"Dare You To"‚by Katie McGarry‚ is a novel that demonstrates how the simple words " I dare you…" has led two unlikely teens to meet and learn that they might not be so different. These teens live contrasting lives in which there put into life-changing situations‚ these encounters are not the same for both. To Beth life has given nothing to look forward to with her mother being an alcoholic and drug-user who dates an abusive drug-dealer while taking her daughter’s love for granted. Poor Beth not only
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Max is a very moody little boy that gets himself into lots of trouble. The night he was sent to bed without dinner he put on a wolf costume and sailed across the sea in his own personal boat to a faraway land to where the wilds things are. Max arrived to the faraway land where he discovered the beasts who "roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth’’ (pg. 17). He tamed them from their hostile behavior and became their king. They all obeyed him because now the wild things are scared
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During the interviews with Edwidge Danticat she started talking about how her life was when she was a young girl living in Haiti during the dictatorship of Jean-Clause Duvalier and eventually migrating to Brooklyn New York an the age of 12 year old. Because of the tough times Danticat’s parents wore forced to leave the country and find a better life to provide for them and their children. Then ended up in American and worked hard for 12 before seeing their kids again for the first time. While Dantica
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Not for the lily-livered or fainthearted. Knockemstiff is a real place in Ohio but being used as a template‚ if you wish‚ to bring some air into one tiny town. But just what kind of air? Some things in this book will hit very close to home while others may seem mind-boggling...far fetched that you might conclude that it is not the usual human way of life. For some characters‚ even in real life‚ they are used to so much chaos that it has become their normal. Knockemstiff is guaranteed to provoke
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JOURNEY OF MILLER ESTATE DOG ENDS IN PEACE Buck’s Journey Judge Miller’s dog‚ Buck‚ a half sheepdog and half St. Bernard‚ was recently captured by a gardener on the estate‚ and was sold to dog traders. He was beat in an effort to instill obedience into him. Soon after‚ Buck is sent to the Klondike region. Two mailmen‚ named Francois and Perrault‚ take him as their property. As Buck assimilates to his new sled-dog life‚ he develops a rivalry with Spitz‚ one of the lead dogs on his team. One day‚
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Fever 1793 Fever 1793 is about the summer of 1793 and Matilda (aka) Mattie Cook lives above her family’s coffee shop with her widowed mother and her grandfather. Mattie hates doing chores and spends her summer days avoiding them trying to turn her family’s coffee shop to the best Philadelphia has ever seen. But then things go wrong and yellow fever breaks out or “The Fever”. The Fever spreads up and down the streets destroying everything in its way to destroy. The huge outbreak turns Mattie’s
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Finian‚s Rainbow is a story about two Irish immigrants. The two immigrants the story focuses on are named Finian and Sharon McLonergan. They travel to a place called Rainbow Valley in Missatucky. When they get there they see that Buzz Collins ‚ Senator Rawkins assistant‚ is trying to buy the land of Rainbow Valley. They help Woody Mahoney pay the taxes so that the people of Rainbow Valley can keep their land. But‚ Finian has a secret. He had stolen a pot of gold from a leprechaun named Og. Who follows
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I think that Bauby left the narrative of the day he actually had the stroke until the very end to keep away any possible judgments of his previous life. During the vignette about his last day in his formal life I found myself judging him for not being there for his family. It seemed as if he put his work life ahead of his family. If I had read this vignette at the beginning of the book‚ then i do not think I would be able to comprehend the struggles he is going through without passing judgement.
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The holocaust was one of the worst events that happened in the world and it happened 21 years after the First World War. What was more tragic was the stories people told who had survived the concentration camps they went through and the punishments they had to suffer just to survive and live on‚ but even some people were killed for no apparent reason‚ other than just for fun. In this story Prisoner B-3087 it tells us a sad but survival story about a boy‚ named Yanek Gruener who survived ten concentration
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Physical Exercise Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness. It is performed for various reasons. These include strengthening muscles and cardiovascular system‚ honing athletic skills‚ weight loss or maintenance and for enjoyment. Physical exercise boosts the immune system‚ and helps prevent the “diseases of affluence” such as heart disease‚ cardiovascular disease. It also improves mental health‚ helps prevent depression
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