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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 2. Hemphill, Helen. Runaround. Front Street, 2007. Annotation: Set in the 1960’s Runaround is about a Sassy, an eleven year old girl. As the narrator, Sassy is trying to figure out what love is all about. She has read many magazines on the topic, but none satisfy her curiosity. With her passion to learn more Sassy decides to start asking a lot of questions about love. Miss Dallas her caretaker is an older woman who has never married. The answers given to Sassy by her don’t help to clarify the questions. In desperation, Sassy decides to ask her dad about love. All Sassy remembers is her father loved her mother before she died shortly after her birth. Unfortunately for Sassy, her father wants nothing to do with this topic. Sassy is unable to ask her older sister Lula for help. Sassy’s goal of understanding love is to hurt her sister. Once Sassy understands what love is and how to make a boy love her she plans to go after Boon, the cutest boy in town. This will make her sister jealous. Eventually Sassy believes she has her answers. Sassy sets off to make Boon love her. In fact, she believes Boon loves her too. As luck would have it, Lula is already running around with the boy Sassy believes loves her. This leads Sassy to tell her father about her sister’s relationship with Boon. This causes the truth to come out about Sassy’s mother, who in fact didn’t die after her birth. She ran off to chase men. Lula decides to run away from home with her forbidden boyfriend. Sassy finds her and talks with her as a friend for the first time. In the end, the two girls and their father realize what they have is true love and it’s perfect just the way it is. Review: This book is appropriate for students in seventh to ninth grades. The story gives the reader insight into a topic which can be very confusing. It may lead to helping students to develop a sense of identity and their role in relation to the opposite sex. The characters are well developed and believable from start to finish. The conflict between Sassy and Lula are realistic to real life sibling rivalries. This book would appeal to girls for the purpose of reading for pleasure. An extension activity could include writing a book review to be shared which would encourage others to read it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In Kentucky in the 1960s, partly as revenge against her older sister for publicly embarrassing her, eleven-year-old Sassy decides to make the handsomest boy in the neighborhood her boyfriend, but first she has to find out what makes a boy like a girl, and how to know when he does. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Sassy has a crush on Boon Chisholm. Sure, Sassy's much younger than Boon, and she's a big tomboy, and this is her first crush, but Sassy is very confident. She knows Boon loves her; she just has to help him figure it out. Then they can live happily ever after together, not to mention make Sassy's older sister, Lula, jealous. Unfortunately, Sassy doesn't know much about love. In fact, she knows pretty much nothing about love. So she'll just have to find out.
Sassy's mama died when she was a baby, so that's one less person to ask. Daddy hardly talks to her at all, so that's not an option. Miss Dallas, their nanny/housekeeper, is an old maid - what can she know about love? The only good source is Lula. Lula has a bunch of boyfriends, and plenty of kissing experience. Too bad they can't seem to keep from beating on each other long enough to have a real conversation.
Sassy might just have to figure this one out on her own.
Sassy's explorations of love and self are both painful and funny to experience. These are some hard things to learn, when no one seems to want to or be able to help. Sassy learns that love comes in lots of different forms and expressions. And sometimes, more often than anyone would like, love and heartbreak come hand in hand. ( )