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The novel //How the García Girls Lost Their Accents// is the book I chose to read for my World Literature Book project. This novel was written by a Dominican author Julia Alvarez. Many of her books are influenced by her growing up in both the Dominican Republic and the United States. And so, the story takes place in both the Dominican Republic and the U.S.A. It is about the lives of four siblings (Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia) growing up and trying to fit-in with the new society in the States. The style, culture, food, language, school, friends and many more are very new and fresh to the four siblings. The book is written in different POV’s every chapter, and shows interesting adventures and crazy events of what these siblings do to adapt to the new surroundings. At first, I was interested in this book because the librarian had been saying numerous compliments about it, but when I looked at the book, everything about this book seemed to lure me into reading it. Just the title of the book was very interesting! ‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,’ I had never seen a title like this. When I read the title, many questions went through my head. ‘ Who are the Garcia girls?,’ ‘Accent? What accent? How did they loose it?,’ and many more. Also, I was interested in this book when I realized it was going to be a book about a family of only four daughters! I had never saw or heard of a house of four daughters before in my life and I don’t have any sisters either, so I thought it would be a good chance to learn something new. I have read a book similar to this one, I can’t think of a good book but I think the two books, //How the García Girls Lost Their Accents a//nd//The Princess Diaries// are pretty similar, because they both move into a very different country and try to act differently and change in order to adapt with the new surroundings. INTERESTING. I NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE PRINCESS DIARIES AND THIS. I LOVE THAT YOU INCLUDE THE PICTURE. 5/5