Book Review: Tree Girl

This was an amazing book.  It was about everything.  It was about a girls childhood, trees, safety, Guatemala, family, and many others.  This book can teach you many things at once.  When you read this book i would recommend it for teens because there are some awful thing that happen in this book.

 They call Gabriela Tree Girl. Gabi climbs trees to be within reach of the eagles and watch the sun rise into an empty sky. She is at home among the outstretched branches of the Guatemalan forests.  She is only 14 years old when her life turns upside down on her birthday.   She has lost her whole family; her entire village has been wiped out. Yet she clings to the hope that she will be reunited with her youngest sister Alicia.  She has watch so many people die and decides not to be known as Tree Girl any longer.  

This is based on a true story, this book tells from a first person view from a Mayan teenager Gabriela Flores who witnesses the torture, rape, and massacre of Indians, including her own family before she hopefully meets up with her sister at the camp at the border of Mexico to go to the place of opportunity (America).   

Rate - 4