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- W4379416174 abstract "Reviewed by: All You Get Is Me Karen Coats Prinz, Yvonne . All You Get Is Me. HarperTeen, 2011. 280p. ISBN 978-0-06-171580-8 $16.99 Ad Gr. 7-10. Roar (short for Aurora) is now a reluctant farm girl, having been dragged along into her lawyer father’s new organic-living plans after her unstable mother finally left for good. While Roar and her dad are driving their produce to a market one day, an impatient woman passes them on a double yellow line, pauses to flip them off, and runs head on into an oncoming truck, killing the driver, Sylvia, an undocumented worker and mother of an infant. Roar’s father goes back into lawyer mode, encouraging Tomás, Sylvia’s husband, to file a wrongful death suit against the woman. They also hire Tomás on their farm but have to send him away for his own safety after other migrant workers beat him up as a warning not to file his lawsuit, since it will cause trouble for all of them. Meanwhile, Roar embarks on a relationship with a boy named Forest, who happens to be the son of the woman who killed Sylvia. In sharing the farm with him, she begins to realize that she is in fact proud of what she and her father do, and she worries that her father’s activism will threaten the very people that he’s trying to defend. This isn’t up to the standard of McNeal’s similarly themed Dark Water (BCCB 10/10); the sweetly growing romance narrative is regularly broken by passages, bordering on sermonettes, regarding the plight of undocumented workers. There is nothing subtle about the messaging here: the setup of the tragedy effectively reduces the complexity of the issues involved, and bad guys are painted with an almost clumsily broad brush, including a snidely comic portrait of Roar’s best friend’s Christian parents. After the initial death, nothing truly horrible happens, though, and psychologically astute redemption forms a part of the plot alongside the love story. Thus the title is a tad misleading: readers may come for the romance or even the portrait of life on a California produce farm, but they’ll get a lot more along the way. [End Page 291] Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois" @default.
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- W4379416174 title "All You Get Is Me (review)" @default.
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