The Premise
So you move across the country, but make great friends you love it there. Now you are going back there for vacation. Your old friends and you are very excited, but... they've replaced you ? Your dad also has a new... girlfriend? Every things just changed! This is exactly what happened to Raisin in the book Will The Real Raisin Rodriguez Please Stand Up? by Judy Goldschmidt. Pia and Claudia ( her old friends in California ) have found a new Raisin. The cover is what got me interested into this book. It's also another realistic fictions which I love. This is also the third and last book of the series. A cool thing about this book is that she talks to the friends she's not with through her blog. So will Raisin be able to get her old life in California back? If not, what if things changed back in Philadelphia.
Significant Passage
"The girls just looked at one another with confused expressions. Meanwhile I was the one who was still a little confused. Why would Danny stay overnight at my dad's house? " OOOOOOHHHHHHH!" I said. And then I burst into tears. Started sobbing. Uncontrollably. The girls kept asking me why I was crying and trying to calm me down, but I couldn't stop. Eventually I went to the bathroom to wash my face, and then I finally stopped crying. When I came back, they all looked seriously concerned. " You guys, I'm a complete idiot. I really didn't think my dad and Danny were anything more than friends. He called her ' his friend Danny ', and I took him literally." ( Goldschmidt 140 )To me the main two conflicts in this book is her old friends and her dad's girlfriend. This passage tells you how the character finds out one of the conflicts. The biggest twist comes right after this paragraph. So I did give you a big clue, but not everything. The writing style in this passage of " OOOOOOHHHHHHH " shows a lot of emotion. the paragraph also tells you the real her. Like the kind of person she really is. How the title's name is Will The Real Raisin Rodriguez Please Stand Up?. I feel it's about being herself she can let out a good cry in front of her friends. I really recommend this if you want to read something easy, fun, and has a good twist at the end. If you do read it I hope you get to enjoy it as much as I did.
