Becoming Naomi Leon

Becoming Naomi Leon is 246 pages long and is by

Pam Munoz Ryan. This book is about a little girl named Naomi and her little brother Owen. They live in a trailer park in a trailer that they call Baby beluga with their great Grandma ( she's only 69). Their mother left them with her. Their dad lives somewhere in Mexico and they have never met him in their whole life. Naomi and Owen live very simple lives, Naomi and Owens grandma makes their clothes or buys them at Second hand stores. Her brother Owen has some disformaties in his leg and her likes to wear tape around his shirts for comfort. Like a baby blanket or something... Instead he uses tape. Naomi is also a very apprehensive little girl. She finds comfort in making lists and is amazing at making soap carvings and she doesn't have very many friends. Her mother comes back to visit them for the first time and is a major disappointment for the kids. She buys Naomi things but not Owen and she calls Owen a cripple right to his face. She never buys Owen anything and she threatens the kids. She even hit Naomi. They become scared and she threatens to take the kids away. So they ran off to Mexico in search of their father so that he could write a not to give to the judge a the custody hearing. They find him at the Carving festival and the kids get to know their father. How does the court hearing go you might ask? Well that my dear readers is what you are going to have to find out for yourself!

I enjoyed this book but sound the plot to be very simple. It is quite predictable but a good read if you are looking for something to read. It is one of those books that you are able to put down but will want to go back and see what happens. I suggest this book for 10 and up. Its a good book for boys and for girls. And I should say it wouldn't harm you to read it, and it wouldn't harm you if you didn't. Its a good story on how friendships and love a family has for each other can overrule any material thing on this earth.

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