Book Summary: Freeks By Amanda Hocking

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

The important theme of being lost is explored in Jane Godwin’s Falling from Grace, where a girl, Grace, gets lost during a storm. Her sister, Annie, and family have to deal with emotional loss while trying to find her. Meanwhile, Kip, a teenage boy, has to go through his own struggles and decisions.

Southern family preparing to go on what seems to be a typical vacation. The story is humorous at first because the reader is unaware of how the story will end. The tone changes dramatically from amusing to frightening and plays an important part in making the story effective.

Bobby, a young troubled man, Was raised by his father, a professional con artist after the death of his mother. From a very young age Bobby was exposed to the criminal acts of his father and was taught to lead the same path. When he turns seventeen years old, Bobby meets and falls in love with a girl called Gwen. She gives him a sense of identity and belonging he missed his entire life. During the same time he learns

While going through a hard time of her husband being gone and he grandmother passing away, Lilia wanted so bad to cross into America to have her family together. An old friend of Lilia’s from school offered to help get her and her child across to America. Seeing that she trusted the man she decided to allow him to help her. Lilia and her baby had to go with different coyotes. She went to the house of the man that was to be her coyote; he took Lilia to a woman coyote that would bring the child across. After leaving her baby with the woman, Lilia and her coyotes started their journey in a truck. She was to ride on the back that was covered with the man that was not driving; along the journey, the coyote raped her. They arrived at a river, which she had to swim across. Once across the water, she had to wait in a junk yard in the back of a car for someone to show up and call for her. She was taken to a house, where she would get her new identification, a new life. This is where she awaited for her child and her husband. While she was waiting she had to cut and dye her hair, she also watched a man being murdered. Day’s passes and her child never arrived, but Hector did. Hector was grateful to see his wife, but very upset that his child had not arrived. Hector, Lilia, and Miguel tried to figure out how to find the child, but had no luck. Hector asked his boss and his wife to help but they also had no

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

Such as, her mother has always been embarrassed of their small Mennonite town in Manitoba , she has felt as if the town and the people that are situated in it hold her back. To Trudy, the town does not allow her to live her life how she wants, nor live it to the fullest. Nomi and her sister, Tash, would often ask each other “Is our mother crazy in a cool, fun way or has she now stepped over the line into disturbing, crazy that we would like to see stopped?”(12). Not only did other in the town think their mother was mad, Nomi along with many others knew that Trudie, her mother, had an eye for travel and that most topics she discussed were about had to do with how amazing and wonderful everything outside their town was, like for example

Most curriculums being taught to students withhold a mass amount of history. Some may do this because they feel some events do not have the same importance as other topics being taught. Such topics for example would be the rape and sexual exploitation of thousands of African American females during the time periods where racism and segregation was the norm. It is important for people to be educated about the horrific events that these women went through without justice. It is also essential because it shows the amazing activism Rosa Parks took part in. Most people are often just taught about Parks’ actions on the bus. At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire shows how Rosa Parks and many other dedicated their lives to receive equality not only for themselves, but for all African Americans in the south. Danielle L. McGuire’s work is an amazing way for people to not only learn more of Rosa Parks story, but to get a better understanding of what all African American woman had to deal with during this time period. The realism of sexual violence and its dominant impact on the African American women was one of the many events that helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. McGuire wrote At the Dark End of the Street in order to resolve the negligence of this reality.

The hurricane in Florida had cause Miranda and her mom to move to St.Yvette with Miranda’s aunt and the grandfather she never knew. Going to school the following day Miranda gets paired up with five other people to do a project. The group she is put into is the first people she met when she got to school. Getting upset she realize that they are so different from her group of friends back when she was in Florida. In the end she they all become best friends.

This complex novel takes place in Greenville, South Carolina where Jacqueline spends most of younger childhood with her Grandma Georgina, older brother Hope, her older sister Adella, and her mother. Jacqueline was born in Columbus, Ohio where she lived there with her family for a couple of years, until her mother and father got divorced. Jacqueline never saw her dad after she moved to Greenville. Jacqueline cherishes every moment in Greenville. She loves the dirt on her feet, the fresh fruity scent in the air. She believes in the people in her town marching for their rights. After a couple years of living in Greenville Jacqueline’s mother moves her family to Brooklyn, New York. Jacqueline's aunt, Caroline lives in Brooklyn. After a couple

The story views the life of the grandmother and her pathetic view of life and how she tries to convince the Misfit into believing what her beliefs are. It is no accident that the grandmother and her entire family are killed, the family 's vacation is doomed from the beginning.

Context: Thirteen year old Ava Bigtree has grown up on her family-owned gator-wrestling amusement park, Swamplandia!, her entire life. Her mother, Hiola, is the star of the attractions: Diver and gator wrestler. When Hiola dies, Ava 's family begins to unravel and the threat of losing their home becomes real.

-she runs away with an actor she was dating because she was not interested in the work her family did anymore and wanted to get away

Riley’s family move from Minnesota to California. With the difficulty of moving homes, the emotions go into panic mode, like any normal pre-teen would react, but Joy recognizes the problem and tries to help keep the situation positive. On the trip to Riley’s new house, the emotions share the possibilities of what their new house could look like. The creativity that the emotions contain depict houses with slides, dragons, candy, and even in a tree. When she arrives at a new house all the emotions are quickly disappointed by the exterior of Riley’s new home. Joy then remembers that Riley’s dad was talking about how great Riley’s room was going to be. Again, Riley is disappointed and Joy is pushed off the control board by Anger, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear to create memory balls. Joy tries to influence the emotions by creating a dream room for Riley. As Riley heads downstairs for her stuff from a moving van, she discovers that they van is delayed for a couple of days. Bad situations seem to keep piling up for Riley’s family and when Riley realizes this, she begins to play hockey with a piece of paper to take her parents out of their mood. Her dad gets a phone call from his job and the mood goes down again. Her mom seems sad and Riley suggest pizza from a place she saw down the street. The pizza is a disappointment, it has broccoli on it. Riley can’t seem to get out of her rut. When night comes, she overhears her dad still upset on his phone and asks to be tucked in. Her mom comes into her room and right before Riley was about to get mad, her mom thanks her for her positive attitude in

Plot summary: Frex who is a minister who has a sermon to give today and Melena who is a housewife, is pregnant with Elphaba who turns out to be born green. They hide out in a house in the woods. Turtle Heart who is a Quadling that is having an affair with Melina, makes a magic mirror for Elphaba. A character named Galinda goes to Shiz University and ends up having Elphaba as her roommate. There is a tea party/ poetry slam that Madam Morrible is hosting and Boq who was Elphaba’s childhood friend, goes up to her to introduce himself but she acts rudely to him and then leaves. Mr. Dillamond is a goat that is a professor at the college for girls so this implies that he is