An ancient tree grows near Tributary primary school. Over one hundred years old, the resilient oak

She steals book bag and leaves. She runs away to a university. Alice asks a girl for a ride to get close to where the computer lab would be. When Alice final makes to the computer lab she realizes she needs a student ID but doesn’t have one. Luckliy a group of boys are walking down hall. When they finally reach her she asks if they could open the door for her since she “forgot to get hers”. She notices that one of the boys was familiar. Paul who use to go to her school, they had a short conversation but he didn’t recognize her.

In the first few weeks of school Laurie came home full of stories about Charles, the class rebel. Charles was rude to the teacher, hurt some of the other students, and yelled so loudly that it disrupted other classes in the school. He even hit the teacher, and kicked a presenter that came into their class. During those same weeks, Laurie’s behavior grew worse, mirroring Charles’ problems at school. He became loud and insolent,

Megan is older than Shanae and is portrayed as disobedient and characterized as the throwaway. Unlike Shanae she does not have a support system, rather she is a ward of the state, from which she has ran away from ten times. Megan was incarcerated at Waxter for assaulting another foster child with a box cutter. Megan’s actions during her stay at Wexter seemed unpredictable, articulate, and greatly needy, making it seem that she was destined for failure. Though Waxter personnel really tried to help her, they never seemed to be able to keep up with her demanding personality. Upon further viewing, we begin to understand the reason for her misbehavior. Megan boils with bitterness, anger, and resentment because she felt as though her mother, Vernessa, had abandoned her.We learn that Vernessa is addicted heroin which has led her to prostitution. Ultimately we learn that Vernessa had spent many years incarcerated and comparatively less in Megan’s

Tree appears dysfunctional like the Walls’ Family, but under the dysfunction is the love that succeeds on hardships, like the tree. The tree that the mother spots in the desert is metaphor of the effect the struggles of life have on each of the characters in the story. Constantly blown by wind, the Joshua tree grows sideways, “Mom, however, thought it was one of the most beautiful trees she had ever seen”(walls,35). The Walls children can be seen as one of these trees, their lives shaped by the consistency of their parents' frequent moves and questionable habits. Jeannette tries to resist at first when living in New York. Not wanting anyone to know about her past or judge her for allowing her parents to remain homeless. However her attempts

During the first week of the school, two professors had given her assignments to read a chapter before she came to the next class. That day, she had a couple of hours before she headed out to volunteer work that she signed up for at church, so she decided to go to the library after class and finish the assignments. She went to the front desk at the library, and asked for the two reserved textbooks. The person behind the desk, informed Traci, that students are allowed to check out one book at a time. Fair enough she thought, and she checked out a text book, found an empty table, sat down, and opened up the chapter that she wanted to read. Guess what? Her jaw dropped, because that chapter had 32 pages. It may not be a lot for many students, but knowing that

It wasn't the firt time and she knew it wouldn't be the last one. She decide to leave the room and sit next to a bookshelf, until, The librarian appeared and sat with her.

The first student was named Serena, grade 8 in Katie’s class, teachers pet, straight A student. She was asked to explain what happened and where she was during this incident. “ Well I was

They smiled, “I’m Katy, my plot of vegetables are over there, help yourself to them!

When her Dad pass away, people start bullying her, and her Momma copes her Dad’s death by sewing her clothes to wear. She made a deal with Char to do her homework, thinking that it’ll make people stop bullying her. She hangs out with them, and Char brings her clothes in exchange. She always gets in troubles because she always obeys what Char tells her to do. But Miss Saunders, a new teacher with a birthmark on the face, recognizes her having intelligence, hearten her to do literary works to enhance her skills and keeps her away from Char by putting her in office works.

Bella creaked the door open. Inside there was what looked like a library...but with empty shelves, all except one, On the one shelf, the one book, was glimmering mysteriously. She walked toward the book and picked it up. As soon as she did, she heard a whisper.

“Ha, you will be my child now and I will raise you to love lettuce,” said the enchanter said gleefully.

Even when cut down, the Sawtooth Oak has the characteristic of shooting from the stump and re-growing in 15 years, and

The visitor continued reading two more chapters to the students. After 15 minutes, T started to close his book. The teacher redirected T and asked him to open his book again and follow along. T opened his book but was looking all around the room. T then found a piece of scrap paper on the floor and was rolling it into a tiny ball. The teacher again asked T to open his book and follow along. When T opened his book, when he did T was two pages behind where the visitor was. The visitor asked a question to the whole class. T was looking and the ground playing with his piece of paper, he took in a deep breath and let it out quickly. He didn’t look up or raise his hand to give a response to the

Maria was just crowned homecoming queen. One of her new duties include attending the next football game as a depiction of school spirit. However, Maria’s mother found out that Maria lied about her whereabouts last weekend, through an old Facebook post, and grounded her for a week. Maria tried to make it up to her mother by doing additional chores, writing her mother an apology letter, and buying her mother gifts, but all to no avail. Maria’s mother would not let her attend the homecoming game. As a result Maria decided to sneak out.

His teachers sing, “Everybody pack away, pack away…” Teacher Khara says, “Jian, return the book now.” He stands, then he sits on another place. Teacher Khara says, “Jian, pack away the book. One.” He looks around at his classmates lying on the floor, then he stands. He returns the book in the shelf. He outstretches his hands. He gets his pillow from Teacher Teddy. He holds his pillow with both hands. He lies and puts his pillow on top of his head. Teacher Khara says,” Jian, put your pillow on the floor.” He places his pillow under his head. He rolls to his left side. He outstretches his left arm. He touches the books. Teacher Khara says, “Don’t play with the books please.” He rolls to his back facing the ceiling wall. He places his right arm