Patina (Run Book 2) By Jason Reynolds
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This book was shelved in the YA section at my library but I m not sure why because it s solidly middle grade So it skewed younger than I was expecting I m not sure how to summarize this story It doesn t really have a plot as it covers a week or so in the life of Patina Jones from one track meet to the next Her life is pretty complicated as she and her little sister live with their adoptive parents who are also their aunt and uncle The girls father died in his sleep and their mother has severe Type II diabetes which resulted in the loss of her legs plus she s on kidney dialysis and tired all the time hence the adoption situation Patty attends a mostly white charter school near her aunt and uncle s house but runs track for a club in her old neighborhood I enjoyed this book so don t think my 3 star rating is lukewarm Patty goes through quite a bit in the period of the story grows up a little and gains some insights into other people around her all in a definitely not preachy way I thought the track aspect of the story was really well done woven through every other thread in the book because that s how sports work in a person s life Whatever else is going on you go to practice and you put it all aside and just concentrate on doing what your coach tells you But while you re doing everything else you re also focused on the next practice the next meet the next goal It s all intertwined I plan to read the first book in this series and then my understanding is that there will be two Each book focuses on a different member of the same track club so they re only tangentially related not direct sequels Patina had a great voice and really clever and funny observations of the world around her so I m looking forward to getting of the same from the other books in this series Patina Run Book 2 Go Patti go Patti come on Patti Patina is a really good runner what pushes her is her mothers loss of legs she runs for both of them she wins for both of them She starts off angry and finishes the story happy basically she a girl in cultural transition her god mother is white and she goes to a private school she misses her old life and has not excepted her new one but when her god mother is in a car accident she realizes everything she does for them both world are combined and she conform better like a relay race or a waltz Patina Run Book 2 OK I liked it I really did But I loved Ghost so much that you couldn t help but be slightly disappointed by this one It was great it just wasn t AS great as Ghost s story There was very little track or running involved in this one The story seemed to revolve around Patina s day to day activities in an almost dare I say it tedious manner She woke up she had breakfast she went to school avoided all the snobby people at school had to sit through her silly group of girls for the group project on Frida Kahlo went to get her younger sister then their aunt picked them up from school dropped her off to track rehearsals where she had minimal conversations then was picked up again by her aunt where they sat through the car ride and had the exact same conversation they have every single day then they got home where she goes to finish her homework and asks her sister if she needed help with any assignments then was called down for dinner the same dinner they have every single evening with their aunt running the conversation around the table then off to bed Sundays were different Sundays they go pick up their mom who had her legs amputated due to the spread of Diabetes and they go to church There were also a couple of changes to the routine when she had to go to a girl s house to work on the group project and another time when she had to go to the hospital Otherwise that s basically all there was to it And that was disappointing I wanted to see read find out I wanted interactions with Patina and the track kids I wanted Ghost Sunny Lou More coach I finished the book but didn t feel like I knew Patina well yet I was hoping I would but I didn t So now I m sitting here wondering how to review it properly and I can t I just found out the next book will be about Sunny and that s exciting Sunny is a character we know and we ve seen so it must be good I hope Patina Run Book 2 Easy to read YA book It shows itself as a follow up to Ghost but I missed some of the connection The social problems are very well handled Fast paced story Recommend Patina Run Book 2 It took me wayyyyy to long to write this review so check out my video review here Patina Run Book 2 And I turned back toward the track to join my boys. Patina miller Patty is incredible She is one of my favorite characters that I have ever gotten to know and it pains me that I will never meet her in real life The relationship between her and her family friends team and herself are just incredible and forever growing Patty ain t no junk Patina Run Book 2 You cannot be a children s librarian or an adult children s book reviewer if you do not constantly remind yourself that you have to read outside your comfort zone on a regular basis Our current National Ambassador of Young People s Literature Gene Luen Yang put this far eloquently when he urged people to partake in the Reading Without Walls Challenge The rules are simple You can read about a character that doesn t look like your a topic you don t know much about and or a format you don t usually pick up I often wonder what would have happened if I d encountered this challenge as a child When I was a 9 12 year old I went out of my way to avoid works of realistic fiction that could potentially depress me But having finished the latest Jason Reynolds title in the Track series called Patina if I could go back in time and hand my younger self one book that fell squarely outside her comfort zone I d probably hand her this A companion novel to Ghost Reynolds s latest takes a long hard look at what it sometimes takes to trust the people around you Even when they ve given you absolutely no reason to do so. Patinar en ingles Patina has lost a race Patina is not a good loser Not good at all If you knew Patina this would probably be the first thing you knew about her The thing is Patina s already lost a lot of things in her life Her dad died when she was pretty young and her mom nearly died of diabetes after that She lives with her aunt and uncle helps take care of her younger sister and attends this hoity toity school that may be good for her future but is death on her friendships At least there s track though right Only now Patina has lost a race and stranger still she and her fellow runners are going to be forming relay teams Now the trick to any team is to synchronize yourself with the people around you Patina however can t afford to synchronize with anyone in her life She s a loner isn t she Someone who doesn t need help are you sure And she s not easily surprised Not easily but when it happens then maybe a lot of other things in her life will start to change as well. Patinaventura sevilla Before we go any further today I would like us to consider the case of The Mighty Miss Malone Author Christopher Paul Curtis was at the top of his game Sure he d had the occasional misfire here and there his YA never really hit the heights and his Mr Chickee series wasn t quite up to his usual standards but when it came to historical fiction nobody could match him Bud Not Buddy The Watsons Go to Birmingham Elijah of Buxton The dude was on fire Of course there was one thing that ALL his books had in common They all starred boys This is of course a good thing Curtis knows boys Also do you know how many middle grade novels for 9 12 year olds star African American boys in a given year You can usually count the number on your own two hands So we needed those boys on our shelves But as he is an artist Mr Curtis felt compared to push himself into new territory So in 2012 he produced the book The Mighty Miss Malone The hope was to fully flesh out a minor character from Bud Not Buddy The result was disappointing Deza the heroine is never allowed to save the day Instead she s a fairly passive character who watches as her troublemaking younger brother single handedly rescues the family from despair So it was with great trepidation that I picked up Patina The similarities were already in place Like Curtis Mr Reynolds is an award winning African American author who had done us the great good of providing us with a plethora of memorable wonderful black boy characters And like Mr Curtis Jason decided to write a book from a girl s perspective So the question I hand to you today is this Did it work Let s talk a little bit about why Mr Reynolds wrote Patina in the first place When Jason was initially approached by a publisher to write a sports book he was offered street ball A different publisher offered him a series deal where he could pick the sport himself Sold So right from the start it was clear that there were four kids in these books that would go on personal journeys Ghost kicks it off and Patina makes it clear that Reynolds isn t afraid to dive into his first female heroine right from the start Along the way he makes some very specific choices For example while there are men and boys in the book the bulk of the focus as well as the characters themselves is on girls Patina is surrounding by a strong support network of women She has a birth mother and an adopted mom She has female track friends female school friends by the end old female friends with whom she keeps in touch and a sister At the same time her life isn t what you d necessarily call easy Patina has to keep an eye on her younger sister deal with her fancy school and try not to worry too much about her mom The author once said about this book and here I m paraphrasing Patina is about someone who deserves to be a little girl and can t be He s purposefully working to make Patina the hero of her own book and happily there are moments in the story where she takes steps to be proactive and solve her own problems There was one aspect of the book that bothered me though and you might well write it off entirely Now as a character Patina has a dead daddy a mom with diabetes and loving stepparents But as a children s librarian I m very used to these overused very regular very predictable middle grade tropes So when I see a female character with a tricky home life going to a posh private school I m going to expect one thing bullying Reynolds has all the right pieces in place but he doesn t go in that direction It made me pause and think Bullying in children s books is all about the mustache twirling so to speak But there are different levels in reality In this book there is a kind of unspoken assumption that Patina is going to shoulder the bulk of the group project she s assigned Sometimes the merest of assumptions are the most effective methods of keeping people under your control. Patinaventura sevilla Which is all well and good but it doesn t lead to a whole lot of conflict for Patina In Ghost we had a boy trying to outrun his own demons and failing Patina in contrast isn t running away from anything specifically Cleverly Reynolds changes the focus slightly so that her challenge is working well with others When you ve been micromanaging your life you may have a hard time relinquishing power or what you interpret to be power to others around you The struggle to trust is inherently less exciting than the struggle to maintain control over the self As a result Patina is significantly less exciting than Ghost In Ghost you had shoplifting past trauma bullies at school fights and showboating In Patina there s a car crash but very little in the way of interpersonal problems Patina is told from the start of the book to get a handle on her anger Which she does You might expect there d be a scene where she goes off on someone and there is one on the track That moment is then resolved neatly and almost immediately with no long term repercussions Heck her family is 100% supportive of her track running Even the early chapter book Izzy Barr Running Star by Claudia Mills made it so that Izzy has to compete for parental interest and attention So Reynolds is very big on the learning and growing with this book Not so much the immediate conflicts before that. Patinaventura sevilla Not that it isn t still a great book You know that palpable sense of relief you feel as an adult when you re reading through a title for kids and you come to a part where you realize the book is packed full of amazing writing I got that here Owing to its aversion to conflict Patina probably couldn t be called Mr Reynolds s strongest work to date but at the same time it s enormously satisfying to read an author that works hard to give a female character a voice impetus smarts and insecurities In other words he makes her a real person A great book for kids that are into realistic fiction as well as those kids that are willing to trek out of their comfort zones a little to look at a truly great read A book with a kick. Patinaventura sevilla For ages 9 12 Patina Run Book 2 Even better than Ghost and I loved Ghost I m already exciting about the next book in the series Sunny perhaps Patina Run Book 2 Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel From Beginning to Bookend Fast paced emotionally riveting and brimming with important messages for young readers Patina is an outstanding addition to Jason Reynolds new Track series Patina Run Book 2 3. EPub patina 5 4 stars Jason Reynolds is such an amazing writer I was skeptical about grown man writing from the perspective of a young girl but he nailed it Patina was such an incredible character and one I think so man young girls can relate to. Book patinage artistique Similar to the first book in this series the main character joins a track team and runs from all their problems in life For Patina it s her mother who cannot care for her and her sister so they live with family She also runs from a new school with new kids that she s having trouble making friends with. Patinamc Follow me on Facebook Blog Instagram Twitter Patina Run Book 2
| Patina (Run Book 2) By Jason Reynolds |
| 1913311597 |
| 9781913311599 |
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| 241 |
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