Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper, Adam Lowenbein (Illustrator)
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)
- Age Range: Young Adult
- Pub. Date: May 2001
- 336pp
- Sales Rank: 6,403
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- ISBN-13: 9780689842092
- ISBN: 0689842090
- Edition Description: Reprint
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Sharon Draper is a two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author, most recently for Copper Sun, and previously for Forged by Fire. She's also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Author Award for New Talent for Tears of a Tiger and the Coretta Scott King Author Honor for The Battle of Jericho and November Blues. Her other books include Romiette and Julio, Darkness Before Dawn, and Double Dutch. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she taught high school English for twenty-five years. She's a popular conference speaker, addressing educational and literary groups both nationally and internationally. For more information visit her online at www.sharondraper.com.
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Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
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Romiette is African American; Julio is Hispanic. Ironically, Julio's family relocated to escape gangs in his old high school in Texas only to find Cincinnati has them also. The two meet on the Internet and go off to a private chat room before they realize they are students at the same school. With names like these you feel they must have an ill-fated ending. In keeping with the Shakespearean tale, they are destined to be together while peers and family try to persuade them to part. The Devildogs, the notorious gang that rules the high school, are incensed by Romiette and Julio's relationship and harass them to the point that it becomes quite dangerous for the two. The story is a bit predictable but still enjoyable. KLIATT Codes: JS—Recommended for junior and senior high school students. 1999, Simon & Schuster, Aladdin, 320p., $4.99. Ages 13 to 18. Reviewer: Sherri Forgash Ginsberg; Chapel Hill, NC , September 2001 (Vol. 35 No. 5)
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Sharon Draper is a two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author, most recently for Copper Sun, and previously for Forged by Fire. She's also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Author Award for New Talent for Tears of a Tiger and the Coretta Scott King Author Honor for The Battle of Jericho and November Blues. Her other books include Romiette and Julio, Darkness Before Dawn, and Double Dutch. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she taught high school English for twenty-five years. She's a popular conference speaker, addressing educational and literary groups both nationally and internationally. For more information visit her online at www.sharondraper.com.
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Why does love has to be so complicated?by Anonymous
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November 09, 2009: Two young people of name Romiette and Julio of different race know themselves and fall in love. Both go to the same high school but a group of students does not accept their relation by their different origin. Later the group of students kidnaps the young people, they take them and put them in a boat leaving them in the sea. They spend complicated and sad hours because their lives are going away to finish in the nowhere. All these took place in a normal day chatting in the internet and meeting in the high school. The main characters are Romiette and Julio because they are the ones that make the story interesting. Romiette is a junior and is afraid of water. Julio is a junior also he was depressed that he had to move away from his house. I think the message of the whole story is that you can find love no matter the race or culture. Many people these days find someone they love by the way he or she acts and thinks not caring the way they look. I really did liked the book because it has romance and I love romantic books. This book has so many interesting details that you will think that you are in the story. When you begin to read the book you cannot stop to read it.
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November 04, 2009: Do you like adventure, romance, and realism, if you do then you will love Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper. This novel fits perfectly in the romance category. Romi lives in the town of Cincinnati; she has her whole life. Julio had lived in Corpus Christi, and just recently moved to Cincinnati. As soon as you are introduced to Julio you can tell that he is not happy about the move and hates Cincinnati, he doesn't like the cold or the gray. The two meet in a chat room, when they find out they live in the same town, they meet up and have lunch together. However, because of their budding romance, "The Family", and all African American gang in the school, also called "The Devil dogs" want to break them up, they will do what ever they have to to do so. Romi has been protected from "The Family" her whole life, simply because she has never done anything to disturb them and is African American. Julio though is Hispanic and causes trouble. They try to give the two several warnings that if they don't stop seeing each other, they will take matters in to their own hands. They think they can handle the situation by them selves, with the help of their friends Destiny and Ben, Ben is different, his hair is a different color everyday, and he has piercings everywhere. He met Julio on the first day when Julio punched him in the nose, because he said "Hey, man! Get out of the way!"Destiny leaves everything about her life to the Universe and the stars. She knows one day she will find her soul mate and she'll know when she does. They plan to tape the gang threatening them, but they overlooked a few details and some things start to go wrong. Sharon Drapers writing style is unique, when you are reading the book you can feel like you where their for all of this, like it happened yesterday. The characters describe everything with excellentt detail, like the first passage in the book, Romisrecurringg dream, "The water thundered into her ears, forced itself down herthroatt, and burned its way into her nose, her lungs, her brain. This water was fierce and deadly-no cool,gentle waves, but hot, chocking liquid flame, sucking the breath of life from her. She struggled, searching for air, for land, for something to hold on to. But there was only the water, pulling her into its depths. She couldn't breathe. She couldn't swim. She couldn't even scream. The water filled her, seared her thoughts, and she drifted slowly into unconsciousness. The fire cooled, the terror ebbed, and the dark shadow of death embraced her." You see this passage in the story many time, each time a little different, her dream changes as she goes through her life. Does this have anything to do with Julio? The Family? Her friends? You'll have to read to find out, it's definitely worth it. The theme to Roomette and Julio is anti-conformist, it's anti-conformist because when The Family had confronted Romi and Julio they didn't do what everyone else had done, run away and listen to them, they tried to fight back. This novel sends a good message to stand up for your self and always have faith, also to know what your getting into, don't overlook things. I highly recommend this book for anyone who likes romance, tied in with a lot of action, where there is always something happening to keep you hooked, and something anyone can relate to them selves, or society. I think the last passage of the book says a lot about the book in a whole, but you...
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