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| Title | : | Beige |
| Author | : | Cecil Castellucci |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | May 8th 2007 by Candlewick Press (first published January 1st 2007) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Music. Teen. Realistic Fiction. Contemporary |
Cecil Castellucci
Hardcover | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 3.62 | 1481 Users | 194 Reviews
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Dad’s an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter’s a buttoned-up neat freak who’d rather be anywhere else. Can this summer be saved?Now that she’s exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she’ll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she’s spending two weeks with her father — punk name: the Rat — a recovered addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck. Even though Katy doesn’t want to be there, even though she feels abandoned by her mom, even though the Rat’s place is a mess and he’s not like anything she’d call a father, Katy won’t make a fuss. After all, she is a nice girl, a girl who is quiet and polite, a girl who smiles, a girl who is, well, beige. Or is she? From the author of BOY PROOF and THE QUEEN OF COOL comes an edgy new L.A. novel full of humor, heart, and music.
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| Original Title: | Beige |
| ISBN: | 0763630667 (ISBN13: 9780763630669) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=Title&mode=book&isbn=0763630667&pix=n |
| Literary Awards: | Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2009) |
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Ratings: 3.62 From 1481 Users | 194 ReviewsCritique About Books Beige
I'd really want to give it 3.5 stars, but I tipped the rating because I liked the setting of the book so much. "Why does everyone want to be a musician? Music is dangerous. You could end up like Elliott Smith, stabbed right in the heart." This book combines some of my favorite things - Los Angeles (especially the neighborhoods of Silver Lake, Los Feliz, and Hollywood), punk music, libraries, and French (due to the main character's origins in Montreal). The story is fairly predictable, but theI actually liked this quite a lot, probably I'd give 3 and a half stars, but since a great deal of that is that it takes place in my neighborhood, I'm leaving it at three stars. What I liked:1. Obviously! I've never read something set in Silver Lake/Los Feliz before, some really nice touches, like I got all IF THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE ELLIOTT SMITH MEMORIAL I WILL BE UNHAPPY but that got taken care of. (Totally made me go get a pupusa too, dammit!)2. Family drama, seemed real within the world
When Katy Ratner discovers she'll be spending two weeks of her summer with her father, The Rat, instead of in Peru with her mother, she's not happy about it. But she figures she can deal.Shortly after arriving at the airport she changes her mind. Upon arrival at the Rat's apartment she knows she can't do this. Mess, everywhere. Her room, she can tell he tried with her room. Except it's still not her. She pleads with her mother via text messages, but apparently her seriousness has such an edge to
Everybody looks for something interesting to read. Beige by Cecil Castellucci is a very entertaining book. It exhibits the process of someone being in an awkward situation and overcoming it by keeping an open mind. Whether is an adult or a young person at some point everyone can relate with this story. Castellucci gives the characters personalities that can be reflected in every human. This is the reason people can identify with many of the character and understand it better. Beige by Cecil
I'm reading a lot of paranormal YA lately but it's nice to take a detour into something more emotionally honest and deeper. It's not that paranormal can't tap deep feelings - but they tend to tap deep feeings like fear, anger, denial and overwhelming desire. Emotions on the scale of regular human teenagers just don't register when they fall between action scenes that make your heart stop beating for a second.So a book like Beige in which focuses minutely on moments between an estranged father
Overall this book was decent. The story is about a girl from Montreal Canada that traveled to LA, California to be with her dad for a little while her mom is on vacation. I was not a fan of the man character though because she had an attitude throughout the whole story and was hostile to her dad who tried so hard to create conversation with her. The author could have made the book better by having a better main character. If the character were to be kind to her father then the novel would have
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