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Party Girl
By:Lynne Ewing
Have you ever been involved in gangs? If you had or you want to know how it is like, you will get into this book as I did. In this novel you will learn how being in a gang it's not only about having friends and parties. It has more involve in it.
Kata is a teenage girl who loves to dance with her best friend Ana. Kata is involve in gangs and violence in the streets. When she looses her friend Ana in a drive by, she gets in to a dilemma, either to go and look for revenge or look out for a better future. Dealing with these problems in the streets and an alcoholic mother at home makes everything harder for Kata to make a decision.
In this novel the author did a really good job at getting you to not stop reading. Reading this story will really make you think of what you would do in a similar situation Kata is going through. Also it will make you put yourself in Kata's shoes, and make you think how hard it is to make the right decision when you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders. For example when Ana's boyfriend was pushing Kata to go for revenge, Kata didn't know if she should take revenge or quit the gang because all the pressure that was on her shoulders.
The author wrote so realistically that you feel how difficult it is to be in a gang. It showed you that being in a gang it's not only having friends, have fun and go to parties. When you read this book you realize that when you are in a gang you put at risk a lot of things that that you don't realize how important they are to you until they are gone.
When you are finished reading this book it will leave you a lasting impression. Even if you don't believe it at first; deep inside your head you'll think twice before getting in a gang. One way or another we are all involved in gangs and violence in the streets. Read Party Girl and you'll find out why.

Review by: Yitzy Trejo

Kata and Ana became best friends in the fourth grade---"That was the year it took two of us to make one person." Ewing writes a compelling story of a young girl coming to terms with the death of her best friend from a drive by shooting after winning a dance contest. Telling Kata she's pregnant, Ana confesses she wants out of the gang life and is scared. Kata tries to reassure her, "Don't think about the future, I said,"We're party girls, esa." "Yea, don't think about the future, because we don't have one," she said. Moments later Ana is shot down by an enemy gang. Written in a vivid but simple way, the story draws the reader into Ana's and Kata's lives. Ewing creates a small window looking into a world of macho posturing, drinking and violence. Kata struggles to survive without Ana but life is too difficult. Bent on seeking revenge for Ana's death, she finds the alleged killer and discovers she cannot kill him. Growing weary of gang life, Kata must decide if she will "face out." Kata sees her friend, Ana, and an old "party girl" in visions of what the future may hold. A decision is made. Ewings's usage of gang language, Spanish, Quechua and the background of a Los Angeles neighborhood gives this grim book an edgy feel and the reader a glimpse of a violent world and the possibility of hope.

Kata must face life without her friend Ana when Ana loses her life in a drive-by. Now she must choose--revenge Ana's death and remain part of the gang or face any equally uncertain future once she quits "the life". Choosing is not as obvious as you think. Lynn Ewing gives a voice to any teen struggling to come to grips with a life-changing decision. The characters are memorable, the portrayals of street life realistic and the story thought-provoking.

Party Girl was one of the best books that I have read. I read this book when I was a junior in high school. This book is a very exiting book it has a lot of action. The book is about two gangster girls who have really messed up lives. Kata and Ana are best friends and they are both in the same gang. Ana lives with her mom and her sisters. Her family is a very attached family who always has financial problems. Ana's Mom is really exited because Ana is going to turn fifteen and her mom wants to make her a little party. What Ana's family doesn't know is that she is in a gang. Ana Feels very lonely and wants to die because she doesn't feel loved no matter that her family is so attached with each other. She even bought a dress that she wants to get berried in, but her mom thinks that it's a dress for prom. Ana gets pregnant from a guy from the opposite gang. Kata lives with her mom. Her mom is a lady who has a drinking problem. Every day when Kata gets home from school her mom has a different guy. Sometimes the guys would even try and take advantage of her so she would go with go with her gangster friends and kick it.
To escape away from all there problems Ana and Kata would dance. They would both go to parties where they both battled with other girls. One day after a party when they were walking back home Ana got shot at from a drive by shooting. Kata promised to get revenge over Ana'a death. Ana's mom never found out about Ana's other side nor that she was pregnant. People should really think about reading this book because it is a very very good book.

Party Girl is an extremely sad and moving book. This story begins with a funeral and goes back in time from this sad event. I wonder if this was a life experience of the author Lynne E Wing. I loved this book it really held my interest.
"It helps to go back in time when you've lost someone forever epically if you've know them forever". This book is extremely sad because it starts with the main charter Kata's best friend's funeral. From the funeral the book goes back in time telling you about Kata and Anna's exiting adventures. Kata and Anna do so crazy thing like sneeking out. No matter how much trouble they get in there in it untill the end.
One major emotions in this book was sadness an example of this was Kata gets in a ton of trouble for something she didn't do. A second emotion is that it was moving, one example of that is when something happens there in it together untill the end and will see each other through thick and thin.
This is a wonderful story about how people can be kind hearted and best friends forever!! I loved this book because of that. If you like sad and moving books you would love Party Girl.

'party girl' was given to me by my best friend Le Angelina. throughout this entire book i related kata to me, ana to her. it made me feel like i knew the characters a little better. it also made the story more heart-wrenching. imagine losing your best friend, all of a sudden, long before you ever imagined she would die. this is a gripping and fast-paced book and i would reccomend it to anyone, but especially anyone with a best friend.

This is a great book. It gives you a look at how gang life really is, and how hard it is to escape the life. I really enjoyed reading it, but i didn't like the ending, you'll see why when or if you read it. Out of all these types of books i still recomind Go Ask Alice....

This was one of the best books I have ever read. Ana and Kata are tight and everything and they share everything about one another. They both love to dance, (just like me). One day Ana tells Kata she's pregnant and it all goes down from there because she got pregnant by a gang rival. Nobody knows this but Kata. Somehow the word gets out and the other gang is after Ana. They are walking home from a dance competion. And they hear guns, look back and it's the other gang after Ana. Kata has to learn how to cope without her "other half". This is a very good book for someone who is trying to cope with death or is in a gang. I used to be in a gang and I got out of it after reading this book. That's how meaningful this book is. If you are looking for a great book to read, this is the one to get. Also, they have made a movie about this book. It's called "Living the Life".

Kata and Ana loved to dance together, and throughout the book Kata goes back to her dancing and choosing the right music, I loved it because I am a dancer myself, and I recommend it to anyone who has any interest in dance at all, because it is about so much more than just violence and gangs, its about personal discovery and finding yourself. A great book, and I didn't want it to end.

i thought this book was excellent! The author gives exact details how it really is and how things really happen growing up in a gang based neighborhood how your loved ones die and how your so called friends are either there for you or can stab you in the back.This book was great if you havnt read "Drive By" also by Lynne Ewing you got to if you lived this book.