An Island Like You

     I just started reading a book called An Island Like You by Judith Ortiz Cofer. She's asked to either go to puerto rico with her grandparents or to a catholic all girl summer camp. She chose to go to Puerto Rico. She leaves New Jersey and lands in San Juan, Puerto Rico where her grandparents and many vecinos waiting for her. She goes with her grandfather and grandmother home. A 15 minute ride. She starts to breathe heavily because it starts to slow your blood flow or she read in a magazine on the plane. After arriving home they thought she had asthma. After getting used to the house even though it was extremely hot and had no A/C. She went to her room even though it was still extremely hot with the window open. After a bit of laying on the bed she noticed a rooster at the window creek. I paraphrased most of chapter one right know.
     I personally like this book because its about hispanics and it because it has a good storyline. One of the main conflicts in the book are that Rita told her parents one day that she was gonna sleep over at her friend Melis house and Meli said that she was sleeping over at Rita's house, but they were actually at Johnny's house. Melis mom called Rita's mom saying that her husband had a heart attack scare. But because she wasn't at her friends house she panicked and called the cops for her missing. After Melis sister told them where they were it caused them to ask if she wanted to go to a catholic summer camp or to go spend her summer with her grandparents. I think that this one of the huge conflicts in the beginning of the book because they explain why she had to go to Puerto Rico.