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Accidental Love
by
Gary Soto
It all starts when Marisa picks up the wrong cell phone. When she goes to return it, she feels something she's never felt before, something a bit like . . . love.
But Marisa and Rene aren't exactly a match made in heaven. For one thing, Marisa is a chola, and she isn't petite; she's a lot of girl, and she's not ashamed of it. Skinny Rene, however, gangles like a sackful of...more
But Marisa and Rene aren't exactly a match made in heaven. For one thing, Marisa is a chola, and she isn't petite; she's a lot of girl, and she's not ashamed of it. Skinny Rene, however, gangles like a sackful of...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
January 1st 2006
by Harcourt Children's Books
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“accidental love” by Gary Soto is set in a suburban part of California about two main characters named girl Marissa and a boy named René. it all starts when Marissa picks up the wrong cell phone and when she goes to return the phone to René the guy it belongs to they both start to like each other and she starts to feel something stronger than “like” she starts to love him but the she starts to doubt herself because she is a tough street smart chola (mexican girl) and René is a nerd and he knows...more
I have just finished an romantic yet interesting book called "Accidental Love" by Gary Soto, author of "THE AFTERLIFE",(Genre: Fiction /Publication date: January 1, 2008) and despite the title and cover let me assure you that this is not one of your typical long winded "oh lovey dovey girl boy meets girl" books. I would defiantly say this book puts an unusual twist onto your everyday boyfriend girlfriend couple. The author’s style was more of a first/second person story telling style which made...more
Accidental Love a comedy and at the same time heart break.
A really good book that I really enjoyed a lot. this book is recomended for teenagers,
that are just falling inlove. this boo is written by Gary Soto. He won an award for having
a good book.
This romantic story starts when a 14 year old named Melinda picks up the wrong phone. then he gets a call fom Rene the owner of the ell phone, and they set up a time to exchange them. Rene and Marissa begin dating and become inseparable. Marisa ends...more
A really good book that I really enjoyed a lot. this book is recomended for teenagers,
that are just falling inlove. this boo is written by Gary Soto. He won an award for having
a good book.
This romantic story starts when a 14 year old named Melinda picks up the wrong phone. then he gets a call fom Rene the owner of the ell phone, and they set up a time to exchange them. Rene and Marissa begin dating and become inseparable. Marisa ends...more
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Marisa Rodriguez is a Latina with a hot temper. She goes to a rough school and is accustomed to solving problems with her fists. This is actually how she meets the boy who will end up changing her life. When Marisa gets into a fistfight with Roberto, the slimy boyfriend of her best friend Alicia, Roberto's nerdy math tutor Rene is there to break it up. During the scuffle, Marisa and Rene accidentally pick up each other's cell phones. Upon exchanging them, it is evident that there is an undeniabl...more
"She found herself thinking about the boy with the sweet voice, whose face she could have remembered if she hadn't been so busy pummeling Roberto."
Marisa Rodriguez's best friend, Alicia, is in the hospital with a broken leg after getting into a car crash with Alicia's boyfriend Roberto. However, Alicia does not just suffer from a broken leg, but a broken heart. After the crash, Alicia discovers that Roberto is being unfaithful. Being Alicia's best friend and protector, Marisa picks a fight with...more
Marisa Rodriguez's best friend, Alicia, is in the hospital with a broken leg after getting into a car crash with Alicia's boyfriend Roberto. However, Alicia does not just suffer from a broken leg, but a broken heart. After the crash, Alicia discovers that Roberto is being unfaithful. Being Alicia's best friend and protector, Marisa picks a fight with...more
Name of book: Accidental Love
Auther: Gary Soto
Pages: 2--
Genre:romance
Reading Level of book: ?
Exposition: Marisa is a violent highschool girl. One day Marisa ditches schoool to see her friend Alyssa in the hospital. Alyssa's boyfriend Roberto cheated on her earlier. On her way out Marisa runs into Roberto and gets into a fight with him. Roberto's nerdy friend Rene pulls them apart. Soon Marisa and Rene fall in love.
Conflic:Renes mom doent like marisa. Rene's mom call the princible because Maris...more
Auther: Gary Soto
Pages: 2--
Genre:romance
Reading Level of book: ?
Exposition: Marisa is a violent highschool girl. One day Marisa ditches schoool to see her friend Alyssa in the hospital. Alyssa's boyfriend Roberto cheated on her earlier. On her way out Marisa runs into Roberto and gets into a fight with him. Roberto's nerdy friend Rene pulls them apart. Soon Marisa and Rene fall in love.
Conflic:Renes mom doent like marisa. Rene's mom call the princible because Maris...more
September 30, 2011
Title: Accidental Love
Author: Gary Soto
Genre: Realistic Fiction
I just started this book a few days ago, and so far it is pretty good. I think Marisa is one real twisted up chica. She speaks a lot of spanglish as do her parents. She's got a lot of meat on her bones which makes her think that she has to act all tough and bad. However I think that she's just putting up a brave front to keep her insecurities hidden below all those layers of rudeness, violence, and bad behavior.
W...more
Title: Accidental Love
Author: Gary Soto
Genre: Realistic Fiction
I just started this book a few days ago, and so far it is pretty good. I think Marisa is one real twisted up chica. She speaks a lot of spanglish as do her parents. She's got a lot of meat on her bones which makes her think that she has to act all tough and bad. However I think that she's just putting up a brave front to keep her insecurities hidden below all those layers of rudeness, violence, and bad behavior.
W...more
When Marisa Rodriguez accidentally switches cell phones with a stranger during a tussle with her best friends’ ex-boyfriend, the stage is set for an odd romance. When she meets Rene Torres to reclaim her phone, she inexplicably falls for his nerdy charm. Marisa decides to transfer from her dump of a high school to Rene’s more prestigious charter school in a better neighborhood. Though, she gets a lot of flack from her old friends at Washington High, who think she has suddenly decided she’s bette...more
Marisa Rodriguez, a fourteen-year-old chubby tough girl, meets Rene, a smart, skinny geek from another school. They begin dating and learn the ups and downs of being in a relationship. Despite their differences in looks, intellect, and personality, they fill in each other a need—the need to feel wanted by somebody. I can see how it would appeal to a middle school audience. It is during this time that children and teenagers are trying desperately to try to fit. Their bodies are changing, and they...more
This was such a good short read from Gary Soto. I am always looking for books that I know my sixth graders will enjoy and this will be one that I can suggest to them when they talk about how reading is boring. I don't teach English but all of my kids know how much I value reading.
This was a cute short read about a young Hispanic girl that due to an accident one of her friends has ends up changing her life for the better. When her best friend Alicia gets into a car accident with her boyfriend and...more
This was a cute short read about a young Hispanic girl that due to an accident one of her friends has ends up changing her life for the better. When her best friend Alicia gets into a car accident with her boyfriend and...more
Feb 15, 2013
Amayrani
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Im reading a book entitled Accidental Love byt Gray Soto witch is a work of fiction.
To me this books is mainly about friendship growing and growing apart. A girl name marisa goes through some changes through out her high school year. She who is from the "Ghetto" sees things different. Her best friend alicia is hospitalized in the hospital all because of her ex boyfriend who got into to a car accident with her. she not only got her leg hurt but is heart broken. Marisa realizes love isn't for her...more
Accidental love is a very interestin books.The characters include maritsa she has a very nice caracter and very diffrent. The other main character is rain he is very unic in his own way he is smart and goes to a driffrent school the maritsa but somehow the fiuture gets them too meet in a accident including maritsa friend some how they sitch phones and then they meet later in. in there hole mixup they find each other and talk about there school maritsa changes school because rain tell her what a...more
Accidental Love by Gary Soto gives away the main idea in its title. A girl named Marisa is a very rough girl -- more like a bully. In the beginning, she was at the hospital because of her friend, Alicia got into a car accident. Later on, she bumped into a total nerd name Rene. They got acquainted but Marisa kept thinking she couldn't say things right. However, most of the time that only happens to people that are nervous because they have a crush on that person. Could that be the reason Marisa w...more
This book is called "Accidental Love" by Gary Soto. This book is about how a girl fell for a nerd named Rene Torres. The girls name was Marisa. She would be the type of person who would pick fights with anyone who bothered her or hurt her friends. Marisa meets Rene when their phones are accidentally switched when she goes to fight Roberto her best friend’s boyfriend that hurt her best friends feelings. No matter what Marisa does she couldn't stop thinking about Rene.
A connection that I can make...more
A connection that I can make...more
I really enjoyed the book because of how the characters had feelings for each other were so strong that he would run away from his mom to be with her and the she would transfer school to be with him.I love the feelings they have for each other the author expresses them in a good way by there actions and words.This book is good for anyone who likes love stories.
Oct 22, 2010
Anayeli♥
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
any body who likes to read love books
Recommended to Anayeli♥ by:
Noboady me it just souned interesting
Shelves:
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This book is very interesting so far she is in the hospital beacause she had a car accident with her boyfriend she foun out that her boyfriend was cheating on her so she said that he was a pendejo. She said that he took away part oif her heart with him because she said it was rolled up in paper like if it was a door.I choosed this book because it sounded interesting and because it has spanish words so i taught it would be interesting enough and because it would be a book with mexican characters....more
White socks, high-water pants, and a briefcase: the description of a nerd, but Rene accepted and embraced it. He wasn't ever interested in joining jock fights when tempers flared and fists flew. Marissa, on the other hand, was a hot-tempered Latina who never held back her fists or her opinions of the estupido people around her. When Marisa accidentally picks up the wrong cell phone, she falls in love with its owner, Rene. She almost immediately drops her attitude, temper, and fist-fighting, and...more
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I'm not gonna lie, this book was pretty enjoyable. Classic love story, boy and girl meet and fall in love despite their differences which eventually cause some sort of trial in the relationship but everything ends up okay even though one person's mom disagrees. Though it's nothing new, I still enjoyed reading about the changes Marisa made and Rene too. I guess I'm a sap, but I love being married to someone who is my total opposite. She makes me be more outgoing and I calm her down, sometimes. Th...more
Jan 22, 2012
Cynthia Gibson
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This book has begun with a girl named Marissa who is more of a street girl getting into a fight with her ex boyfriend Roberto who cheated on her with her best friend.Rene is Roberto's tutor and he broke up the fight between Roberto and Marissa. Marissa and Rene accidentally pick up each other's phones and begin talking; they begin dating and have really great chemistry with each other. since Marissa and Rene don't attend the same school, Marissa decides to use her aunt's address to be in the sam...more
This book makes me think about the phrase "Don't judge a book by it's cover". I haven't finished reading it but by the way my main character acts that massage tends to pop up into my head a lot through out the book. There was one part of the book where I really got a sense of how my character is: "She called her own cell number, wiggling her toes as she waited for the guy to pick up. But her own rushed Voice came on rudely: "YOU leave a message and you speak clearly, you know WHAT I mean?" Maris...more
love accidentally!
can you imagine a tuff girl falling in love with a total nerd? In this book it happed. Instead of the boy protecting the girl, the girl protect the boy. Its love!
Marisa and Rene are in love. Rene is a nerd who is scared of his mom and Marisa is a tuff girl who fights anyone. I love this book.! It is a unusual love book that I read. It all started for a mistake of the phone. The thing that has me hooked when reading this book is the fact that Marisa knows he is a nerd but still...more
can you imagine a tuff girl falling in love with a total nerd? In this book it happed. Instead of the boy protecting the girl, the girl protect the boy. Its love!
Marisa and Rene are in love. Rene is a nerd who is scared of his mom and Marisa is a tuff girl who fights anyone. I love this book.! It is a unusual love book that I read. It all started for a mistake of the phone. The thing that has me hooked when reading this book is the fact that Marisa knows he is a nerd but still...more
I think this was a sweet book =]. It's about a girl named Marisa who is a hot head and loves getting into fights. When she accidentally switches phones with a nerd name Rene, the chemistry is there. They start seeing a bit more of eachother and eventually, a romantic relationship is formed between them. They're a weird couple but they don't care, as long as they have eachother. But then, they find out that love isn't that simple. I liked this book most of the time, but what I didn't like was the...more
accidental love is about this gurl named marisa who is not the kind of gurl guys really look to. Her and her best friend boyfriend get into a fight because roberto cheated on her best friend thats how she meets rene. Rene is a nerd he is the kind of guy that is in chess club. Marisa falls for him head over hells she dosent know why but she just does. I guess it is just the way rene makes marisa feel.
I thought the book was rally cute. I think i would recommend this to people who love chesey love...more
I thought the book was rally cute. I think i would recommend this to people who love chesey love...more
Elida Almaraz
Advisory
Ms.Kwan
201-10C
Accidental love
In this book Marisa Rodriguez, a high school student has to tolerate the neighborhood she is in. It is enough that she has to attend a bad school. It isn't until a weird encounter with a kid named Rene, changes the way Marisa views things. Before Marisa didn't have much of a purpose of progressing in life. Her environment is a factor in her life that impedes her to do much which is why she doesn't have great expectations. A weird problem between...more
Advisory
Ms.Kwan
201-10C
Accidental love
In this book Marisa Rodriguez, a high school student has to tolerate the neighborhood she is in. It is enough that she has to attend a bad school. It isn't until a weird encounter with a kid named Rene, changes the way Marisa views things. Before Marisa didn't have much of a purpose of progressing in life. Her environment is a factor in her life that impedes her to do much which is why she doesn't have great expectations. A weird problem between...more
Oct 27, 2008
Carolina Orozco
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who likes a good love story
This book was one of the best books i have ever read. The fact that the book is like a life story or a story i know a lot of people including myself can relate to makes it even better. At the beginning it starts of by telling you about a girl and a boy in the car that get into an accident because of the girl saw a picture of her boyfriend and another girl. This girl ends up being the main character Marisa's best friend. When their at the hospital the guy her friend was with in the car shows up w...more
Feb 01, 2008
Anna
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
young adults
Shelves:
young-adult,
fiction
I bought this book for my classroom library and read it myself before giving it to the kids. It's a great book about identity and Soto tackles the issue cleverly through a street smart and likable (but rough!) young Latina named Marisa. Marisa, a badass from the "wrong" side of town, meets Rene, a nerd from the "right" side of town, and they fall for each other only to realize that things are not that simple...
I enjoyed the book and I think my students will like it for a number of reasons.
1. I...more
I enjoyed the book and I think my students will like it for a number of reasons.
1. I...more
Marisa is a tough girl from a tough school, and isn't afraid to defend herself or her friends, even if that means getting into fistfights with boys. During one such fight, with her best friend's cheating boyfriend, Marisa ends up accidentally switching cell phones with a boy who witnessed the fight. The boy, Rene, is unlike Marisa in almost every way. He is small and weak, he ignores insults rather than fighting over them, and he's unusually smart. Despite these differences, when Rene and Marisa...more
Mar 04, 2010
Maggie Hargrave
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
multicultural,
ya
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Gary Soto, born April 12, 1952, was raised in Fresno, California. He is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry International, and Poetry, which
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