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Romiette and Julio | 
 enlarge | Author: Sharon M. Draper
Creator: Adam Lowenbein
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 59208
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0689842090
EAN: 9780689842092
ASIN: 0689842090
Publication Date: May 1, 2001
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Product Description
Star Crossed Lovers When Romiette Cappelle meets Julio Montague, she feels as though she has met the soul mate who can rescue her from her recurring nightmare about fire and water. But like the Shakespearean characters whose names echo theirs, Romiette and Julio discover that not everyone approves of their budding romance. In their case, it is because Romiette is African-American and Julio is Hispanic, and the Devildogs, a dangerous local gang, violently oppose their interracial relationship. When the Devildogs threaten to teach them a lesson, Romiette and Julio come up with a risky plan to escape from the gang's fearsome shadow. But things go terribly awry, and the two find themselves caught up in a deadly reality more frightening that Romiette's nightmare -- and in a desperate struggle to avoid the tragic fate of Shakespeare's famous young lovers.
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 Save yourself the pain October 10, 2008
In short this book will make you want to kill yourself. Truly. Reading this book was a painful experience for me. I didn't even have a choice. It's an Indiana 8th grade standard. What a joke. A 5 year old could read this sorry excuse for a book. Almost every single person in my Reading X class loathed this "book". The supposed "slang" that they use is pathetic. No one at all talks like that. "You are my hot sauce." ??!! seriously. this book is unrealistic, corny, fake
especially when Julio says to Romiette in a chat room "I dream about you"
theyve never met. and its in an online chat room. WTF?! everyone knows better than to say something creppy like that in person. but ONLINE.
another irritating thing is that they point out the simalarities between romiette and julio and romeo and julliet multiple times. as if draper thought the reader wasnt dumb engough reading the book. sharon draper creates the most stereotypical characters. SpanishLover? AfroQueen? I mean seriously.
Julio is also ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED WITH HOT SAUCE AND TEXAS. to the point that if he were a real person he may actually need intensive therapy.
plus they live at the end. they dont even DIE. and believe me i wanted them to. if your going to mirror romeo and juillet to the point that i want to puke you at least should make the ending correct to. i could predict the ending the moment i picked up the cheap copy of this cheap book.
this book is a cheesy, fake, stereotypical peice of garbage and save yourself the pain of not buying it.
no seriously.
dont buy it.
believe me. i suffered. i know.
Simply Terrible October 10, 2008
This is, without a doubt, the most awful book that I've ever had the misfortune of reading. Romiette and Julio were so painfully two-dimensional and unrealistic that I almost wished that they wouldn't make it to the end of the book and put me out of my misery.
The plot is so poorly thought out that a two-year old could guess what was going to happen next. This book would serve as better toilet paper or fire wood than reading material. Spare yourself the migraine and read something else.
 Not the best July 27, 2008
While I did enjoy the mixed veiwpoints and the attempt at telling an updated version of Romeo and Juliet I think this book fell quite short of the real thing. I was interested because I wanted to know what happened to Romi and Julio, but the dialoge was poor and I have no idea how I would use this book in a classroom and keep everyone engaged. It's a teen romance and I don't feel that it would appeal to male adolescent readers (but that's just a guess). I think West Side Story does a much better job at telling Romeo and Juliet in a new light. I really didn't like that the author had charaters in the book point out the comparison to Shakespeares famous play. She could have crafted the comparison a little more carefully or thrown in some less obvious comparisons, something students would really pick up on if they had just read the play.
 Romiette and Julio February 9, 2008
I first read this book when I was in High School. It was refered to me by a girl that was in my class. At first I didn't want to read it because I thought everyone was going to die in the end like Romeo and Juliet but this book surpised me.
I liked how this book was a modern day twist and that its relatable to kids in High School. Its relatable in a way that you could actually believe that the so called gang the Devil Dogs would dislike Romiette and Julio being together because she is of African American descent and he was Mexican. Also, that the parents had misconceptions of each other because of thier racial backgrounds. In my High School we didn't necessarialy have gangs instead their were clicks and everyone stayed within their clicks and when they branched out to talk to someone that wasn't in their so called click they would get looked at differently or made fun of.
So in the end I winded up giving this book 5 stars because of the storyline and the interacial romance. I recommended this book to anyone who is looking for a heart felt page turner and to anyone who likes books about romance.
Romiette and Julio September 30, 2007
Purchased for reading in a high school intensive reading class. So far, three students have read the book and recommended it to other students.
They said it was a great story about teenagers and the struggles in life.
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