Literature Appreciation Q4 P5

                                                          Text to World Connection      Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a book, by J.K. Rowling, that is about a boy named Harry who finds out he is a wizard after 10 years of his life. Then it doesn't help that he has to live with his muggle relatives after his parent are killed by an evil wizard. Though,things do get better once he arrives at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizarding. While he is there, he meets Ron and Hermione, who become his best friends throughout the year. Plus he learns that he was a hero to the whole wizarding world because this evil wizard that killed his parent could not kill Harry. After learning about his past and making new friends, he learns more and more about the wizarding world.      One problem in the story is that Har...

     The book I'm reading is Catching Fire  by Suzanne Collins. Katniss and Peeta just got back from The Hunger Games and were promised wealth and peace for the rest of their life. It all changed when President Snow announced that the third quarter quell would be taking place soon. After he mentioned that the third quarter quell was going to happen he said that he would reap two remaining victors from each district. At the reaping, Katniss got picked because she was the only girl and Haymitch got picked but Peeta volunteered for him. Soon the quell came up and Cinna got taken the peacekeepers while Katniss was in the tube to go up into the arena. Shortly after the games begun, Peeta ran into the force field but Finnik was able to get his heart to start working again. After Peeta almost died they wondered for a while and took a stop to rest. While resting Katniss noticed a fog that looked unnatural and felt her skin blistering. She yelled for everyone to run and th...

      Divergent by Veronica Roth is about a girl named Tris who lives in a society that is split up into five factions. She finds out her instructor is also Divergent, like her and he guides her through initiation. They figure out that the Erudite are planning to overthrow Abnegation. They put a serum into all the dauntless members and use them to kill the Abnegation. Tris and Four are not affected and together, they destroyed the simulation.      Divergent connects to events in history. It connects to the African slaves. In the book, the Dauntless were under a simulation that makes the Erudite have complete control of their actions. This caused the members of dauntless to do things they didn't want to do.  The dauntless were forced to kill innocent Abnegation members. Like the dauntless, African slaves were forced to do things even if they didn't want to do it.      I really like how the idea of this book is so original. The ideas, c...

The book I have been reading is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.k Rowling .So far in the book  the DATDA's teacher is not letting the students use magic and is making new rules all over school.So Hermione and Ron talk Harry into making their own group to teach other students how to protect their self.Harry and his fellow classmates get together and talk about how Harry has protect them self from the Deatheaters and Voldemort.Then one night Dobby comes and tells Harry where to practice their magic where they can't be caught called the come and go room.They find out that the room is prefect to practice and have their first meeting.And that's all have read so far. The problem in the book is similar to a event by they are always fighting good v.s bad like in the book Harry and his friend are always fighting the Deatheaters and Lord Voldemort.But in the world we are fighting other countries.Another similar problem in the book to the world by in the book he has ...

       The Land of stories is an intriguing book about a group of your classic fairy tale personalities accompanied by the main characters who are twins named Alex and Conner. The twins are from the real world, but have gone back to visit the land of stories and they have bad news they weren't prepared for when they arrive. An evil enchantress has arrived wanting to punish the queens and kings in the land for locking her away. She takes over the kingdoms and the twins have to stop her terrible deeds before she has the land of stories all to herself. With a little bit of luck and planning, the twins find a very powerful spell that could have a chance at stopping the enchantress. They go around the fairy tale world collecting the most prized possessions of the most hated and cruel villains in fairy tale history. When they do, the twins could have a spell powerful enough to save the land.      A problem in the story that is similar to an event that happ...

The Throne of Fire       The Throne of Fire  by Rick Riordan is about the Kanes who have to save the world. The Egypt god Apophis, chaos, who is rising. The only way to stop Apophis is to revive Ra, ma'at, which is good. To revive Ra they have to find three parts of a scroll, Ra, and his three parts of Ra himself.      The book The Throne of Fire world events by Hitler true to take over the world because Apophis is trying to take over the world. But americans stopped them. The different is that Apophis is a god and Hitler is a person and their armies are humans for Hitler and Apophis demans.      I think the ending battle sexting is important because it shows what little time the Kanes had to stop Apophis because they were at the last gate to their home and the last to defend which is Brookline. 

                                                        Text to World: Divergent      I am reading the book divergent by Veronica Roth. This book is about a wold divided into 5 different factions, Abnegation (the selflessness), Erudite (the intelligent), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Candor (the honest). When the day comes, 16 year old Beatrice has to take a test called "the aptitude test", she learns that her results were "inconclusive" which means she is Divergent. To all the factions divergent is dangerous. When the day of the choosing ceremony comes Tris chooses Dauntless. There she learns that she can manipulate the simulations, which is dangerous because they might find out her secret. Four, who is also divergent helps Tris learn to get through the simulations without manipulating them. Later, they find out ...

                                                                S a v v y       The book I am reading right now is called Savvy  by  Ingrid Law .  This story is about a girl in the Beaumont family, named Mibs, whom was about to turn thirteen.  What so strange about the Beaumonts is that they get magical powers called savvies when they turn thirteen. One day, Mibs' mom got a call that wasn't pleasant; their father was hurt in a car crash and was now in the Selina Hospital.  Living in between Nebraska and Kansas made Mib's know that the Selina Hospital was far away.  On the day before her birthday, Miss Rosemary invited Fish, Samson and Mibs to celebrate Mibs' Birthday with Bobbi and Will, her children, at the Hebron Church.  Fish, Mibs, and Samson knew that they can't celebr...

The One And Only Ivan is a gorilla that live in mall right next to his friend Stella And Ruby that is a elephant. Ivan also has another friend name Bob that is a dog. Ivan was kidnapped from his family and taken to humans. In his hole life he has lived in with humans he has act like a human, he has done humans stuff, he has also sleep with human. But as he grew older he became more violent so he was taken away from humans and put in a mall in exist 8. As Ivan was in his cage he learned how draw and paint. Ivan and bob are in the same cage. just like was when i was in a cage with my brother. Stella and Ruby are in the cage too but Ivan cage is made of glass Ruby cage is mage of iron bars.every day in the night wen he mall is close gorge start washing the cage just like i was washing the car, gorge also bring his daughter name Julia.   Stella leg hurt because she made a mistake in her practice and hurt her leg so every day her leg would get hurt and then she couldn't move well just...

                                                                The Capture The Capture is about a young Barn Owl named Soren who is pushed out of his nest by his brother and is kidnapped by owls from a special school. He is forced to go to the school, St. Aegolius's Academy for Orphaned Owls. The school is very strict and has rules about everything, especially the way you sleep. You have to sleep with your face toward the sky. Soren and his new friend, Gyflie, figure out that the school is using a form of hypnotism called moon-blinking. They use the full moon to force the young owlets to comply to their wishes. Soren and Gyflie find a way to resist the hypnotism and try to find a way to escape, but they must wait until their flight feathers grow in.                       ...

                           Text to World                              I have begun to read the second book in the Divergent series,  Insurgent.   By continuing Tris Prior and Tobias Eaton´s journey after running away with the attack simulation data, they seek shelter in Amity with some other Abnegation survivors, including Tris´s brother, Caleb. After 3 or 4 days in Amity, Dauntless traitors, including Eric, invade the headquarters in search for any or all divergents. After barely making it out of Amity, the survivors plus Tris and Four get back on the train that is filled with members of the factionless. When they are taken a the factionless safehouse, they are greeted by their leader, Evelyn Eaton. Now, I know what your thinking, but back when Tobias was a child, his mom died just after he turned 10, or so they thought. After fin...

For the past few days of reading Speak, I finally figured out what had happened to Melinda at the party and why she called the cops. The night of the party Melinda and a few of her ex-friends were there and got a little carried away. Only 13 years old.....and drinking, they had no idea what was going on. Fights were happening, arguments, temper, violent actions, assault, things were out of hand. For a whole year Melinda has been keeping these things to herself. According to her,  t he safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. . Now its time for Melinda to "speak" the truth. Her parents decide to go to the guidance  councilor and Principle Principle, talk about it, and leave. What good did that do... Melinda, the one out of 100, actually had her head screwed on. She called the cops at the party, a few people got arrested, some expelled from school, some sent home. She wasn't comfortable with who she was with and where she was so after she called the cops she ran th...

Text to World- Falcon's Egg         It starts off with Falcon finding a dragon egg with no mother around it.  Falcon's Egg , written by Luli Gray is a very interesting book. The book starts off with the main character Falcon, walking around the park and she's spots a dragon egg in the grass and she decides to take it home. She has to take care of the egg because if anything bad happens to the egg, it could crack and die. Then through out the rest of the book, she takes care of the baby dragon and watches it grow up.       Falcon's Egg does relate to the world. When the egg was alone, it felt alone. My favorite rapper, Logic, just came out with an album a week called Everybody. In this album, he talks about people being lost and sad and how it helps them through his music. Just like the egg was lost then found, Logic's fans were lost then found again.      Overall, Falcon's Egg was a pretty good book. I feel like it did...

      The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a book about a girl who has unexpected change in he sail home to america for the summer and witness some life changing things. She has to choose who to trust and makes the wrong choice. She was indirectly responsible for two murders, and takes the place of the victims because, the captain after committing the murder made the crew work basically double.      This happens in the real world but usually in much smaller scale. Usually people get fired or die, and people have to take there place in the business. It can also be someone is better and is promoted into someone else's seat. Also people witness murders just like her a lot depending on were you live.      There are many similarities however this was the biggest. Others may include boats, alliances, sailors, and double agents. Murder ocurrs many times in this book and has the most to talk about.

Text To World: Matched      The book  Matched  is about a 17 year old girl named Cassie. She lives in a world where the society makes all of everyone choices. when the time came for her to be matched to get married she was so worried she would be with someone she didn't know. Cassie was so happy when she found out she was matched with her best friend, Xander.  She was certain he was the one until, another person, Ky flashed on the screen before it turned black. She doesn't know who she really loves and if she should follow her heart or Society's choices.       Matched  has a lot of text to world connections. One of the text to world connections is how the Society and government controls everyone and their choices. This connects to the world because many governments in other countries control the people. For example, during the Holocaust , Hitler forced all the Jews in Germany to go to concentration camps and they did not have a say i...

The Book Thief      Imagine living in times where there are empty fuel tanks from planes left by their enemies spread throughout Himmel Streets in Germany. That is where Liesel Meminger's is living in the times of war. Her mother was not able to take care of her and her brother died so all of a sudden she is put into a foster home. She vaguely knows how to speak German and can't read so she is given a clean slate and tries to make the best of it. Her foster father had a dept to pay to a dear friend who died, so the family takes in his Jewish son, who will live in the basement, besides the cold winter nights, where he sleeps by the fire. In those times it is very dangerous to be keeping a Jew and the punishment can be death.        The problem in this story is similar and almost exactly the same to what happened in 1939, Nazi Germany. Just like in the book where the children go to Hitler Youth Group , in real times Hitler created the Hitler ...

      Paper Towns , by John Green, is a story about an adventurous girl named Margo, who goes missing, and leaves clues for her neighbor, Quentin, to find her. Quentin recently went into Margo's room, when her parents weren't home, to find clues. He found a book of poems by Walt Whitman, and he found highlighted words in the poem, "Song of Myself." The words that Margo highlighted suggest death, such as, "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, / If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles." This part in the poem leads Quentin to believe that Margo may have committed suicide. He also does research on what a 'paper town' is, because that is what Margo called Orlando. He found that a paper town could also mean a 'pseudovision,' meaning an abandoned subdivision because they didn't have enough funding to finish building. He searches every abandoned subdivision within three miles of Orlando, and visits them. Quen...

Hitler's Secret       So far in my book,  Hitler's Secret , written by William Osborne, after Otto had smashed the lady's hand in the door she started running after the three kids, so Leni handed Otto a gun brought Anjelika to a different room and Otto shot her leaving her dead in the train room. After Otto had shot the lady they escaped to a nearby town to lay down beneath a tree, Leni and Anjelika were miserably hot so they took a swim, the Adolf Hitler and Hess appeared in their cars so Otto quickly pulled Anjelika and Leni out of the water and they ran under the bridge where the cars were driving over. After the car had left Otto set out to look for somewhere to stay while keeping cover. After Otto had found a barn near the woods and few miles from the village, he got Leni and Anjelika and they planned on staying their until ten o clock at night, after that scene I had stopped reading.       The book Hitler's Secret can be related to the wor...

Memory Maze  Memory Maze connects to a scene that I know from a different book that book is called Divergent and Hunger Games because this is a book it's all about action and adventure and trying to survive in a different society. Hunger Games relate to Memory Maze because they have to go through tough fights to try not to die and all the districts will kill anyone. Divergent is different though because you go through a series of trials and finds out she's divergent and that means she truly can defy all the factions because she's 100 percent divergent and so are some others. Beatrice is like Katnis in a way in the beginning because there both shy and calm in a way and they unleash a newer version of themselves. The games get harder and more brutal people sabotage each other and Snow will do whatever it takes to kill Katnis Everdeen and kill even her beloved ones.                  ...

   The book that I am reading is called Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. It is about a twelve year old girl named Miri who is forced to be taken to a princess academy with other girls from Mount Eskel ages twelve to seventeen. The princess academy will teach them to behave and become princesses. After a year there, the prince will pick one lady to be his wife. Miri tries to convince her father and her older sister, Marda, that she can't attend the academy. After all the girls have said their "goodbyes" to their families, they hike up to the princess academy. After a while, the girls do not enjoy their stay and plan to run away. They decide that they might as well try, but Miri doesn't want to stay there still. Some of Miri's friends get mad at Miri for wanting to leave. Miri starts studying books so she can actually try to become a princess. She makes friends with Gerti after she had freed Miri from the closet.      When the girls were forced t...

    My book that I'm reading is called Princess Academy written by Shannon Hale. This story is about a twelve year old girl named Miri who is taken to a princess academy along with other girls ages twelve to seventeen in her village. In the academy, the girls will learn to become a princess. After a year, one girl will be chosen to be crowned princess and marry the prince. The girls don't look enjoy it at first, but after a while, they decide to just try their best. Miri studies every night to prove the girls that are mad at her wrong. Miri decides to except the challenges of learning to be princess. When Gerti assumes that Miri was stuck in the closet, she reminds Tutor Olana (the mean lady prepping the girls to be princesses) and almost gets herself into trouble. Soon, after Miri is freed from the closet, she gets closer to Gerti.     When Miri and the girls hike up to the princess academy, I think of when the group of teens in Downriver ...

                                          Text to Text- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone      Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling , is about this boy named Harry and he goes to a wizarding school after he learns that his parents were wizards and that his parents were not killed in a car accident, but by an evil wizard. He makes new friends named Ron and Hermione. Plus he gets sorted into the house of Gryfindor with his new friends. He learns all of the rules and eats as much as he could during the feast that they had to celebrate the newcomers. Then he goes to his house common room to learn everything about the house and then they fall asleep almost instantly. The next day, Harry learns about all of his teachers and about what type of magic they will be learning throughout the year.      The scene that reminds me of some...

I can connect Daughter of Dusk and Wereworld because of the characters and more. Kyra (Daughter of Dusk) and Drew (Wereworld) are both seen as threats, and are able to become a 'were' creature. Kyra is an orphan and was pretty poor as a child, while Drew was taken in by a farm family and didn't find out his real family until later in the book like Kyra. Both of these characters sustain a injury at some point Drew more than Kyra. Another thing is that they both fall in love with someone of higher status and through many struggles end up with that person. The setting of the books are sort of different but the times are similar and  medieval like.

Text to World     The book Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, is about a middle school girl named Melody. Melody has cerebral palsy which doesn't allow her to do may things. She is very kind and smart and now has made the Kidz Quiz team. Rven though she has cerebral palsy , she doesn't allow that to keep her from being a normal child.      The parts of the body are affected by cerebral palsy, the level of serveity and combinations of symptoms can differ from each person.  An other person may have little or no control over their movements or speech and require 24 hour assistance which is what my character Melody needs. Melody is affected by this in ways that she can't keep corrct or cmfy posture, she can't move and she can't eat without assistance. This book connects to real life because there are many people that have this disability and are affected by it every day.      This story teaches me that you shouldn't judge kids by the outsi...

     In Warriors- A Dangerous Path  the cat named Fireheart has to keep the clan safe as the traitor Tigerclaw, which is now Tigerstar, has gained leadership of Shadowclan, an enemy clan. Although he does not believe the Shadowclan will attack, Bluestar, the clans leader, orders him to stand guard, and to send off daily search parties through the forest. Fireheart doesn't agree with his leader and thinks that Tigerstar is satisfied, and that he got what he wanted. However he stands in his place and follows orders,Tigerclaw soon starts what appears to Fireheart as  an alliance with Riverclan, which could have them pinned between two enemy clans.  and the clan has a new problem now. Blood thirsty dogs, that want to hunt.      The fact of the dogs escaping the Twoleg's nest (Human house), reminds me of how police send their dogs into dark or puzzling places, to sniff out or hunt down a victim. The problem is also similar to what governments or...

The previous book I have read is BIG NATE GAME ON!. Big Nate it about this kid name Nate, he is in Elementary schools kid that always hate school but he mostly hate his teacher way more than he hate school, and he also have two friend name Francis and Teddy he also have a good couch that trained him well but not good enough Nate love playing sport just like me. Me and him are always bad at any sport we play. Nate only have two friend but i have 10. He hate school so as me . He also hate his teacher so as me. Nate tried diff- rent sport like Basketball, Baseball, and Soccer. Nate is so happy when he finally get a goal in a game just l;like me. One day Nate stared eating a lot to get fat so he can block people really good but that din't work at all as how he imagine it that reminds me of when i had a great plan to get renege on my brother but that definitely din't work how i wanted it to go. The Big Nate is a great book to read and a funny, it has lost of good and funny stuff...

      The book that I'm reading is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. It is about a sixteen year old boy named Jacob Portman who doesn't know just how peculiar he is. Jacob is exploring a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the beat down, old and abandoned home of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores the peeling hallways and the decaying bedrooms, he sees now that it has become clear that the children his grandfather told him in his stories that the children were more than just peculiar, they may have been dangerous.       My book connects to the real world because the peculiar kids aren't accepted by everyone and everyone thinks that they are weird or creepy but really they are just kids who are different and different isn't always a bad thing. Kids from all around the world just want to fit in and especially at school, kids just want to be accepted for who they are and don't want to...

                                                            The White Giraffe   The White Giraffe  is about a young girl named Martine who has to go live with her grandmother after her parents are killed in a terrible fire. Her grandmother lives in Africa on a game reserve, so Martine has to give up her entire life. She arrives on the reserve and finds out her grandmother is a very strict and irritable person. She begins her new life safe, but miserable. One day, she hears a legend about an albino giraffe that is rumored to live on the reserve, but has never been spotted by anyone, but a few people. She looks out her window one night, which overlooks the watering hole, and sees th...

     I am reading Fablehaven. It is about a brother and a sister who have to stay with their grandpa for a while. They learn many secrets about where they are staying and they want to learn more. They find out that their grandpa's preserve is home to many magical things and creatures. They learn how to cope with some creatures and how to get out of different dangerous events to save their grandpa.      I can relate to Fablehaven because there are events that have happened to me such as, having to stay with someone you didn't know that well and going on adventures. I love going on adventures and I try to make everyday one. Fablehaven is full of adventures and I love that about this book.      This book gives you lessons about life. Whether they may be humorous or serious I learn something every chapter. The characters in this book learn different strategies and tricks on how to survive in Fablehaven. This book leaves me wanting to read mo...

For the past few weeks of reading Speak I have learned about a girl. A girl that finds reality. A girl who finds a way through it. Melinda has had a hard freshman year of high school. She struggles to find friends, get good grades, and even get a long with her teachers. Now in her third marking period her only subject she is good at is art. She failed at gym, math, science, social studies, Spanish, and English. In my previous blog I had said that Melinda found a friend named Heather. Heather started to kind of wander off with her modeling job and completely forgot that she even had a life. What was in her life was Melinda. Now being alone again, she still struggles and needs to find a way to get through life and pass through the bumps in the road. This book reminds me of a movie called mean girls because a girl named Cady is bullied in the beginning of the movie. She only has a limited amount of true friends. A group of popular girls supposedly acts to be her friend and Cady eventu...

Text to Text- Falcon's Egg      It starts off with Falcon finding a dragon egg with no mother around it. Falcon's Egg , written by Luli Gray is a very interesting book. The book starts off with the main character Falcon, walking around the park and she's spots a dragon egg in the grass and she decides to take it home. She has to take care of the egg because if anything bad happens to the egg, it could crack and die. Then through out the rest of the book, she takes care of the baby dragon and watches it grow up.      When Falcon finds the dragon egg, I feel that the egg felt that it was never seen. It connects to A Child Called It because the main character, as a child, felt like he was never seen. His parents also abused him which also made him feel not seen. This is how the books connect to each other.      As I began to read the story, I began to relate it to other stories. I still wonder why the egg was just in the park with ...

  After Warriors- Rising Storm, I moved on to book five in the Warriors series, Warriors-A Dangerous Path , by Erin Hunter. The book is about the clan finding out the traitor, Tigerclaw,( from the last book, he was caught killing members of his clan, to get what he wanted) is found out to be another clans, Shadowclan's leader after the old one died of sickness. Now the Thunderclan cats are on full alert of any attack placed on their clan, by Shadowclan. Now the clan frets death and loss. Will the clan stand tall, or will they fall?      The scene from Warriors-A Dangerous Path,  where they gather to discuss issues, or help, at fourtrees reminds me of, when the president or other states meet to discuss a certain matter. Cloudpaw, Firehearts jumpy apprentice, reminds me of Natsu Dragneel, from Fairytail . They are both jumpy or excited to do things that they usually do it without thinking, and face the consequences.     I love the way the authors ma...

Text to Text      Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper , is about how a girl named Melody and how she as a disorder from birth that disables her to walk or talk. In the new section I am reading, Melody gets a new devise that allows her to communicate with people and she's making friends. Melody is a smart girl and has made her way on the Kidz Quiz team and is proving herself to other kids.      This character is like Auggie in Wonder because they both are judged by their appearance instead of their personality.  In the book Wonder, Auggie has one true friend named Will and he sticks up for him when kids are being rude and obnoxious. This is similar to Out of My Mind because Melody has rose who is always there for her and sticks up for her when kids are being mean and unkind . Lastly, there is on main similarity in each book. In each book, both main characters, Auggie and Melody, have disabilities that keep them from doing what they want,...

     I am reading Divergent by Veronica Roth. Divergent is about a girl named Tris (Beatrice) who lives in a world where society is divided into five factions: Dauntless, Amity, Candor, Abnegation, and Erudite. As she turns 16, she has to go through a test called the Aptitude test to show which faction she belongs in. The aptitude test shows that she is divergent. Divergent means that she can't be categorized into one faction and are supposedly "the destruction of society". At the choosing ceremony, she chooses Dauntless, the brave, but she has to survive through initiation without her leaders finding out she's divergent. Her instructor Four, also divergent, guides her through initiation to survive and also leads up to a relationship that neither of them expected to have.       Tris from the book, Divergent, reminds me of everybody. Everybody has different traits and can't be fit into one characteristic. Four, Tris's instructor reminds of my friends,...

   The book I am reading is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling .What I have read so far is Harry and his friends start their first classes for the start of term.Ron,Hermione,and Harry are loaded with homework.They got to their Defense Against the Dark Arts and she doesn't believe that Harry fought the dark lord aka Lord Voldemort and gives Harry week of detention.The Gryffindor Quidditch team is looking for a new keeper and Harry will have to miss the tryouts Ron decide to tryout and made it because he is Harry's friend.Harry's detention is going awful because she makes him write lines and every time he writes the words crave into his hands and leave Harry with horrible bruises.While at Quiddditch practice is going horrible because Ron is making the team look bad.And that's what I have read so far.        This scene reminds me of a similar scene in Divergent because in Harry Potter you are placed in a house based on how you are seen...

     The book Breaking Dawn and Hunger Games are very similar.  Both books are very popular among teens and young adults. In  The book Breaking Dawn the characters go through a series of obstacles in order to find happiness at the end of the book.  The obstacles include three vicious vampires,  The unsettling birth of a vampire baby,  and the Volturi. In the book the hunger games the characters also go through a series of obstacles in order to find happiness and some sort of peace. These obstacles include the first hunger games and the second hunger games, going into hiding,  rescuing their friends from President Snow,  and killing two of their leaders. In both books the characters all feel pain and eventually come to find joy.

                                                     Text to Text: Divergent      I am reading the book divergent by Veronica Roth. This book is about a wold divided into 5 different factions, Abnegation (the selflessness), Erudite (the intelligent), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Candor (the honest). When the day comes, 16 year old Beatrice has to take a test called "the aptitude test", she learns that her results were "inconclusive" which means she is Divergent. To all the factions divergent is dangerous. When the day of the choosing ceremony comes Tris chooses Dauntless. There she learns that she can manipulate the simulations, which is dangerous because they might find out her secret. Four, who is also divergent helps Tris learn to get through the simulations without manipulating them. Later, they find out that the...

Hitler's Secret       Lately, in my book Hitler's Secret  written by, William Osbourne, I have found out the name of the spies chosen for a mission to save a little girl in Europe. Otto and Leni were sent off by the Great Britain to help a little girl named, Anjelika, make it safely back to Europe, Otto and Leni are unsure who this girl is or why Master MacPherson needs her, but they took the job to go back. After landing in Europe these two teenagers set off beginning this dangerous journey to save Anjelika. They encounter three big obstacles, one being Leni having to fight a nun to "rescue" Anjelic, Otto gets caught by Adolf Hitler while visiting his past home before the Holocaust had began, and right now i am at the part where Otto, Leni, and Anjelika are on a train back to Great Britain when a lady gaurd comes on the bus and starts attacking them with questions. In the mean time Europe guards are looking for Anjelika, and it turns out that the guard who was ...

The Red Pyramid      The Red  Pyramid is the first book in The Kane chronicles  by Rick R iordan . The  Red  Pyramid is  about to kids of the Kane family who are capital of hosting Egyptian gods. The god Set is the chaos god and he wants to destroy the world. The Kane family , Carter and Sally, want to live so they go and save the world. But have to fight magician and chaos to do it.      Sally Kane is like Annabeth Chase from Percy Jackson and the Olympians because they both help and love their companies. Carter Kane is like Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Olympians because they both daring and leader-ish people. Also the story take place in the same time  period  and both story are using god from B.C. time.      I dislike Set because if he wants to be king of the gods he can easily just challenge the king and if he wins he will become king. I don't get why he has to com...

                                       Text to Text                        So, the adventures continue for Tris in the first book of the series, Divergent.  During initiation, Tris begins to fall in love with another divergent named Tobias, who also transferred from Abnegation. Tobias, who is also called Four, helps Tris learn how to survive initiation while still keeping their divergence a secret. After barely making it through all the simulations and, all the Dauntless leaders watching and ranking her, Tris is ranked first at the end of initiation! Good, right? Well not exactly, especially when the leaders inject all the members with a serum that will control them to do something, but what ? The next day, Tris wakes up to see that everyone is doing the same thing, at the same exact time. She tries to copy them the ...

Matched -Text To Text By: Rebekah Rolfe       Matched , by Ally Condie is about a girl named Cassie. Cassie is a 17 year old girl who lives in a place where the government decides your life choices. They decide who you love, where you work, and when you die. Cassie has come to the age where the officials choose who she gets married to. She was so happy that she was matched with her best friend, Xander. But, Cassie comes to relize that she doesn't think that Xander is her perfect match and starts to fall for someone else. At this time of difficulty and stress her Grandpa dies and she is faced with the impossible question of who she truly desires to marry.        The book Matched  reminds me so much of the series, The Hunger Games  because of the characters in the books. Cassie reminds me of Katniss Everdeen because they both are trying to figure out who they really love and want to marry. Ky reminds me of Peeta because they both are th...

       I'm reading Catching Fire  by Suzanne Collins. It's an amazing book. The details are fantastic and make you want to read more. In the beginning of the book Katniss is visited by President Snow. Snow told Katniss that he knew that their "love story" was fake and that the capital and some districts may believe it but he doesn't. He want's them to make him believe it. After Snows talk with her, Katniss was determined to make Snow believe that their love story was real. Later that day Peeta and Katniss ( the winners ) went on the victor tour around the districts to pay their respects to the fallen tributes. During the talk Snow gave Katniss, he mentioned something about a rebellion happening and Katniss is starting to see that signs. President Snow is noticing how bad the rebellion is starting to be and remembers that it's the Third Quarter Quell.       Catching Fire reminds me of The Maze Runner. The reason why it reminds me of The ...

       The book I'm reading is Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children and it is about a sixteen year old Jacob Portman who doesn't know how peculiar he his. He  grew up listening to his grandfather tell him stories of living on an island in a children's home where each child had  a supernatural ability of some sort. As he got older he stopped believing his grandfathers stories, but still has a close relationship with him who seemed to get crazier and worried each day as he said the monsters were lurking in the woods waiting to kill him. Jacob didn't believe him and thought he forgot to take his medicine. One day Grandpa Portman is killed by a mysterious creature in the woods. Jacob sets out on a mission to uncover the meaning behind his grandfathers last words and learn at last about his grandfathers past.          Jacob Portman reminds me of scientists because Jacob is trying to find out what is grandfathers past is like and ...

    The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a book by Avi about a little girl from America sailing home for the summer aboard the Seahawk, a ship with a crew planning on betraying the captain. Both the captain and the crew say each other are rather bad people and miss Doyle doesn't know who to trust. Everyone tells a convincing story but making the choice will have tremendous impact for good or bad reason.      This book is a lot like The Westing Game , a book about a mistery of murder, the victim made a game for money and gave teams clues. This book is a lot like  The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle because there is mystery. Both of the books have at least one character who is in a mystery and has groups of people who they can choose to trust, some one ends up being bad and lying to win trust, this results in something bad happening. in The Westing Game this happens at much larger scale, every character playing a role is double than this book. ...

      Paper Towns , by John Green, is about a daring young girl named Margo and her neighbor/childhood friend/secret admirer, Quentin.  Margo Roth Spiegelman is known for running away from home and leaving clues for her family to find her, but this time, she left clues for Quentin. Before she "went missing," Margo came through Quentin's window one night asking for a ride. He didn't know it yet, but that would be the best night of his life. His main job was to drive Margo around town in his mom's Chrysler minivan for her to complete the eleven parts of her plan of revenge. She gets revenge on some people that wronged her by vandalizing the cars and property of her cheating boyfriend, and everybody connected to him. Margo disappears after that night, leaving clues for Quentin to find her. Her parents are more aggravated than worried, because Margo often disappears. It has been four days and Margo isn't back home in Orlando, which is unusual for her, so now it is...

                                                       Text to Text                                                        Wonder Struck      The story I had just begun is called Wonder Struck  by  Brian Selznick .  What's so creative about this story is that there are two stories being told at the same time.  One story is being told by words while the other is being told by sketches.  Today, I am going to talk about Ben's story, the story that is being told by words.  Ben is a boy that is deaf in one ear.  He lives with his cousin, Robby, and Aunt Jenny.  This story takes place in Gunflint, Minnesota, 1977.  His mother had died three months before J...

     Imagine hiding someone in your basement, but if anyone finds out about it you could die or be tortured. That is the feeling Liesle from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak  . She has lost her mother and brother and she had never met her dad. She now has to live with her foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She steals her first book from her brothers graveside, then from the Nazi;s book-burning, then the mayors wife , and where every they are to be found. In these times there was little money and food yet Liesel's foster parent took in a Jew, even though they knew the consequence.      Rosa and Hans bravery reminds me of a character in The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman. Jan and Antonina use their zoo to put Jews in an abandoned animal habitats and hide them from the Nazi's, who want them dead. Both characters know the danger of what their doing, but do it to save the lives of others. Jan and Antonina saved 500 Jewish lives, and you can st...

     I am reading a book called Princess Academy  by Shannon Hale. This book is about a 12 year old girl named Miri who lives on mountain called Mount Eskel. Their lifestyle is simple: mining in the quarries, chasing after goats, and getting water out of wells. Miri wants to get involved and work in the quarries like the other children her age, but her father refuses to let her. One special day, Miri wakes up exhilarated because the traders have come for trading day. An unexpected visitor comes with the traders in search of young ladies from ages 12 to 17 to the Princess Academy. They would train them to eventually choose one young lady that is most fit to be the prince's wife. That means Miri has to leave behind her father and her older sister, Marda. The girls don't enjoy their stay but they have to make an effort to stay in the Princess Academy for a year.      This book reminds me of my current experien...

                                                                                                                                                Text to Self: Divergent      The book i am reading is called Divergent, by Veronica Roth, a story about a 16 year old girl named Beatrice (Tris) who has to chose what faction she is going to be in for the rest of her life. There five different factions Amity, Candor, Dauntless, Erudite, and Abnegation. Tris is not only one faction but two Dauntless and Abnegation which is called Divergent, she will never be able to fit in to one faction. Tris chooses Dauntless which is the ...