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The Green
by
Karly Kirkpatrick (Goodreads Author)
Seventeen-year-old Ariceli Pisa is a senior at the prestigious Cambridge High School and has her sights set on Northwestern University. She's a cheerleader, a member of the National Honor Society, and a drug dealer.
That’s the secret she has to keep from her best friend Naomi, in addition to the fact that she’s madly in love with Naomi’s ex-boyfriend.
Trying to balance her...more
That’s the secret she has to keep from her best friend Naomi, in addition to the fact that she’s madly in love with Naomi’s ex-boyfriend.
Trying to balance her...more
Published
January 15th 2012
by DarkSide Publishing
(first published January 15th 2011)
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This story has potential and makes a decent start, but somewhere along the line it feels as if Ms. Kirkpatrick panicked and rushed to get through to the end. When you have such compelling material to work with - a young girl from a broken home, mother working two jobs to keep them on the fringes of the best school system in the neighborhood, a drug dealing relative, and all the privileged, wealthy classmates - it seems to me that the book could have covered consequences and reality a bit better....more
Until I reached the end of this book, I was quite willing to give it a rating of a four, but I have to admit that the ending disturbed me in some ways. I will get to that momentarily. Let me speak of the positives first.
I was very pleased with the fact that Ari was a "poor" Latino student who was trying to make something of herself. She was an "A" student, a cheerleader, and she had applied to a prestigious university. She even had a hot boyfriend.
Unfortunately, Ari turned to the "dark side" to...more
I was very pleased with the fact that Ari was a "poor" Latino student who was trying to make something of herself. She was an "A" student, a cheerleader, and she had applied to a prestigious university. She even had a hot boyfriend.
Unfortunately, Ari turned to the "dark side" to...more
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I get a lot of review requests in my inbox. I try to accept as many as I can but that often means that my TBR pile grows much faster than I can tackle it! It takes a little something special for a new addition to my TBR pile to leave the list almost as soon as it arrives there. Karly Kirkpatrick's The Green had just that.
Just read that blurb! How could anyone read that and not want to know more? I read this on my iPhone Kindle app and it only took me an evening. It was a quick and engaging read...more
Just read that blurb! How could anyone read that and not want to know more? I read this on my iPhone Kindle app and it only took me an evening. It was a quick and engaging read...more
E-book: The Green by Karly Kirkpatrick
Pages: 214
Genre: Young Adult
Source: Sent from author
Short Synopsis: Ariceli is not your average student. As a member of the Cheerleading squad, on the National Honor Society, and Editor of the Newspaper, and also manages to add drug dealer on the list as well?
My Thoughts: I absolutely LOVED this novel! I read it in one sitting and enjoyed everything!
Ariceli Pisa is a senior at Cambridge High School. She's on the cheerleading team, the editor of her school's...more
Pages: 214
Genre: Young Adult
Source: Sent from author
Short Synopsis: Ariceli is not your average student. As a member of the Cheerleading squad, on the National Honor Society, and Editor of the Newspaper, and also manages to add drug dealer on the list as well?
My Thoughts: I absolutely LOVED this novel! I read it in one sitting and enjoyed everything!
Ariceli Pisa is a senior at Cambridge High School. She's on the cheerleading team, the editor of her school's...more
Today's review is on The Green by Karly Kirkpatrick
Though a work of fiction, The Green poses a situation that I could see actually happening. When one is poor, both adults and children look at ways to earn more of what they need; money. When jobs are scarce many may even turn to selling drugs. This is what happens to Seventeen-year-old Ariceli (Ari) Pisa.
Wanting her daughter to have the best possible education, Ari's mother moves closer to Cambridge High School. With an education there, Ari's dr...more
Though a work of fiction, The Green poses a situation that I could see actually happening. When one is poor, both adults and children look at ways to earn more of what they need; money. When jobs are scarce many may even turn to selling drugs. This is what happens to Seventeen-year-old Ariceli (Ari) Pisa.
Wanting her daughter to have the best possible education, Ari's mother moves closer to Cambridge High School. With an education there, Ari's dr...more
This book is definitely off the beaten path when it comes to Young Adult fiction. It's very different and I really enjoyed it. Ari is a honors student and a drug dealer. Both sides of her are completely different and completely unexpected.
Because of the heavy subject matter, I would caution readers. While this book doesn't really depict drug use, only drug selling, it still does discuss drugs. This is very, very mature subject matter and should be read thusly.
I think the most interesting part o...more
Because of the heavy subject matter, I would caution readers. While this book doesn't really depict drug use, only drug selling, it still does discuss drugs. This is very, very mature subject matter and should be read thusly.
I think the most interesting part o...more
4.5 Stars!
I really liked this book. It was very real to me, and was very well written. There was great character development. I really liked Ari and also liked James (the love interest). I thought that part was well done. I think the subject of teen drug dealing should come into more YA reading. It is definitely a problem that teens face today and it does make for very interesting (and kinda scary) reading.
The things I didn't like about this book and the reason for not giving it 5 stars - Waaaay...more
I really liked this book. It was very real to me, and was very well written. There was great character development. I really liked Ari and also liked James (the love interest). I thought that part was well done. I think the subject of teen drug dealing should come into more YA reading. It is definitely a problem that teens face today and it does make for very interesting (and kinda scary) reading.
The things I didn't like about this book and the reason for not giving it 5 stars - Waaaay...more
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The Green is the first novel from Ms. Karly Kirkpatrick I've ever read and I'm really surprised that I enjoyed it.
The Green is about a teenager who was forced to make difficult choices in her young life to be able to make money for herself and her mother. At first, I didn't get Ariceli. She was the kind of heroine that's hard to like. She's not really nice. She's not perfect. She's ambitious and driven. I wouldn't call her bad either...more
Journey with Books
The Green is the first novel from Ms. Karly Kirkpatrick I've ever read and I'm really surprised that I enjoyed it.
The Green is about a teenager who was forced to make difficult choices in her young life to be able to make money for herself and her mother. At first, I didn't get Ariceli. She was the kind of heroine that's hard to like. She's not really nice. She's not perfect. She's ambitious and driven. I wouldn't call her bad either...more
Nancy Botwin has some competition. Weeds is one of my favorite shows and when I saw an email in my inbox about a book for review that featured a Weeds-esque storyline (similar in a way, but very different) I knew I had to check it out. And, I loved every second of the drama.
Ari isn't the typical bad girl, in fact she's quite the opposite. Taking the plunge into the dark side isn't a choice she made lightly but after encountering some family drama and learning that her mother needed the help she...more
Ari isn't the typical bad girl, in fact she's quite the opposite. Taking the plunge into the dark side isn't a choice she made lightly but after encountering some family drama and learning that her mother needed the help she...more
I’ve been a fan of Karly Kirkpatrick for a while. Both Bloody Little Secrets and Into the Shadows are great YA Paranormal reads. Although The Green is contemporary, Karly’s style of writing and the story she weaves drew me in just as easily.
Ari doesn’t have it easy. Her mother works two jobs, her father isn’t around, her older brother is a waste of space and she works really hard to achieve everything that she has. She’s a good kid with a strong sense of right and wrong and is mature beyond her...more
Ari doesn’t have it easy. Her mother works two jobs, her father isn’t around, her older brother is a waste of space and she works really hard to achieve everything that she has. She’s a good kid with a strong sense of right and wrong and is mature beyond her...more
Ariceli lives with her mom and drug dealing, loser of a brother in and attends a great school in Cambridge. But when her brother gets arrested one night he knows his 'bosses' are going to come looking for him so he leaves. And just when Ariceli thinks his leaving might be a good thing, she soon realizes that his drug dealing actually kept her in the nice school. Ariceli doesn't want to leave school mid senior year to go back to the slums of the city, so she does what any sane student would do......more
“Money makes the world go ‘round," “You reap what you sow," and “Life isn’t fair.”
After reading “The Green,” these were the phrases that came to mind. Although they are cliché, the novel is anything but. In fact, for anyone who has faced adversity, it is easy to related to the dreams and desires of Kirkpatrick’s heroine, Ari—although most wouldn’t agree with how she goes about reaching her goals.
What I love about Ari’s story is the simple truth that there are no easy roads in life, and when you...more
After reading “The Green,” these were the phrases that came to mind. Although they are cliché, the novel is anything but. In fact, for anyone who has faced adversity, it is easy to related to the dreams and desires of Kirkpatrick’s heroine, Ari—although most wouldn’t agree with how she goes about reaching her goals.
What I love about Ari’s story is the simple truth that there are no easy roads in life, and when you...more
Ari is a Latino teen in the Chicago suburbs who makes a difficult choice to become a drug dealer in order to stay in the prestigious school district which will be the spring board to her future after her drug dealing brother takes off leaving the family short of money.
If she can pull it off, that is.
A book with a plausible feel, well written. Maybe a little too happily-ever-after of an ending considering the subject matter, but enjoyable nonetheless.
If she can pull it off, that is.
A book with a plausible feel, well written. Maybe a little too happily-ever-after of an ending considering the subject matter, but enjoyable nonetheless.
4 stars
This book is not for everyone, but I for one really enjoyed it. And I even recommend it, if you want something 'out of the box'.
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This book is not for everyone, but I for one really enjoyed it. And I even recommend it, if you want something 'out of the box'.
More on my Blog
O M G.
I am floored.
I loved every minute of this book!
I found myself reading this book between phone calls and forgetting everything else.
Kirkpatrick created a world of true to life characters that were easily relatable and made me never want to leave the world.
I am floored.
I loved every minute of this book!
I found myself reading this book between phone calls and forgetting everything else.
Kirkpatrick created a world of true to life characters that were easily relatable and made me never want to leave the world.
Seriously, not everything a teen says ends in an exclamation point. Ending completely ridiculous.
cute, corny, predictable. It moved a little slow and then bam it was over
Review to come :)
I did enjoy this book although not as much as I hoped to. I will say this - It's a pretty unique book in terms of the drug-dealer aspect of the story. Score on creativity for Karly Kirkpatrick! I will write up a proper review soon.
Un-freaking-believable. I am completely speechless and totally in love with this book. The Green has it all. If you're prone to tears while reading, make sure you grab a box of tissues. You'll need them when you sob and when you laugh so hard you can't breathe.
I just won this e-book. I'll read it in a few days.
Bahhhhh..... À part la fin, ce livre ne vaut pas la peine. L'idée est bonne mais l'intrigue est plate.
It was a good book but with a very predictable outcome. Also epilogue didn't really add anymore to the story then we already knew at the end of the book.
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Fantastic!
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I am a YA writer, avid reader, high school German and French teacher, and mother. I live in Elgin, Illinois with my husband, daughter, and three dogs.
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