Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

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Call Number: Teen Fiction / Quintero, Isabel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Quintero, Isabel	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

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Don't Let the Cover Scare You Off! submitted by sdunav on August 18, 2015, 8:02am Yes, it's a weird cover. But somehow appropriate once you start reading this totally compelling account of a Mexican-American girl's year as a high school senior. Her family relationships, her friends, her worries, her ambitions - all seem incredibly authentic and vibrant. This is probably the best teen/YA book I've read all year. It is a book for older teens, as it deals with sex, drug use, the college admission process, and poetry. And if any readers are studying Spanish, they will probably enjoy the slang scattered throughout.

Honest & Moving submitted by Beth Manuel on August 18, 2016, 3:48pm The voice of Gabi, a Latina in her senior year of high school shares her fears, hopes and dreams in this very truthful sounding account of what she's dealing with in life: school, crushes, her pregnant best friend, relationships with her family and classmates. This was a great read. I found it very moving. I'd recommend it to mature teens or adults.

Good book, but maybe covers too many topics submitted by karmbruster820 on January 10, 2021, 12:13pm Overall I enjoyed this book. It is told in diary-entry style from a girl interested in writing/poetry as she navigates her senior year. The book covers A LOT of topics (teen pregnancy, drug addition, weight/body image, cultural expectations, and much more), but I think this could be to the detriment of the book. Some of the topics seem thrown in just to check a box and are not explored in the most meaningful way. What is explored really well, and what I took most from the book, was the double standards/hypocrisies facing women as it relates to sex, religion, cultural norms, etc. Worth a read just for this, and for the "zine" Gabi creates (shown in the book cover).