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☯ Full Synopsis : 'In this sequel to Coretta Scott King Honor Book MONEY HUNGRY, once-homeless Raspberry Hill vows never to end up on the streets again. It's been a year since Raspberry's mother threw her hard-earned money out the window like trash, so to Raspberry money equals security and balance. And she's determined to do anything to achieve it. But when a troubled neighborhood teenager attacks her mother and Raspberry's drug-addicted father returns, Raspberry becomes desperate for her life to change and ends up doing the unthinkable, potentially ruining her friendships and losing her self-respect along the way.'Article Sharon Flake Statement ...' | |
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Desperate to get her mother out of their rough situation, Raspberry steals money from a friend and now she must deal with the consequences and guilt, fearing that she may be going down the same path as her drug-addicted and thieving father. Reprint.
Published May 31st 2004 by Jump At The Sun (first published 2003)
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This book so far is wonderful. Not confusing one bit. It makes me feel like it's my own life. Because of the things going on in this book. Amazingg READ fo sho!
Oct 29, 2009Isabelle Sanchez rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The book BEGGING FOR CHANGE, by Sharon G. Flake is about a fourteen year old girl named Raspberry. Raspberry is a girl who was living a normal life with her mom and dad, until the day that her parents separated. When her mom and dad separated from each other, Raspberry stayed living with her mother, while her father lived in the streets. There was a time when Raspberry and her mom were living in the streets and begged for change, but then finally her mom worked two jobs and got them out of troub...more
Sep 18, 2007Imani added it Shelves: finished
I REALLY WANT TO READ THIS (YAH'NAY) WHEN UR DONE CAN I READ IT SEEN LIKE IT WILL BE AVERY GOOD BOOK
Aug 20, 2008AnnaBnana rated it liked it
I thought this book was really compelling. I haven't seen a lot of books for younger kids that deal with serious topics like this. With that said, even with the serious issues, I didn't feel like Flake was heavy-handed or trying to hard to teach lessons. The neighborhood descriptions and the characterizations felt real.
This kind of fiction is good to have around for a couple of reasons--first, there is an entire group of kids who will find that this book opens their mind to an alternate reality...more
This kind of fiction is good to have around for a couple of reasons--first, there is an entire group of kids who will find that this book opens their mind to an alternate reality...more
Sharon G. Flake was one of the authors that i used to love reading books from. Her, Walter Dean Myers and Sharon M. Draper were probably my three favorite authors back in Junior High and in the beginning of my high school years. What i liked about all these authors was that they all wrote about a common theme, which was teen life and the issues that average teenagers have to go through. I have read lots of other Sharon G. Flake books such as Money Hungry and The Skin I'm In.
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The book Begging for Change by Sharon Flake is very interesting book that is different from other books I have read. The main character Raspberry have a tough life that teaches her security is all about money. With money she can do whatever she wants and nobody can hurt her and that is what she got out of her best friend Zora. When her mother Mrs. Hill got hit by a terrible neighbor Shiketa, her drug addicted father make his way back into the house. Raspberry have live a harsh life with her mot...more
Jun 04, 2007Gesha Corbin rated it it was amazing
Begging for Change is an elegant book of overcoming the most arduous situations and moving away from them. Flake has captured through life of 1 teen and made it into everyday life for everyone. In Begging for Change, Raspberry Hill is a 14-year-old girl who refuses to be homeless anymore because her mom was brutally abused and is in the hospital. So in order for her not to be homeless, she will steal from anyone. Including her best friend, Zora. See but Karma kicks in and Raspberry's crack fiend...more
Raspberry is a girl living in modern-day first world poverty- in the projects, where violence is normal and neighbors go further than just complaining. I liked this book somewhat; the plot has a one-in-a-hundred chance of actually happening to someone (or maybe I'm just too sheltered =_=), but it's good enough for a book that has to show all the issues the author wants to cover in a limited amount of pages. The title is very appropriate, showing how much the character desires and is looking for...more
Nov 22, 2008Saraoxenfeld rated it it was amazing
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Begging For Change by: Sharon G. Flack
Begging for Change is about a young teenager named Raspberry. Raspberry wasn’t the kind of partying girl; she was the type of teenager who worried about her lifestyle, especially when she is in a rowdy neighborhood where she is encountered by many problems. Once, she had to choose money over her best friend that she stole, and to top that her best friend (Zora) will soon be her sister because her dad and Raspberry’s mother are in a serious r...more
Nov 04, 2009Courtnee J rated it it was amazing · review of another editionBegging For Change by: Sharon G. Flack
Begging for Change is about a young teenager named Raspberry. Raspberry wasn’t the kind of partying girl; she was the type of teenager who worried about her lifestyle, especially when she is in a rowdy neighborhood where she is encountered by many problems. Once, she had to choose money over her best friend that she stole, and to top that her best friend (Zora) will soon be her sister because her dad and Raspberry’s mother are in a serious r...more
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Aug 24, 2009Allison rated it really liked it
Raspberry Hill, the protagonist of this book, is a fourteen-years-old girl. Her father is addicted to drugs and her mother used to do drugs. However, she is badly beaten one time by one of the neighbors. Because of the misfortune in her family, Raspberry struggles to find security in her life and love from her parents. In order to keep herself from being homeless and fight for the survival of her family, she begins to steal money from her best friend, Zora. After all the effort she has put in st...more
Feb 25, 2010Nikoleta rated it it was amazing
Begging for Change is about Raspberry and her live in the Bronx. She and her mother live in the projects and were once on the streets. Raspberry is scared of the fact that she can be back on the streets so she is trying every possible way to make some money. Everywhere in there apartment there are stashed dollar bills and coins. But when Raspberry's mom and her best friend's dad fall in love, Zora's dad takes Rasp and Zora out. Unfortunately, hungry for money, Raspberry steals the money from Zo...more
Jun 11, 2009Januario added it
Is it a sin to steal even if it is for your mother's survival? For Raspberry Hill, 14-year-old, begging for change and stealing her best friend's for money has become a necessity in order to keep herself from being homeless. Her mother used to do drugs and was severely beaten by one of her neighbors. With only her mother in her life, Raspberry is forced to stand up on her own and fight for the survival of her family. After all the effort she has put in order to steal money from Zora, her drug-a...more
Dec 16, 2008Eva Leger rated it liked itRecommended to Eva by: found on bookmooch
This is a really, really, really fast book.
I neglected to read the book that came before this which is Money Hungry but after reading this I think I'll hunt it down. Just to get the beginning of the story really, not because it's not to miss literature.
The book is about a girl and her momma and their lives. They have it rough, the girls father is a deadbeat addict who keeps coming around, stealing from them. The mother is a stand up woman who is raising her daughter right. They live in a not s...more
I neglected to read the book that came before this which is Money Hungry but after reading this I think I'll hunt it down. Just to get the beginning of the story really, not because it's not to miss literature.
The book is about a girl and her momma and their lives. They have it rough, the girls father is a deadbeat addict who keeps coming around, stealing from them. The mother is a stand up woman who is raising her daughter right. They live in a not s...more
Dec 24, 2008Naomi rated it really liked it
Begging for change is the sequel to Sharon G. Flake's earlier novel Money Hungry. Its about a 14 year old girl named Raspberry who has gone through so many rough times at this early stage in her life. From being homeless to having an drunk bum as a father, Raspberry ultimately has no one to turn to as her mother is viciously attacked by a 17 year old girl who took her anger out because Raspberry's mother did not appreciate the 'loud music' and other ruckus that was caused by her and her friends....more
The book Begging For Change is about a fourteen year old girl named Raspberry who is still strugggling to find her own security and place in the world. Along with the struggle of trying to find her own place in this world she lives in this community she calls the 'projects'. With that being said there is known to be trouble or drama held all the time and for Raspberry she has just had enough of it!
She already has to deal with her mom nearly dying because of the attack her mom went from one of th...more
She already has to deal with her mom nearly dying because of the attack her mom went from one of th...more
My daughter was assigned this book for school...and I read all books she does in order to better help her, understand her curriculum, etc. I gave the book 3-stars for how I personally felt about it...and it just wasn't my style. That being said, I can understand why it is involved in her current curriculum and I think that there are many lessons in there pertinent to her peer group ... as opposed to when I was in school. Having just finished 'The Giver', I thought this an interesting follow-up,...more
Apr 25, 2016Ambar Flores rated it it was amazing
I like this book and I would recommend my book to my friends, this book is about a girl named Rasberry and she lives with her mom, her dad is a man who lives on the streets with his friend and they don't have food or clothes. Then one day his dad comes to her house to visit her, but he is actually their to trick and take her money. Then she kisses Sato and they start going out. Then Rasberry's mom gets hurt because a girl called Marica hits her with a pied and Rasberry lives with Dr. Mitchell an...more
The title has caught my attention. The protaganist of the book is Raspberry Hill who lives in a poor family . Her father is drug addicted and her mom is alo used to be drug addicted. She tried her best to maintain her family. She stoled the moeny from her best friend to help her family however her father stoled her money for drug. She realized how she was like her father. I think she should've just ask her friend to borrow her money. I think this book teaches people how to choose a right decisio...more
Imagine being a homeless girl, who begs for change - both literal and figurative. Raspberry, the girl who lives alone in the world has to face many factors and conflict in her life. Her neighbor comes and attacks her mother - which ends up bringing her druggie daddy back into her life. She tries to live up for what she wants and reach her dreams, but she notices that it'll be impossible - if she has no money. I really liked this book and recommend this as well. It really draws and captures the r...more
This book 'Begging for change' is about poverty. Raspberry's Dad is an alcoholic and left the family. Her mom works but makes just enough to support the two of them. She wears clothes her mother sews so she gets teased in school. This book taught me that real friends wouldn't make fun of you or make you do bad things.
I would recommend this book because its a good book to read. It also gives you a look at how lucky you are to have branded clothes, good food, and a dad. This book made me feel than...more
I would recommend this book because its a good book to read. It also gives you a look at how lucky you are to have branded clothes, good food, and a dad. This book made me feel than...more
I thought this book was pretty good. I liked Rasberry's inner struggle and how it was resolved. I do hope that her father straightens himself out, but he needs to stay away until he's on his own 2 feet and not stealing from his 14 year old daughter. I liked how Rasberry's mom resolved her own struggle and i do think she could have shown a little more anger in her final letter to the girls that hurt her...Overall, I thought it was a good story...I'm not too sure about that boyfriend of Rasberry's...more
Jan 07, 2015Nancy Cisneros rated it it was amazing
Begging For Change Pdf
this book is really good. It shows me how many poeple suffer because of money and how u loose some poeple because of money problems
May 11, 2016Zuleyma Vasquez rated it it was amazing
Jan 27, 2016Daisha rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
It was a very interesting book
Jul 15, 2013Richie Partington rated it it was amazing
04 January 2004 BEGGING FOR CHANGE by Sharon G. Flake, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, June 2003, ISBN 0-7868-0601-X
'Zora says none of this woulda happened if Momma and me had gotten that Section Eight house in Pecan Landings. Momma tried. But the neighbors went to court to keep us out. They think people living in Section Eight housing are poor, dirty, and bad for the neighborhood. We got a lawyer fighting for us to be able to move in there. But I ain't so sure that place will ever be ours.'
In 1969 th...more
'Zora says none of this woulda happened if Momma and me had gotten that Section Eight house in Pecan Landings. Momma tried. But the neighbors went to court to keep us out. They think people living in Section Eight housing are poor, dirty, and bad for the neighborhood. We got a lawyer fighting for us to be able to move in there. But I ain't so sure that place will ever be ours.'
In 1969 th...more
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Begging for Change
After the book Money Hungry, Sharon G Flake made the book Begging for Change. In this book, the main character, Rasberry, is still living with her mom, but she is in the hospital because someone hit her on the back of her head with a metal pipe. While she was in the hospital Rasberry was on her own and were with her friends and helped people. She found her dad that she hasn't seen in years.e was a drug addict, and used her for the money she had. Then at the end of the book her...more
After the book Money Hungry, Sharon G Flake made the book Begging for Change. In this book, the main character, Rasberry, is still living with her mom, but she is in the hospital because someone hit her on the back of her head with a metal pipe. While she was in the hospital Rasberry was on her own and were with her friends and helped people. She found her dad that she hasn't seen in years.e was a drug addict, and used her for the money she had. Then at the end of the book her...more
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Sharon G. Flake is the author of five books, The Skin I'm In (1998), Money Hungry (2002), Begging for Change (2003), Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories About Boys and the Girls in Their Lives (2004), Bang! (Sept. 2005), and her latest novel The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street (2007).
Her work is used in public and private schools around the nation, from elementary to high school, and...more
Her work is used in public and private schools around the nation, from elementary to high school, and...more
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