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Publisher:
Avon Trade / HarperCollins |
Release
Date: 2004 |
ISBN:
0060936452 |
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Format
Reviewed: Trade Paperback |
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Genre:
Fiction-General |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Jen Oliver |
Reviewer
Notes: African-American characters |
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Schooling Carmen
By Kathleen Cross
Meet
Carmen DuPre. An African-American female who knows that she is good-looking
and so does everyone around her. Carmen is a guidance counselor
in one of the worst schools in her district. In Schooling Carmen,
Carmen is faced with a life altering decision and goes through a
lot of soul searching to determine what she is going to do. Can
she continue to do her job? Will she be forced to deal with the
loss of her beauty? Will she realize that beauty is also on the
inside of someone?
In the
beginning, Carmen's attitude about herself is beyond annoying. Kathleen
Cross does a fantastic job of showing how much beauty and being
beautiful is important to Carmen. Luckily Carmen has been forced
to deal with a medical problem and learns what is really important
in life and that beauty is not always necessarily it. Ms. Cross
does a great job in showing how Carmen faces adversary and how the
support characters can be so important to an influential story.
What happens to Carmen can happen to anyone and Ms. Cross shows
how one should not always take certain things for granted and look
on the inside of people, not just the outside.
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