If any of this sounds interesting, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle would be the perfect book to read. Charlotte’s family goes ahead of her on a separate ship to America, but she stays behind so she can finish her school year, at “Barrington School for Better Girls”(2). A…
chapter 1: girl finds key in a book but she saw this key and she searched it up and found it was related to the extra terrestrials of this land and this key would be very important to the future of humans chapter 2: May called her friends April and Juliet. They went to a bakery and searched up unusual activity in liberty heights. many things have popped up it was that many keys have been stolen, In the past 2 years.…
At the beginning of the book it starts with a girl going to a party, but one of her friend was missing so the two girls went to find them but one never came back. One of the girls is named Summer but she ran into a man that kidnaped her. Of course she is terrified so he tried to run away. Sixteen year old Summer has a boyfriend named Lewis. She lives in a small town called Long Thorpe.…
Diana Dudurkaewa Accelerated Eng. 1-2 Mr.Pinkerton 11 Aug. 2014 Taylor Greer The protagonist, narrator, and the main character of the novel is Taylor Greer. Her original name was Marietta or “Missy” as people tend to call her, but she changed her name when she began her journey. She is self-reliant and assertive, and believes that she doesn’t need a man nor children in her life.…
Out of the Dust This book is about a girl named Billie Jo Kelby and the struggles that she and her family had to go through during what is now called the Dust Bowl. Billie Jo Kelby is a tall, redheaded girl who has a passion for playing the piano. She is a part of a poor family of farmers that is struggling even more than normal because of the large amount of dust storms that are around the area. The storms were so bad that the wheat crop’s her father had taken loans out for were blown away.…
Hello. I am Ella Pietilae a 11th grade English student in Reeths-Puffer high school. It has come to my attention that there has been lot of controversy about April Henry’s book “The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die”. Some of our schools students and their parents want the book to be removed from our school library shelf because of the horrible things the girl is going through in this book. That aroused my interest to read the book.…
Hey there reader! The book that I am reading is titled Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. This is a historical fiction book. I am going to tell you some important events that had happened so far. Key parts to remember that Bille Jo is a fourteen year old girl living is Oklahoma, year 1934-35 during the Great Depression, so she is very poor.…
In the novel, the metaphor of the horizon is used to describe the dreams of Janie on her way to discover her true self. Their Eyes Were Watching God starts off by talking about dreams. The dreams “sail forever on the horizon” (1). Some people can never reach their dreams. Janie reaches her dream of finding meaningful love, but hers is “mocked to death by Time" (1).…
The story mainly ends up taking place in Tucson, Arizona where the girl learns to love and mother the child as if it were her own, and further becomes her battle to protect the child. Kingsolver’s book has many characters who…
Burn Girl is Arlie’s story. She is sixteen-years-old and, at the start of the book, is living with her addict mother in Colorado. The story starts of instantly with the night of her mother’s death, which makes sense considering it is the catalyst that starts it all. Her Uncle moves up to Colorado when he learns about Arlie, and from then on, the past refuses to stay buried and it becomes complete and utter chaos. I loved Arlie’s character.…
Ivy Maria Lopez from Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan is musical, thoughtful and a daydreamer. In the beginning her story, Ivy asks her mother, “‘Mama, is it possible to be inside a song?’ ‘Ivy, what nonsense is this?’ ‘When I play the harmonica I feel like I am traveling on the notes.…
Mass murder, overwhelming poverty, and great injustice. These are some of the terms one can imagine when thinking of a country torn by a civil war. In Claribel Alegría’s Luisa in Realityland, a story which describes Luisa’s life through recollections in a combination of vignettes and poems. Set in her mind, Luisa describes her reality in El Salvador, a country that conjures nostalgia and pain for her. Alegría’s character of Luisa brilliantly allows the reader to gain an inside perspective into a world that is often left unheard.…
The book I read this year over the summer is called, “Ruby Holler”. The Author of this book is Sharon Creech. Sharon Creech has a great imagination. She makes this book flow so wonderfully. She makes me feel that I am in the book because of the great details she adds in this book.…
Zita searches for her friend on this strange and weird planet and along the way she meets a few welcoming and very friendly oddballs, who help her search for her friend. During her search she also finds another human named Piper, who works with Zita to help her find her friend and get back home. This tale is highly inhibited in an alien and monster filled world which makes for a fascinating and charismatic science fiction adventure for young readers. Girls can especially connect with this particular book as the main character is just an ordinary girl who turns into a galactic outer space…
Author Veronica Roth once wrote, “I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.” This connects to Margaret, a character in How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Margaret travels to the island where her father died to solve the mystery of his death. On the island, she encounters life-threatening challenges and is forced to overcome her fears.…