Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Author diana lopez is spoton with her descriptions of budding middle school romance, merciless teasing, and parentchild misunderstandings. A heartwarming middle grade story about a young latina girl, navigating growing pains in her south texan city. Confetti girl was taught in childrens literature classes, and since its a tween novel, at elementary and middle grade schools.
Emma and jannie eat and cook healthy food and fried chicken funny food toys video for kids duration. In the passages from confetti girl and tortilla sun, the narrators have points of view. Young readers will find much to like about confetti girl, including the added bonus of the latino words of wisdom that begin each chapter and the hispanic customs scattered throughout the story. Also check out goodreads,, little brown books for young readers, scholastic, amazon, and barnes and noble. Confetti girl by diana lopez scholastic books for kids. Parentssiblingsbabies, school, loss, friendship grade. Confetti girl by diana lopez abebooks shop for books. Flores is a sock enthusiast, a volleyball player, a science lover, and a girl whos just looking for answers. The confetti girl by diana lopez year 2010 199 pages this book is intended for teens and young adults or really any age.
Lina has a deceased mom and she likes to collect books. Diana is a texan native and taught middle school there for nine years, and she has perfectly captured that setting and age group. Confetti girl by diana lopez books, resources, supplies. The person who wrote the book confetti girl is the author diana lopez for more info of the book go to bye thank you for the question asked in super bowl, olympic history, italian. Diana pronounced deeanna lopez is a native of corpus christi, texas. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading confetti girl. Apolonia lina flores is a brave latina girl trying to restore her life in corpus christi, tex. Confetti girl apolonia lina flores is a sock enthusiast, a volleyball player, a science lover, and a girl whos just looking for answers. Author diana lopez uses corpus christi as setting for her book. Confetti girl by diana lopez and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. What is the meaning of the meaning of the word sarcasm as it is used in paragraph 18 of the passage from confetti girl. The main issue in the book is issues between friends and parents. To the internet archive community, time is running out.
Confetti 1 colorful falling paper dots motion background video loop duration. A funny and heartfelt story about a girl dealing with the trials of middle school and her mother. Used with permission of chronicle books llc, san francisco. You can also click here for a book trailer of confetti girl featuring the author. Author diana lopez goes back to her roots, uses corpus christi as setting for book confetti girl takes place in corpus christi and is a coming of age story about a girl. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read confetti girl. Confetti girl is a book about a middle schooler named lina. Like colors in cascarones, linas life is a rainbow of people, interests, and unexpected changes. Read the passage from the novel confetti girl and the passage from tortilla sun. The best way for us to get our books out there is to support each other. Even though her house is crammed full of books her dads a bibliophile, shes having trouble figuring out some very big questions, like why her dad seems to care about books more than her, why her best friends divorced mom is obsessed with making.
Lina s frustration grows as she discovers the vicissitudes of the first love and that happiness can be as fragile as an eggshell. Vanessas parents have divorced and her mother spends her days making cascarones, a traditional mexican goodluck craft made of eggshells and filled with confetti, which become the book s central metaphor. Vanessas parents have divorced and her mother spends her days making cascarones, a traditional mexican goodluck craft made of eggshells and filled with confetti, which become the books central metaphor. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. This book is one to suggest to young girls age 10 or 11 and up who maybe dont enjoy reading so much, but who would enjoy a story about a girl like themselves. Even though her house is crammed full of books her dads a bibliophile, shes having trouble figuring out some very big questions, like why her dad seems to care about books more than her, why her best friends divorced mom is obsessed with making cascarones hollowed. This book is a really fun read and could be for all ages. It was published by little, brown books for young readers and has a total of 208 pages in the book.
Confetti girl by diana lopez in fb2, rtf, txt download e book. Apolonia lina flores is looking for answers, but she cant seem to figure out why shes losing all the important people in her life, even with a house crammed full of books and facts. Apolonia lina flores is a sock enthusiast, a volleyball player, a science lover, and a girl whos just looking for answers. I had mentioned that i was looking for more multicultural projects, both projects that had very much to do with cultural identity, and other projects that featured main characters of color, but. After the death of her mother, texas sixthgrader linas grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend. Related subjects ceremony and tradition divorce and separation friends and friendship latin american and latino parents school life single parent families. Confetti girl paperback may 1, 2010 by diana lopez author 4. I had mentioned that i was looking for more multicultural projects, both projects that had very much to do with cultural identity, and other projects that featured main characters of color, but of which their ethnicity was not. Diana can also be found on the site read to write stories, where she blogs about how to create conflict with subtext. Ever so quietly, author diana lopez, fills the story with significant moments of authenticity. Confetti girl by diana lopez 9780316029568 booktopia. Buy the paperback book confetti girl by diana lopez at indigo. She now lives in san antonio, where she taught in a middle school for nearly a decade and currently teaches english at st. See all 9 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
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