By Gary Soto
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 5 - 8 | Grades 3 - 5 | S | 4.4 | 25578 |
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Taking sides is about a boy,Lincoln who is going to a new school and being a new different neighborhood.He goes from a poor neighborhood and from a poor school to a a rich neighborhood and a rich type of school.he has to go against his old school in basketball because he joined his new basketball school.
the book is still bad
Gary Soto, the author of the Taking Slides, takes his reader to meet the boy, that go to new school, and face the challenge.The main character in Taking Slides is Lincoln talent guy: Ms. Mendoza, Tony the boy with jealous guy, Flaco dog that hyper. The setting of Taking Slide take place in San Francisco. When the story starts, the reader is in Mission District of San Francisco, an urban barrio, to Sycamore, pleasant suburban town with tree-lined streets. Taking sides is realistic because Taking sides can be real to the world like people who go to new school and facing new thing kind of school. “ The trash cans were buckled, but no candy wrappers or potato-chip bags scuttled across the campus… Lincoln opted to live. His bologna sandwich, along with an apple and some chips, sat in his backpack, crushed between his geography and math books”. Taking Side made me have confidence of myself because Lincoln is very talented people. Taking sides can help people to have confidential.
I think this book is a life lesson because they are talking about how you would play against your friends team or old team and then with your new team. It was kind of a lose -lose for Lincoln. But I did really enjoy this book, I thought it was very interesting.
i rate it 2 stars because for me it was OK. It was kinda boring when i first started to read it i was falling alsleep.
This book is bad.
This book Taking Sides is about a kid named Lincoln who plays on a basketball team called Columbus. And his new team is playing his old team, and he gets hurt and his coach thinks he's faking so he benches him. But in the game his team gets down by a lot. So his coach tells him to get in the game, Lincoln goes in the game but he doesn't want to try because he thinks the coach is just puting him in because he is the best player. His new team loses and Lincoln is happy. That is a review about Taking Sides!!!
