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PublisherQuill Tree Books
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Publication date5 May 2020
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Reading age14 - 17 years
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Grade level9 - 12
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File size1770 KB
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"Lush imagery and masterful characterization...A lyrical achievement in storytelling that is highly recommended."
-- "School Library Journal (starred review)""Raw and emotional, Acevedo's exploration of loss packs an effective double punch, unraveling the aftermath of losing a parent alongside the realities of familial inheritance."
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)""Tackles family secrets, toxic masculinity, and socio-economic differences with incisive clarity and candor."
-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)" --This text refers to the audioCD edition.About the Author
Elizabeth Acevedo is the author of The Poet X--which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award--as well as With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land. She is a National Poetry Slam champion and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo lives with her partner in Washington, DC. You can find out more about her at www.acevedowrites.com.
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- ASIN : B07W677X1Z
- Publisher : Quill Tree Books (5 May 2020)
- Language : English
- File size : 1770 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 432 pages
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The loss of a parent leaves a void that can never be filled. But when you realise the magnitude of the secrets that parent kept from you, it’s a whole other pandora’s box
The book is a complex blend of loss, guidance, love, grief, playing them among community factors of nationalities and races. The overall theme of the book is simple – you take on reality as you get it.
As always, Acevedo’s writing doesn’t disappoint. The book is written in verse and poetry, undoubtedly, brings out the darkest and deepest of emotions. The book is one giant swirl into oblivion with no idea what is coming next.
Grab those tissues, folks! The waterworks don’t stop in this one.
The story talks about two step sisters Camino and Yahaira who share a common father but are unaware of the fact until they learn about the plane crash and the reality that their father is dead. The story talks about the secrets a person can keep, human emotions when they lose their loved ones and forgiveness. And the lyrical way the entire story has been written only makes it better.
I wanted the story to go on for some more time, wanted more about the time the two sisters spent together, which I felt could have been elongated. It felt the story got over too soon. But overall.....an amazing read.

By Hansa Kajaria on 12 October 2020

Do get your copy!
Great work Suraj Trading!

By Swagata on 7 October 2020


By Jinny kaur on 2 November 2020

There's nothing new that I have got to say about this masterpiece that hasn't been already said so I am just going to be really brief about how this book made me feel.
A punch in the gut? Yes! And when people say that listening to Acevedo narrate the audiobook with her comforting voice is an experience for a lifetime they mean every word of IT! The free verse narration style, that is Acevedo's forte adds another dimension to the already taut and perfect emotional read and Clap When You Land, just zoomed past other books and now stands mighty at my favorites list!
Clap When you land is the tale of two sisters - Camino and Yahaira, one living in the Dominican Republic and the other in New York, unbeknownst to each other's existence and separated by the Atlantic and two mothers. And as fate would have it, a fatal plane crash claims the life of their father, as he is on his way to DR. As, the two sisters, grieve their father's death individually, trying to hold on to the bits of memories their father left in his wake, a chance incident makes Camino aware of the side her father, kept hidden from her.
As the prose goes back and forth between the two sisters, we perceive how the presence and absence of a father has impact the girls' lives and how eventually the future would play out for both of them.
Acevedo's writing is luscious and thick with grief and concurrently gets you emotionally attached to the story and the characters with every flipping page. To be honest, Clap when you land kept me on the edge of my seat, because every decision that Camino and Yahaira had to take was tough and demanding! You feel for the girls how different their lives were and how they eventually find their way to each other and to sisterhood after a tug of war between suppressed anger and an overpowering desire to be a part of each other's lives. That a person is a sum total of different shades and it is not always possible to judge one by his/her relationship with you and how one grey decision doesn't essentially define a person is what Clap When you Land beautifully captures.

By Gayatri Saikia - PER_FICTIONIST on 4 March 2021
There's nothing new that I have got to say about this masterpiece that hasn't been already said so I am just going to be really brief about how this book made me feel.
A punch in the gut? Yes! And when people say that listening to Acevedo narrate the audiobook with her comforting voice is an experience for a lifetime they mean every word of IT! The free verse narration style, that is Acevedo's forte adds another dimension to the already taut and perfect emotional read and Clap When You Land, just zoomed past other books and now stands mighty at my favorites list!
Clap When you land is the tale of two sisters - Camino and Yahaira, one living in the Dominican Republic and the other in New York, unbeknownst to each other's existence and separated by the Atlantic and two mothers. And as fate would have it, a fatal plane crash claims the life of their father, as he is on his way to DR. As, the two sisters, grieve their father's death individually, trying to hold on to the bits of memories their father left in his wake, a chance incident makes Camino aware of the side her father, kept hidden from her.
As the prose goes back and forth between the two sisters, we perceive how the presence and absence of a father has impact the girls' lives and how eventually the future would play out for both of them.
Acevedo's writing is luscious and thick with grief and concurrently gets you emotionally attached to the story and the characters with every flipping page. To be honest, Clap when you land kept me on the edge of my seat, because every decision that Camino and Yahaira had to take was tough and demanding! You feel for the girls how different their lives were and how they eventually find their way to each other and to sisterhood after a tug of war between suppressed anger and an overpowering desire to be a part of each other's lives. That a person is a sum total of different shades and it is not always possible to judge one by his/her relationship with you and how one grey decision doesn't essentially define a person is what Clap When you Land beautifully captures.

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The plot is outlined on the book cover so there were no surprises there. What I hadn't anticipated, however, was the quality of the description of characters, their grief and entire settings through the medium of non-rhyming poetry. The impact of some of the imagery nearly blew me away or prompted tears!
Having worked in a developing country for a couple of years and because I have travelled to various places where the culture and surroundings were far different to my own, this novel called to mind so many experiences and opportunities that I had forgotten, the problems and challenges faced by the protagonists seemed real, from the very first pages which focus on the mud it is so hard to remove as a result of rainy season in the tropics. The clapping on safe arrival of a plane was equally reminiscent.
Occasional references in Spanish remind the reader that they are being transported far from home and, in my opinion, add to the novel's appeal and authenticity.
My only disappointment was not being able to translate the proverb on the flysheet at the beginning of the novel which I assume sets the tone of what follows. The word for which I searched wasn't in my huge dictionary! But, please don't let that deter you. This book is well worth a read. Thanks to the author who certainly prompted me to think more deeply and gave me a lot of pleasure!

Trigger warnings: Sexual Harasment, Assualt, Stalking
Clap When You Land makes you feel all kinds of emotions, and brings you the love of siblings.
This was a new and interesting read for me. I had never read an Elizabeth Acevedo book, I have rarely read a book that is solely based on siblings and never read a novel written in prose. However, I’m so happy I have now because I have another new found love. It is so beautifully written, with so much raw emotion. The words just flew so swiftly and the characters so likeable.
When I first heard about Clap When You Land I thought that it would probably be like parent trap. Two sisters, separated by parents, both living in different countries, unaware of each others existence. But no! It was more than that. Way more. I couldn’t believe my mind when I read it. How could that be?
In this novel we follow two sisters perspectives and how they are grappling the devastation of their fathers death. If that wasn’t enough for them. They soon find out they have a sister. Angry at their parents and angry at each other. Emotions are flying high. However, soon meeting each other, and sharing the same grief can blossom a new found love. A love they never thought they could have because it never crossed their mind that they could have a sibling, a sister to love so dearly.
𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓲 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓼 𝓾𝓹 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓼 𝓶𝔂 𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓮𝓴. “𝓣𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓮𝓼 𝓲𝓰𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓮𝓵.“
Reading about Camino and Yahaira, their grief and their new found relationship had my heart sinking deep in my chest. I just wanted to hug them both for the pain they are going through. The betrayal of their father, who they loved so dearly, The thought of losing a parent and having a sibling you never knew you had is hard to think of.
I can’t wait to pick up more of her work, and discover more of her stories and beautiful writing. Clap When You Land is her newest release and you should definitely pick it up and feel all the emotions it will give you as it did for me.

My first time reading this authors book but it most definitely won't be the last.
Well done Elizabeth

Camino lives in the Dominican Republic; Yahaira lives in New York City. When Camino's dad dies in a plane crash she is scared. What will she do without her father's protection? When Yahaira's father dies in a plane crash, she is in disbelief. Camino and Yahaira have never met, however their lives are turned upside down when it comes to light that Camino's dad... is also Yahaira's dad.
With the story told in verse, Elizabeth Acevedo does a wonderful job of portraying Camino and Yahira distinctly, with their shared emotions of grief, anger, hurt and betrayal weaving throughout their perspective. I also love the passion and heart that Acevedo pours into the portrayal of the Latinx culture into her writing. Clap When You Land is a a definite recommend from me.

Told in verse style we learn of Camino who lives in the Dominican Republic and in New York Yahaira.
Both girls are sisters though are kept separate by their father's double life and secrets.
Until that is one day both suffer a tragic loss, their father has died in a plane crash and through circumstance their father's skeletons are out of the closet.
Both suffering with their own grief they now learn they have a sister and it's a learning process to adjust to that.
From totally different backgrounds this is a fascinating tale of how family can find each other across time and distance, build new relationships and heal from the tragedies that have gone before.
This was amazing and I just couldn't put it down, I had to know what happened next so read it in less than a day.
One of the best YA novels I have read for a while and definitely going to look at the authors's other work.