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“I think Ralph fell in love with the uphillness in me. I could keep up with him on windy passes and minor climbing peaks. But I never stayed with him on the downhill. He was always too fast. He’d wait patiently for me at the bottom of a black diamond run, at the end of a long, winding mountain road, or at the foot of a crag. He was happy when I could get to the bottom of anything. I wasn’t with him the day he had the accident that left him a C-4 quadriplegic. Perhaps it’s the uphillness in me that is keeping me with him now. It’s all uphill from here. No more downhills to carve through gracefully or sail down safely; only up, up, up.” —from the Introduction
Suzy Parker and her husband, Ralph Hager, spent every free moment together biking, skiing, and hiking. All that changed in a split second when a freak cycling accident left Ralph permanently paralyzed below the shoulders. In that moment, Suzy’s old life fell away and her new one began. In
Tumbling After, Suzy chronicles her transformation from carefree outdoorswoman to full-time caregiver, and paints a loving portrait of the impromptu, oddball family of concerned neighbors and friends who become her new lifeline. With Jerry, the tender ex-con; Momma Scott, a guardian angel and force of nature in a feather boa; and Harka, the culture-shocked Nepalese, at their side, Suzy and Ralph weather the loss of old friends and learn to embrace a new way of life with hope and a healing dose of the absurd.
This astonishing memoir, devoid of self-pity and told with breathtaking candor and a wry sense of humor, is an inspiring journey that is ultimately a story of survival and second chances—and the unexpected joy and love that can grow out of grief if given the slightest encouragement.
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Monotonous and Overrated.......2005-05-20
I disagree with many of the reviews. I found the tone of the book to be somewhat self-pitying and monotonous. Strangely, the only review here I seem to agree with was written below by the wife of another quadiplegic.
The most interesting aspect about this topic, the devastating accident and its immediate aftermath, are glossed over quickly in the first few pages. The remainder of the book is the author going, "Woe is me, look how my life has deteriorated." Don't get me wrong, I don't think I could have handled what she went through, but the book makes the wife more of a victim than the husband.
There is nothing in the book about the husband's initial reaction to waking up and learning he was paralyzed after such an active life; virtually nothing about how he coped with the injury psychologically.
One problem with this book is that the author tells the whole story from the standpoint of me, me, me. I understand how hard her life must have become in the wake of her husband's devastating accident, but I had a real problem with the fact that, according to the book, for the most part, the author parked her formerly active husband in the living room in front of the television like a potted plant and pretty much left him there.
There is very little interaction described between the author and her disabled husband. The author goes on and on about how wonderful her husband's caretakers are, but treats the quadriplegic husband as a two dimensional burden. For example, Ms. Parker will describe in great detail some conversation or interaction she had with one of her husband's attendants, and then she throws in something like, "and we gave Ralph a sleeping pill, emptied his urine bag, put him to bed, and then [the attendant] took me upstairs and made love to me tenderly." I am no prude, and I understand the woman has needs, but I found the whole thing horrifying and insensitive.
She parks the husband in a hospital bed in the living room, and then spends the next few years sharing a bed and sex life upstairs with his 60-year old care attendant. When the husband says he does not want to know how she satisfies herself sexually, she tells him anyway, saying telling him would make HER feel better. Who knows how the poor husband felt. He could hardly complain, since he is helpless without both the wife and the attendant.
She says her old friends and life "dropped away," after the accident, leaving as her only social life, an odd assortment of lovable misfits that took care of her husband. The book gives the impression that, if one is rendered disabled, their only social life is going to be with their ex-con, ex-drug addict hired attendant [who also services the author sexually for years] and assorted neighbors.
I did not find the book uplifing. I found it completely depressing. Usually when I love a book, I am sad when I finish it. This one I was glad to put down. If you want an inspiring book by or about dealing with quadriplegia and its aftermath, I highly recommend "Eleven Seconds" by Travis Roy [the former hockey player]; "Still Me," by Christopher Reeve; or "Miracles Happen" by Brooke and Jean Ellison.
Susan, keep up the good work please........2003-05-25
I am sorry it took me so long to discover this book. I have been a fan of Ms. Parker since I first began reading her columns in the SF Chronicle. This book is one of those you want to read slowly so that it lasts longer but find you can't put it down. Susan has a wonderful knack for untainted honesty as she reports on the universal joys and sorrows of human life. She guides the reader into her world without trying to assign blame or seek justification, a truly refreshing approach in this day and age. Can't wait for the sequel! -Cindy
Another Quad Wife Speaks.......2002-11-19
As the wife of a quadriplegic I was very interested to see what Susan Parker had to say about her life. The description of the devastation, hopelessness and helplessness women feel when they come into this situation was excellent. The potrayal of the feeling of being totally overwhelmed and burned out by the intensity of it all was very real to me.
This is where the excellence of the book ended. It was extremely redundant, telling almost the same story over and over with a slightly different twist. I was quickly bored. It was obvious that it was a collection of short antecdotes written for her newspaper column and not a cohesive book. I was determined to finish it and was only able to tough it out to the end because of the perseverence I've learned from being a Quad Wife.
It was appalling to read that her husband is kept a virtual prisoner in the living room of the house they live in. No adaptations have been made since 1994 to make the rest of the home accessible to him? He has a life of watching TV? What is that all about?
I am also wondering why a woman who says she is intelligent did not seek out the available programs which provide excellent, in home assistance to people with disabilities. Had she taken advantage of such programs, both she and her husband would have much improved lives.
Worldview Changing and Hilarious.......2002-08-21
I picked this book up with about 15 others from the new non-fiction section at my library in preparation vacation reading. I got through my entire selection, but this is the one book that, in a truly meaningful way, became part of my consciousness. I then had the opportunity to choose a book for my bookclub, and it was a no-brainer: Tumbling After. I think the book just speaks to a place in one's heart.
Although at times I wanted to shake Suzy Parker, there was never a time in the book where I couldn't relate in some way to her. Since none of us know what lies ahead in life, we can all imagine ourselves in Suzy Parker's shoes, and I would hope that I would handle any situation of the same magnitude with similar grace, honesty, and humanity. When white, middle class Suzy finds herself in the position of forming a "new family" with folks whose background and lifestyle were formerly not even on her radar, it proves beyond doubt that "love is thicker than blood". She faces up to her biases very bravely, and finds true friendship and camraderie.
Lastly, but just as importantly, I laughed hysterically throughout, which was hard to explain to family members who inquired of the subject matter of such an apparently funny book (quadraplegia? - huh?). But I just loved Suzy Parker's soul.
The Real Deal.......2002-05-31
I saw Suzy Parker at a book reading in Seattle and she said, "One thing you learn being in the disabled community is that there is always someone worse off than you." And she shows us some of these people--with a clear eye and a sense of humor. What I really love about her story is its truth. There is no self-pity. Even when she says "this [stinks], I wonder if I can make," she just plows ahead.
The story is accessible and never maudlin even when it is grim. And there is plenty of humor and adventure to pull the reader through the tight little chapters.
This story is the real deal--a great read, a compelling story, and a few lessons along the way.
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In 1980, Los Angeles historian Jim Heimann wrote a book about the oddball roadside architecture that has dotted the American landscape since the advent of the auto. Published by Chronicle Books as California Crazy, it stayed in print for nearly 20 years. Finally, here is the greatly expanded new edition of that sought-after classic. California Crazy and Beyond is packed with madcap restaurants, motels, service stations, and many other businesses shaped like hot dogs, animals, airplanes, pianos, and other architectural anomalies. Over the years, Heimann's continued research has uncovered a multitude of new pictures and forgotten buildings. With over 380 photographs and an illuminating text that tracks the subject well beyond the bounds of the West Coast, California Crazy and Beyond is an authoritative document of a style born in America and spread to all corners of the world.
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Fun-tecture.......2002-04-18
I bought this book when it first came out in 1980 and I recently noticed that a new addition was available. Well worth getting too, more pages, extra subjects (cars for instance) updated bibliography and a sparkling new layout. Author Heimann feels that architectural historian David Gebhard's term 'Programatic' does not quite capture the flavor of these buildings, I propose calling them FUNTECTURE.
A new chapter, not in the original book, is 'Current Condition' which has twenty-two photos, in color, of buildings now standing and they all look very smart and well cared for but wait till you see the photo on page 169, this shows the amazing headquarters of the Longaberger company in Newark, Ohio, famous for making baskets and that is exactly what the building looks like, seven stories high with two carrying handles reaching up to the sky...only in America! You can see and read about this lovely bit of whimsy on their website.
You will really enjoy this book if you are a fan of roadside America, especially if you have lived in California and maybe remember some of the weird buildings that are no longer around.
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Fun and Informative.......2001-07-07
This book is a must-have for those of us who love the lure of the road and all it has to offer. It's sad that a lot of these wonderful icons of Americana are vanishing, but it's great that people like Jim Heimann are preserving it for future generations to see. I highly recommend this book -- lots of great photos and interesting history in a nicely organized book!
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???Watch out, Bridget Jones: There???s a new singleton in town, and she???s got needles! This hilarious book chronicles the life of a newly divorced woman, as she struggles, dates, and knits her way back to sanity.??? --Knit.1 magazine If you???ve ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you???ll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to ???get his creativity back.??? (Whatever the hell that means.) But will she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem? ???I was a thirty-something woman living alone with four cats. I was probably going to be divorced. I was on the short bus to crazy. I pictured my grandmother making hoop-skirted yarn cozies for the toilet paper. I pictured myself making doilies for furniture that I did not own. I saw my cats wearing knitted hats with lace appliqués. From my vantage point, knitting seemed like 100 percent of some road I did not want to walk down.??? Yet, surprisingly, it???s knitting that saves her and emboldens her to become fully engaged in life again--to discover new friends; to take risks, however scary; and to navigate the ins and outs of the modern dating scene. ???Dating has changed in a decade. Now there is a higher chance of meeting someone who has an internet porn addiction than someone who has a job. In Los Angeles, your dinner companion might have served time in Pelican Bay or run a meth lab. Or, worst of all, he might spend all night talking about his agent, his craft, and what it means to grow as an actor. Then he???ll ask you to read his screenplay.??? And such is life in this quirky, irreverent memoir, a spin-off of the blog phenomenon, www.crazyaunt purl.com, one of the most successful online diaries in history, exploding to an international fan base of enthusiastic readers. But don???t worry, you don???t have to knit to love Aunt Purl. You just have to know what it feels like to have loved, to have lost, or to have taken a leap of faith. We???ve all been there: Pass the wine. Laurie Perry has written for the Los Angeles Daily News. She has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Vogueknitting. Visit her website at www.crazyauntpurl.com.
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So good I couldn't put it down!.......2007-10-03
I am an avid reader of Laurie's blog, so naturally I had to buy her book. I laughed, I cried, and having recently been left by my husband as well, I felt like I completely identified with her. This book is one of the best I've ever read! I would recommend it to absolutely anyone!
I gobbled it in an evening!.......2007-10-02
I've been a huge Crazy Aunt Purl fan since finding her blog. It was pure luck - right after I did, my own fiance decided he didn't want to get married to me after all. She put into words exactly what I was feeling so many times, it was uncanny.
When I got her book, I literally read it in one setting. It's wonderful. I would recommend it to anyone. Don't worry, its not a rehash of her blog - in fact, its probably 98% unique content. I've been forcing people to listen as I read bits out loud - and they actually liked what they heard.
The knitting patterns aren't all that exciting - I'd rather have had more content, but I loved the pictures of her cats "modeling" them, so I'm not too upset about it.
She Found her Creativity!.......2007-10-02
I discovered Crazy Aunt Purl's blog months ago, and have read it with delight ever since. So of course I pre-ordered the book, which is a wonderful journey through love, loss, depression, and a return to the world. Laurie is a 30-something graphic artist working in a Los Angeles area bank, whose clueless husband one day just left. No arguments, no months or discussions, just "I have to find my creativity."
Turns out Laurie is the one who finds her creativity! Her blog that recounts her daily struggles with Los Angeles traffic, her bad-luck jeep, a gardener from hell and four adored cats (now, sadly reduced to three), has become a must-read for thousands worldwide. With the help of supportive friends and family, Laurie emerges from her self-imposed hermit-hood and picks up some sticks and string -- and becomes a knitter.
Spending hours alone with her cats, wine and yarn, Laurie emerges as a delightful personality with a wonderfully wry take on life. This is a book for everyone who has been through a loss and emerged the better for it. You'll want Laurie for your new best friend.
Not your average self help book, or humor book, or knitting book..........2007-10-01
I received and finished this book yesterday (Still haven't tried the knitting recipes yet--but soon). I began reading it and I could not put it down. I stumbled upon Crazy Aunt Purl's blog several months ago via the Yarn Harlot and I was hooked--so I had to have the book. It is certainly not a disappointment.
I laughed and I cried. This is the handbook on being Southern, jilted and getting over it all in the best sort of way. It is the narrative journey from being "half a couple" to a whole person. I hope there are more books in Laurie Perry's future.
I've recommended this to everyone I know.......2007-09-21
I bought this book on the title alone. The only knitting blog I had read with any regularity had been the Yarn Harlot, and so I'd never heard of Perry or her Crazy Aunt Purl blog.
I'm so glad I got this book. Recently divorced myself, owner of three cats, and an avid knitter, every single page of this book resonated with me. I laughed, I cried, I soberly reflected on the thoughts raised by her description of trying to survive the utter fear and depression, and I felt like I was having a conversation with a best friend.
Perry walks us through her separation, divorce, knitting classes, disastrous diet, seven hours straight of George Jones, the Depressed Office Woman Outfit saga, and slowly but surely, the healing that sneaks up on her so slowly that she doesn't really realize it until she gets brave enough to ask out the guy with nice arms in the lumber department of the home improvement store - only to discover that she has no idea how to respond to a text message.
Please, please read this book. Perry even includes some wonderful patterns for us knitters at the end, but you don't have to be a knitter, or divorced, or drunk, or even covered in cat hair to appreciate the fine honesty and wit that shines through Perry's writing. I hope she writes more!
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- Remembering the Southland's past
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Remembering the Southland's past.......2000-11-28
My husband and I grew up in Los Angeles and remember many of the buildings photographed for this delightful book. Many of the most whimsical are long gone and can be remembered only through a work like this one. We remember the camera, the hot-dog, the red piano, the donut, the ocean liner, and even the bulldog on West Washington Blvd. (Some of these buildings still exist today.) The Brown Derby restaurant certainly still exists, but does the derby? The earliest buildings speak of an important time in Southland history--the early thirties when the movie industry was new. They were built to charm the stars who lived in them or worked near them, and the craze caught on. Many of these buildings are imaginative and whimsical. It's hard to imagine a sandwich shop today with the whimsy of "Toed In." And the large, excessively ornate buildings of the "Neo-Mayan" style were very impressive. We were delighted when the Samson Tyre Works building in the city of Commerce, later a Goodyear tire building, was restored to its former crenelated glory as The Citadel, a shopping center easily visible from Freeway 5. Yes, some of these structures were tacky. But so what? What's wrong with a little craziness and fun? They are/were wonderful for kids and for the kid in all of us. And this book documents and preserves the fun and craziness. On a more serious note, there is an excellent introduction by David Gebhard who was the director of the University of California Art Museum in Santa Barbara at the time of the first publication of this book in 1980. I look forward to the new updated, hardcover edition of this work to be published in 2001. I've purchased several copies of this book at a time to keep for the odd gift. Everybody who has received it has loved it. For those who grew up in the Southland, it's a trip down memory lane.
Stear Clear.......2000-06-16
It's not enough that they almost encourage vandalism-they feel the need to fascilitate trespasing.
Goofy belaboured humour is only really practical when youre a kid-this book tries too hard and achieves to little.
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Holly is spending Christmas with her dad-her first time away from her mom and their new family. When Holly's stepmom starts to drive her crazy, Holly realizes she needs to learn how to trust God and trust people.
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Crazy Weekend
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Back in print, a "fun-packed adventure" (VOYA) by a gifted and popular storyteller.
When Hector and his friend Mando, seventh-graders, visit Uncle Julio, a photographer in Fresno, they have more excitement than they ever imagined. On a photo shoot in a rickety old plane, they spot an armored car heist, and Uncle Julio snaps some shots of the robbers. After they report what they saw, the two robbers decide they have to teach Hector and Mando a lesson. When the bumbling thugs meet up with the quick-witted boys, the results are hilarious.
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CW Review.......2006-05-30
Crazy Weekend is about a kid and his uncle who appear to be in for a normal, boring weekend, but instead are met with a series of suprises and conflict throughout the plot.
I didn't enjoy this book. It was too childish for my interest, I didn't relate to the characters, and the comedy didn't appeal to me. The book came off as very corny (especially the thugs)and didn't hold my interest.
I wouldn't recommend reading this book. Perhaps it's more geared towards younger audiences, or people who appreciate a less mature genre of reading than I do.
Crazy Weekend.......2004-03-12
Have you ever wanted to read a book that would keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time? Well this the book for you.
Crazy Weekend starts off like any other story. Two boys got off a train there names where Hector and Mondo. They are going o spend a weekend with Hectors Uncle. Hector's uncle finds them and takes them to se the sites of East L.A. they took pictures to sell to a newspaper company. After they were done, they went to their uncle's apartment. There they made a superbowl salad before they went to bed. When they got up and went to an old airport, uncle had to take pictures of farms for people. Whey they got into the plane and got going, uncle started taking pictures. When they got on the ground, and started going to uncle's best customer, they heard on the radio that an armored car had just been stolen and nobody had found it.
I really liked the book because it teaches you that if you can conquer their fears, anything can be done. If I was to rate this book to Old Yeller, I would give it an "8". That's how much I liked this book. I recommend the age range should be 10 and up. It has pretty difficult vocabulary.
Texas Librarian's Expert Opinion.......2003-09-01
As an elementary school librarian I sincerely appreciated the fact that this book that was on a recommended list for the young readers of Texas and was worthy of the recommendation. Unfortunately it has been out of print for quite some time, but fortunately I'm willing to pay the higher price and will be purchasing more copies today compliments of Amazon.com's third party sellers. Now I can booktalk it and offer my 4th graders copies instead of a semester long waiting list for 1 copy. It's also a good book to recommend to reluctant readers in higher grades: lots of action, boy protagonists, suspense, "home alone" type tricks to catch the bad guys, etc. The blending of Spanish words throughout the text and a glossary in the back are a major plus. I've been doing booktalks for 14 years, this one's a cinch to do and well deserving of kids' reading time!
Crazy Weekend.......2002-01-19
I did not like the book Crazy Weekend because there are to many spanish words. I also didnt like the book because it seems like they never do anything fun. I also didnt like it because it had huge words that I didnt understand.
The only best part was when they get to go from home to a different country. They got to go on an airplane and they talked about that in the story. It was pretty interesting at that point. After that it wasnt very interesting. I didnt like the parts when they talk about what they eat.
The most vivid part was when they meet other boys and they are having fun. It was interesting because one of the boys get hit with a ball. It was funny because they were in the middle of a field.
The Stupid Book.......2001-02-23
I read Crazy Weekend for a book report. Some parts of the book are really exciting, but other parts are dull and had no point to it. I really liked the book because it had alot of action in it, but not like blood and guts action more like suspenseful action. Bearstone is another book like this one because they both go on a suspeseful journey. Hector gets really scared from going into a really old airplane. I think this was a very good multicultural book for a book report.
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- Part Southern Gothic, part Hollywood exposé, part political treatise, this book will endure
- Great entertaing book!!
- Funny and VERY Sobering
- A fun and enlightening read
- The Loss Of Innocence And Wonderful Sexual Awakening!!!
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Crazy in Alabama
Mark Childress
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Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of Southern justice, and what that means about the stories he's heard and the people he knows.
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Part Southern Gothic, part Hollywood exposé, part political treatise, this book will endure.......2006-10-28
Part a coming of age story and part awakening--both of a woman who has been kept down by her husband and of the African American community of 1960s Alabama, Crazy in Alabama is one heck of a read.
The story's main characters are Peejoe (Peter Joseph), a 12 year old orphan who was living with his beloved grandmother (Meemaw) until his crazy aunt cut off her husband's head and deserted her children. The aunt, Lucille, is the other main character. At 33, she has six children, a dead husband and a burning desire to make it in Hollywood, which is where she heads after she has committed the grisly murder.
Childress takes on big issues (race relations, oppression of women, the media, mental illness) and displays them unflinchingly. He also shows how there are some folks--leaders (Lucille also becomes some sort of de facto leader of women's issues)--who take advantage of serious situations for their own political gain.
Childress proves himself great in this book. He writes with such deft assuredness that he makes it look easy, but it's not. Clearly a student of popular culture, he weaves details (songs, movies, television) into a fine cloth and makes us feel as though we are right there with him.
Part Southern Gothic, part Hollywood exposé, part political treatise, this book will endure. But above and beyond all that, it's a great read.
Great entertaing book!!.......2006-08-13
This audiobook was fun and interesting to listen to, I had to keep driving to keep listening! I am not selling this because I want to share the humorous, sad and shockingly witty story with others!! I wonder if any of this is true, Mark Chilress?? They say "Tell the truth, and no one will believe you!""
I just LOVED it!
Funny and VERY Sobering.......2006-07-10
For once, an author has taken me to places I've never been and has set me up to turn me upside down in the closing pages. There is NOTHING in this story that can be clearly anticipated. Justice does a crazy (and hilarious) turnabout; racism in people in high places is not carefully put away in a neat package to satisfy the transparent do-gooders in our midst. For all his awesome way with humor, Childress takes his reader on a sustained rollercoaster ride into the depths of the integration conundrum which is still very much alive in this country and the heights to which the smallest of us can go.
A fun and enlightening read.......2006-05-03
This story is so intriguing because of the main two plots being told simulaneously. Peejoe is such a memorable character...reminds me a lot of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. His involvement with the racial issues teach him so much while he's growing up. He's the type of child who doesn't see color. On the other hand, Aunt Lucille is one crazy--but hilarious--broad! Her wild excursions are very entertaining, while shocking at the same time. It's neat how these two characters are going through two completely different things, yet they are both "growing up" and learning pretty much the same lesson about standing up for who you are, not letting anyone put you down, being an individual, etc. Overall, this was a great read...I'd recommend it to anyone.
The Loss Of Innocence And Wonderful Sexual Awakening!!!.......2005-04-19
This book is a rare gem from a very talented writer. The reader is introduced to two main characters namely Peejoe(short for Peter Joseph), a young boy and his Aunt Lucille. Lucille has decided she has had enough of domestic life and has aspirations of being a Hollywood actress. In an act of desperation she kills her husband and cuts off his head and stores it in a Tupperware container taking it wherever she goes!!!Peejoe and his brother are dispatched to live with their Uncle, Dove Bullis in the small Southern Town of Industry.This book succesfully explores the Themes of Racial Tension, Sexual Awakening and the Loss Of Innocence. All of this is written with a deft hand by the author, Mark Childress. I loved this book and eagerly await the next offering by this author.Things did indeed get pretty crazy in Alabama in the 1960's!!!
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A Crazy, Mixed-Up Spanglish Day
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Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado (Gabi for short) has big problemas. Her worst enemy, Johnny Wiley, is driving her crazy. He picks on her and her friends. And now Gabi has to spend an entire month working with him on a school project! Gabi is so upset she can't even talk straight. Her English words keep getting jumbled up with her Spanish words. Now she's speaking a crazy mix of both, and no one knows what she's saying! Will Gabi ever make sense again? Or will she be tongue-tied foreverSpanish Title: Gabi esta aqui! Un dia loco de palabras mezcladas
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libro de capitulos para 2/3 excepcional.......2005-02-12
Por fin, un libro con personaje latina. Gabi es terca, chistosa, y real. Ama a su familia extendida y a sus amiguitas de la escuela. Habla los dos lenguas, y a veces, se confunde y salen mixtas por accidente. A mis estudiantes bilingues del tercero les gusto muchisimo. Lo recomiendo en espanol o en ingles. Mira tambien al sitio en la red de la autora. Tiene muchos mas comentarios de la gente.
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