Marilyn J. Praisner Teen Book Club - In-person

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Join us for a discussion of Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. This program is for teens ages 13-17. Snacks will be provided!

Copies of Clap When You Land will be available beginning August 22, 2023.

 
Clap When You Land is available as an eBook and eAudiobook on Libby and Hoopla. 
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"In this sharp and compelling verse novel (a 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book honoree), sixteen-year-old Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic and dreams of medical school. Sixteen-year-old Yahaira Rios is a native New Yorker who plays competitive chess. Although the two girls share a last name, they are strangers. But after flight 1112 from New York City to the Dominican Republic crashes with the man they each called Papi on board, Camino and Yahaira learn of each others existence. In two distinct voices, Acevedo (The Poet X, rev. 3/18; With the Fire on High, rev. 5/19) explores the rich inner lives of the sudden half-sisters as they grapple with their complicated feelings about their father and the secrets he kept. Yahaira narrates in stirring non-rhyming couplets; Camino in intense three-line stanzas. Moving toward their inevitable meeting, Yahaira feels like a spool of thread / thats been dropped to the ground...rolling undone / from the truth of this thing, while Camino wonders, If I find her / would I find a breathing piece / of myself I had not known / was missing? An authors note further explains the title of and inspiration for the novel, which was influenced by the tragic crash of flight AA587 out of New York that killed more than 260 people, most of them of Dominican descent, shortly after September 11, 2001." -- Horn Book Magazine

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