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Compromised (2010)

by Heidi Ayarbe(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0061728497 (ISBN13: 9780061728495)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: To be honest, I randomly picked this book off of the shelf. I do this every once in awhile when I don't know what book to pick. This story takes place at a number of cities and states. It is about two run-aways trying to get from the orphanage home to a long lost aunt who is possibly in Iowa. Along the way, they make stops in alley ways, strangers homes, and libraries across the country. The setting for weather is late fall and winter. The main conflict is Maya's dad leaving her because he is a con artist and convicted felon, and Maya has no known family left except an aunt she never heard of. Maya is mainly a static character, because at first she is shy and reserved but throughout the story she becomes hardened due to her life on the streets. I would describe Maya as end... moreuring, caring, and she is also very persevering. Nicol, one of the girls from the orphanage that follows her, is very stoic, mean, and basically a loud-mouth. There wasn't really a quote that explained of signified any part of the story but at one point, on page 23, Maya says; "I'm screwed." Which is right before her dad goes to prison and she gets sent to the kids place so this kind of sets a mood for what happens. I think the message would point blank be 'Perseverance' because that's really what Maya does throughout the whole story is try to find some aunt she might or might not actually have and she risks her whole life and everything she has worked for to continue her life and help her dad. One of the reading strategies I used quite often was to make inferences because I was always developing an opinion about the characters or what they chose to do. Also, I used 'monitor' a few times because occasionally the story kind of hit a dead end or a loop hole and I had to stop and ask myself, "Wait, what?" and sometimes even reread what I had read. Last, I visualized so much of this story. I literally had a movie going in my head and I could just picture Maya and Natalie all dirty and thin, trying to scrape together change to find some type of food, and the disgusting alleys and old abandoned buildings they had to take shelter in. Finally, I thought this book was so amazing. This often happens when I pick random books off the shelf. I would for sure recommend this to any reader, except not if you don't like cussing because there is quite a bit of that in this book but otherwise it is so great and a movie just plays in your head the entire time.
review 2: One of my favorite books of all time. Every teenager should read this book. The book does a fantastic job at portraying how difficult and painful life in the streets are for teenagers and young children. It really gives a good account at what the real world can do to vulnerable children, and how devastating the consequences can be to them. Reading the book as a teenager's perspective gave me an even stronger impact about the book as I was reading it. less

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