Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger


The character I like the most is a robot named Fuzzy who goes to school with students, but a character who intrigues me is Max. She is a student in Vanguard Middle School. She talks with her friend Krysti and Biggs  she loves robots.
 I like Max because she keep saying no though scientists of Robot Intergration Program ask her to show the scientists the robot. I was touched the fact that she can say no even though she was told to show the robot.

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All But my Life, by Gerda Wiessman Klein

   

     

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I had  only  heard  great  thing  about  this  autobiography,  so  I  finally  wrapped  my  self around  it.  Everything  I heard was  true.  While  I  was  reading  this  book,  I  cried  tears  of  sadness,  tears  of  joys,  I  gasped  in  shock, and  laughed  in relief.  I  hope everybody  reads  this  book.


The  main  character,  Garda,  is  my  favorite  character.  She  also  intrigues  me  the  most.  While  she  was growing  up  as   a  young  a  Jewish  girl,  something  terrible  happened.  World  War  II  broke  out.  Gerda’s brother  left  to  go  fight  in  the army  and  soon  enough  her  father  was  separated  from  Gerda  and  her  mother. On  the  way  to  the concentration camp  Gera  was  separated  from  her  mother.  From  here  on  out,  Gerda was  alone.

Gerda  is  my  favorite  character  because  even  though  this  was  the  hardest  time  in  her  life  she  pushed through  it  and   lived.  She  makes  it  through  the  easier  parts  of  the  Holocaust  and  pushes  herself  until  she reaches  the  end  of  the harder  parts.

The  scene  that  I  found  most  difficult  to  read  was  the  Death  March  at  the  end  of  the  Holocaust.  Reading about  all the  people  that  lost  their  lives  when  they  were  so  close  to  surviving  was  gut  wrenching.  All  I could  think  was“That was  somebody’s  child”.

All  But  my  Life  was  an  emotionally  hard  book  to  read.  However,  while  reading  this  book  I  learned  a  lot  and I realized  how  much  I  have  to  be  great  full  for. 


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Gathering Blue, By Lois Lowry

I decided to read this book after it was recommended to my mom by my aunt. This is a companion book to the Giver, it is by the same author and has a similar theme, which is another reason I decided to read it. After I read it I came to the conclusion that I had enjoyed it even more than the Giver. I read the book a few months ago, but the spectacular story line is still fresh in my mind. 

The village in the story sees people with disabilities as weak and they are discarded making life for the physically flawed difficult. The main character is Kira who, although is disabled, is a young and masterful seamstress and is kept alive for her skill. Even though I enjoy this character very much my favorite character is Matt. He is a young and energetic boy who grew up at the very bottom of the social class and tends to talk in a slang that is very childish and not put together. His unique way of speaking is what draws you into liking this character. Matt has a dog named Branch and through his connection with his dog you are able to see that he is a very compassionate character even though at first glance it is not what you would think.

One of the most memorable scenes from the book is when Matt come back from his journey of finding "blue", which is the color of thread that could not be created in the village, he brought back with him not only the thread, but the father of Kira. Kira believed her father to be dead, killed by the beasts in the forest. This was not the case for he was standing right before her.

In the novel you read about artists who thrive in a society that looks down upon the arts and throughout the book the characters learn more and more abut the corrupt society that they live in. I really adored this book and would recommend it to anyone who read and liked The Giver

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Go Ask Alice, Anonymous

  About a year ago I was introduced to the book called Go Ask Alice. I am not gonna lie it took me some time to get into it and actually understand what the true meaning behind it was. It was boring at first it took me time, but once you do it really shows an amazing story about a young lady around the age of 15.

       Although it took me so long to get into the book once I did it was good. The girl in the book (the main character) isn't named specifically because the book is one hundred percent anonymous. She is a young girl that starts off as a sophomore trying to get through the year on the right foot but soon realizes that it will be hard because of all of the kids in her school do drugs. She tells herself that she will only do one but we soon realize that it turns out to be way more then one. she doesn't believe that she has a drug problem  but anyone reading it could pick the up after the first few entries.
 I really enjoy the way the book is, its raw and untouched, it was left just the way it was written.

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Twisted, by Laurie Halse Anderson

   Twisted is a book about a "normal" teenage life. Who plays the central role is Tayler Miller, he lives with his parents and his sister, Hannah Miller, an important character.

   The book talks about suicide, running away from home, parent-son fights, school, rape and other topics that can be present in a teenager life.  

   The book starts with Tyler telling us how and why he was arrested. In the begging of the book too, he starts "staying" with a very important girl called Bethany Milbury, she was a bully brother called Chip, and her father is the boss of Tyler's das, a very rich family.

    Tyler, in the begging of the book, was a bad boy or tried to be one, in the final, he's another person. He's a very problematic teenager, but he's intelligent and a nice person. However, something happens to Bethany Milbury and everybody suspects him.

   Twisted is such a great book because you can see how your personal problems can change you and your life.

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The Gunslinger, by Stephen King

My friend invited me to go watch the new major movie based on Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Before I watch a movie, if it is based on a book, I always need to read the book first, so I began the series starting on book one, The Gunslinger. I am not very far into it yet, only about 40 pages, and I am already enjoying it.

Although I only just started reading I have already been introduced to a character who I enjoy very thoroughly, named Brown. As the gunslinger travels a desert following the man in black he finds a person harvesting his corn. In the area that the gunslinger is, this is a very rare occasion. They begin to talk and the man, who introduces himself as Brown, is very hospitable and makes him dinner and lets him stay there over the night.

As they begin to talk the man in black comes up and the fact that he is a sorcerer. The gunslinger has a feeling in the back of his head that he should not trust Brown because he could be either a spell cast by the man in black, he could be the man in black, or he could just be what he says he is. The gunslinger has no way to know which is true.

I like Brown a lot because he acts like a very nice, real person, but the gunslinger, along with the reader has no idea if he is who he says he is. As I read further into the book I expect to see more of him.

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The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas

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I heard so many good things about this book everywhere, I finally picked it up. I can tell you the reviews were right-- this is a book I had a hard time putting down. I'm almost finished, and I can't wait to pass it on for someone else to read. 

The main character, Starr, is the character I like the most, BUT her father, Maverick, is the character I think intrigues me the most. Starr's father, Big Mav, is a former gang member who is trying to steer his family in the right direction, but feels torn between the volatile neighborhood in which they live (Garden Heights) and moving to the safer suburbs. His wife, Starr's mom, is a nurse at a clinic in the neighborhood. Maverick owns a small grocery store, and when a boy from the neighborhood, Khalil, is shot by a white police officer and Mav's daughter, Starr, is the sole witness, Mav begins to question everything in his life. 

I really like Maverick because he's a character who has clearly made mistakes in his life, but is real enough to make me believe he wants a different life for his kids. He fights with his wife about moving out of the neighborhood, but because he believes his children need an education, he sends them to a private school a half hour away. Like I said before, he's torn. He wants his kids to understand where they're from but also understand where they're from shouldn't limit their futures either. 

The most difficult scene for me to read was when two white officers pulled Maverick over, and in front of his children, made him lay face down on the concrete while they searched him. The scene's set up so it's obvious it's retaliation by the white officers because Starr is speaking out against the officer who shot Khalil, but it's heartbreaking just the same. Mav doesn't handle it by getting angry and throwing things. His friends take him into the store office and through the window on the door, the reader gets a glimpse of Maverick's shoulders shaking and hear his words. They aren't angry words... 

I think Angie Thomas creates a complex, but believable, character in this father who's stuck in so many ways-- he's not stereotypical at all. It was refreshing to read. 

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