Leticia's Secret:
Reason, Setting: I chose this book, because someone had recommended it to my dad, for me to read. But by reading the back cover it seemed interesting to read. This book is takes place in San Fernando Valley, and is tween story of something suspicious that is about her family, and how they treat her cousin Leticia, secrets and mysteries between their families.
Plot: In the book Rosario which around 12 years old, has to deal with never having her father around, and having to move a lot, because her mom would have multiple jobs in different places. And most of there family lived in San Fernando Valley, which was 3 hours from the town that they lived in. So Rosario’s mother had no one to leave her with especially when she was growing up. After a couple years they moved to San Fernando Valley with their family, and her mom worked full time. She would notice how once she started living with her aunts, uncles, and cousins, that they would make her do a lot of housework more than there own kids. The only cousin she was close with was her cousin Leticia, and she was everyone’s favorite niece or daughter. When ever she was caught arguing with her, the adults would make her do chores. In her new school she couldn'tmake any friends, and started getting depressed because she was lonely.
Character: Rosario is a main character in the novel, and I chose her because she was very inspiring to here how her early childhood and early teens she grew up. Which no person should have to go through, like not being able to see your own mom, for a couple days because she works night shifts and sleeps her days off and through the day. Also going from town to town making and breaking up friendships. Not really being able to talk to somebody, if you feel sad. Rosario would tell herself when she would see her mom crying after work that one day everything is going to be okay, and her mom won’t have to work that much because she is going to go to college. And even if her family, doesn’t treat her and her mom like family, that should be supportive to them instead they look at them like they have failed both of their lives. Rosario never gives up hoping that one day they get something better.
Evaluation: I really like this book, mostly because I thought this was a very inspiring book, not just because showing me how you have to try hard to get things and if not later on it’s going to be harder on you. But I learned that sometimes if you do your best, some kind of good will come your way. And no matter how much you think life is so bad, and your life couldn’t get anymore worse there will always be somebody suffering more than you. Like kids starving in Haiti, or in Africa, or people being forced to live on the streets, or in this case practically living with out your parents, one your mother has no other option but to work a lot, and second your father is a drunk and just left you and your mother 3 years after you were born. It just makes me think about the little things that I have, and that people would kill to have.
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