Tree Girl

Awesome!

I read this book for AR pts at my school and i loved this book so much! I always wanted to read it and i finished in 3 days! It had a good story line, great characters and great action, it kept moving on and there was never a slow part. I recommend this book, Easy read!

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Poignant

Excellently written. Tugged my heart strings.

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Awesome Book!

I got to meet Ben Mikaelsen in school and I had like 2 seconds to talk with him. But the book was really good. It was more shocking then any of his other books. If you don't like books with a lot of details and a story revolving around war than this book is not for you. But this book is very good over all.

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something new

just when you think all the genocids have been accounted for in movies and history books you run into this. I deep story of a girl who doesn't see heself has pretty but prefers adventure, even more so in the trees. Gabby is my kind of character, the osrt who are averege in the beginning but end up facing terrible challenges. The things she sees will break your heart twice but at the same time educate you on this little known subject. Tree Girl is a book for all.

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Loved it!

Still one of my favorite books to this day!

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A Book to Remember

It's been a few years since I read this book, but it is my favorite book nonetheless. The story is one that most won't forget. It has a positive message in it that anyone can easily enjoy. The ending to the book was one that I will NEVER forget. This book was aimed for mostly teens to read, but I think that just about anyone can enjoy a story like this. It's not a long read, but rather a nice little novel that I would recommend to anyone.

A good book for teens.

This is a story of one girl's courage to survive. Gabi has to face the struggle of losing all of her loved ones in a violent massacre, and she finally realizes that she is on her own. The bravery to go for months of starvation, and maybe even more harm from soldiers. She will go through all this to be reunited with her younger sister, Alicia. On the quest to find her sister, she finds herself. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone under the age of 13, because of some violence. Setting that aside, this is a captivating and truly moving novel that you will never forget. Gabi has to be strong for herself, and not give up. Family is an important aspect of this book, how every minute spent with family can make a person bolder. Those are some reasons I rated this book a three. Ben Mikaelsen, the author, has written many good books, for example 'Touching spirit bear', and one of my personal favorites 'Rescue Josh McGuire'. Plus many more that I have not had the chance to read yet.

Great book and highly recommended

Gabriela's Mami states 'Gabriela when you climb a tree it takes you closer to heaven.' In this book Gabriela, the tree girl, loves to climb trees. Gabriela says that she feels safer when she is up in the trees. When her family finds out that the soldiers are coming and a war is starting, they don't know what to do. So they spend as much time together as they can. When the soldiers came, Gabriela threw herself up in a tree and watched her family and village get destroyed. She then journeys to survival camps and on her way she is stunned by the way people are treated and tortured by the soldiers. I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 13-years-old. I enjoyed this book very much. It took me on a rollercoaster of emotions. At times I was sad, happy, disgusted, and other emotions I cannot explain. This book is full of murder, vandalism, and rape, so I recommend you ask your parents of teacher if it's appropiate for you.

Tree Girl Climbs High

A young teen named Gabi from Guatemala loves to climb trees. There is a war going on in the country. On her Quincenera, her 15 birthday, Guerillas come to her party and take her brother away. She does not know what will happen to him. After that moment everything was downhill for her. Her mother gets very sick and her father dies in a fire because the guerillas set her village on fire. The only family her has left is her very young sister. She wants to go to finish school and get her education. She goes on a picnic by the river with he class mates and teacher. The guerillas come and make the classmates watch the murdering or their beloved teacher. She must run away with her sister to save her life. She climbs the tree so the soldiers will not find her and escape death. Then one day she loses her loses her sister trying to save her own life climbing another tree witnessing rape, shootings, and burning or young women and children. She has to walk to a refugee camp in Mexico with no one a baby she finds and herself. At the camp she re-unites with a family member that will not speak to her. Together she climbs the trees that save her life her life and see the heavens.

BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!

Have you ever wished that there was a non-fiction book that was not so incredibly boring? Well all you readers this is the book for you. It¿s about a Spanish girl, Named Gabriela, who has some incredibly hard things happen to her in her life. This is happening at the same time as a war when all the Spanish villages are being wiped out one by one. Even on the night of her quinchary (fifteenth Birthday) they have problems. She is the only one in her family to go to school. So she feels that her family is having problems so she should drop out to take care of them. Gabriela's parents think that, that is out of the question for now. She comes home from school on day and expects to be greeted by her family. But when she comes home something terrible had happened. So now she has to continue on a journey to survive by herself. She runs into some good things, but also some terrible things along the way. Read this book because it¿s the best book EVER!!

Man's inhumanity to man during conflict -- a universal truth?

Mikaelsen's portrayal of the Guatemalan genocide from the point of view of a 15 year old observer makes accessible to young people the obscene atrocities of war. Mikaelen artfully takes the horror implicit in the opening massacre in his earlier book, Red Midnight, creating thought provoking imagery one cannot ignore. In this war, as in the Iraq conflict, the United States is not blameless. Mikaelen ensures the reader will consider that fact on the one hand and the humanitarian aide provided at the refugee camp on the other.

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