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Taking Sides (Paperback)

by Gary Soto (Author) "Tony, Lincoln Mendoza whispered into the telephone ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH); Reissue edition (Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0152046941
  • ISBN-13: 978-0152046941
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for sixth graders as part of Courage Curriculum, 25 Jan 1999
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Taking Sides is an incredibly sensitive book that touches on themes adolescents really care about: racial identity, overcoming prejudice, loyalty, and being true to oneself. Through his main character, Lincoln Mendoza, author Gary Soto has captured the challenges faced by a Chicano eighth-grader from San Francisco's Mission District barrio who has moved to an upper-middle-class suburb nearby. The transition is not smooth. How can he hold onto his old friends while making new ones? What's it like being the only dark-skinned player on the new school's basketball team? To which team should Lincoln be loyal--the old or the new?

Teachers and curriculum directors in the Boston Public Schools have been so impressed by the powerful themes in Taking Sides that they have selected it as one of six core novels for sixth graders as part of the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum. The other five novels are: Maniac Magee, Number the Stars, Bridge to Terabithia, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. As with Taking Sides, each novel addresses the theme of courage--different types of courage, what it takes to act courageously, and how even small acts of courage can have enormous consequences in everyday life.

I highly recommend Taking Sides as a book that will inspire adolescent readers to be true to themselves and overcome prejudice.

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2.0 out of 5 stars I was very unimpressed with this book, 15 Dec 1998
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I didn't really like this book at all. It was very uninteresting and boring. I was close to falling asleep becasue nothing new ever happens. Also, the boy thinks way too much about basketball and he never thinks about his mom or school or anything. I wouldn't reccomend it.
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