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Secret Saturdays (2010)

by Torrey Maldonado(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0399251588 (ISBN13: 9780399251580)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Putnam Juvenile

review 1: This is a great read for teens struggling with issues surrounding friendship and trust. The main character, Sean, has been acting out, telling lies and getting into trouble at school. He starts hanging out with a tough crowd. The problem is that this isn't like Sean. Sean, along with his friends Justin, Kyle and Vanessa have been best friends since fourth grade. For the past two years they have traveled to each other’s apartments for their Saturday night sleepovers. They are linked by their cultural identities (Being mixed-race kids of Puerto Rican and African American descent). They’re also linked by the fact that they all have absent fathers and similar aspirations to avoid the drugs and violence that is so prevalent in their neighborhood.Secret Saturdays uses this u... morerban setting and dialogue to grapple with issues of trust, family, friendship and identity.
review 2: Title: Secret Saturdays Author: Torrey Maldonado I was reading a book called Secret Saturdays by Torrey Maldonado. The author wants to teach everyone a lesson in this book. He doesn’t want kids to be messing up in school. For example the character Sean was missing assignments, showing up late, and failing tests. He did all these things but when his friend Justin tried to ask why, he just ignored him and didn’t really reply. He would always make up silly answers like he doesn’t know. At first Justin wasn’t really friends with Sean so I wouldn’t think that he would’ve cared about Sean. He really wouldn’t care about Sean but when Sean stood up for Justin, Sean and him were suddenly friends. They only saw each other in the mornings when they weren’t friends. They would only greet each other like hey, hi, etc. They knew each other but I don’t think Justin felt like he was Sean’s type because he always acts tuff. They would’ve never been friends if Sean didn’t trash talk the bully. He was talking to Justin and told him that you don’t need to fight a bully to let him go away, you don’t have to fight physically, you can fight by using your mouth. If Justin didn’t hear these words he would probably think that Sean is still not his type but since he did this for Justin he thinks Sean is a really good person. When they became friends everything changed. Justin would hang out more with Sean and his other friends. They all were friends and they all tried to act cool. The lesson that he was trying to tell everyone that you can tell when your friends anything they will all still notice any changes in you. Justin found a change. Justin found out that Sean started to mess up in school and noticed that he was in love. He noticed Vanessa and him were in love so I think that’s what his point is always is always believe in your friends. less

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