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Mar 24, 2024JessicaT_KCMO rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book. Reading it made me feel happy and excited to be alive. Its a story about how we're all connected and how we never know the impact of the little things we do and choices we make everyday. It masks itself as a romance,…
Aug 09, 202326NikhilS rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon is a stand alone, short romance novel. The story focuses on Natasha Kingsley, an illegal immigrant on the verge of being deported. She fights for a chance to stay in her current home New York. Along…
Jun 25, 2023violet_butterfly_13799 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
this book is so cute
Apr 11, 2023HPL_Teen_Volunteer2 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
“The Sun is Also a Star” by Nicola Yoon is a love story between a girl named Natasha and a boy named Daniel. Natasha is a girl who doesn’t believe in love and destiny, especially since she is about to be deported to Jamaica. Meanwhile,…
Mar 19, 2023zoyaadil rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book is deeply inspirational and breathtaking. It tells the story of a romance that has a slim chance of surviving, with an absolutely insane cliffhanger. Fate plays a huge role in the story and the entire time the audience is rooting…
Dec 26, 2022jiya_j rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon is a book written about a day in lives of two people who kept unexpectedly meeting, different and yet suffering. Natasha, a 17 year old Jamaican, is hours away from getting deported . To her, America…
Nov 19, 2022VictoriaDuran408 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A smart and confident girl Natasha meets a poetic and romantic Daniel and bet that he can make Natasha fall in love with him in one day. Natasha does have her doubts, but throughout their adventure their bond becomes stronger than they…
Sep 18, 2022
“The Sun is Also a Star” by Nicola Yoon tells a wonderful story of two young adults who are going through life at different wavelengths, each facing their own obstacles. Natasha Kingsly is a Jamaican immigrant who is trying to save her…
Sep 04, 2022brad_93 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This story follows two teenagers named Natasha and Daniel throughout a single day in New York City. On her last day in the country, undocumented immigrant Natasha is fighting to keep her family from being sent back to Jamaica by avoiding…
Aug 31, 2022R00383368 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I like how the author end this story. The ending of this story the most fascinated to me, especially interesting since it's not directly from Natasha, which does show how my feelings shifted. It's definitely one of those endings that…
Jul 31, 2022jaind1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Natasha, the primary character, is a Jamaican immigrant who arrived in the United States when she was 8 years old. She is a teenager now, and her family is being deported as a result of her father's DUI. Before their trip later that night,…
Mar 12, 2022HPL_Teen_Volunteer1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Natasha is a girl who believes true love, destiny, and dreams are delusory, as events in her life led to her relying on only facts and science. In 12 hours, she'll be deported from America because of her father. She tries to change her…
Oct 06, 2021jonathan_wang10 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Written by Nicola Yoon, The Sun is also a Star is a book in which two fictional characters, Natasha Kingsley and Daniel Bae, meet on a subway, and Daniel instantly falls in love. At first, Natasha doesn't reciprocate the same feelings, but…
Sep 10, 2021pacl_teens rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Imagine: Today is your last day in this country. Tomorrow, you will go back to Jamaica not because you want to, but because you are being deported from the U.S. These are the cards that Natasha Kingsley was dealt with in the middle of her…
Sep 01, 2021freemanolivia10 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Natasha and Daniel are two opposites that meet through some fate to spend an unforgettable day with each other. Natasha is racing to convince an immigration lawyer to find a solution to her family being deported at midnight when she…
Aug 31, 2021aryannamoolla1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This novel is about Natasha, an undocumented immigrant who is set to be deported back to Jamaica in a day's time. During her last day in America, Natasha meets Daniel, a Korean teen preparing for his Yale admissions interview. Natasha is…
Aug 30, 2021anri123 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In the award winning novel, ‘The Sun is Also a Star’, by Nicola Yoon, it shows the fateful love story between two teens that spend 12 hours together in New York City. Natasha Kinglsey is a Jamaican American girl who is trying to fight…
Aug 17, 2021may_0122 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The Sun Is Also A Star follows the love story of Natasha and Daniel. Natasha is a Jamaican-born, undocumented immigrant. She faces deportation and is doing everything in her power to prevent that. Daniel is a Korean-American who faces the…
Aug 06, 2021HPLTeenReviewers rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
“The Sun Is Also a Star” by Nicola Yoon was on my to-read list for a long time, and I finally read it this week. This book celebrates diversity, with the two main characters being Jamaican and South Korean and is truly a beautiful love…
Aug 03, 2021eliaabeth rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Nicola Yoon’s second novel--The Sun is Also a Star, is a love story about two teens who fall in love after spending 12 fateful hours in the flashing lights of New York City. Jamaican-American Natasha Kingsley has an unfortunate 24 hours…
Jul 30, 2021serenali5267 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The Sun Is Also A Star is a book that talks about a pair of teenager’s young and pure love, along with moments in youth that are both beautiful and uneasy. Daniel and Natasha are the main characters in the book, shares numerous…
Jul 27, 2021JessicaSYKwok rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The sun is also a star is currently my favourite book. I enjoy that this book had real-life barriers where Nastsha is being deported, and Daniel is pursuing to be a doctor because of his parent’s wishes when he really just wanted to be a…
Jul 23, 2021Cindy_163 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Two teens meet in New York City and have 12 hours to be together. Our main characters: Daniel Bae aspires to be a poet but is tyrannized by his parents to do otherwise, and Natasha Kingsley has 24 hours until her family is deported.…
Jul 22, 2021shathhh rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Natasha Kingsley is a seventeen-year-old who has lived in the United States her entire life, only to discover that her family has twelve hours until they are deported to Jamaica. Hence, she visits the United States Citizenship and…
Jul 06, 2021Anika_Singh rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book follows two strangers - that couldn’t be any more different - through a day that is important to both of them, one is being deported to Jamaica and the other has his interview at Yale, but fate ended up bringing them together and…