The book I am choosing to write about is Airhead by Meg Cabot. All 337 pages of this drama were released May 13, 2008. The three Airhead books were published by Scholastic and intended for the young adult audience. Meg Cabot, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, is the writer of romantic and paranormal reads for adults and teens alike. Her most popular series have included The Princess Diaries, Avalon High, and The Mediator. Cabot’s books have sold in 38 countries with nearly 80 books published. Airhead, the book I read, gives an insight to the celebrity lifestyle through an average teenage girl's perspective. This story takes place in SoHo, Manhattan, a neighborhood in the heart of New York City. The Airhead series follows Emerson Watts,…
I have been busy reading more of Meg Cabot’s All American Girl. In All American Girl, Sam has been forced into going to drawing lessons. Her first lesson at the studio did not go so well. Sam was humiliated and by the time her next lesson came around she was not going to lose her pride again. Instead of going to her drawing lesson, Sam chose to go to a music store, Static. In the store she sat next to a middle-aged man in an army uniform, listening to Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl. They both exited…
Meg Cabot Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967. She grew up in Bloomington Indiana. Her parents are Victor and Barbra Cabot. Her father was a professor at the University of Indiana. Cabot has one adopted brother. Meg Cabot started writing early, she wrote stories for her school newspaper and kept detailed journals throughout her life (Katie Hilpern). She was a good student but did very poorly in math, failing algebra twice. Cabot attended the University of Indiana, getting a bachelors in the…
Kate the Great by Meg Cabot reveals that growing up is a challenge for everyone no matter who you are. Friendships may not last forever or as long as you hope. As you read the story Kate comes to the weinman's house where Jenny was babysitting their child. Kate ruined the babysitting job for jenny and gave her a bad reputation. “Kate I said the Tv’s too loud. It’s upsetting Molly. Kate looked down at Molly. She likes it.” (Cabot, 34) Jenny is crying on her porch when patric comes to…
Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls is a series of novels by Meg Cabot the New York Times bestselling author that is best known for writing over 80 novels in the children's, young adult, and adult genres. Meg was born in Bloomington, Indiana but lived in Carmel, California and Grenoble in France before she moved to New York after getting her fine arts bachelors degree from Indiana University. She worked fro a decade at the New York University where she was assistant residence hall director an…
Why did Madeleine L’Engle write A Wrinkle In Time? Here is why I look at why she wrote the book. One, she is probably telling people endless matters are rolling right at you. Still, people don’t even acknowledge it. People sit there like nothing wrong. there is a full world waiting for us, the people, but you don’t even notice what's happening in front of you. Two, Madeleine L’Engle wanted to warn people about IT. What is IT, IT is the technology. Reason number one. Why would Madeleine L’Engle…
Hadley Watson Dr. Keith Hale English 1213 Composition II 10 October 2016 European Encounters with the Beothuk Before European interaction, the natives of Newfoundland, the Beothuk, estimated a population of less than one thousand inhabitants (Pastore). John Cabot, sailing under the authority of England, sailed to the east coast of Canada in 1497, which lead to the first recorded foreign interactions with the Beothuk people. The Beothuk initially avoided the Europeans. However, England’s greed…
Stereotypes are a common occurrence in everyday life, but they show unreasonable expectations. It puts labels on a group of people according to their sex, race, religious views, or other facts. A group of people that is commonly stereotyped in the media today are Jews. When thinking of Jews, an individual may call to mind a few things, such as all Jews are obsessed with money, bad at sports, white, and have big noses. The television show on FOX called Family Guy does not help to contradict the…
great story. It had many science fiction elements (sci-fi) and great conflicts in it. I chose three of those conflicts which were sameness vs. uniqueness, control vs. freedom and the third and last one was good vs evil. Those three conflicts represents “A Wrinkle in Time” very well. In my opinion, Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O’Keefe the main characters in the story, get to go to many strange and wonderful places and are very lucky, too. Meg is a funny girl who thinks that she…
Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, portrays a society where all books are outlawed. If a book was found in someone’s house not only would the book be burned, but the house along with everything the person owned would be burned too. Montag knew this when he took the risk of hiding books, and in the end, that risk ended up costing him. Unfortunately, our society too is censoring books in which are considered “bad” by certain people. One of these books is A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle due…