The name of the book I chose for my book report is Bras and Broomsticks. It is a fiction book. The author is Sarah Milnowski. The setting of the story is modern day New York City, New York. There are also small parts of the story that take place in Long Island, New York.
Rachel is a fourteen-year-old girl who wants to be on the popular A-List at school, doesn't want her divorced father to get remarried, wants to be in the school fashion show, and wants a boyfriend. She has a crush on two boys named Raf and Mick. Miri is Rachel's younger sister who finds out that she is a witch. Together she and Rachel try to use her magic to help them. Jennifer is their dad's fiancée, who they refer to as STB (soon to be stepmother). Both girls do not like her throughout the book, but in the end they learn to accept her. STB has a daughter named Prissy. Jewel was Rachel's best friend since they were very young. Now that is in the fashion show and was accepted into the A-List, she thinks she is too good for Rachel. Tammy became Rachel's friend when Jewel dumped Rachel. Tammy remains a good friend to Rachel through everything that happens in this book and Rachel doesn't realize it until the end.
In the beginning, Rachel is leaving school to go hang out with friends when she realizes there are a pair of really expensive shoes that she wanted on her feet. She doesn't know how she got them so she calls her mom and she tells her to come home. When she gets home her mom tells her that her sister, Miri, is a witch. Rachel thinks this is a good thing and that Miri will help her to become popular at school. She is jealous too because she didn't get the powers herself. Her mom tells her that she is a witch too, but she chose not to use her powers. Their mom gives Miri a book full of spells. Miri is not supposed to use her magic until her mom teaches her how, but Rachel doesnt care about that. The first thing Rachel and Miri try to do is make their dad realize how horrible STB is so he will not marry her.
Silver believes that Rachel will grow up just like any other child, but she will be “special.” Until the day that reproductive cloning is accepted in society, Rachel will be known for being “special.” Genetically, Jennifer isn’t Rachel’s mother. Jennifer is, in fact, Rachel’s twin sister. Rachel’s grandparents not only have the title of grandparents, but of Rachel’s genetic parents as well.
Fourth daughter in the Lapham family. She was the rudest to Johnny. Cilla had to take care of her because she was so small and sick. & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp ; Johnny’s the closest friend. A couple of years older than Johnny, he worked for the Boston Observer printing newspapers. Rab helps Johnny throughout the story.
For this book report, I choose the book written by Barbara Chase-Riboud called Hottentot Venus. This book is about a real female from the KhoeKhoe nation and her tragic life. This Young Khoisan, Ssehura, was an orphan in South Africa around the 1700s. After becoming a slave by a Dutch Afrikaner, her name changed to Saartjie (means Little Sarah in Dutch). As the story goes on, it explains more of Saartjie’s culture, which includes the grooming to be more desirable for marriage.
Living in Maryland, the narrator and her little brother Joey lived a very simple life. There mother had job that required many hours, and her father was unemployed and still in the process of trying to find a job. They lived in a very run down house in a very small poor community. One summer day, the narrator , Joey, and a group of kids from the community were bored and wanted to do something different. So,the narrator and the kids went down to one of the elders home, Miss Lottie. Miss Lottie was the old woman that everyone made stories about and for the kids they knew her as the witch. In the summer time Miss Lottie would always be in her front yard planting marigolds, which were an easy target to destroy. The kids all took part in throwing rock at Miss Lottie's marigolds, and the narrator was the coordinator. After they sprinted back to the oak tree, the narrator started to feel guilt for what she
They leapt into a book bag, and went to school with Kate, and when the hall was quite they began to roam in search of Kate, the owner of the Funcrafts. School ends, the two dolls didn’t make it back in time they roamed the school hallways the next day they returned right away to the book bags and stayed in there the entire day. To their surprise, they went into the wrong book bag; it was a Friday so they wouldn’t get home until Monday. The family Annabelle and Tiffany came home with leave on long weekends, and we meet the meanest doll in the world, Princess Mimi. Princess Mimi corners the other living dolls with fear, and then she meets Annabelle and Tiffany; when she leaves we find out they don’t want to be her friend because she thinks she’s queen of all dolls and she treats her friends like slaves.
Of course, Rachel being 11 years old, she does not have a broad mindset which is the cause of her simplistic phrases that include repetition that help reflect her true age. “Not mine, not mine, not mine” repeating that the “ugly sweater” was not hers but clearly not being understood, Rachel must repeat this phrase -only in her head- just like any child would when not being listened to. Not only does this phrase inform the reader of Rachel’s weakness to stand up for herself but also of how she is accustomed to not being listened which has her thinking that she must repeat herself. Finding comfort in not only burying her face but in the thought of “mama's cake” and “everybody singing happy birthday”, she demonstrates that she feels smaller physically and emotionally so she continues this saying in her head to get her through her moment of the “sick feeling”. After constant wishing of being “102”, or “invisible” Rachel finally decides that it is too late for “mamas cake, “candles, presents and everybody will sing happy birthday” because she no longer feels “ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, one” she no longer needs closure of her
witchcraft on the girls. After declaring herself a witch she accuses the names of four
The author’s use of Rachel’s perspective is important because it establishes a connection between the reader and the character. Noting that Rachel is eleven years old justifies her childish point of view that is expressed all throughout the piece. The entire story focuses around Rachel’s teacher trying to give Rachel back a sweater. Since Rachel’s considers the sweater ugly, she believes that she will be made of for it. For example, when Mrs. Price put the
Mary Warren, their house servant, enters. She tells of a death sentence for one of the accused witches. She gives Elizabeth a is a small doll made to represent a person.
Mitchell, Barbara. Between Two Worlds A Story About Pearl Buck. New York: Carolrhoda Books, 1988
From the church or the government there are many laws made pertaining to witchcraft. It is believed that if he or she is to dance, he is controlled by the devil. The subject of dancing is what gets the girls into trouble in the first place. The girls are seen by Parris dancing and conjuring evil spirits in the woods. “Witches” are what the girls are called by the people of the town. After they were caught, Parris goes upstairs to call Betty, his daughter, and Abagail, his niece, but Betty will not wake. This is when the
The title of the book is Monster and the author is Walter Dean Myers. This book physical setting is in Manhattan & Harlem, New York and sometimes in the main character’s neighborhood. The temporal setting is present day. The main character Steve Harmon helps the author manipulate time in the story line by not giving the exact days and repeating the pattern of taking Harmon to jail, court, and then his neighborhood repeatedly. Monster’s setting is critical to the story because on multiple occasions Steve Harmon blames his poverty stricken neighborhood he grew up in for the mistakes he made. The tone of the story makes the audience stay in constant suspicion to see if Harmon will be able to prove that he’s innocent. Myer’s theme for the story is that you should not give into peer pressure because it can make you end up in serious trouble.
Rachel was Melinda's friend all of middle school but she turned out to be a complete jerk to Melinda. Heather was a fake friend who only stuck by her side until she was accepted in a ¨cool¨ group. David Petrakis is a nerd who is almost in every one of Melinda's classes. They grow close mostly because they both have no friends, but he is a true friend. Towards the end of the group Melinda starts to come out to Rachel about why she called the police, but Rachel just got even more upset. Melinda thankfully realizes how bad of a friend Rachel is on page 198 ¨I don't want to be cool. I want to grab her by the neck and shake her and scream at her to stop treating me like dirt. She didn't even bother to find out the truth – what kind of friend is that? ¨ Melinda gets close to her art teacher. Art is the one class that Melinda enjoys because she gets to be with her new friend Ivy. Ivy and David are the only people Melinda has, but that is enough for her. On the first day of school Melinda recalls being the only person sitting alone on page 134.¨ I see a few friends people I used to think were my friends—but they look away. ¨ Positively Melinda has found the two only true friends in her school and starts to become a more optimistic
The story follows three girls- Jeanette, the oldest in the pack, Claudette, the narrator and middle child, and the youngest, Mirabella- as they go through the various stages of becoming civilized people. Each girl is an example of the different reactions to being placed in an unfamiliar environment and retrained. Jeanette adapts quickly, becoming the first in the pack to assimilate to the new way of life. She accepts her education and rejects her previous life with few relapses. Claudette understands the education being presented to her but resists adapting fully, her hatred turning into apathy as she quietly accepts her fate. Mirabella either does not comprehend her education, or fully ignores it, as she continually breaks the rules and boundaries set around her, eventually resulting in her removal from the school.
As she burned, the old witch screamed a curse at the villagers. If anyone mentioned her name aloud before a mirror, she would send her spirit to revenge herself upon them for her terrible death. When she was dead, the villagers went to the house in the wood and found the unmarked graves of the little girls the evil witch had murdered. She used and took their blood to make herself look younger