All Fall Down by Ally Carter is a book about a girl named grace and the story of how her mom is murdered and how she solves the mystery of her mother’s murder. Grace comes back to her home town after being gone after her mother’s death. Many people do not believe Grace when she says her mother was murdered. Grace went through therapy to try and help her explain her mother’s death. VivalaBooks does a great job reviewing Ally Carter’s All Fall Down. The VivalaBooks book review of the book All Fall Down can be agreed with and defended. VivialBooks quotes Grace saying “[She] doesn’t mean to get into trouble. Trouble just sort of finds [her]”. This statement is true throughout All Fall Down. Grace shows this when she says, “When I was twelve I
The Secret Hum of a Daisy was written by Tracy Holczer. Grace is the main character. Grace has never had a real home her whole life. After her mom died, she is forced to live with her appearing to be cruel grandma. Her grandpa and dad are dead as well. Grace finally appreciates her grandma for caring for her, coming to terms that she might belong here. In The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holczer, Grace the main character, must find where she belongs and learn to love others.
The plot of this book begins with the fact that Canadian girl named Laura finds out that her father is a humble pensioner, a former teacher, committed suicide from the bridge, during
In the novel, Saving Grace, author Lee Smith follows the life of a young woman who was raised in poverty by an extremely religious father. In this story Grace Shepherd, the main character, starts out as a child, whose father is a preacher, and describes the numerous events, incidents, and even accidents that occur throughout her childhood and towards middle age, in addition, it tells the joyous moments that Grace experienced as well. Grace also had several different relationships with men that all eventually failed and some that never had a chance. First, there was a half brother that seduced her when she was just a child, then she married a much older man when she was only seventeen, whose “idea of the true nature of God came closer to my own image of Him as a great rock, eternal and unchanging” (Smith 165). However, she succumbs to an affair with a younger man that prompted a toxic relationship. What caused her to act so promiscuous and rebel against everything she had been taught growing up? The various men in Grace 's life all gave her something, for better or worse, and helped to make her the person she became at the end of the novel.
Amazing Grace, allows the world outside of South Bronx, to grasp a small understanding of what it is like to live a destitute life. The inequality issues, healthcare problems, and educational shortcomings of the district are a few of Kozol's problems concerning the treatment of the lower class society today. The presence of drugs, the acts of prostitution, and the side items that come with living in the ghetto, are not things that should be present in a child's everyday life. Kozol's examination of the lives of the people living in these slums, clearly shows that these people deserve the same freedoms and comforts that others in privileged classes take for granted.
The theme of the book is appearance shouldn’t matter. Like how Shay says that she doesn’t care about appearance or becoming a pretty. F. Overall Opinion- My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
Her mother had died after being hit by a reckless driver. Alice, a fifteen-year old, African-American girl, was now without her natural and most influential guide on how to cope with the powerful transition from girl to lady.
Karana lives near a little cove in San Nicolas. Coral Cove has plenty of fish and cool water. Karana is a brave and has learned how to find food and stay alive on the island all alone. She ending up living alone after a Russian ship approached the island where the Ghalat-at people live. When some of the people from the ship reach the land of the island. Karana’s dad who is also chief of the tribe Chowig went down to meet the visitors along with some of his warriors. Captain Orlov and the Aleut tribe have visited the island to see if they can hunt otter on their land. Chowig and Orlov have a disagreement and finally for half of their profits in the form of jewelry. After hunting season was complete Chowing asked for payment and and they can’t agree on a sum and a fight breaks out and many of the Ghalat-at people are killed including Chief Chowig. Kimki was then chosen as chief.
A girl named Sierra Stokes lost her brother three years ago. He disappeared when he was going to the store alone to get cookie dough to make cookies that night and he never came back. Then there was a girl named Casey Cramer. He mother was a drunk and she did all the driving as well. Well one night her mom picked her and a few others up from the beach, and she was drunk. Her mom drove them into a “stonewall” and Casey had “trauma to her head.” (Wolitzer 102) There is a picture of a jar of strawberry jam because Reeve had given her strawberry jam at Dana’s party where they also kissed above Courtney’s, Dana sister, dollhouse. Lastly, there is a picture of a journal because in the book students write in their journals for an English class and they soon realize that they go to a place they named Belzhar. They go to this supposed “place” after they write five pages worth in their journals. This place is where they go “when they can’t take reality, because it’s too depressing.” (Wolitzer 107) They see the people/events that caused them the trauma in
The fiction, Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K’ang-Hsi, is written by Jonathan D. Spence in 1974. Based on various historical records and the letters written by K’ang Hsi Emperor, Spence creates a fictional memoir to describe K’ang Hsi’s later years. This book is divided into six chapters plus two appendixes. The first chapter, “In Motion”, illustrates his talents in hunting skills and his extensive knowledge on how to survive by taking the natural advantages during wars. The second chapter, “Ruling”, expresses K’ang Hsi’s opinions on how to rule the country. The third chapter, “Thinking”, compares the cultures and ideologies between the Western countries and China. The fourth chapter, “Growing Old”, shows his medical knowledge and how to apply in real life and medical clinic in the palace. The last chapter, “Son”, shows his father’s love toward his sons and the process and conflicts on the succession. The additional translated appendixes display K’ang Hsi’s seventeen letters and his final valedictory edict that hidden from the palace. Those original documents clearly the audience a clear idea of K’ang Hsi’s inner self. This book report will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of reading this book and how this book affects the reader.
The book I chose for this project goes by the name “Way To Go” by Tom Ryan. The main character of this book is Darry from Deep Cove. Deep Cove is a small neighborhood in (Cape Breton) Nova Scotia, Canada where the entire story takes place. The abandoned tracks in the picture represent the Spot where Danny, Kierce, and Jay hang out. He lives with his sister Alma and his mother Mary. Danny’s father is always on business trips and is gone for a couple of weeks very often so he hardly spends time at home. When he was caught drinking by a cop, he was forced to get a summer job. Luckily, an old friend of his mom had just recently returned to Deep Cove to open a restaurant. Learning he cannot wash a dish to save his life, Denise moves him up to sous chef to work along with Jean Pierre. They became so close that he passed over
I liked the story a lot because I myself am a teenage girl. I can relate to Alice about feeling insecure sometimes, or trying to find out the kind of person you are. Self identity was a strong factor in Alice’s life that she had to struggle with. Every teen goes through this, but in different ways. Her struggles led her to drugs which ended her life and that was deep to me. This book gave a firsthand detailed experience on what she went through. I like the fact that the book is nonfiction and I’m just reading about another made up story. Go Ask Alice gives you a taste of reality and a different outlook on life.
catastrophic car crash takes the lives of her family and puts her in a coma. Through
Alden Bell’s The Reapers Are the Angels is full of religious symbolism. This book fixates on a fifteen year old girl named Temple, who navigates across the country in an attempt at dodging various segments of her past and present. While on her journey, she is often reminded of her “smallness”. Rather than being entangled in her ongoing misery, she observes the small miracles of her daily life. Temple always believes that remaining positive is the best thing to do and will save her. Temple experiences a beautiful yet somber adventure in this book. Bell focuses on God’s plan as a means to portray there is always light in the darkest of times.
I finally found a book that I could not put down. The novel is eye catching. I always wanted to know what will happen next. The novel I read was called The Forest of Hands and Teeth by, Carrie Ryan. This novel was published in the year of 2009. The setting is deep in a forest, and focuses on the main characters: Mary, Sister Tabitha, Gabrielle, Travis, Cass, and Harry. The plot included Mary’s loved ones and their lives lost to the unconsecrated. What I often felt while reading this book, was sorrow. In my opinion, The Forest of Hands and Teeth novel was entertaining and suspenseful. The overall theme is love does not always survive because Mary loses everyone she loves.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is about, Hazel Grace Lancaster. She is a seventeen year old girl. However, she’s different than most seventeen year olds, she’s been battling terminal thyroid cancer, since she was twelve, and has mets in her lungs. They gave her a testing drug called Phalanxifor, and it cleared out the fluid in her lungs and cured her. She knows she’s just a time bomb and her cancer can come back, and this leaves her with what her doctor thinks is depression and also an oxygen tank. Therefore, she has to go to support group meetings in the “literal heart of Jesus” as the support group leader, Patrick, likes to point out a lot during every meeting. One day, Hazel goes to support group and she see a boy. This boy won’t stop staring at her. She sits down and listens to everyone in the support group talk about their stories. Patrick, noticing that the mystery boy is new, asks him about his story. This boy starts off by saying his name is Augustus Waters, and he used to have osteosarcoma, which in return caused him to have to have his right leg amputated. He informs the group that he is cancer free and just a supporter of his friend Isaac, who is a regular at the support group meetings. In response, Patrick asks him what his greatest fear is, as to which Gus replies ““I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.”