Loved itThis book is told in verse and it is beautiful. ... it is a beautiful book about sisterhood about grief and love ... my favorite Elizabeth Oavdo book by far.
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Clap When You Land (2020)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.
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- 432 pages
Genres: young adult
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Loved itIt's It's really good. I really enjoyed it and I need to read more by that author.
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Loved itthis book nails a lot about grief and explores a really complicated sister relationship expertly one of the main characters is safic and has a girlfriend from the beginning of the book there are discussions of economic disparity and how that economic disparity shows up from new york to the dominican republic
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Loved itit is a fabulously written dual narrative story each of the characters have a very distinctive voice that feels super authentic and genuine i can't say i love kamino or yahira more
Loved itthe next book i really freaking loved is collab with new land by elizabeth acevedo i read all three of elizabeth acevedo's books this year and i loved all of them
Loved iti read clap when you land first it's her newest book i think it came out in early 2020 and i was absolutely blown away by it
Not a fanthis one just really didn't click with me and it was one of my least favorite things that i read this year i just found it really boring and i couldn't connect to any of the characters and i don't really know why i just wasn't a big fan of it
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Loved itAnd i'm gonna put that in: the volume of this book is astronomical. Really enjoyed that book and i just found out it's gonna become a tv series, so really looking forward to seeing that tv show and how they're gonna bring the story to life.
Loved itthis is going to go in the best of the best i love elizabeth acevedo she does such a great job with her books and this one was no exception
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Loved itthis was just impactful i mean it was just beautifully done just two beautiful voices trying to navigate life without their father who they both adored and loved but at the same time they're so pissed at him because he didn't tell them that the other existed