Martha Gonzalez
By the time you read this is a book that I recommend everyone to read, it’s honestly one of the most good book I have every read. Well this book is about a dad that discovered that at the age of thirty-years-old had discovered that he had only six months to live. His name was Kevin Bates the dad) picked up his pen and wrote little notes that he named “The Manual” for his five year-old daughter, Lois. The reason he wrote The Manual for his daughter Lois was because he knew that he wasn’t going to be there for her so he thought it would be helpful to write her the manual so she could live by, laugh at, and follow from the age of twelve until she was thirty. But seven years later, when Lois received the Manual, she couldn’t read her father’s words; because she had so much pain that she had lost her dad. But soon her father’s advice was guiding her through every stage of her life from being a teen to career arcs, and also to the point where she met “the one”. But no matter what The Manual can never be a substitute for having her father back, the words that were left for Lois were a good support through all of life’s ups and downs, and it proved that with the Manual she was able to unlock her own happiness even though her father wasn’t there in person his spirit was always right behind her guiding her threw her good and bad times. Overall, this book is a good help for those who are going through though times. It opens up your eyes.
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City of Bones by Cassandra Clare is the first book in the exciting Mortal Instrument series. Clary thought she was an ordinary teenager until she began to see demons and shadowhunters. Her first experience with these demons and shadowhunters was at a club where she saw three teenagers covered with tattoos torturing a demon who looked like a normal boy. When she saw the boy vanish out of the blue she couldn’t believe her eyes, the three teenagers, Jace, Alec, and Isabelle claim that the boy they had murdered was a demon. Jace then offered Clary to go with them to their institute, but as they were all leaving Clary received a worrying call from her mother and went to her apartment as soon as she can. When she got home she found the apartment trashed and was suddenly attacked by a Ravener demon. She managed to fight it off and kill it, she then with the help of Jace got away from a gang of demons disguised as police men. At the institute where Jace had taken her, Clary was worried about her mom because she wasn’t in the house which meant she was kidnapped. There Clary meets new people, makes new friends and learns new facts about the world of shadowhunters. With the help of Hodge the institute tutor they try to get Clary’s blocked memories from a group of mysterious people called the silent brothers. When the silent brothers fail to get Clary’s memories back, the only clue they saw in her memories was of a name, Magnus Bane, they tell her she has to go find this person who hid her memories away in the first place. So now with the help of her best friend Simon, Jace and other fellow shadowhunters they must retrieve her memory, find out who has kidnapped her mother and find the mortal cup which is one of the three mortal instruments that has been missing for a long time.
- Cristian Preciado I like books about things that happen in life, especially with teenagers. One of the books I read was called “No Choirboy”. This book talks about teenagers on death row and how the life in prison is. About 4 teenagers share their stories. They speak for there selves, raw and uncensored. The ages range from about 9-12. The teenagers talk about their feelings and how they got caught up on death row. One of the speakers talks about how some inmates inside treat him like family. You would think everyone in there would be rude and pick on you, but lots of inmates don’t. Another speaker also talks about how there’s really nothing to do in prison, so he writes poems and books. He also talks about the food. Sometimes you wouldn’t know if a guard or an inmate has spit in your food. The best thing to do inside is to buy your own food, like Ramen. If you have good behavior
If you’re someone who knows someone in prison, maybe in on death row, or just a couple years, this would be and interesting book to see what life is like inside. -Nicole J. Prado “Three Little Words” is a memoir by Ashley Rhodes-courter. A book with great critics to have an impact in young children’s lives that have maybe been in foster care or to children who even haven’t but don’t appreciate their normal lives. Throughout the whole book you just get to know more and more about Ashley’s life going from a normal kid to a foster child. This has a great impact in Ashley’s life, which at first seems like she’s going to have a really messed up future due to her situation. This book keeps you hooked and not wanting to stop reading, it’s just by the way that Ashley talks and describes her life as a foster kid going from one place to another in a short amount of time. Throughout her book Ashley gives inspiration to young adults, young teenagers who feel as if their lives, actions and ideas don’t matter. I believe that this memoir is mostly to celebrate Ashley’s courage to seek out the best qualities in life and of humanity due to the obstacles we seem to fail to overcome. Nine years in foster care system could ruin a kid, but Ashley survived , and succeeded. At the end Ashley Rhodes gets her last name Courter by her final and only adoptive parents she had, Phil and Gay Courter, they took her in and loved her as if she was really part of their real family as if she had been with them ever since the day she was born. At first Ashley doesn’t accept the fact that she has a family and that she will never ever be with her mom as a family again. She’s undecided whether she’s mad at the fact that she has a family or that she is really thankful because deep inside that’s all she really wanted, of course to be with her mom but that couldn’t be because her mom decided to keep going with her own life.
- Cristina Garcia Beautiful City of the Dead
The Four elements, Fire, Earth, Wind, and water. That’s what this book is about. It tells the story of Zee a high school student who be friends Relly, another loner in their high school, who, after her joining a heavy metal band, finds out she’s the goddess of water. But finding out her gift she also found darkness, as three other gods, the gods of fire earth and wind try to obtain her to complete their circle. Now the heavy metal band has to join their powers not just to play music but to fight against evil as well. Then when Relly gets kidnapped by them Zee has to decided into turning into completing her enemies circle or saving Relly from the evil forces. If u want to know more about the story and what happens and if you want to know about Zee, goddess of water, Relly god of fire, Butt god of earth, and Jerod god of wind, of boys turning into flames without getting hurt by them and know about gods enemies I recommend you reading this book. The Beautiful City of the Dead by Leander Watts can sure bring all the elements together in one! - Daniela Rojas If you love reading about spies then this is the perfect book for you.
The book begins with 11 year old James Choke in school. He gets in a fight and the teacher tries to intervene but James hits the teacher as well. He then runs away from school and goes home. To make things worse, James’s mother dies from an alcohol overdose. Then he gets sent to a children's care home called Nebraska house after his mother dies, where he shares a room with Kyle Blueman, a CHERUB agent who recruits him. Meanwhile James' sister Lauren is taken to live with her father Ron Onions. James awakes the next day to find himself on the CHERUB campus where the chairman, Dr Terrence McAfferty - often called 'Mac' - introduces him to CHERUB and puts him through a series of entrance tests which he passes. James is admitted into CHERUB. In order to start going on missions all agents must go through a rigorous training course that lasts for 100 days, called Basic Training. During this James meets Kerry Chang, with whom he has a strong friendship. He is sent to Malaysia with his training partner and friend Kerry Chang as part of the training. After completing Basic Training, James goes on a mission with Amy Collins where they must infiltrate a commune called Fort Harmony. James has to stop two teenagers, Fire and World, and a redneck environmentalist Brian "Bungle" Evans from killing thousands of people in an anthrax attack. While investigating Fire and World's workshop, James is suspected of contracting the anthrax disease but is later pronounced to have a vaccine strain of the disease and so is fine. After the mission James is awarded his navy T-shirt and he is especially proud about it, and shows off to his friends who don't believe that he actually earned it. Eduardo Flores Star girl by jerry spinelli
The book star girl is about this one girl name susan but she goes by star girl because she belives that been star girl would complete her and she beliefs if they call her susan she don’t complete her self also she falls in love with this guy name Leo sence the day they met she started liking him she is very weird in all ocations very ramdom and she likes all kind of things she beliefs that love is the way of life and that been friendly is the number one thing to do. Also stargirl dissapers for the rest of leo’s life she don’t come back. But I recoment this book because it’s a good love story for every one. Alexis Barrera In the story “Wayne: An Abused Child's Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope “by Leslie Alan Horvitz is a really interesting book, if you like the book “A Child Called It” you will like this book they are very similar. The story is about a boy who gets brutally beet up by his father everyday even for the littlest things that he does. Every day the boy and his brothers suffer, they are to eat moldy bread, and they are not allowed to leave the house. One day that Wayne was really beaten up badly he made himself a promise that he would one day tell on his father and make him pay for all the things that he did to them. And as they grow up they still have to work for their father and, they are terrified of him. When Wayne finally gets tired of him, he runs away and he has to find a way to survive, but instead of doing things right he starts hanging out with the wrong crowd and he also starts doing Meth. But then as time goes by he gets his life back together. He is glad that he left his father because he was sick of being treated the way that he was. One night he remembers that he never accomplished his promise. And he wanted to find a way to give the little boy his happiness back. So he does and he tells his family that he wants to tell the whole world about how bad they suffered and he wants everybody to know that they had awful parents and most of all he wants to show people that they are not alone. But before he can do all that he has to gather information to prove that his parents were child abusers. And eventually he does gather it up. And they go on a T.V show. And they expose their parents to everybody. And Wayne and his brothers are finally glad that they let out all the pain. This is a really good book, it is also very sad to hear about how bad these kids were treated. This book keeps you reading more.
Joscelyn Rivas Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl is an interesting book every high school age girl needs to read this book, before they meet the bad boy who is good at breaking your heart which he isn't really good at anything else but this.
The story is about three girls that they all fall for the same guy which is known by T.L. from Point Beach High. Three very different girls: Josie, the super-confident girl and a freshman, Nicolette the girl who knows she's called any types of rude names behind her back but doesn't care, because by using her body to get what she wants, she's always in control, and Aviva the girl who's not too smart, not too pretty, but always popular with every group she be friends with. Josie is a freshman when T.L. notices her he tells her she's the only one that he can open up to, the only one he can tell his reveal his deepest, truest feelings to. Nicolette is older, more experienced (though she mostly hooks up with guys from another school so she doesn't get a reputation) when she meets him and breaks her own rules. Aviva, too, falls under his spell. And each of them discovers that he was just playing them, trying to be a player of the school. The girls do get a bit of revenge. They get together and discover they are not alone and not the only one’s experiencing this with him. Josie finds a copy of Judy Blume's Forever on the school library shelf, and writes a note on one of the blank pages in the back. Soon the empty pages are filled by many more than just these three girls. This is a great book and is highly recommended to read and you will not get tired of reading it. Ariel Rivera A brief summary of this book is how two families are trying to have a better life and go to America. Also this book tells you about all the problems both families had to go through but the most interesting part of this book is how one family’s daughter named Lupe meets the other family’s son Juan and how all the things they went though lead them to were they are at know which is in loved with each other. This is a great book if you like romance even though it is some what of a romance book it even gives a hint of suspense. It keeps you wondering what’s going to happen next and when they finally find each other there is a lot of problems they have to go through to be together there is even a part where they see each other and Juan says he will do any thing to see her again and from there on he is trying to find her while he is trying to make money. If you are interested in a book of two separate families that there kids find “true love” then “Rain of Gold” by Victor Villaseñor is the right book for you. This book may start off slow but if you stick through all the way it will be worth it, it will keep you hooked on it until the end of the book. I would give this book 10 out of 10, and highly recommend this book to children grades 10 and higher it is a good book. The reason is because it is a difficult book to understand and is rated M for mature audience only. Also concluding my brief description about the book it is a great book for students at that age because they will be able to relate to what’s going on in the book.
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