The book that I recently loved was "Flipped" By Wendelin Van Draanen. Flipped is a fiction book and contains 212 pages‚ I started the book on May 2nd and finished it the week later.Wendelin Van Draanen was born January 6 in Chicago‚IL and is still living. Wendelin Van Draanen’s previous jobs was a fork lifter(a fork lifter is a person who works at a construction site lifting up heavy weights off the ground with a mechanical machine)‚high school computer teacher‚ and even was a singer in a rock band
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The Hidden Side of Freakonomics Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is a book aimed at exposing the secret within everything. The authors prove that in many cases‚ two items don’t have to be connected because they are correlated. Moreover‚ two unrelated items can in fact be connected. Proving so was less difficult than it would seem. All it took was the right information. They were able to prove the most unlikely of correlations. The authors stress that in a world where incentives
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1. Title: Insurgent 2. Author: Veronica Roth 3. Characters: List and briefly describe the main characters. Beatrice Prior - (Tris): Beatrice was born as Abnegation (a faction focused on selflessness and forgetting oneself for the sake of others.) When she was 16 she took an Aptitude Test‚ which determines what faction fits your personality best. When Beatrice took the test she ended up getting 3 out of the 5 factions which means that she is a Divergent. Being a Divergent is very rare and dangerous
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Nathaniel Philbrick. First of all‚ I was surprised to see a book on this summers New York Times Best Seller List about a subject so long ago. I would have thought the story about the Pilgrims had been told enough times no one would bother writing another book. Philbrick has written an enlightening account of the 17th century events that shaped our country. It was a story that is well written and enjoyable to read. I was immediately hooked in the book. In the first paragraph‚ excluding the preface‚ Philbrick
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Twilight is the first book of Stephenie Meyer’s book series of the same name‚ as well as Meyer’s debut novel. It was published in October 2005. The story revolves around a teenaged human girl‚ Bella Swan and a vampire‚ Edward Cullen‚ who fall in love‚ despite both of them knowing that their relationship could result in Edward killing Bella. In all honesty‚ I didn’t think I’d enjoy the book as much as I did. I’d heard of it a lot‚ mainly from female readers around my age. Being a huge fan of fantasy
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Many have encouraged me to read Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet‚ finally I decided to give it a try. I’m not a huge fan of reading‚ however I was told that I would thoroughly enjoy every page of what was described as an "edge of my seat" read. I love a good book that puts you on edge and makes one feel like he or she absolutely must know the events on the next page. Therefore‚ how could I turn down a persuasion like that? I had to get a hold of this fictional novel. Brian Robeson‚ the main character of
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realized that the thug life was no longer for him‚ and that gangs were a problem on society and the "Afrikan" race(page 382-383). In his book "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member"‚ he tells of his life story and how he came and left the gang life. For thirteen years he was a member of the Eight Tray Gangsters‚ a set of the Crips‚ and throughout the book he explains‚ sometimes in full detail‚ the life he led while in the gang and his many times in jail and prison. These life stories he
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The book‚ Zeitoun‚ by Dave Eggers‚ correlates a strong connection to me‚ because of the struggles and experiences Zeitoun faces after the destruction of hurricane Katrina. This book‚ dives into many different aspects of culture‚ race‚ religion‚ and the average citizen‚ but what makes this book so intriguing‚ is how people were treated because of those things. It gets us thinking‚ that America isn’t this perfect society that we think of it to be. And we have so much more things to improve. I personally
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believe that all children should have decent parents and be respected by them. John and Lorraine do not have decent parents who care for them. This book also serves a purpose. I believe that the books purpose is to inform readers about how we need decent parents. My favorite character I the book is the pigman. The pigman is my favorite character in the book because he finds friends and things to do even though he is very lonely. Mr. Pignati finds bobo and john and Lorraine. Even though it seems like
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I read the survival book the hatchet. Cover to cover‚ the hatchet was filled with endless details. The hatchet is about a boy named Brian Robeson who made it through plane crash on the way to visit his father and has to survive the wilderness in hopes of being rescued. Brian’s parents are divorced and Brian knows why but keeps the secret as he mentally is going through a lot‚ he is physically going through a lot too. As Brian leaves‚ his old city self behind‚ and turns into a survivor‚ he evolves
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