Plain City is a realistic book written by Virginia Hamilton. Some characters in this book are Buhlaire Sims, Bluezy, Uncle Sam, Grady, and Theodore Junior Sims. Buhlaire is a 12 year old girl who grew up not knowing she had a father. She was different from every other kid because she had rasta hair and a carrot-honey face. Her family told her that her father died in Vietnam but she finds out the truth.…
During her whole cycle of cancer, she was seen as a research project to gain new data for her type of cancer. She kept going through her whole treatment and the doctors were impressed by how long she lasted. She had stage four ovarian cancer and she was on her last leg to survive. While she went through treatments, she had flashbacks of her childhood.…
Crazy paradise by laura ramirez The book starts in the middle of the year of school oh and you like to know who i am i´m Ema i have a best friend named andrea my least favorite people in this school is the b squad Brittney Bell and Bella but don't worry there just a couple of wanna be idiots. Another person you should start knowing is my boyfriend Jordan.…
Unbroken is a story by Laura Hillenbrand about an extraordinarily brave and courageous man by the name of Louie Zamperini. Throughout the story he endeavors many inhumane hardships and challenges. Louie is in fact, unbroken. He did not give up regardless of how difficult the issue was he was fighting through. There are thousands of people, all over the world, who have incredible survivor stories similar to Louie’s.…
In the elaborate book Schooled by Gordan Korman, Capricorn Anderson is a thirteen year old boy, raised and homeschooled as a hippie by his dead parent´s mother, Rain on a farm commune. There, plenty of typical hippie knowledge such as tie-die and Zen Buddhism is deposited in his brain. Though he was in complete isolation of a normal kid middle school. One day on the farm, while Rain is picking plums she falls out of the plum tree and lands herself in a hospital. In the meantime Capricorn, or Cap, is sent off to a middle school full of typical, non-hippie children, called Claverage Middle School or C- average.…
There's always one person who has a rough time getting through life, who has troubles everywhere but in one place and with one person. In the book Okay for Now by: Gary D. Schmidt, Doug has two brothers, a mom, and a dad.…
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Connie a fifteen-year-old girl, is preoccupied with her appearance. Her mother desires her beauty, as one day she was young and beautiful too. Connie’s mother urges her to be neat and responsible like her older sister, June.…
Jacob Lufholm Core 3 SUMMER READING PROJECT The novel I read was “Forged by Fire”. “Forged by Fire” is a realistic fiction book written by Sharon M. Draper. This book was published in 1997. The story is about Gerald, an African American boy who struggles with his life after the death of his aunt.…
Dead Until Dark “I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar. Ever since vampires came out of the coffin two years ago, I’d hoped one would come to Bon Temps. We had all the other minorities in our little town, why not the newest, the legally recognized undead?” Dead Until Dark is a thrill intriguing book, that grasps your attention, and you cannot put the book down. Sookie Stackhouse, born and raised in Bon Temps, Louisiana.…
By Vaughn Heppner The name of my book is Invaders which is a science fiction story written by Vaughn Heppner. The main character in this story is Logan who is ex military and he wants to protect the earth and the human race from being destroyed. The only thing standing in his way is aliens. Logan was in the Nevada desert when he was kidnapped by the aliens.…
Unbroken’s purpose is to tell the true story of a man that finds some source of unbreakable courage to survive life-threatening situations. Louie Zamperini, a former Olympian runner, finds himself caught in the conflict of the Pacific warfront between the United States and the…
The information in this book is good for my research because it states varies aspects of obesity. Compared to other book that I have read, this one has a clear point of view on the topic of obesity. It also does not state that individuals are simply lazy and fat. They go into depth of how and why obesity occurs. Also, a big part of obesity is a diet.…
The war between the Seven Kingdoms seems to only be getting worse. Beyond The Wall, the free people are preparing for war, and with them is Jon Snow. His leader told him to do as they say, which resulted in him being killed by Jon. In Riverrun, Catelyn has released her son, King Robb’s, hostage in hopes to get her daughters back from Cersei and Joffrey. These events, and many more are causing Chaos in Westeros.…
The third most common cancer present in children is Neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a cancerous tumor that erupts from the nerve cells in the fetus and are called neuroblasts. It is an extremely rare disease with less than twenty-thousand cases per year in the US, with the most taking place in the age range of newborns to eighteen years of age. Neuroblastoma doesn’t just affect the people with the disease, it also affects the people around them, including family and friends. There are many aspects to Neuroblastoma including the symptoms, treatments, survival rates, and stages.…
The book I have dissected and analyzed is Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. The book opens up in the third person narrative of a twelve year old bookworm named Meggie. She sees a rain-soaked, ominous man standing outside her house and immediately runs to her father, Mo. This is the point of the book where everything begins to change for Meggie. She constantly travels to different parts of the United States with her father, missing school, leaving behind friends, and only feeling close to Mo and her books.…