About this title: Like Shakespeare's famous star-crossed lovers, Romiette Cappelle and Julio Montague face strong opposition to their budding romance. In their case, a dangerous gang's disapproval of their interracial relationship puts the two in mortal peril.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780689842092ISBN:0689842090
Description: Lowenbein, Adam. Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780689842092ISBN:0689842090
Description: Lowenbein, Adam. Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780689842092ISBN:0689842090
Description: Lowenbein, Adam. Good. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780689842092ISBN:0689842090
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780689842092ISBN:0689842090
Description: Lowenbein, Adam. New. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: School & Library Binding
Publisher: San Val
Date Published: 2001-10
ISBN-13:9780613337236ISBN:0613337239
Description: Fair. Small tear in binding, but well intact book. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780689821806ISBN:0689821808
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean and tight copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780689821806ISBN:0689821808
Description: Lowenbein, Adam. New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Reinforced
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 1999-09-01
ISBN-13:9780689821806ISBN:0689821808
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780689821806ISBN:0689821808
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Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
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"Romiette and Julio By Sharon M. Draper Simon & Schuster/Children's Publishing Division, Inc. ISBN1-4025-7391-X Recorded version: Audiobook
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I read Romeo and Juliet long ago so I'm sure I missed many of the links in the story. I believe the last names of the characters were one link I missed. As a story, I thought their meeting in a chat room was a clever way to use technology in telling a story to today's youth. As with YA books sliding in a message, the conversation of the different teens speaking about locker searches, and dog-sniffing encounters in school was enlightening more to parents than to teens.
The characters were vivid in their thinking and their desires. The sidekicks were as much a part of the story as were the main characters. I relished Romi's best friend's vitality and excitement about life and herself. Her exaggerated sense of self was so teen. Also Bob had a strong sense of self in his differentness. Neither character seem to suffer any teen angst at being so different from everyone else.
The distrust and displeasure of those around the two main characters is a stark duplication of society's views of opposites attract. Whether painting all Blacks with the broad brush of one's solitary experience with a Black person, or the inclusive thinking of all others being foreigners, the idea of difference is broadcasted loud and clear to demonstrate the falsehood of there being a true difference between each of us.
That is one reason I was surprised by the difference in the two sidekick characters, Romi's best friend and Bob. In spite of being so different, they didn't suffer any feelings-of-outsider consequences.
Most of my difficulty with this book was with the language used by the two main characters. I am aware of Ms. Draper expertise in writing YA books, yet it appeared to me that Romi and Julio were expressing thoughts and feelings way above their levels and many adult levels. Maybe I haven't been hanging with enough teens lately, and I felt some of the declaration of love from Julio unlikely.
Also there is a big push to teach young girls to stand on their own and to look toward a future they can call their own. Yet Julio keeps announcing that he will never let anything bad happen to Romi. He said that he would take care of her no matter what. Yet every time he said that proclamation, they became enmeshed in worse trouble. As in the boat, tied up, Julio states again how he will take care of Romi. Seconds later, oops no spoilers, but she's in trouble. All I can say is with the fact that every time Julio said he would protect Romi, and they were in worse shape than before, I would have said, "Enough. Take care of your own self because I'm not counting on your full-of-air-empty statements."
The other big spot in the story that bothered me is when Romi's best friend asks Romi for $45. Romi hands over the money like no big thing. Granted, maybe the author wanted to present her characters in a different social class and income level. Romi's parents were successful in lucrative careers. However for a teen to have $45 handy in her pocket to hand out to a friend seems to me hard to believe.
Otherwise, the story was a good-feel piece that leaves everyone smiling on its last page. A good read for a lazy afternoon."
"I LOVE this book. I read it in middle school then again in high school. It's a wonderful love story. It keeps you going from the beginning. This was my first book by this author & I loved it so much I had to read her other books which we very good as well."
"Romiette Capelle is a sixteen-year-old African American student, and unbeknownst to her at the beginning of the story, she has a Mexican American peer of the same age, Julio Montague, who has just moved from Corpus Christie, Texas and transferred to her high school in Cleveland, Ohio. Romiette and Julio first meet behind the masks of the chat room names, "afroqueen" and "spanishlover" and later become close friends, fall in love, and make grand plans to go to prom like all regular teens through phone calls, emails, school lunches, and after school hangouts. They're both aware that their names resemble that of the doomed Romeo and Juliette whom they've read about in their English classes (they even have friends mirroring the characters in the Bard's drama) and can't help but feel that Fate is involved in their romance, especially as they're being harassed by an African American gang, the Devildogs, who object to their interracial dating. The Devildogs kidnap Romiette and Julio and leave them in a boat on a lake to flounder in a storm. Just like in the play, Romiette a.k.a. Juliette has a foreboding, one where she imagines herself drowning, but Julio, a.k.a. Romeo, is a strong swimmer, which result in the happy ending, the crux of the difference between this YA novel and Shakespeare's play. Whereas Romeo and Juliet ends tragically in their deaths, Romiette and Julio end up as "soul mates forever.""
"When Romiette meets Julio in the internet and finds out they go to the same school she thinks he is her soul mate and he is going to save her from her nightmare of fire and water.Romiette and Julio soon discover that some people are against teir relationship.Mostly because Romiette and Julio are of different race.A gang at the school,the Devildogs oppose to their relationship too.The Devildogs threaten them. Romiette and Julio come up with a risky plan to stop the threatening but things dont go like they planned them and they find themselves in the tragic reality of Romiette's dream between fire and water,and worst of all Romiette cant swim.I really liked this book and I think it's really intense because you will be so anxious to know what has happened to Romiette and Julio.This book is from Ms.Stoddards class,partner books."
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