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Twelve-year-old Ana Rosa is a blossoming writer growing up in the Dominican Republic, a country where words are feared. Yet there is so much inspiration all around her -- watching her brother search for a future, learning to dance and to love, and finding out what it means to be part of a community -- that Ana Rosa must write it all down. As she struggles to find her own voice and a way to make it heard, Ana Rosa realizes the power of her words to transform the world around her -- and to transcend the most unthinkable of tragedies.

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Lynn Joseph is the author of many picture books for hildren about her island home of Trinida including A Wave in Her Pocket, An Island Christmas, and Jump Up Time: A Trinidad Carnival Story. This novel is her first book about her new island home: the Dominican Republic. Ms. Joseph is also an attorney for the City of New York and is protected by two superheroes, Jared and Brandt.

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What 12-year-old Ana Rosa Hèrnandez wants more than anything is a notepad of her very own. Writing is her passion, and words flow out of her pencil onto the paper bags that Papi brings his rum home in, onto napkins, onto gray shop paper. In the República Dominicana, however, only the President can write books. But as Mami sighs and says, "Ana Rosa, there always has to be a first person to do something." These supportive words are difficult for her mother to muster, as everyone on the island knows too well that writers do not have freedom of expression--and in their political climate "silence was self-defense."

When the chilling news arrives that the government wants to buy all the land in the village to build hotels and generate more tourism, people learn what it means to break their silence. Ana Rosa's handsome 19-year-old brother Guario Hèrnandez is appointed as official spokesperson for the villagers' cause, but when an out-and-out rebellion against the government erupts, he--and everyone else--is endangered. As the bulldozers roll in, Ana Rosa and her family discover how utterly worthless words really are in the face of brute force.

Lynn Joseph paints a vibrant, colorful landscape of this Caribbean island where love, warmth of community, and abundant natural beauty soften the kind of poverty that makes paper--and sometimes doing what you think is right--a luxury. Ana Rosa's engaging, heartfelt poems--"Merengue Dream," "My Brother's Friend"--begin every chapter, setting the tone of the events to follow, and reinforcing how words shape her life and how her life shapes her words. Young readers will be inspired by Ana Rosa's drive and talent, warmed by vivid stories of her close-knit family, and moved by those who fight for what's right at the greatest possible cost. This lovely, lyrical book dances the merengue, glimmers with sunshine, and sways with island breezes.
——Karin Snelson

In finely wrought chapters that at times read more like a collection of related short stories than a novel, Joseph (Jump Up Time) presents slices from the life of Ana Rosa just as she is about to turn 13. Through the heroine's poetry and recollections, readers gain a rare intimate view of life in the Dominican Republic. Ana Rosa dreams of becoming a writer even though no one but the president writes books; she learns to dance the merengue by listening to the rhythms of her beloved ocean; and the love of her older brother, Guario, comforts her through many difficulties. The author's portraits of Ana Rosa and her family are studies in spare language; the chapters often grow out of one central imageAsuch as the gri gri tree where Ana Rosa keeps watch over her village and gets ideas for her writingAgiving the novel the feel of an extended prose poem. The brevity of the chapters showcases Joseph's gift for metaphoric language (e.g., her description of Ana Rosa's first crush: "My dark eyes trailed him like a line of hot soot wherever he went"). When the easy rhythms of the girl's island life abruptly change due to two major events, the author develops these cataclysms so subtly that readers may not feel the impact as fully as other events, such as the heroine's unrequited love. Still, it's a testimony to the power of Joseph's writing that the developments readers will empathize with most are those of greatest importance to her winning heroine.
—— Publishers Weekly

Joseph paints the world of Ana Rosa and her family in this gem of a novel. The girl dreams of being a writer, but knows that this is a very unusual wish in the Dominican Republic. Like her ever-drinking father, she is a dreamer, but like her Mami, who fears for her daughter's safety if she writes, she learns that time is like the river that rushes by and never passes again. When the government tries to destroy the houses in the village to make room for foreign investors, Ana Rosa writes an article quoting her beloved older brother, Guario, and tries to get support for protecting their homes. Her article is distributed by three newspapers, but her words are not powerful enough to divert money, contracts, bulldozers, and guns. On her 13th birthday, the government troops arrive, shooting begins, and Guario is killed. Six months later, as a late birthday celebration, Ana Rosa receives a typewriter and hundreds of sheets of white paper. Now she has her brother's story to tell and the words are filling up her head. Although Ana Rosa lives in a Caribbean country, readers everywhere will connect with her story, especially those who have dreams, disappointments, tragedy, environmental concerns, and a love of words and writing. Each chapter opens with a poem that sets the mood. A finely crafted novel, lovely and lyrical, this book is a unique addition to library shelves.
——Helen Foster James, University of California at San Diego

The author of A Wave in Her Pocket (1991) and other picture books set in Trinidad moves to the Dominican Republic for her first novel. Ana Rosa may not have her eye fixed on the future the way her beloved big brother, Guario, does, but as she's already filling every available scrap of paper with poems and stories, her vocation is clear. In simple but eloquent verse and prose, she introduces her family and her small, tightly knit community as she recounts pivotal events in her twelfth year, from a first crush to learning that her rum-and-merengue -loving Papi isn't her real father. Then news comes that the whole neighborhood is going to be razed to make way for a tourist hotel. Led by Guario, all band together to protest, but on Ana Rosa's thirteenth birthday the bulldozers arrive, with soldiers to defend them, and she sees Guario shot down. Unlike Frances Temple's Taste of Salt (1992), set in neighboring Haiti, this is less an indictment of a violent, corrupt, repressive regime than a coming-of-age story, propelled as much by the joy of finding the right words and capturing them on paper as by past or present tragedy. In the end, the words that had deserted Ana Rosa at her brother's death begin to sing inside her again, and with a new sense of purpose she resolves to use them to tell her brother's story.
——John Peters

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《爱的教育》中,把爱比成很多东西,确是这样又不仅仅是这些.我想,"爱是什么"不会有明确的答案,但我知道"爱"是没有限制的,小到同学之间的友好交谈,老师对学生的鼓励,父母对孩子无微不至的关爱,甚至萍水相逢的人们的一个微笑……大到捐献骨髓,献血,帮助希望工程…… 虽然如同空气般的爱有时会被"污染","稀释",甚至"消失",所以希望更多的人去感受一下朴实语言中深厚的爱,我想这部好小说将会把这种美好的感受带给更多更多的人.

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爱,像空气,每天在我们身边,因其无影无形常常会被我们所忽略,可是我们的生活不能缺少它,其实他的意义已经融入生命.就如父母的爱,恩里科有本与父母共同读写的日记,而现在很多学生的日记上还挂着一把小锁.最简单的东西却最容易忽略,正如这博大的爱中深沉的亲子之爱,很多人都无法感受到.爱之所以伟大,是因为它不仅仅对个人而言,更是以整个民族为荣的尊严与情绪.《爱的教育》一书中描写了一群充满活力,积极要求上进,如阳光般灿烂的少年.他们有的家庭贫困,有的身有残疾,当然也有一些是沐浴在幸福中的.他们从出身到性格都有迥异之外,但他们身上却都有着一种共同的东西—对自己的祖国意大利的深深的爱,对亲友的真挚之情.这里面不能忽视的是每个月老师读给那群少年听的"精神讲话.这一个个小故事,不仅使书中的人物受到熏陶,同样让我这个外国读者也被其中所体现出的强烈的情感所震撼.而面对我们的教育,爱应该是教育力量的源泉,是教育成功的基础.夏丐尊先生在翻译《爱的教育》时说过这样一段话:"教育之没有情感,没有爱,如同池塘没有水一样.没有水,就不成其池塘,没有爱就没有教育." 爱是一次没有尽头的旅行,一路上边走边看,就会很轻松,每天也会有因对新东西的感悟,学习而充实起来.于是,就想继续走下去,甚至投入热情,不在乎它将持续多久.这时候,这种情怀已升华为一种爱,一种对于生活的爱.读《爱的教育》,我走入恩里科的生活,目睹了他们是怎样学习,生活,怎样去爱.在感动中,我发现爱中包含着对于生活的追求.

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首先《爱的教育》的书名使我思考,在这纷纭的世界里,爱究竟是什么?带着这个思考,我与这个意大利小学生一起跋涉,去探寻一个未知的答案.一个四年级小学生在一个学年十个月中所记的日记,包含了同学之间的爱,姐弟之间的爱,子女与父母间的爱,师生之间的爱,对祖国的爱使人读之,尤如在爱的怀抱中成长.

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