This book takes place in present time in Manhattan,New York, but
This book takes place in present time in Manhattan,New York, but
n the article, "Suzy and Leah" by Jane Yolen, Suzy Ann McCarthy, or the girl with the yellow hair, helped Leah Shoshana Hershkowitz, the girl with the dark braids. Suzy was helping with Leah English when she came to America as a refugee. This was important and helpful for Suzy to do this for Leah even if she didn’t think it was so important. Leah and Suzy weren’t close in the beginning. They didn’t understand each other so they didn’t really feel like they should be close or even talk unless they were working on Leah’s English.…
In the book Blue like Jazz there is a couple of conversion stories I would like to talk about. The first one comes from Chapter 4. It is the conversion of Millers friend Penny. Penny was a person who did not like Christians and Christianity based on the stereotypes that she had seen and the world has given to them. In the chapter it says that Penny wanted nothing to do with Christianity until she met a friend from her school. She went to college at the same place as miller, which is reed college, and after her freshman year she decided to study at a school in france. While there she was introduced to another student from Reed who she was very fond of and her…
Suzy and Leah The main characters in Jane Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah” are Suzy, an American who doesn’t realize how hard the Jews have it, and Leah, a Jew who moves to the United States to escape the Nazis. At the beginning of the article, Suzy believes that Jews are like animals. Leah sees Suzy trying to “help” the Jews by giving them food, but Leah believes that Suzy has a false smile As they get to know each other more, their opinions start to change. Until her mom explained it to her, Suzy never realized all that Leah and other Jews had to go through.…
Melinda Sordino’s freshman year is off to a horrible start. She busted an end of summer party by calling the cops, and now her friends, and even strangers, all hate her. Months pass and things aren’t getting better. She’s a pariah. The lowest of the low. Avoided by everyone. But eventually she’ll reveal what happened at the party. And when she finally speaks the truth, everything will change for her and her life as of now.…
Sharon M. Draper captures the life of an average teen through the realest form of unreality exceptionally well. November Blues tells the story of November Nelson and Jericho Prescott after a horrible accident at their school.…
The book that I am reading is called True Colours, by Lucy Lemay Cellucci who is a great author. So far along the book the book I find that the plot of the book is developing well and that the all the details are going being stated clearly and entertainingly. I find that this book is an easy read since there are not many words that I do not understand and that I understand the main theme of the book in the first half. The main theme of the book is animal curtly or animal abusement in general and the book also touches on how animals are being abused in third world countries like India, China, Pakistan, and many others as well. This book tells the reader how in Canada many children care about animals and are willing to help find a way to keep…
One thing I loved about the book is the characters. Everybody has an identity that they will have to live by to cover their real one. Every half-blood has ADHD and is dyslexic because they need for fighting skill and understanding The Greek language.For example,like Chiron,he's supposed to be Mr.Bummer, a Latin teacher in a motorized wheelchair, but his real identity is a centaur, half man, and half horse. Another thing that I like was the…
Stolen By Night by Steve Watkins. The main character in this book is Nicollette, a 14-year-old girl who aspires to follow in her father's footsteps and become a bicycle racer. Stolen By Night is a secondary source. I know this due to the book being described as 'historical fiction' which indicates that this book is not a real story, but is based on real historical events. The author is also a man who tells me he is not Nicolette.…
Karyn Lacy’s ethnography, Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class, aims to reveal “how different groups of middle-class blacks make their identity choices.” In examining the process of identity construction for middle-class suburban blacks, she incorporates spatial analysis and the intersection of race and class in order to highlight intragroup divisions. In doing so, Lacy argues that the intersection of race and class influences the identity construction of the black middle-class in terms of how members “define themselves” and the distinctions they draw against others. Her attention to the cultural components of black middle-class identity and focus on this understudied group make her work successful, as it challenges…
|cannot wait to read the next book of Anne Mazer (the author)! I rate this book as a five star or maybe a ten star. |…
“Alice King” (cocoon killer) is a grown man in his early 50’s who is pretending to be a 15 year old girl, who manipulates young adolescent girls to tell him their secrets and every little detail about themselves and their lives, He also does a little research on their names and creates acronym with them, For Celia he did Alice and Hallie he did Leilah as for the girls he kidnapped and killed he did acronyms with their names.…
The book I am reviewing is called Matched by Ally Condie. Matched is a book which has an exiting futuristic theme. Matched is a book about a courageous, open minded girl named Cassia, a girl with two parents, a brother, and two best friends Xander and Em. In the book Cassia battles with society and not any type of society a new society. The society chooses everyone’s life they have chose that everyone should die at 80; they chose that there should only be 100 songs. Poetries, paintings ECT. In their city, the society chooses everyone’s job and food too, society chooses who gets marries to who at a special event called a match banquet. When Cassia finds out she has been matched with someone really close she starts developing strong feeling about him. But as soon as she sees another face pop up on her match’s microcard she starts having second thoughts. See who Cassia gets “matched” within this epic, love triangle, and risk taking story. Matched is a beautiful love triangle I would give 9 out of 10 to. I think the concept of the book was very unique and eye catching.…
James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” displays a lot of take to heart messages that we could learn from. Throughout this story we got a firsthand look at what a teenager’s life in Harlem looks like. It is told from the perspective of Sonny’s younger brother who is an algebra teacher in high school. Towards the beginning of the reading the narrator expresses concern about the root issue contributing to Sonny’s problems; Horse, otherwise known as Heroin. He states “I was sure that the first time Sonny had ever had horse, he couldn’t have been much older than these boys now”, (Baldwin 22). This sentence makes a wide-spread drug problem in their community evident. As any writer does Baldwin…
Although following the love triangle between Mare, Cal, and Maven was interesting, the novel was very similar to many other dystopian books such as The Hunger Games and Divergent. In the book just as in many other dystopian books, there is an oppressed group of people being the ones with red blood and there is the minority powerful group being the ones with silver blood. The book did not give me an opportunity to learn new vocabulary words and was at a middle school reading level. Red Queen does not give valuable lessons, but rather repeatedly emphasises “anyone can betray anyone” (pg. 59) throughout the whole story. About halfway through the book, my interest lowered because I already could predict how the ending would play out. To me, predictable books are one of the worst qualities a book can contain. I did not feel a connection with the main characters and did not care as to what was going to happen to them. Usually, in a book I enjoy, I care when a character is killed or badly injured because the emotional connection developed to them. If Red Queen made me challenge my previous thoughts like Night and Romeo and Juliet it would have been a much more…
Melinda is a freshman in high school, with no friends. The past summer, she called the cops on a party. At least that's what everyone heard. The book is called Speak. She goes through a lot inside the book.…