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Draper, Sharon M.

Romiette and Julio

236 pp. | Atheneum | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-689-82180-8 $$16.00
(4) YA In a contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet, two sixteen-year-olds meet in an Internet chat room. Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, fall in love, but harassment by a local gang objecting to their interracial dating endangers their lives. The plot sometimes seems contrived to parallel Shakespeare's drama, but the teen relationships are dynamic and skillfully limned.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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