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    Ana of California

    Written by Andi Teran

    Narrated by Andi Teran

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Andi Teran’s captivating debut novel offers a contemporary twist on a beloved classic. Fifteen-year-old orphan Ana Cortez has just blown her last chance with a foster family. It’s a group home next - unless she agrees to leave East Los Angeles for a farm trainee program in Northern California. When she first arrives, Ana can’t tell a tomato plant from a blackberry bush, and Emmett Garber is skeptical that this slight city girl can be any help on his farm. His sister Abbie, however, thinks Ana might be just what they need. Ana comes to love Garber Farm, and even Emmett has to admit that her hard work is an asset. But when she inadvertently stirs up trouble in town, Ana is afraid she might have ruined her last chance at finding a place to belong.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9781681411958
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    Reviews for Ana of California

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    • 2/5
      I found this clunky in a number of ways. Ana's use of language didn't really make sense to me for someone of her background, and Abbie's change of heart seemed unmotivated. Ana unreflectively makes some very poor choices that don't make sense to me based on who she is. I was interested enough in the story to finish reading but all in all I found it disappointing.
    • 4/5
      A touching and original reworking of Anne of Green Gables. What kept this from being a 5-star book was the love story. Stuff and nonsense, as Marilla might say. Cole Brannon, you are no Gilbert Blythe.
    • 5/5
      I was looking for something to read on a hot, summer day and this book sounded like the perfect read. It just so happened that is what this book turned out to be...the perfect read! I read it in only a few short hours. I fell in love with Ana from the first moment that I met her. She was genuine and had a big heart. Also, she spoke her mind and owned up to any mistakes that she made. She at times acted older than her age of fifteen. I have to agree with Emmett's sister, Abbie that Emmett is like a "bulldog in a baby basket". Everyone else in this book are great as well. After a while they became more like family then characters in a story. A nice summer read.
    • 3/5
      Ana Cortez is at the end of the line in the foster care system in LA. At 15, she is too young to be emancipated, but her caseworker struggles to find the right fit for her. A farming internship in Northern California seems to be a good choice for her. Siblings Abbie and Emmett Garber own and run their family farm and sell locally to the community in the town of Hadley. The story echoes Anne of Green Gables, a childhood favorite of mine. From Emmett's confusion to the sex of the child he's picking up to Ana's outspoken, but well meaning feelings, you can see the lightly placed parallels throughout. I liked that Ana worked hard for the respect of the Garbers, particularly Emmett and the other workers at Garber Farm. While I loved picking out the characters' roles as they may have been in the original, the story itself began to move a bit slowly for me in parts, as the story continued. Will Ana get to stay at the farm, or not? Will she attend school in Hadley? What about the background story of her new friends? Rewarding in the end, but it took a while to get there.
    • 3/5
      2.5 stars. Reworkings of classics are always tricky, and sometimes the mental exercise of stepping back and analyzing how the author made certain elements of the original fit in with modern settings can carry me over rough spots. While it was difficult to believe that a concerned social worker would seem to care so little that kids were actually being starved in a foster home where she'd placed them, the rest of the set-up was fun and mostly worked. It was also quite a lot of fun watching some favourite scenes appearing (the hair, and the argument with the Rachel Lynde equivalent, for example), and looking for character pairings, and I was enjoying this a lot, until Ana - and I - started getting to know Rye, the Diana character. While Diana was always sweet and loyal, if not as bright as Anne, Rye was just a horrible human being, and her refusal to forgive Cole, while doing far worse to Ana with little compunction, was the final straw. The way the adults' relationships always seemed to end up hurting Ana made me wonder occasionally if the author was adding a bit too much Romeo & Juliet to the mix, although the ending focused more on Ana's need for a home and family than the romance, which worked well enough. The farm itself was wonderful, the switch to having the brother be the crankier, more reluctant one was okay, and really, if Rye hadn't been such a selfish, entitled brat, I'd have been fully won over by this retelling of a favourite book.
    • 4/5
      This very modern rewriting of Anne of Green Gables has its own charm, even though many aspects of it will remind readers of the original. I wasn’t as taken with Ana as with Anne though, but maybe that’s because the original Anne was only eleven, and Ana is more of a mouthy teenager. The retelling is set in the farming town of Hadley, California, and Ana Cortez, 15, is of Mexican heritage. She is sent to help Abbie and Emmett Garvey, a brother and sister who own a small farm catering to locavores. Ana doesn’t know anything about farming; she is, however, a talented artist. But she manages to do both, as well as to win the hearts of everyone around her.The teenage aspect allows the author to speed up the timeline and add a romance with a local boy named Cole, as well as adding a lesbian BFF to the parade of very diverse characters in this small town. As for the romance, it became clear eventually what problem Rye, the BFF, had with Cole, but I couldn’t quite understand why the adults were so against him. Evaluation: The plot is for the most part predictable, or maybe that’s because we know the story already, but that didn’t keep me from crying at the touching ending.