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I Wanna Be Your Shoebox (2008)

by Cristina García(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0739365150 (ISBN13: 9780739365151)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Listening Library (Audio)

review 1: Well-done, quick read about a multicultural California girl and the changes she faces as she turns 13. Her mom is getting serious with a boyfriend, her grandpa is dying, and her school orchestra is being shut down! Might be too slow for some middle-schoolers (the parts of grandpa narrating the story of his life are great but maybe not for kids who love "ACTION") but hopefully the surfing and music stuff will keep them going through this one.
review 2: Even though this book doesn't have much of a plot, it hangs together anyway. The narrator is someone I want to get to know better, so I keep reading. Her life is interesting and believable--her parents are divorced, her dad is depressed, her school's orchestra is being dropped because of budget cuts, she likes a b... moreoy who isn't interested in her, etc.--but she's not living in a storybook world. It's very much twenty-first-century southern Cal. It works well. less

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