Sisters/Hermanas

Sisters is among Gary Paulsen's experimental novels, a dual narrative that comes together in a climax as sudden as it is unpredictable. Fourteen-year-old Rosa has no one to take care of her. After a childhood of poverty in Mexico City, she crossed the United States border with a group of other illeg......more

i read this book in high school after my best friend at the time told me about it. i didn't fully understand it then. now, years later, i kept having these occurrences where i couldn't remember what book i was remembering; all i could remember was a young girl, prostitution, and the virgin mary and......more

The only thing I like of this book was that it was really short... This book has no endpoint.. it doesn't have a conclusion I didn't get the final chapter at all.. It is about two girls that have really different living conditions: one has great parents that can buy her everything and the other one sell......more

This YA novella is presented in  both Spanish and English, each upside down from the other. I read it in Spanish, (and it was just right for an Intermediate Spanish student) but if you flipped it the other way, you could read it in English. An effective format for a language learner: the other langu......more