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Elizabeth Acevedo

Start date: May 1, 2023

Finish date: May 31, 2023

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May 09, 2022 Joy D rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, zzck, reviewed, latinx, disasters, north-america, death, family, contemporary-fiction, xaubk

Camino is a seventeen-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic with her aunt. Yahaira is a seventeen-year-old girl living in New York City with her mother. Their lives are initially separate but become tied together by a family secret and a tragedy. It is based on the (real) crash of American Airlines Flight 587. It is a novel of sudden loss, grief, mourning, and ultimately, acceptance. The author’s choice to tell this story via poetry helps mitigate some of the more difficult and disturbi ...more

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Jan 11, 2021 Tawallah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: caribbean-reads, books-i-actually-owe, contemporary, ya-books, award-book

Sometimes expectations can work against a book. I tend to enjoy novel in verse books especially for Ya contemporary. I think this format reduces and enhances the impact of reality being portrayed to bite sized manageable pieces. The fact that I started this book when a plane crashed in Indonesia and there were no survivors adds another dimension to my reading. For me, it helped me view a news story that could be easily forgotten in a new light. For those impacted by this plane crash and the insp ...more

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Jun 03, 2020 Denise rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-reads

This is one of those books that transports you. I was in this book. And sometimes it was scary. And that's how it was supposed to feel. It is beautifully written. I think it's worth a re-read.

Trigger warnings: Sexual assault, death of parent, plane crash ...more

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May 31, 2022 Robin rated it it was ok · review of another edition

this was a book club pick and a pretty quick read - maybe because it was written in trailing thoughts/ poetry style which was kind of different. it is probably considered young adult since the two main characters are teenagers, but it also could be categorized as family drama and deals with death, grief, forgiveness, and trying to move forward with life after the death of a loved one.

the two main characters didnt even know each other existed since their father basically led a double life with t ...more

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Jul 11, 2020 Jess Penhallow rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: usa, 21st-century, dominican-republic, carribean

This was such a beautiful story. I wasn't sold on the verse style at first but then I switched to audio and this helped a lot. These phrases are meant to be heard especially in the dulcet tones of the narrators, Melania-Luisa Marte voicing one of the girls and Elizabeth Acevedo herself voicing the other.

I also really enjoyed the spatterings of Spanish and Spanglish. It's made me want to get back on Duolingo and maybe to pick up a simple Spanish book to practice. Watch this space!

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Apr 03, 2021 Liz T rated it really liked it

Beautifully written! This is the second novel of Acevedo’s that I’ve read that is written in verse, and the styling really makes the story come to life.

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