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Tornado
Everything is going well for Cara Jenson. Her grades are great, and she has the best thirteen year old sister, Kailee. Kailee begins to show slight change though as she becomes besties with a popular girl from her school. Things become more drastic when she turns fourteen and her behaviour begins to worry Cara, who notices these changes. Cara makes it her mission to find the root of this sudden behaviour, which seems to be triggered by some deep hidden pain..
52 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 25, 2020
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March 1, 2021I think the writer shows a lot of natural talent and Younger readers will enjoy this. A very real snapshot of what young lives can be like.
January 8, 2022
This was a little snapshot into the life of two teenage girls, as one of them is going through her rebellion phase and the other is trying to put the fires out. It was good and after a few pages, the story really did pull me in. There were some parts of the story that felt a bit disjointed but it got better as it went on. I was interested in knowing more about the relationship between the sisters and what the bigger picture of the story was.
Parts of the story felt very realistic - sometimes it felt like the teenage dialogue was bang on (I teach teenagers the same age as the younger sister, I'm pretty sure I've heard the same expressions), but I'm getting pretty frustrated with teacher or principal characters that are so badly written, like the one in this story was. A principal would (or at least, should) NEVER trust a student to tell their parent/guardian that they were suspended! I find it really irritating that had the principal actually done their job, there would have been an appropriate triad intervention between student-parent-school. (Yes, I am very aware that this is one small part of the story, but I find it irritating and offensive. Yes, I am certain that there are teachers and admin who actually speak and act like this. Yes, all authors have creative license to do as they wish. However... as a teacher who is damn proud of their job and takes it extremely seriously, I would really like to see some positive teacher role models, change up the narrative, you know).
Anyway. As a teacher, I have honestly witnessed Kailee's behavioural patterns many times and I appreciated this authentic and accurate portrayal of a teenager. Teenagers don't necessarily do what Kailee did, but I think this story accurately represented that phase of teenagehood when they can get a bit ahead of themselves or suddenly realize they are in a situation that they didn't mean to get themselves in. Teenagers don't have fully formed prefrontal cortexes. Kailee is a great representation of this.
Also, I'm just a bit curious why the author decided that it was necessary to identify a person from Cara's past as a "black guy" but the author never made a reference to anyone else's racial identity/ethnicity... at least, not that I noticed. I don't know, I just find this to be a bit dated, tokenizing, probably racist, and unncessary. It's like watching someone on a breakaway in soccer, getting to the goal and you're all excited, they go to kick... and instead, brush their foot against the ball instead of kicking it into the net, and it just rolls away pathetically. That's sort of the effect that had on this book. Sigh.
Thanks to the author and Voracious Readers Only for gifting me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
Parts of the story felt very realistic - sometimes it felt like the teenage dialogue was bang on (I teach teenagers the same age as the younger sister, I'm pretty sure I've heard the same expressions), but I'm getting pretty frustrated with teacher or principal characters that are so badly written, like the one in this story was. A principal would (or at least, should) NEVER trust a student to tell their parent/guardian that they were suspended! I find it really irritating that had the principal actually done their job, there would have been an appropriate triad intervention between student-parent-school. (Yes, I am very aware that this is one small part of the story, but I find it irritating and offensive. Yes, I am certain that there are teachers and admin who actually speak and act like this. Yes, all authors have creative license to do as they wish. However... as a teacher who is damn proud of their job and takes it extremely seriously, I would really like to see some positive teacher role models, change up the narrative, you know).
Anyway. As a teacher, I have honestly witnessed Kailee's behavioural patterns many times and I appreciated this authentic and accurate portrayal of a teenager. Teenagers don't necessarily do what Kailee did, but I think this story accurately represented that phase of teenagehood when they can get a bit ahead of themselves or suddenly realize they are in a situation that they didn't mean to get themselves in. Teenagers don't have fully formed prefrontal cortexes. Kailee is a great representation of this.
Also, I'm just a bit curious why the author decided that it was necessary to identify a person from Cara's past as a "black guy" but the author never made a reference to anyone else's racial identity/ethnicity... at least, not that I noticed. I don't know, I just find this to be a bit dated, tokenizing, probably racist, and unncessary. It's like watching someone on a breakaway in soccer, getting to the goal and you're all excited, they go to kick... and instead, brush their foot against the ball instead of kicking it into the net, and it just rolls away pathetically. That's sort of the effect that had on this book. Sigh.
Thanks to the author and Voracious Readers Only for gifting me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
March 7, 2021
An older sister that would do anything to protect her little sister. Cara doesn’t know why her sister is swearing, lying, and getting into fights all of a sudden. A tornado had taken over her sister and was causing all sorts of destruction. Will Cara be able to bring her sister back?
I thought this was a good read. It could’ve used a little more effort in the dialogue though. It was mostly written with the character name, period, and then the dialogue. It was a little odd and I’ve never seen anything like that.
Overall, this was a nice, little story on the bonds of sisterhood.
I thought this was a good read. It could’ve used a little more effort in the dialogue though. It was mostly written with the character name, period, and then the dialogue. It was a little odd and I’ve never seen anything like that.
Overall, this was a nice, little story on the bonds of sisterhood.
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