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#6128892 in Books 2004-11-09 2004-11-09Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x 1.05 x 5.88l, #File Name: 0385746482336 pages0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This might have gotten five stars but for the last bit.By Meaghan(This review contains spoilers.)This is certainly a very lush and evocative coming-of-age story, sounding much more YA-ish (conflicts with parents, missing friends, crush on boy) in the first half than the second. I particularly liked the way Benita's mother was drawn, and I thought her father's boorish behavior and conflicts with the natives were (sadly) about what you would expectFrom School Library JournalGrade 9 UpA coming-of-age novel with an unusual and exotic setting. Benita, 14, lives in Ecuador. Her father, whose business has been ruined by the Great Depression, decides to move the family to a small, primitive tropical island where he plans to raise coconut palms. OncWHEN 14-YEAR-OLD BENITA'S Papa is wiped out by the Depression, he moves the family from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to the primitive island of Paita with a wild scheme to start a coconut plantation. Benita moves from a grand house to a shack on the beach, from going to school to working in the fields. But Papas no farmer, and he makes trouble with the islanders. The only good thing about Paita is the handsome Raul. When he asks her to leave her family to live in the wilderness, Benita runs off with him....
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