Author: Mishna Wolff
Book: I'm Down
Genre: Memoir, Autobiography, Adventure
Pages: 272
Most kids feel alone and desperate when their parents divorce, Mishna on the other hand feels revealed. She is a 7-year-old girl living with her younger sister Anora, normally the children live with their mothers after divorce and go visit their cool father on the weekends, in their case, Mishna has to go live with her father. But here is the problem, the father hates taking care of children, gets poorly payed at job and wants the kids to grow up having swag. For the whole summer the father leaves the two girls in a child care charity place, Anora immediately finds two friends, however Mishna is having big time problems. She is white, everyone else is black. The kids make fun of her, of how white she is, until she starts to notice the only reasons Jamal Caprice(the two "bullies") are so "cool" is because their comments make everyone laugh and everyone likes them. Mishna has a plan, every afternoon she thinks of new comebacks and jokes such as 'yo mamma', day by day her comeback become better and finally she stands up to the bullies, from that day she became just as popular. But more problems come her way:
This Book is pretty thick, I am guessing it is about all Mishna had to overcome in life and how she managed to go through changes living with her father. I am liking the book so far, it is not hard to read and it is sometimes twisted. My favorite sentence from the book was: "Dad was cool. Mom was Mom."(Chapter1, pg21). I can relate back to this quote because usually dads are cool and the friend type while moms are just moms :)
Book: I'm Down
Genre: Memoir, Autobiography, Adventure
Pages: 272
Most kids feel alone and desperate when their parents divorce, Mishna on the other hand feels revealed. She is a 7-year-old girl living with her younger sister Anora, normally the children live with their mothers after divorce and go visit their cool father on the weekends, in their case, Mishna has to go live with her father. But here is the problem, the father hates taking care of children, gets poorly payed at job and wants the kids to grow up having swag. For the whole summer the father leaves the two girls in a child care charity place, Anora immediately finds two friends, however Mishna is having big time problems. She is white, everyone else is black. The kids make fun of her, of how white she is, until she starts to notice the only reasons Jamal Caprice(the two "bullies") are so "cool" is because their comments make everyone laugh and everyone likes them. Mishna has a plan, every afternoon she thinks of new comebacks and jokes such as 'yo mamma', day by day her comeback become better and finally she stands up to the bullies, from that day she became just as popular. But more problems come her way:
- Her father wants to renew the house
- He brakes it all down-says the house will be done in max 3 years
- Mishna has just made new friends, now her mom wants her to move schools
This Book is pretty thick, I am guessing it is about all Mishna had to overcome in life and how she managed to go through changes living with her father. I am liking the book so far, it is not hard to read and it is sometimes twisted. My favorite sentence from the book was: "Dad was cool. Mom was Mom."(Chapter1, pg21). I can relate back to this quote because usually dads are cool and the friend type while moms are just moms :)
This sounds really cool and the quote is kind of funny :)
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