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Like Sisters On The Home Front (Hardcover)

de Garcia Williams (Author) "THE FIRST TIME Gayle slammed the bathroom door, her mother let it go ..." En savoir plus
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As this unusually perceptive, streetwise novel opens, Gayle, 14, already a mother to seven-month-old Jose, is once again pregnant. Brooking no opposition, Mama marches Gayle to a clinic for an abortion, then sends her and Jose to Columbus, Ga., to live with Mama's semi-estranged brother, minister Luther Gates, and his family. Much to Gayle's surprise, the Gateses live in an antebellum mansion on a sizeable estate. And to her dismay, Luther's wife, "Miss Auntie," assigns her to help care for Great, her bedridden great-grandmother, along with a host of other chores and, of course, caring for Jose. Foul-mouthed Gayle has nothing but contempt for the houseful of "holy rollers"-especially cousin Cookie, who at 16 still wears kneesocks and hasn't been "busted" by a man, much less kissed. But through learning about family history from astute, acid-tongued Great and Miss Auntie, Gayle, who has always stood defiantly alone, begins to see how she is an integral part of a greater whole. Williams-Garcia (Fast Talk on a Slow Track) perhaps effects a faster metamorphosis in Gayle than is strictly credible, but no matter. The emotions ring true, as does the portrait of contemporary black culture. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Grade 7 Up?This is a wonderful book about going home again, about the strength of family love, and about the power of friendship. Gayle is a black 14-year-old mother who, when she becomes pregnant again, is sent South to do some growing up among relatives she doesn't know and doesn't particularly like. Streetwise, sullen, disrespectful, and angry, she gradually comes under the spell of her wise and very old great-grandmother. Great is feisty, quarrelsome, soils herself, and never leaves her room, but with her dying words gives Gayle the gift of both the past and the future. Gayle comes to know her aunt and uncle, and especially her cousin, but she also discovers what her mother must have been like as a young woman. This knowledge allows her to better understand the importance of family and friendship. Beautifully written, the text captures the cadence and rhythm of New York street talk and the dilemma of being poor, black, and uneducated. This is a gritty, realistic, well-told story that will make an excellent addition to YA fiction collections.?Carol Jones Collins, Montclair Kimberley Academy, NJ
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Greatest Book For Teenage Girls, Jui 11 2004
Par Cindy (Northrdge, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Williams Garcia, Rita. Like Sisters on the Homefront. Dutton: Lodestar Books, 1995.

Like Sisters on the Homefront is a book that could actually be used for learning from our mistakes. This book could actually teach some morals to a lot of people, especially teenage girls. It is about a girl, Gayle who makes a lot of mistakes in her life. Gayle is a very tough, brave girl who doesn't cry for anything, no matter how much it hurts. First she gets pregnant by a married man and later when she is 14 she gets pregnant again by another guy, but her mother makes her get an abortion. Her mother then sends her off to live with her very strict, Uncle Luther. There she has to work really hard and get along with her very upright cousin, Cookie. The only person she can relate to there is, Great, her great grandmother who teaches her about her family history. It is there where she learns her manners and becomes a respectful person and where she cries for the first time. The best part of all is that she decides to go back to school. Gayle changes her life a lot, all for the better.

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Change is common in everyone's life, in fact it happens constantly. Change is crucial in all lives because people should be open to different things. This is the only way that people will be able to succeed in life. In the book Like Sisters on the Homefront, Gayle a fourteen-year-old mother, changes dramatically for good. She changes from being a rude, mean, tough girl who above everything, has not, and does not plan to ever cry for anyone or anything in her whole life. Gayle changes every aspect of herself once it comes to her attention that those are not good qualities for any person to have. Gayle changes the way she acts towards school, her mother, her son, her sisters on the homefront, even the way she talks, and well of course she pretty much changes her attitude towards the whole entire world.
One thing that my parents taught was to be respectful to all elders whether I know them or not but Gayle sure is not even respectful to any elder, not even her mother.
Before Gayle went to her Uncle Luther's house she was always a really rude person to everybody whether she new them or whether she didn't. An example of this is when she was really rude to her mother. She would never listen to what her mother would say, she would ignore her, and she would not do what her mother would ask her to do. Whatever her mother would say she would do the complete opposite, everything her mother would say would go in through one ear and would go out the other ear. She was always mouthing off to her mother and as we all know that is very disrespectful. Gayle was also very rude to her aunt in Georgia, her cousin Cookie, and even her friends' mothers. After her journey of self-reflection she changes the way that she is, meaning that she is not so

disrespectful towards everyone. Some ways that show this is how she decides to listen to her mother. She also decides to be more open to new things. Like before she changes she hated church and she hated how Cookie was always talking about god and how her cousin is in the choir. After her change she decides to go to church on her own will and she even considers joining the choir.
Another one of her really bad qualities is her attitude. Her attitude also changes thoroughly. Before she went to her Uncle Luther's house she didn't care much for school or for baby, two very important things of her life. These are very important things because in order to make something of yourself you have to go to school and graduate. Her baby is also a very important thing because she has to take care of him and lead him in the right path, so that her son will not have such messed up life just like hers. This is something else that she is able to change drastically. She is able to notice with the help of other people that she has to do both things, finish school and raise her son properly. That is exactly the reason why she decides to go back to school to graduate and she also starts to take better care of her son. Another very important thing that shows how she changes her attitude is when she cries for the first time. Her crying shows how she is not so sober anymore.
So as you can see change is very important. Change is especially important when it has to do with the way you are. It might be hard but you should still try hard to change a little. It is very important to be open to a lot of new things as well as being a good person, concerning the your actions, your attitude, and being open to new things. Just like Gayle changed her life you can also change your own. It wasn't easy for Gayle to change her bad aspects, but she still did with the help of others. You should really read the book so that you can see how you can change and what could help you change while also reading how Gayle changes and what she does to change.

I recommend this book earnestly, because you can learn a lot from. This is a book that you can learn a lot from so that you won't make really bad mistakes that could mess up your life. So I really hope that you will really read this book so that you can be conscience and you can ponder about some things before you do them.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Like Sisters on the Homefront, Fév 4 2004
Par Tiana (Maryland) - Voir tous mes commentaires
What if your mother sent you away to Georgia because you kept getting into trouble? Gayle Whittaker, an impertinent 14-year-old girl, is very disrespectful toward herself and her elders. Her view on life is misunderstood because she thinks school is not needed. In addition, she has a baby, Jose, but gets pregnant again and her mother forces her to get an abortion. Her mother realizes that if she doesn't take action Gayle will get even more disrespectful toward everyone. She decides to send Gayle to Georgia to live with her uncle. At first Gayle thinks that sending her to Georgia is a waste, so she doesn't cooperate with her uncle and his family. Gayle starts to realize how important life is once she meets her great grandmother, who knows all about the power of her family.
Rita Williams-Garcia, the author of Like Sisters on the Homefront, used a lot of details to get her message across. I felt as though she expanded on certain subjects where she needed to and left some things to the imagination. She made it seem like you were the character. In comparison to other authors I think she used fewer details, but that didn't take away from the book.
I would recommend Like Sister on the Homefront to young females between the ages of 12 and 16 because it speaks to people who are confused about there purpose in life. I would also recommend this book to people who like realistic fiction because it teaches you that there are unexpected obstacles that are thrown at you in life, but you just have to make wise decisions when you reach those obstacles.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Like Sister's on the Homefront, Mai 11 2003
Par "lorfs331" (Chicago, IL) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Rita Williams-Garcia's Like Sisters on the Homefront is the tale of a fourteen-year-old girl who is sent by her mother to live with her Aunt and Uncle in the south after getting pregnant for the second time. Gayle Whitaker, the protagonist in the story, compares her stay at the relatives as 'being sold into slavery'.(Williams-Garcia. 23)
This link is constantly being made throughout the story by Gayle, a girl who seems to lack any kind of regard towards anyone or anything except herself and three friends. The reader has a hard time connecting to her because she appears so self-centered which although common among young teenagers is hard to accept from a girl who seems older than her years as a result of her experiences. It is only through Gayle's interpretation of the world that one can see how vulnerable she is and realize that her lack in concern is directly related towards her age and development.
Gayle's lack of any type of emotion is clear from the beginning of the book when the reader discovers she is pregnant. To the reader it seems as though her regard to her situation is without concern. Her response to the abortion was more a sense of annoyance than any type of loss or even understanding about consequences. When the Doctor tries to offer some sympathy and encouragement during the procedure Gayle responded with, "Oh, Doc, it ain?t nothing to cry about."(Williams-Garcia. 8)
The inconsistency Gayle expresses shows how she can still easily be taken advantage. Throughout most of the book she tries contacting her boyfriend Troy with no success. Instead of realizing he has moved on she places the blame of his lack of response on everybody else but him. Yet the flight attendant on the plane causes Gayle to feel suspicious. "Gayle didn?t trust her. She was to nice." (Williams-Garcia. 21)
Although she seems experienced and often the reader forgets her age, comments Gayle makes throughout the book often expose how young and unexposed to the world she really is. While flying over New York, Gayle notices the landmarks like a wide-eyed child. "Jose! Look. There go that Freedom Lady and her torch. See! And those two giant buildings be on postcards. Look!"(Williams-Garcia. 22)
Upon meeting her relatives at the airport, Gayle refuses to show any emotion towards her cousin Constance. Although she is aware the 'insolent' response to her cousins 'sympatric look' causes Constance to feel rejected and reveals this by justifying her unfriendly behavior to herself. "How can I smile at you? Smiling means we know the same thing, and you don't even know what I'm feeling. Cootie still sore fore the abortion. Ears still ringing from the plane ride. Back fit to split wide open from playing the mule, but I?m s?posed to be grinning at you?"(Williams-Garcia. 27)
Many readers may have a hard time relating to this book. The main character seems shallow. Taking a closer look though shows depth to Gayle and allows a great deal of maturity and growth throughout the book.
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