are sometime...more
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In this novel, 16-year old Paski (Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta). She is from New Mexico, but then later moves to Orange County, California. Paski misses her old home of Taos, being able to mountain bike all of the time, her friends, even her psychic grandmother,but maybe the O.C. isn't all just so bad. After all there's outrageously hot Chris Cabrera there. Things are much different for Paski at her new school, Aliso Niguel High. Certain things are very important there, such as money...more
I've been reading this very interesting book called "HATERS" & so far so good , i really like it! :) Thats a good thing .. I can also relate to this book! This book is about a 16 year old lady , Her mom abounded her when she was 10 , Her mom preferred drinking & boyfriends , she never really cared about her daughter , so she had this good father that helped her out , So she lived with her dad .. Her dad went out for a vacation to Los Angeles, He went out there for a job. He came out tryi...more
I fell in love with this book by accident. I think I was in the 9th grade when i first read this book, and i picked it up, cause i was feeling kinda down about some of the people in my school, and it was called "Haters" and that's what made me check it out of the library, not even reading what it was about. When I started this book, I fell in love immediately Paski was just a really great protagonist, and I looked her dad, no matter how child-like he could be.
I'm not really sure why I really, re...more
I'm not really sure why I really, re...more
Haters was about this girl named Paski Archuleta and she originally lived in New Mexico, but her dad got a new job in California and she had to leave all her friends in New Mexico and move into the OC (Orange County). In New Mexico at her first school she was really popular and everyone knew her and wanted to be her friend. But at her knew school, Padre Loma High, no one wants to be friends with the new girl. After a little “accident” Paski is known as that girl. She has problems with Jessica,...more
This is a YA novel from a successful but hitherto unknown to me writer. I picked it up at the transfer station in town. Not bad so far despite the heroine being pretty self-absorbed and obnoxious. WAY too much attitude. It occurred to me this morning that this is a re-hash of "Rebel Without a Cause". It also reads like a movie or TV treatment. Way, way too much name and product dropping for my taste. Still, the author is capable enough in conveying teen-age intensity and anxiety although it's al...more
This book has been on my shelf for so long, and I recently decided to just pick it up and read it. I wasn't disappointed.
This was a light, quick read. I've read other books by this author and enjoyed them, and felt the writing in this one was equally enjoyable. It was definitely written for more of the young adult crowd, but that didn't detract from the enjoyment. I thought it was fun to see the world through young Paski's eyes, especially concerning the vastly different ways of life in Taos, N...more
This was a light, quick read. I've read other books by this author and enjoyed them, and felt the writing in this one was equally enjoyable. It was definitely written for more of the young adult crowd, but that didn't detract from the enjoyment. I thought it was fun to see the world through young Paski's eyes, especially concerning the vastly different ways of life in Taos, N...more
This was just what I needed since I've been in a back-to-school funk (well I've been in it since school started but it's getting worse). It's not cotton candy light but it didn't make me pause at any revolutionary/extraordinary thoughts. I would like to state however that this book could be a lot shorter. There seemed to be a lot of excess information and while it didn't take away from the plot per se, it wasn't something I needed to know. I found the dialogue to be repetitive and too much TELLI...more
What made me pick this book was the authors name and secondly the title. Seeing that I was written by a Hispanic caught my attention but the title was what bought me. Reading the first few chapters I was able to relate to Pasquala the main character! She is a teen Mexican girl who lives with her father who is acting way to young for his act! Her father just got a deal to make a cartoon movie in LA since he is a cartoon artist. Like all Mexicans Pasquala can't run from her roots including her "ab...more
Rebecca Perry 6/9 January 31, 2011
Paski has just moved to LA because her dad’s comic ( Squegee Man) is going to made into a movie, fashion, people and boys are totally different there. When Paski goes biking ( which she is best at.) she meets the gorgeous Chris Cabrea who rides motocross. Paski falls immediately in love with, but what Chris doesn’t say is he has a girlfriend. One her first day of school, Paski meets The Haters. Jessica Nugean ( Chris’s girlfriend, best motocross racer and riche...more
Paski has just moved to LA because her dad’s comic ( Squegee Man) is going to made into a movie, fashion, people and boys are totally different there. When Paski goes biking ( which she is best at.) she meets the gorgeous Chris Cabrea who rides motocross. Paski falls immediately in love with, but what Chris doesn’t say is he has a girlfriend. One her first day of school, Paski meets The Haters. Jessica Nugean ( Chris’s girlfriend, best motocross racer and riche...more
Haters begins with Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta, known as Paski being told that he has to relocate from Taos, NM to Orange County, CA. Her friends are envious of the move but Paski is hesitant to leave her hometown and her psychic Grandmother.
When she arrives in CA she feels alienated by the painfully thin and appearance obsessed city. From here the story is partly about her obsession with a flatly presented boy named Chris. The story takes a step aside as it expounds on a moment when...more
When she arrives in CA she feels alienated by the painfully thin and appearance obsessed city. From here the story is partly about her obsession with a flatly presented boy named Chris. The story takes a step aside as it expounds on a moment when...more
This book was amazing i hated to finish it and literally sat on the edge of my seat till the end of this book. I didnt want to read this because of the bland description they gave but i found that i had owned this book and decided since i own it why not give it a shot and im soo soo glad that I did because it was so amazing and i think everyone can relate i loved the charecters expecially Paski and Chris and i even liked Andrew despite his imperfections personality wise. And the twins were very...more
I think Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez did an amazing job with her first young adult book, "Haters. " This book is about a girl named Paski who moves to Viejo, California from her comfortable hometown of Bohemian Taos, New Mexico. She has a tough time being away from the mountains in New Mexico on which she loved to bike. Her new school, Aliso Niguel High School, is home to the beautiful but viscious Jessica Nguyen , the leader of "the haters". Aliso Niguel High School is also home to Chris, Paski's new...more
When 16-year-old Paski is whisked away from her beloved hometown in New Mexico, she struggles to fit in and find her place in her new Orange County high school. Topmost of her problems is ultra popular and ultra mean Jessica Nguyen. Facing potential romance, a twist of psychic ability, and adult issues than she’s ever faced before, Paski rides mountain bikes, makes friends, and figures out where she wants to stand in the social world of her new school.
I liked the first half of this book. Paski i...more
I liked the first half of this book. Paski i...more
Haters
2006, Little, Brown and Company. Hachette Book Group USA
pgs.351 $16.99
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
ISBN-10: 0316013072
ISBN-13: 9780316013079
Take a camera and picture this, what's it like to move into another state and into a new school, where you don't know anyone. And picture this what's it like to leave your closest friends, just for the sake of your parent's job career. Last but least picture this, what's it like to be in a school, where people are being labeled. Like the word call Haters. The...more
2006, Little, Brown and Company. Hachette Book Group USA
pgs.351 $16.99
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
ISBN-10: 0316013072
ISBN-13: 9780316013079
Take a camera and picture this, what's it like to move into another state and into a new school, where you don't know anyone. And picture this what's it like to leave your closest friends, just for the sake of your parent's job career. Last but least picture this, what's it like to be in a school, where people are being labeled. Like the word call Haters. The...more
Alana Hernandez October 31, 2008
English 11 Mary
The book Hates is book that I couldn’t put down at all. Haters is by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. Haters is the type of book that it has a girl’s everyday problem but with a little twist to it. Haters is a book about a girl named Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta or Paski just for short. Paski is living in New Mexico with her loving artistic father. Paski’s father decides to surprise Paski and tell her that they are moving to California. Paski at t...more
English 11 Mary
The book Hates is book that I couldn’t put down at all. Haters is by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. Haters is the type of book that it has a girl’s everyday problem but with a little twist to it. Haters is a book about a girl named Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta or Paski just for short. Paski is living in New Mexico with her loving artistic father. Paski’s father decides to surprise Paski and tell her that they are moving to California. Paski at t...more
The book Haters is about a 16 year old girl named Paski. She had to move from New Mexico to California because of her dad’s job. She has to go to a new school and make new friends which she hates. The day before she goes to her new school she meets a new boy called Chris and she finds him very attractive. The first day of school she finds this group of girls and she can tell that they are the popular group. Then see finds out that chris is toghther with a girl named Jessica. So a few days have...more
Dec 18, 2007
Atomicgirl
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
no one
Shelves:
young-adult,
realistic-fiction
Pasuala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta, otherwise known as Paski, moves with her dad to LA when her father wins a deal witha major production company. Paski finds it difficult to adjust to her new lifestyle.
It was very difficult to finish this book because it's filled with so many inconsistencies. I really wish the author had done more research into the Japanese language. There is a scene in the book where a Japanese woman in an American is raped by a man who is "politely" asking (he uses the wo...more
It was very difficult to finish this book because it's filled with so many inconsistencies. I really wish the author had done more research into the Japanese language. There is a scene in the book where a Japanese woman in an American is raped by a man who is "politely" asking (he uses the wo...more
While I think this is a cut above the typical "outsider vs the popular kids" story it still basically boils down to the question of what it means to be "popular" in high school. Paski is moved from her comfortable life in Taos, where she is popular and has two best friends, to Orange County CA, where not only is she the "new girl" but she is also forced to watch her father transform from a quirky artist to a "with it" Hollywood type. Paski has some funny observations, but her lack of understandi...more
So this girl Paski has grown up with just her father in Taos. He's a comic book writer who created Squeegee Man. (That in and of itself should be enough for you to want to read more about him.) At the beginning of the book, he's off in LA talking to the people who want to turn it into a movie and make him the most well paid Latino comic book writer in the states. So, they have to move to LA and Paski (Pasquela) has to adapt from being a beautiful (in both senses) mountain biker to living in a ci...more
When her father, a cartoonist, gets a job in southern California, Pasquale, "Paski", must move with her father. Her grandmother and best friends are in New Mexico and she really doesn't want to leave. She discovers that the LA lifestyle is worlds apart from Taos and she doesn't fit in very well. Making matters worse is the fact that the "popular" girls don't like her and they makelife miserable for her. Then she meets Chris; tall, handsome and rich who appears to like her a lot and life begins t...more
This is definitely a book you would like if you enjoy Mean Girls (the movie). It has the whole high school scene, but in California. The cliques, the pretty and talented new girl, the cute boy, etc. It is fun to read, but if you get creeped out by superstitions or "signs", I don't know if you will like it as much as I did.
I bought this book hoping i would be able to have my kids read this book since it is about a girl who moves from New Mexico to California and her anguish of moving, well little did i know...
This is written for YA and my kids will not be reading it! I dont understand why the author felt she needed to have the main Character Paski of 16 fool around with her boyfriend and then ultimately decide she would sleep with him because he was "the one," after visitng Planned Parenthood.
How do we get ratings...more
This is written for YA and my kids will not be reading it! I dont understand why the author felt she needed to have the main Character Paski of 16 fool around with her boyfriend and then ultimately decide she would sleep with him because he was "the one," after visitng Planned Parenthood.
How do we get ratings...more
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Alisa Valdes is a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of women's fiction, young adult fiction, and memoir, including The Dirty Girls Social Club. She has a master's in journalism from Columbia University and spent ten years as a staff writer for the Boston Globe and LA Times before becoming an author. She lives in New Mexico with her family and pets and wishes the calories you ate when no on...more
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