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Cargando... Also known as Sadzia! the belly dancer! (1987)por Merrill Joan Gerber
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Love this book. A girl is continually nagged by her mother and best friend to exercise and lose weight. At the Y she wanders into a belly-dancing class and finds it fits her body type and her personality. A story of self-image, resisting pressure to be something you are not, and finding your true self. A romance doesn't hurt either! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Under pressure from her mother to lose weight in an exercise class, a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl rebels and joins a class in belly dancing where she finds independence, romance, and self-confidence--and an intriguing drummer named Sumir. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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They were generally uninspired. Even the dutifully included humourous element would be flabby. They were as sanctimoniously moral as Newberry's goody two shoes.
Which is why I'm nervous of reviewing this. Reduced to bullet points, it sounds like bibliotherapy hell.
Heroine's mum stresses about diets and being fat. 16 year old heroine is mildly regretful she has plump metabolism but not remotely stressed about it. I loved the heroine; she was a good person without inducing eye rolling, mature without beiing unconvincing. She wants to learn hebrew from the granny substitute she visits regularly. She loses patience with aerobics-mad friend but bonds with the friend's hippy mum. She gets into belly dancing where being curvy is a plus, fights to maintain boundaries with her mum, and comes out of it all okay.
The background is terribly 80s. There's a bit in a department store where they debate makeup and the colours they mention are pumpkin mustard and camel. ( )