Grab Hands and Run

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Summary: GRAB HANDS AND RUN!
Review: Jeez! I hated this book! I could not stay focussed or even remember what happened because it was soooo boring! It's the worst book I ever read! I had to read it for school, that's the only reason I did read it. Now, I have a test on the book, and I'm probably going to do bad, because I don't know what happened! It was just way to boring for me and I hated it so much that i couldn't remember anything that happened. NOW IM GONNA FAIL CUZ THIS STUPID BOOK!

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Summary: An interesting subject
Review: Overall, I was not satisfied with Grab Hands and Run. When I picked it up, I was interested to be reading about the lives of immigrants from El Salvador, as I had never found much on that subject or any other South American country for that matter. However, I was disappointed. The writing, I thought, was too flat.Although I felt for the characters (and would find it hard for any priveledged American or person not to), there was no third dimention to them. They were always the "good guys," and there's nothing wrong with that except that no three people can constantly be good without having another side to them. I do not mean that Paloma had to have a dark, hateful spirit deep within her that wanted to drop her children's hands and save herself. I simply mean that the human character is more complex than Frances Temple portrays it. At the end, I did not feel any rapture or uplifting of spirit; rather, I felt that, despite the many trials the family went through, it was no great accomplishment. I would have liked to see another side to the characters developed, and a deeper probing of the immigrant and human's soul. Where does their determination come from? Do they ever feel regret that they left El Salvador. Don't they miss anything? With this subject matter, there has to be more explored

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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: This book is great! I think you can learn a lot from a book like
this because some people think coming here is easy but you find
out it's not.Grab Hands and Run is good because it gives lots of
details so it's easy to picture the story in your mind. I think the author
did a good job by writting this story because it teaches about the lessons in life and how families have to stick together no matter how hard or difficult the problem is.