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Acevedo, Elizabeth. CLAP WHEN YOU LAND New York : HarperCollins, [2020] IL YA ISBN 9780062882769 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 Camino Rios arrives at the airport in the Dominican Republic to welcome her father home. In New York City, Yahaira Rios gets called to the school office where she finds her mother crying. The sisters, who don’t know about each other’s existence yet, find out that their father has died in a plane crash. As the sisters grieve, they will discover the truth about their father, family secrets, and each other. This novel in verse is written in alternating points of view and explores loss, sexual assault, family, and cultural identity. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2021-2022) Booktalk #2 Camino eagerly counts the days until her father’s yearly visit to see her in the Dominican Republic. But this summer, when she gets to the airport, she is met with the terrifying news that his plane has crashed over the ocean. That same day, Yahaira is called out of class to find her mother waiting for her in the principal’s office. She learns that her father has died in a plane crash. Both girls reel from confusion and grief, and things get even more complicated when they learn about each other. Neither one realized they had a sister. Separated by the ocean, and their father’s secrets, the two girls must accept their new reality and each other. This novel-in-verse from Elizabeth Acevedo, author of The Poet X, brims with love and grief, and will stay with you long after you finish it. (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2022) |
| SUBJECTS: Novels in verse. Aircraft accidents -- Fiction. Sisters -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. Grief -- Fiction. Parents -- Death -- Fiction. Dominican Americans -- Fiction. Dominican Republic -- Fiction. |
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