Books : Come a Stranger (Tillerman)
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by: Cynthia Voigt
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007100170
Format: Import
ISBN: 0007100175
Label: Collins
Manufacturer: Collins
Number Of Pages: 319
Publication Date: 2000
Publisher: Collins
Sales Rank: 2323483
Studio: Collins
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a big disappointment
I really enjoyed Homecoming, Dicey's song, and A Solitary Blue, so I was expecting to enjoy the story of one of my favorite characters. Boy was i disappointed. It started out with hope, but after she was kicked out of the dance camp i found her prejudiced, quick to judge, and paranoyed.
Just because one person of a type is awful does not mean that everyone is. That is the definition of prejudice, judging everyone of a group from one person. I have had bad experiences with people from all sorts ... Read More
Rating:  - Come a Stranger___Report by Larissa
The book I read is called Come a Stranger. It is about an African American girl named Mina. Mina loves to do ballet and she even gets a scholarship to go to a really good dance academy over the summer. Mina has a blast and can't wait to go back next summer. In fact she can't stop thinking about it and her friends are getting mad, because they think she's bragging quite a bit. Next summer she goes there and seems to have trouble doing easy things. Later the instructor takes her aside and tells her ... Read More
Rating:  - strong heroine, good book
Mina Smiths is a young African American girl who hopes to become a dancer. Although talented, when she begins puberty, she finds the once-easy moves difficult, and she is sent home from an all-white summer ballet camp for this reason. Through her friendship with a black neighbor and his family, she begins to grapple with issues of racism as well as coming of age. In school, she befriends a white girl, whose family has ties to her neighbor's past. Mina is a strong, assertive heroine whose triumphs and struggles ... Read More
Rating: - J from humber
the book was really intersting and i really liked how Mina (themain character) deals with social issues and problems through out her life. I think that meeting Diecy was a good start for her and i think that by the end of the book she feels more self-confident and really proud of what she has achieved, but one thing i didnt like from the book was the part near the ending whn she meets the boy. I think it was cheezy but the last pargraph was really meaningful and well written
Rating: - GREAT BOOK
This book was really great!*!*! I was hooked from the beginning to the end. I was quezey all through the book. Would they survive with less than 20 bucks? Will they ever find their mother? read the book to find out and you won't be sorry.!!
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