Life has its donwfalls‚ but those downfalls happen for a reason. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Cline is a book mainly about Vivians downfalls. This book changed my view of the world becuase it taught me about hope‚ and taught me about being grateful. This book taught me about hope because despite Vivian’s struggles throughout the book‚ she had pride‚ and something good came out of the bad events. For example‚ Vivian went through being enslaved‚ being sexually assaulted‚ and being neglected for
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am still reading Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler. When I first started reading the book I was very interested in it but as I got further in reading the book personally I feel like it gets more depressing. They are all stories about how people have messed up in their lives in many different types of ways or the people’s family issues. It is a good way to learn what not to do‚ which will help some people. But‚ this book for me it is very boring because I would like to read something that is more entertaining
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Why do you like to weave some suspense into your books instead of doing pure romance? I honestly believe its just because that is what I like to read. 7. Between juggling a career and your personal life‚ how do you manage to make time to write? Now that I’m an empty nester‚ it’s a bit easier. But back when I first started writing I had three kids in travel hockey. I spent a lot of time at the rink! I brought my laptop and wrote most of my books during hockey practice or between games or in hotel
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The book “The Lightning Thief” is about a boy named Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson is a demi-god and is convicted of stealing Zeus’s master lightning bolt and only has ten days to return the lightning bolt before it’s too late by: Rick Riordan. The story of “The Lightning Thief” takes place in the modern USA from Las Vegas to New York. The main characters in the book are Percy Jackson the son of Poseidon; Annabeth the daughter of Athena and Grover the satyr that protects Percy Jackson and also Luke
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The Boys in the Boat Dear Ms. Davis‚ I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing summer. The book that we had to read called “The Boys in the Boat” is very interesting. The book relates to the course I will be taking this year in many ways. The reason I am writing this essay is to inform you about how this book relates to the class. For example as I was reading the coach said that rowing is difficult and will take every ounce of effort in your body. This relates to the class because there will be days
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Journal 2 In this roller coaster of a book‚ I am currently on page 326 out of 537. The author of this book is Ellen Hopkins. When I started this book I thought it was just another story about a teenager that didn’t have any friends but that all changed when she went to Nevada. Throughout this journal I will be visualizing‚ predicting and questioning. To kick off this visualization‚ the first thing that really stood out and made me really think about what I was reading was when the main character
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Through this book‚ the author Scot McKnight uses his knowledge of the Christian faith to explain the plan that God has put in place of every person on earth. Throughout his book‚ McKnight gives many important insights into the power of the Holy Spirit and how it interacts with daily life‚ explaining the multipart system of possible alternative options for every single person that ever has or ever will exist. This book offers the reader the chance to interpret the words of a McKnight‚ as he teaches
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space granted to Jews. Three of us read books written by Perl‚ and the other two read books about other Zionists at the time‚ or other rescue attempts from the Holocaust. We were able to look at primary source documents such as his passport marked with a J‚ which is included in our exhibit. Overall‚ we relied on information from his books as well as the other books we read. When choosing books‚ we wanted to have other opinions available‚ so we read books by David Ben-Gurion‚ who had opposing views
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and the three men who worked tirelessly to help him fulfill his hidden potential‚ is an award winning book full of controversy and . An undersized horse who was difficult to train which lead to his trainers losing hope and giving up on him. Three men took the challenge of training this horse which leads to Sea biscuit becoming one of the greatest race horses to ever take part in the sport. The book‚ written by Laura Hildebrand‚ who began her writing career in 1938‚ became a film in 2003 Sea biscuit
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Integrated Montessori Center SY: 2013-2014 Book Report of The Trojan Wars Submitted by: Natasha Beatriz Ancheta III- Radon Submitted to: Teacher Orlando C. Pascual I. Introduction a. Biography of the Author Edith Hamilton was a well-known educator and author. She is recognized as the “greatest woman Classicist”. She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way‚ her first book‚ was published in the year 1930. Hamilton had not yet been to Greece and was only writing about Greek mythology through
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