Imagine you are homeless, and all you have is “beer, last nights left-overs, some glossy red apples, Dad’s champagne and cigarettes”. Unfortunately for 15 year old Billy life isn’t as fascinating as he hoped. Steven Herrick's character Billy from his novel “The Simple Gift” is important to this novel because he is used to challenge the reader's understanding. He shows us the power that positive and negative relationships have on adolescents. The type of relationships you have can majorly impact your sense of belonging.…
This book is written by Sid Fleischman, and got a Newbery Prize at 1987. This book has a story for children, prince Brat and Jemmy becomes a friend by a process of escaping from two ruffians, named Hold-Your- Nose-Billy and Cutwater. Summary: In a kingdom, there was a mischievious prince named prince Horace, but people called him prince Brat. Also, he had an orphan whipping boy, named Jemmy.…
Edgar Frogfish Massacre An old man by the name of Edgar Frogfish is a murderer, and on halloween night, the man kills a lot of children. On halloween night, little Timmey Bodacious and his friends go to Edgar Frogfishes house for candy. Those children didn’t know that Edgar Frogfish was a psycho murderer. Edgar Frogfish told the children that he had a big bag of candy inside his house.…
This book started out in flint michigan. That is where the father daniel grew up. Well the oldest son byron was a juvenile delinquent and the went down to…
To begin with, Bud, Not Buddy, is a wonderful story that takes place during the Great Depression. Bud is an orphan who went through the rough experience of his mother dying when he was six years old. After his terrible experience with a foster family, Bud goes on a mission to find his dad Herman E. Calloway. During his adventure, Bud meets a friendly man named Lefty Lewis who takes Bud to his grandpa Herman E. Calloway. Bud has a wonderful experience at The Grand Calloway Station getting the chance to sleep in his mom's bedroom.…
One out of three black children were mistreated in the 1930's, however whites were not. Bud, Not Buddy was about a little black boy named Bud. Bud's mom had passed away, so he lived in an orphanage. When he went to a foster home, he was mistreated. Then, he went to find his father.…
The plot of the book was about a young boy named Max who was growing up with his sister, Zena, in Esties. The Nazis had arrested their Father and forced them to live in a Ghetto. The Nazis were taking over the town and putting people in concentration camps. Max did not to be arrested and separated from his sister, so they ran away. They ran through fields and into a barn, where there was an old man.…
“When I was born all the doctor's gasped and scared my mom, because of my alien like head.” Ansley Seymour was an unusual child from the moment she was born on November 7, 2000. She lives in a zoo of four brothers, one sister, and two sets of parents. She has very problematic siblings. Her six-year-old sister, Lynn was adopted from physico parents who were addicted to drugs and was born with drugs in her system.…
Constant flowing force “Tick Tock,” time is an everlasting, yet a constant flowing force. Imagine being a weak, ten-year-old African American boy, who is on a mission to find his father in a time where your race isn’t respected and your whole country is in a depression. The story “Bud, Not Buddy” would be a different story if written in modern area because Bud’s mom would still be living, he would have been caught when he ran away, he would have been forced into an education, and modern day rights would have affected the way he was treated. First off, Bud’s mom wouldn’t have died. Modern day advances in medicine and doctoring has ensured the fact of Bud’s mom’s survival.…
Have you ever read a story name the Ravine? Well its a story about two boys Vinny and Joeboy that went on adventure to the Ravine. Vinny is little cat because he was scared to jump off the ravine .One the other hand joeboy was brave enough to jump off the ravine. Joeboy has a girlfriend which vinny is a bit jealous of.…
The Pigman is about these two kids named John and Lorraine. John bomb his avocation he became an organizer of the super colossal fruit roll. They can only do that on wednesday because it was the only day when they sold old apples in the cafeteria. John and Lorraine met on the school bus one day and he had sat with Lorraine. John started laughing very loud and Lorraine felt mortified because she thought he was laughing at her.…
Coming to America Soe was an asian kid who didnt know anything about the american culture but he was moving there from thailand.he was a normal kid who was gonna explore a whole new country. when he got off the plane. his family moved into a house in dallas texas he saw many things he hasn't seen in thailand.three days later he enrolled in a school hotchkiss.his day in a american school was horrible every kid made fun of him because he didn't speak english but he made a friend named saw he was also asian boy who can barely speak english. they had the same interest but most of all they loved soccer at the gym saw and soe always…
A fifth grader named Nick Allen tries to stall his class when he asks his teacher, Mrs. Granger, where words come from. Instead of answering his question, she assigns him an oral report to answer his own question. During his research, he leans that we get word from the dictionary. One day after school, Nick and Jane are walking home together when Janet drops her pen on the sidewalk. When Nick picks it up for her, he hands it to her and calls it a frindle.…
“The Buddy System” 1. a) In the story “The Buddy System”, a boy named Dennis is a bystander of another boy, Buddy, getting bullied. The “buddy system” is a procedure in which two people, the "buddies", operate together as a single unit, so that they are able to monitor and help each other. b) The “buddy system” as referenced in the story, is best used between two friends, or acquaintances, to protect each other in certain situations. For example, if one friend is being bullied, it is the “buddies” responsibility to stand up for the other, and Vice-Versa.…
“Rowing the Bus” by Paul Logan is about when Paul was a young boy in elementary school who got bullied, he was an easy target because he had no father, was smaller than others, and his mother couldn’t afford new clothes, so he wore hand-me-downs donated by local churches. The older kids made him sit in the isle of the bus with all the trash and nasty chewed up gum, it was called rowing the bus the other kids would make you simulate the motion of rowing while they all laughed and shouted “row, row, row the bus”. One day Paul’s mother decides they were moving, Paul was so excited to start a new school where no one knew him, so he could make himself a new reputation. Right away at Paul’s new school he learned there was this boy named Gregg who was like he was at his old school, all the older kids picked on Gregg like Paul once was. At lunch one day…