Loves Me, Loves Me Not - Softcover

Bernardo, Anuilu

3.95

42 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155885259X ISBN 13: 9781558852594

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 1998

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Maggie is a smart, hard-working, responsible teenager who wants to become a doctor. She is given a great chance to try her skills when she is hired to care for an ailing elderly woman. They take a genuine liking to each other -- and her grandson is the school basketball star that Maggie has been pining over. But he has a girlfriend, and Maggie is being pursued by an all-too-serious suitor herself. Other differences seem to get in the way, too: Maggie is a Cuban American whose mother works nights to eke out a living; her admirers are well-off Anglos. This delightful and entertaining novel is as much an exploration of values and perceptions as it is of young and romantic love.

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Named to The New York Public Library's 2000 books for the Teen Age and the ALA's 2000 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults.

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paper 1-55885-259-X A cardboard romance enlivened slightly by its Cuban-American milieu. Maggie is smart and focused; she wants to be a nurse, as her mother is, and scarcely recalls her father, who died just out of medical school when she was a baby. Maggie and her best friend, Susie, live in Miami; they are typical teenagers whose Cuban background is evident in their use of Spanglish and in family customs and food. Maggie pines for golden jock Zach, the grandson of an elderly woman, Mrs. Maxwell, whom she helps around the house; her crush so blinds her that she refuses to see that Zach is careless of his grandmother's needs and feelings, and dismissive of Maggie's heritage. In a subplot, Susie sets Maggie up with Justin, her boyfriend Carlos's best friend. Standard teen temptations are created and demolished: Justin barely escapes getting into a fight; Carlos pressures Susie for sex so she breaks up with him. A climactic Christmas dinner with Zach's family, where Maggie is Mrs. Maxwell's guest because her own mother has to work, convinces her of Zach's true nature. Everything's a little too easy and neat, but Maggie's veering from sensible to silly will comfort teenagers who do the same. (Fiction. 12-14) -- Copyright �1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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