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Confetti Girl (2009)

by Diana López(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0316029556 (ISBN13: 9780316029551)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

review 1: Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez is a mix of love and hatrid between friends and family. Lina gets made fun of for her long legs and gets called a "daddy long legs" by some of the jocks at her middle school. She is on the volleyball team with her friend Vanessa whos mom is obsessed with cascarones which are empty eggs filled with confetti and you crack it over peoples heads to give them good luck. Vanessa is a "swan" as Lina reffers to her. Her dad is a highschool English teacher and her mom passed away about one and a half years ago from a blood infection. Lina's dad is struggling with raising Lina. Between school, family, friends, and boys, Lina is on a rollercoaster with many ups and downs. I would reccomend this book because this is based on real life experiences that coul... mored happen to anyone and you can see how Lina handles her life with everything going on.
review 2: The Confetti Girl By Diana LopezYear 2010199 pagesThis book is intended for teens and young adults or really any age. This book is a really fun read and could be for all ages. The main issue in the book is issues between friends and parents. Also getting good grades is a great way to loose privileges with friends.The settings throughout this book are school, Vanessa's house and Lina's house and around town. Lina and Vanessa are the main characters in this book. They are best friends who live across the street from each other and do everything together. They both don't have one of their parents one. So they both live in a single parent family. The other characters throughout the book are kids at school, Lina's Dad, and Vanessa's Mom. Each character plays a very important role in the book. SummaryLina loves to collect crazy sock and she saves all of her socks even if they have holes in them. Vanessa and her best friend live across the street from each other. They do everything together they play volleyball on the school team together. Their school volleyball team is not very good they only won one game. Even though they did not win many games they still had fun together as friends. Their school had a school Halloween carnival and Lina and Vanessa signed up to sell cascarones. Cascarones are these festive eggs for any holiday that are decorated, filled with confetti, and then cracked on someones head for good luck. Vanessa's mom lives everyday and makes cascarones all day every day. All Vanessa and her mom would eat was eggs all the time so that they could use the shells to make cascarones. They thought it would be a great idea and Vanessa's mom said she would help. The carnival went great except for one of the booths was a jail and you could put someone into jail for 50 cents and then someone would have to come bail them out. Lina got put in the jail and Vanessa would not come and bail her out. The carnival was fabulous everyone loved the cascarones so much that they sold all the way out of them. What i liked about the book was the creativity of collecting socks instead of coins or shells or something ordinary. I also liked the idea of a cascarone and how they were good luck. Some quotes that i liked from the book were on page 1 "I collects socks I have a dresser with drawers labeled daily socks, lonely socks, holey socks and sock Heaven" I loved how she organizes her socks so creatively. On page 69 "I'm thinking my love life destiny is linked to socks" I thought it was so funny and it brought a smile to my face when I read this quote. Themes from the book were: Be yourself no matter what other people think. Always do your best and listen to your parents. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a fun read and to just enjoy all the fun things throughout the book. There are lots of unique things about this book but one thing I liked was there was lots of creativity and wierd things that happened throughout the book. Like collecting socks and making cascarones all day everyday. I would give this book 4 stars. less

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