aaliyah2012 — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:21:32 +0000

Around the Way Girls 2(Diamond n’ a Rough)
Tomas Long
Diamond n’ a Rough is basically what the other book was talking about but this story goes a step further. It talks about a young lady who was in high school very smart but liked bad guys. When she graduated she found out she was having her first child. She regretted what she had done but she thought theirs no turning back. So her mother kicks her out because she was pregnant and she had to go move with her babies’ daddy. Her baby daddy was a drug dealer who also did drugs. When she had her daughter she thought so much about doing drugs because her baby daddy did. So she did it and got hooked onto the same drug he was on. Then she was killed later on in life by getting raped and getting beating half to death by the men who did this. Now Precious is stuck in the world with one person that cares about her which is her aunt Neffy.

The characters of this book is Precious Paine, Mom and Pop Paine, Tina, Shelly, Talab, Sharane Paine(mother of Precious Paine),and her Aunt Neffy. These people that was in this book played the role well. It felt like it was a play and you think you were actually their.if you read this book jus picture it in your head and you would get the full version.

This book is highly recommended to all the young people. You should read this book it is so good. I think the theme of this book is love, war, survival.

aaliyah2012 — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:17:04 +0000

Around the way Girls 2
Kashamba Williams and Tomas Long
Around the way Girls was a really nice book. I think if you would read it you would like it. This book has 3 books and 1. It’s basically about a girl who is now a woman and she has kids at the age of twelve and had nobody on her side so she had to raise her kids on her own. This girl/women has 5 kids by the age of 18. I thought she was very intelligent young lady but made the wrong decision to have kids at such a young age. But as she got older she realize she did and it all catch back up to her. One of my favorite settings was when she jus find out her cousin was her sister. Her cousin is in jail because she was drinking and driving and killed 3 people while crashing. Well all I can say is welcome to the life of Juicy Brown.

The main characters of the book was Juicy Brown (the mom), Earl and Earleon (the twins), Icelene, Earlgin, and Gaynelle, Gayle(mom) Kesha (her cousin/sister) Aunt Nayle and Uncle Stanley(which she found out was her dad). These are the people who actually stuck by her and her twins until she had three more. Her mom kicked her out so she had she had to live with her Aunt and Uncle until she had three more kids they kicked her out. So she decided to live on her own which she had to raise her kids all by her self. By time she moved out and was on her own she was 18 years old.

The theme of the book is survival. When I first seen the book I thought it was going to be dumb, but it turned out not to be a dumb book. I thought it was really wrong that her mom wouldn’t help her but when she was younger her mom died after she had her third kid. Her kids don’t even know who their grand mom is and its sad that it had to be that way.

My impression of this book was like “oh my gosh” such a great book. Yes I do agree that all teenagers should read it because it is a really good book and it teaches lessons. When you think things wouldn’t get rough oh trust me they did this book was so heartbreaking because the youngest daughter had disease that had to deal with pain.

I recommend Around the way Girls 2 to all teenagers because it teaches about life and what you shouldn’t do in life.

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