confetti girl caught my eye while subbing in a fourth grade class. i thought to myself, this is my life and so i instagramed it. i also decided to check it out from the library.
confetti girl was seriously my life. well at least the cover and the first three pages. so as an introduction to the novel, there are instructions on how to make cascarones . . . or confetti eggs!!!!!! seriously my life. i discovered confetti eggs via my cousin tina, who had them one easter and her house. one year i took the extras to coachella and they were life changing!! and they totally became our thing. after that every year, i made confetti eggs and decorated them based on the bands that were playing:
they improved over the years but i will say that i am pretty legit! so was super excited to see cascarones mentioned in this book. (random sidenote: my friend once saw cascarones at olvera street in la and was shocked because he thought it was just something i did, not a mexican thing. lol). oh i should add, lina and her friends are mexican. they live in corpus christi and yes, the selena convention center is totally named-dropped!
the next thing was the dicho, or mexican saying, listed for chapter one. all the chapters have dichos and they are all compiled in a list at the end, but the one that started of the book was "los amigos mejores son libros" or "books are your best friend"!!! which i totally believe! though lina, the main characger, wasn't a bookworm, her father was and also an english teacher. books that were named-dropped included watership down (which i need to read) and one hundred years of solitude!!!
the other dichos i enjoyed were:
buñolero, ¡haz tus buñelos!
(buñelos maker, make your own buñelos, or mind your own business).
*i could like this one partially because buñelos are delish!
las mentiras no tienen pies
(lies don't have get so they can't travel on their own.)
el camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente
(the shrimp that goes to sleep gets carried away by the current.)
hasta el diablo una vex fue ángel
(even the devil was once an angel)
great words of advice and mini life lessons for lina and the reader!
and last but not least, lina had a sock collection! just like me!!!! i know seriously my life. but the parallels stop there.
confetti girl is the story of lina, short for apolonia, a girl in middle school. she lives with her father and had recently lost her mother to an illness. this lost along with being a preteen resulted in some drama in her life.
lina's trouble started when her english grade began to drop. bitter toward her father's pressure to love books, lina failed english and was unable to play sports. i thought this was good lesson for kids. the teacher did not make an exception for her and she had to suffer the consequences of letting her grades slip.
on top of that her best friend, vanessa, got a new boyfriend and began to neglect lina. though lina had a crush that later became her boyfriend, but they had issues too. lina was then constantly fighting with her best friend and boyfriend. there was also a boy that teased lina and i thought it would be revealed that he liked her, but didn't happen.
in the end, thanks to the help of the school therapist, lina discovered what she needed to do to get life back on track. lina had been making up summaries for watership down because she was not reading it. howrver, the summaries were her life told via the characters. the school therapist saw this as a means for lina to work through all of her problems. the therapist had lina finish her story which then became the basis for her talking to her dad about her problems. in the end, everything gets resolved and ends in a huge confetti fight!
a cute read and great for preteen girls. and also because ever girl should know how to make confetti eggs!!!
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