stories Freak the Mighty and Stargirl may seem like very different stories. One is a story about two boys becoming best friends and the other book is about two teens dating. But‚ if we look a little closer we can see that they are actually very similar. They share the common theme‚ “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” We see this theme all throughout the book Stargirl‚ when everyone doubts and judges the protagonist‚ Stargirl‚ for being very different. On the outside‚ she is a very outgoing and unusual
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Applewhites" received the Newbery Award. She lives with her husband in Charlotte‚ North Carolina. About the Book Have you ever thought what would happen to you if you where kicked out of every school around and burnt down one.Well the main charcter in Surviving The Applewhites does.This book is about a thirteen year old young man named Jake Semple. In the beginning of the book‚ Jake is a punk school drop-out. He had been to many schools before‚ and he even burned down one of his schools.
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Aaron Leyva 24‚ February 2014 B2 Title: Inside Out Author: Terry Trueman Genre: Fiction Summary: “Time… grime… pantomime… long-gone is a wong-gong long gone” These are some words that run through innocent Zach’s mind day in and day out. These run through his mind because Zach has schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relations between thought‚ emotion‚ and behavior‚ leading to faulty perception‚ inappropriate actions and feelings. He finds
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(Rodriguez 141); Gaby wanted to hear all of the gossip that would be said about her. I believe this book was written for a good reason‚ to fight stereotypes and gossip gets around. While reading this small portion of Gaby’s life‚ I can see that it had made a big impact on her and many other lives. After reading how this book touched the lives of so many; I can say I truly enjoyed reading this book. To begin with‚ the author does a wonderful job of describing how the teen pregnancy had all
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Sniper tells the story of an American Hero going above and beyond serving our country. While the book is just an Autobiography‚ an American hero plays the main focus of the book. With a whopping 400 pages‚ the book describes Chris Kyle’s journey of going on combat deployments as an United States Navy Seal. American Sniper is a well written‚ very descriptive autobiography. While in certain parts on the book the vocabulary may proceed
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Cathy Quineche HIST 1301 Amy Denton 46 Pages Book Report About The London Packet Thomas Paine arrived to America in November of 1774. During this time America was experiencing great conflicts with England‚ these conflicts would later result In the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin advised Paine to move to America‚ and after he had lost wife‚ kids‚ and job that he did. Paine took a job editing The Pennsylvania Magazine‚ and also began writing anonymous articles. He wrote articles such
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INTRODUCTION * Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll * Published by Derrydale Books™ in 2001. 247 pages * Genre: Fantasy; Literary nonsense * Alice in Wonderland is a well-known‚ fictional children’s story about a young girl and her bizarre experiences in Wonderland. BODY Alice in Wonderland is about a young girl who is sitting on a bank in England with her older sister‚ when she sees a white rabbit in a trench coat and decides to follow it. She falls down a very
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Criss Cross Certain key words can tell a lot about someone or something‚ especially if it is a book. The words criss cross describe the story of Debbie‚ a girl that hopes something interesting happens to her very soon‚ and Hector‚ a guitarist that already things were changing. Criss cross plays a big part metaphorically in all of Debbie and Hector’s theories‚ lives‚ and connections‚ symbolizing their relationship with other people. A girl with big dreams‚ Debbie believes that there isn’t just one
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murder‚ manipulate‚ and lie - all in the name of his personal ambitions. In Vincent Bugliosi’s book‚ Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders‚ the reader is provided a thorough explanation of how Manson developed his criminal lifestyle though the focus is on the famous murders he helped to commit as the leader of The Family and the process used to convict him. After a brief comment about the book as a whole and its writing style and content‚ Manson’s connections to the subject of interpersonal
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Glass Castle The Glass Castle was written by the author‚ Jeanette Walls and she is also the protagonist of the book. The book tells the story of Jeanette Walls and her family life. It shows how they basically struggled day in and out like being short on food and money‚ they always moved around the country just to find a place to settle in. Jeanette Walls and her family mostly lived in various mining towns on the west coast of America. As Jeannette grew up in the desert‚ she enchanted
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