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Over the summer, I read “The Journal Belongs to Ratchet” by Nancy J. Cavanaugh. This book is about a girl, named Ratchet, but her real name is Rachel. She is 11 years old, and she is homeschooled by her mechanic engineer dad. Her dad knows how to rebuild and fix cars. Ratchet helps her dad in the garage, because her dad taught her how to use the tools and what they are used for. They have moved to a lot of houses before. Her dad buys cheap houses that need renovation and he fixes it and then goes onto a new house. Ratchet doesn’t buy anything new. She gets hers clothes from goodwill. In her notebook that she is suppose to use for writing assignments, but she doesn’t use it for that. She uses her notebook for a top-secret plan to turn her old, recycled, freakish, friendless, motherless life into something shiny and new. Ratchet’s quests are to make a friend, save a park, and to find her own definition of normal. …show more content…
Next, this book was published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky in 2013. The author is known for her two books “The Journal Belongs to Ratchet” and “Always, Abigail.”
Then, the genre of this book is contemporary realistic fiction for middle school.
Also, there are 2 main characters in the book are Ratchet (Rachel) and her dad Lamar Vance.
Furthermore, there are main points about the book. The main points about the book
In addition, I will compare and contrast “The Journal Belongs to Ratchet” and “Bridge to Terabithia.”
To continue, in the book there are some issues the readers should be aware of. They should be aware that they started cutting down some tree to start building the new
My book is about a thirteen year old girl name Raspberry Hill. She is a black African American girl that lives in the projects with her mom and they don’t won’t to live there. Her mom is a hard worker. Raspberry is afraid of being homeless again. Time back, her and her mom lived on the streets, lived in family houses and got kicked out. Raspberry doesn’t wants to be on the streets any more so this is why she has her mind stayed on money. She will do anything to get her hands on money. She will get down and dirty, skip lunch, skip school, clean houses and sell nasty rotten candy to the kids in school. When she goes to school she always has candy and pencils to sell to the kids in the school. She has 3 friend’s name Zora who has a single farther name Dr.Mitchell that’s in love with Raspberry’s mother, which upsets both of them, Mia who wants to be identified as black, but has African American and Korean parents, Ja'nae who stays with her grandparents but is urgently wanting to stay with her mom.
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak is narrated by death and begins when Liesel’s brother dies on a train with her and her mother. At her brother’s burial, she steals her first book, “The Grave Digger’s Handbook” and soon after is separated from her mother and sent to live with foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, in Molching, where the majority of the book takes place. At school, Liesel is teased because she can’t read so Hans teaches her to read when she wakes up from her frequent nightmares about her brother’s death. Hans is a painter and an accordion player and also plays the accordion for her after her nightmares. Liesel grows very close with Hans and also becomes close friends with her neighbor Rudy Steiner who constantly asks her to
Murphy,Priscilla Coit. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring, Amherst. University of Massachusetts Press. 2005
This book is about a girl name Ellen Foster who is ten years old. Her mother committed suicide by over dosing on her medication. When Ellen tried to go look for help for her mother her father stopped her. He told them that if she looked for helped he would kill them both. After her mother died she was left under her fathers custody. Her father was a drunk. He would physically and mentally abuse her. Ellen was forced to pay bills, go grocery shopping, cook for herself, and do everything else for herself. Ellen couldn't take it any more so she ran away her friends house. Starletta and her parents lived in a small cabin with one small bathroom. One day at school a teacher found a bruise on Ellen's arm. She sends Ellen to live with Julia the school's art teacher. Julia had a husband named Roy. They were both hippies. Julia and Roy cared a lot about Ellen. After Ellen turned 11 years old she was forced to go live with her grandmother. Ellen didn't want to leave Julia and Roy but her grandmother had won custody. Her grandmother was a cruel old lady. Ellen spends the summer with her grandmother. Living with her makes her very unhappy. Since her grandmother owns farmland she forces Ellen to work on the field with her black servants. Ellen meets a black woman named Mavis. Mavis and her become good friends. Mavis would talk about how she knew Ellen's mother and how much Ellen resembled her mother. Her grandmother didn't think the same. She thought that Ellen resembled her father. She also hated that man. Her grandmother would often compare her with her father. Her grandmother would torture her because she wanted revenge from her father. Her grandmother also blames her for the death of her mother. While Ellen was staying with her grandmother her father died. When her father died she didn't feel sad because she had always fantasized about killing her father. Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time. One day her uncle Rudolph bought the flag that had been on Ellen's father's casket. Her grandmother turns him away. Later that day she burned the flag.
Lipscomb, Elizabeth Johnston. “Sara Teasdale.” Magill’s Literary Annual 1980 (1980): 1-4. Literary Reference Center. Web. 29 Jan. 2014.
This book is about a girls who is shopping with her best friend and losses her purse and her mobile and a ring her boyfriend bought her and everything else in her purse. She has an older sister Matilda, a mom and a dad. Eleanor's (the main character) boyfriend (William) gets upset at Eleanor. Later a girl in year 12 who is good at making jewellery (lily) is asked if she can make a new ring for Eleanor. Will went to her house but he didn't realise that she was having a party and lily forces Will into the hot tub to get back at her boyfriend! A person at Lily's party takes photos of it and posts it on face place. In the morning Eleanor sees the photos and gets very very upset! Her best friend said that it was because he wanted to be with someone more popular!
The book “In Case You Missed It” by Sarah Darer Littman is about a teenage girl named Sammy, she's in high school getting ready for APs and SATs. Her mom mostly stays at home and her dad is the CEO of New Territories Bank. Sammy snuck out of her house and went to a concert with her friends. It turns out to be awful because somebody barfed all over them. But her family runs into a problem. Their family cloud and the bank's database were hacked and publishes for the world to see. Sammy had an online diary and that was published. When Sammy goes back to school everybody stares at her and she decides to skip class.
This classic writing prompt can be quite challenging because it sounds almost as if you are being asked to compile a list of similarities and differences. While a list might be of use in the planning stage, this prompt asks you to use what you discover to arrive at a conclusion about the two works under discussion.
Lost by Jacqueline Davies takes place in the 1900s, and depicts the life of sixteen year-old Essie Rosenfeld. Essie the main character works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York. She notices a new girl, who seems rich and is very suspicious why she is working here. Essie gets to the new girl Harriet, and they become great friends. However, Essie feels as if Harriet isn’t telling the whole truth. Harriet told her about how her husband died in an explosion that had happened not too long ago, and when Essie went to the library she wasn't very surprised when she didn't see Harriet’s husband in the obituary. Later on Essie figures out that Harriet actually ran away from her family, and is pregnant. Harriet feels lost, and doesn't
...ce, although both writings are interesting in their own ways, the most interesting aspect of both writings together is that they both have a similar plot and theme. It is rare that two
Analysis: This setting shows in detail a location which is directly tied to the author. He remembers the tree in such detail because this was the place were the main conflict in his life took place.
One can learn responsibility through experience, whether the experience is great, or if it is tragic. In The Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes, twelve year old Lanesha demonstrates her growth by bringing her and others to safety during a deadly storm. Once nurtured and cared for by her non-biological grandmother, Lanesha learns to take care of herself and others. This significance shows her transitioning from a girl to a young woman.
Baym, Nina, ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter fifth edition. New York: Norton, 1999.
Baym, Nina. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter Fifth Edition. New York: Norton & Co., 1989.
Elbert, Sarah. “Reading Little Women.” Temple University Press (1984): 151-65. Rpt in Novels for Students. Ed. Elizabeth Thomason. Vol. 12. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 144. Print.