Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita
Williams-Garcia
Greatest Book For Teenage Girls
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the
street-smart 14-year-old--and her baby, Jos--down to Georgia, to live with
Uncle Luther and his family. Theres nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no
one around except kneesock-wearing, Jesus-praising cousin Cookie. Then
Gayle meets Great, the family matriarch--and her stories of the past begin
to change how Gayle sees her future. Williams-Garcia has surpassed
herself.She has set these fictional characters firmly in the real world while
still allowing them to rise from the pages and into readers hearts and
imaginations. --The Horn Book, starred review
Personal Review: Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita
Williams-Garcia
Williams Garcia, Rita. Like Sisters on the Homefront. Dutton: Lodestar
Books, 1995.Like Sisters on the Homefront is a book that could actually be

used for learning from our mistakes. This book could actually teach some
morals to a lot of people, especially teenage girls. It is about a girl, Gayle
who makes a lot of mistakes in her life. Gayle is a very tough, brave girl
who doesn't cry for anything, no matter how much it hurts. First she gets
pregnant by a married man and later when she is 14 she gets pregnant
again by another guy, but her mother makes her get an abortion. Her
mother then sends her off to live with her very strict, Uncle Luther. There
she has to work really hard and get along with her very upright cousin,
Cookie. The only person she can relate to there is, Great, her great
grandmother who teaches her about her family history. It is there where
she learns her manners and becomes a respectful person and where she
cries for the first time. The best part of all is that she decides to go back to
school. Gayle changes her life a lot, all for the better.Change Change is
common in everyone's life, in fact it happens constantly. Change is crucial
in all lives because people should be open to different things. This is the
only way that people will be able to succeed in life. In the book Like Sisters
on the Homefront, Gayle a fourteen-year-old mother, changes dramatically
for good. She changes from being a rude, mean, tough girl who above
everything, has not, and does not plan to ever cry for anyone or anything in
her whole life. Gayle changes every aspect of herself once it comes to her
attention that those are not good qualities for any person to have. Gayle
changes the way she acts towards school, her mother, her son, her sisters
on the homefront, even the way she talks, and well of course she pretty
much changes her attitude towards the whole entire world.
One thing that my parents taught was to be respectful to all elders
whether I know them or not but Gayle sure is not even respectful to any
elder, not even her mother.
Before Gayle went to her Uncle Luther's house she was always a really
rude person to everybody whether she new them or whether she didn't. An
example of this is when she was really rude to her mother. She would
never listen to what her mother would say, she would ignore her, and she
would not do what her mother would ask her to do. Whatever her mother
would say she would do the complete opposite, everything her mother
would say would go in through one ear and would go out the other ear.
She was always mouthing off to her mother and as we all know that is very
disrespectful. Gayle was also very rude to her aunt in Georgia, her cousin
Cookie, and even her friends' mothers. After her journey of self-reflection
she changes the way that she is, meaning that she is not sodisrespectful
towards everyone. Some ways that show this is how she decides to listen
to her mother. She also decides to be more open to new things. Like
before she changes she hated church and she hated how Cookie was
always talking about god and how her cousin is in the choir. After her
change she decides to go to church on her own will and she even
considers joining the choir.
Another one of her really bad qualities is her attitude. Her attitude
also changes thoroughly. Before she went to her Uncle Luther's house she

didn't care much for school or for baby, two very important things of her
life. These are very important things because in order to make something
of yourself you have to go to school and graduate. Her baby is also a very
important thing because she has to take care of him and lead him in the
right path, so that her son will not have such messed up life just like hers.
This is something else that she is able to change drastically. She is able to
notice with the help of other people that she has to do both things, finish
school and raise her son properly. That is exactly the reason why she
decides to go back to school to graduate and she also starts to take better
care of her son. Another very important thing that shows how she changes
her attitude is when she cries for the first time. Her crying shows how she
is not so sober anymore.
So as you can see change is very important. Change is especially
important when it has to do with the way you are. It might be hard but you
should still try hard to change a little. It is very important to be open to a lot
of new things as well as being a good person, concerning the your actions,
your attitude, and being open to new things. Just like Gayle changed her
life you can also change your own. It wasn't easy for Gayle to change her
bad aspects, but she still did with the help of others. You should really read
the book so that you can see how you can change and what could help
you change while also reading how Gayle changes and what she does to
change. I recommend this book earnestly, because you can learn a lot
from. This is a book that you can learn a lot from so that you won't make
really bad mistakes that could mess up your life. So I really hope that you
will really read this book so that you can be conscience and you can
ponder about some things before you do them.
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