The Unforgiven

Urban Underground

by Anne E. Schraff

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After Naomi's brother Orlando leaves, she is determined to bring the family back together again.

Genres: Realistic Fiction

198 pages, ebook

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Anne Elaine Schraff grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University at Northridge and taught high school for ten years.

Anne paid her way through college by writing short stories for magazines. Since college she has written hundreds of stories and over eighty books including historical fiction, biographies, science books, and her favorite, fictional books for young people. She is published as both Anne Schraff and Anne E. Schraff.

Her background, which she describes as "multicultural, lower middle-class neighborhood, including African Americans, Mexican Americans, Arab Americans, and Filipino Americans," is her greatest inspiration when writing.

Reviews

[Kiara Parks · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a very great book, I think this is the 2nd book of the series.. I don't know anyways. My favorite character remained Ernie, he's sweet, kind, and he could be 'rough' when he needs to. I'm glad that Naomi's father forgave his sons because he needed them and they needed him. I love the underground series this book is to good.

[Erica Locke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a beautiful ending. I cried happy tears.

[Emeli · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book I am currently reading is called The Unforgiven" by Anne Schraff. The genre if the book is realistic fiction.

The book is about a split Mexican family. The 2 eldest sons are banned from getting near the family and the house after a big aggressive arguments with their father. The mother has to secretly meet with her sons without her husband finding out. Could it get any worse?

Yet Noami (only sister from the family) in the family wants to heal the family and bring them together and bring everything back to normal. The book flows out with her trying to heal her family and bring things to normal. Through her wanted to heal the family the book flows through out.

This book grabbed my attention because of the tittle and the summary grabbed me in to because I know a lot of latin families broken up. Also because i feel unforgiven and unwilling to forgive.

I did see myself reading this book, I read a lot of realistic fiction books.

I would give the book a five star because of how the book was detailed from the begging of the book until the end. The ending is really awesome and very cheesy as well.

I would recommend the book to anyone who likes a good realistic fiction book. I recommend it since it wasn't recommended to me.

[Morgan Brough]

The book, "The Unforgiven", by Anne Schraff was a very interesting book. It told a story of a girl named Naomi who was trying to put her family back together. It was a dramatic book with lots of little details that explained it all. The characters in the book had lots of secrets to hide and a tragic loss as well. Naomi ends up fighting with her dad about how he threw her brother's out of the house and left them on the street. I loved the fighting in this book because it became to me in so much detail. I recommend this book for anyone who likes dramatic, tragic, and a thirst for adventure.

[Christian]

The book “The Unforgiven” is a real exciting book and I recommend it to who likes books with a good taste for books with strong language and whoever likes a good story line. Some parts that I liked and disliked about this book. One part that I liked about the book “The Unforgiven” is that the storyline is amazing and has great word structure that helps me understand the book and makes it a great series to be reading. One part about the story that story that I don't like though is the names of the characters because there are too many characters and their names don't make any sense and don't sound like real names.

[Stacey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another book for young adults The theme for this book is obviously forgiveness because Naomi's father has gotten into a fight with his two oldest sons, Orlando and Manny because they "disrespected" him when they were just really protecting their mother from getting into harm's way. And Naomi has recently broke up with her ex boyfriend because he had punched her in the face over something really stupid. So, I kind of recommend this book to young readers but then again, not. I mean, it's not a bad book but still. I kind of enjoyed it

[Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book, "The Unforgiven", by Anne Schraff was very interesting. It was a story about a girl named Naomi and how she was trying to put her family back together. It was a dramatic book with lots of little details that explained everything. The characters in the book had lots of secrets to hide and a tragic loss as well. Naomi ends up fighting with her dad because he threw her brother's out of the house and left them homeless. I loved the fighting in this book because it came to me in so much detail. I recommend this book for anyone who likes drama and adventure.