Pg.1-50: The main character, Ruth Anne McCabe, better known as Roo is a senior in high school and is ready to go to her dream college, Yale University. Roo has a younger sister named Tilly, she is a freshman in highschool and one day when she was at a museum doing research for a school project texted Roo to pick her up from the museum minutes before they were about to close. Roo was running a little late and Tilly was really impatient so she kept sending her lots of text messages telling her to pick her to hurry up. Roo picks up her phone to respond only little did she know how much texting while driving can do to you in such a short time.…
At the beginning of the book it starts with a girl going to a party, but one of her friend was missing so the two girls went to find them but one never came back. One of the girls is named Summer but she ran into a man that kidnaped her. Of course she is terrified so he tried to run away. Sixteen year old Summer has a boyfriend named Lewis. She lives in a small town called Long Thorpe.…
Yolande Cornelia “Nikki”Giovanni, Jr was born on June 7, 1943. Her parents are Yolande Cornelia, Sr, and Gus Giovanni. Nikki was born in Knoxville Tennessee, but grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nikki has an older sister named Gary. For some reason, Gary started calling her sister “Nikki” and the name stuck.…
One day she is caught in a bad snowstorm and her father saves her and a kid who follows her named Grady. Buhlaire discovers that he is homeless and has mental problems. She spends some time with him and learns that he has stayed in Grady’s dads shelter before but always leaves. Buhlaire also finds out that Junior has always watched her and has…
The book Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy explores life through Willowdean Dickson (more commonly known as Will)’s perspective. Will is a large girl from a small Texas town by the name of Clover City. All her life, Will has had more confidence than one would think possible, that is, until she met Bo Larson. To every teenage girl, Bo is perfection in human form, and to Will, he’s a dream come true. Not only does Will get to work with Bo at the local diner, Harpy’s, but she also ends up dating him.…
In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino, a freshman in high school, undergoes development that changes her as a person. In the beginning of the book, Melinda is scared and unsteady because a senior named Andy Evans raped her at a senior party over the summer. As additional time passes, her confidence and health worsen, eventually resulting in self-harm. When as she begins to receive the attention she deserves, she starts the healing process. Melinda’s development near the beginning of the book is represented by the artwork of a tree she must create in art class.…
The novel The DUFF is about Bianca a typical teenage girl with a negative self-image who is trying to ignore her issues by distracting herself with a boy. Bianca struggles throughout the story with her family issues and without planning to she falls in love with…
Overview of the Crank Trilogy The books that I chose to do my report on were the Crank trilogy, Crank, Glass, and Fallout, by Ellen Hopkins. Crank was published in 2004, Glass was published in 2007, and the last book, Fallout came out in 2013. Ellen Hopkins wrote these books when she had a personal experience when her daughter, Kristina, started using "the monster" after she met the wrong person. She wrote the books to help herself understand why her daughter did it, then she realized that other people would relate to it and how many people had the same story.…
Summary: The Novel, “Someone Like You”, by Sarah Dessen shows an experience of a sixteen year old. In the novel the main character, Halley, comes to a turn in her life that she never expected. This turn consisted of her best friend Scarlett getting pregnant with a person that no longer lived, Micheal Sherwood. Halley will have to learn how to be strong for best friend.…
Nick is already seeing the modes of conduct of his parents. His father often dismisses Nick’s mother and goes to her when he wants to feel better about a situation. In “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”, Dr. Adam goes to his wife and gets into a fight after being in conflict with Dick Boulton. After Nick’s mom tries to understand what happened between Dick Boulton and Dr. Adams, Nick’s father gets defensive and leaves the house. To feel better about himself, Dr. Adams goes to the woods where Nick guides him towards the squirrels.…
Birdie Sidwell , the protagonist of Deep by Susanna Vance and I are not at all similar. We have different views of the world , are viewed by the world in distinctive ways and I would respond in a different way to the central conflict of the of the novel. Therefore , I believe given the chance , we would not be friends. My novel is about a thirteen year old girl name Birdie Sidwell. Birdie is an intelligent young girl and she is the only child.…
My Antonia by Willa Cather is a novel that includes bone-chilling tragedy and life affirming uplift. The story centers around a memoir by Jim Burdin, a middle age New York lawyer who decided to write down his reminsces of his dear friend Antonia Shimerda. The story begins with Burdin heading on a train for Nebraska to live with his grandparents. He is ten years old and both of his parents have recently died. On the train he spots a Russian immigrant family and he is intrigued by them; the family includes a pretty twelve year old girl named Antonia.…
I read the first half, or the first nineteen chapters, of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. This book grabbed my attention from the first few pages. Fangirl is from the perspective of Cath, an introverted and nerdy girl, who saying that the Simon Snow book series by Gemma T. Leslie was her life would be an understatement. She is undoubtedly what one would call a ‘fangirl’. I would be more likely to recommend this book to a girl, than a guy.…
Summary Jenna Fox, a seventeen-year-old girl from Boston has recently been in a terrible accident. The book opens on a Jenna that is waking from a year-long coma. She has no memory of her life, family, or the accident. She wakes up in a home in California, that she lives in with her mother and grandmother, Lily. Jenna feels that Lily does not like her, and this troubles her.…
Susan Minot’s story titled Lust is written in first-person perspective and it revolves around the adolescent life of a 15-year-old girl as she lives in boarding school. The narrator is the girl herself, unnamed and anonymous in terms of characterization; very accurately depicting someone with low self-esteem. The story opens right away with the character introducing the boys she’s met during her time at boarding school but goes no more into depth about them than mentioning the sexual experiences they have had, such as seeing one naked for the first time or French kissing another. The readers get little, if any, description of the male characters beyond their names.…