The story begins with our protagonist, eleven-year-old noir film fanatic Alex, discovering that her neighbor and adult friend has gone missing; Alex deduces or more accurately imagines that he has been kidnapped. Clues lead Alex to discover that the kidnapping is a reality and its motivation was a drug deal gone wrong, thus Alex with her acquaintance nine-year-old Tubs must explore the bad and more impoverish side of town for answers. The story resolves with Alex locating her neighbor within a home of a drug-dealer, however Alex is too late and arrives on to witness internal fighting within the antagonist group end in bloodshed. The story begins with our protagonist, eleven-year-old orphan Alex, seeking the return of her neighbor who she sees
In this story the author cleverly introduces the theme of love into the story by first giving a descriptive account of the fact that the girl’s parents loved the house that they would live in Cincinnati painting the house as
In Abduction by Peg Kehret, Matt is a 5-year old boy who suddenly gets kidnapped by his father that he didn’t even know was alive. When Bonnie realizes that her brother, Matt, is missing she also realizes that her dog Pookie is also gone. As Bonnie, her mom, and the detective try to piece things together and find out who took Matt, Bonnie coincidentally sees him at a ball game. She decides to follow them to get her brother back once and for all. The author uses foreshadowing, reader knows more than the character and a dream to help build suspense, get the reader predicting and to help give background information to the reader.
LOGLINE: When a young girl goes missing, her friend and older brother try to find out whether his father is responsible… but the true culprit may be supernatural in nature.
“Three little girls. Snatched from their mothers' arms. Spirited 1,500 miles away. Denied their very identity. Forced to adapt to a strange new world. They will attempt the impossible. A daring escape. A run from the authorities. An epic journey across an unforgiving landscape that will test their very will to survive. Their only resources, tenacity, determination, ingenuity and each other. Their one hope, find the rabbit-proof fence that might just guide them home. A true story.”
What was once known as Western United States is now a newly established Republic, which is currently at war with its neighboring eastern colonies. June, fifteen years old, is being trained amongst the Republic’s highest military force. Day, fifteen years old, is a boy born into the streets who could actually do good. Brought up in two different settings these two teens cross paths when June’s brother Metias is murdered and Day is the main suspect, and Day is hunting for a cure for his family while June seeks vengeance. As the story progresses, June and Day come together to uncover the truth of their Republic and the many secrets they are
Plot/Summary: My novel takes place in Monterey, California where Mack and the boys try and to set up a party for doc until things don’t go as planned. Mack, the boys, and a group of unemployed men helping them out. They try and set up the party in Docs lab which is also known as his house. Lee Chong is a grocery store owner and offers to buy Mack and the boys some beer. Mack attempts to do stuff but every time he gets him self in trouble. Eddie is a back up bartender at the local bar and brings home stolen bottles after work. Gay stays with the boys because his wife likes to beat him but he is often in jail or at the bar because of all the fights he gets into with his wife, Doc finds a couple of dead people laying on the
It starts off in the United States, with the same seven year old, who had grown up in the village of Marial Bai, Southern Sudan. Valentino is a Dinka from the victimized south, abused by the corrupt Muslim regime. There were only small signs of war of given, and then shocking chains of events that led multiple children to escape from their very villages. Since having to be separated from his family due to the Second Sudanese Civil War and then eventually joining “The Lost Boys of Sudan”. We are introduced to him as a young man, meeting confusing and unexpected obstacles as a recent immigrant to the U.S. As the obstacles include being robbed by a fellow African American and as he lay tied up on his own living room floor, he begins to tell his story, in his thoughts personally addressing his heartless captors and as he he recalls his Sudanese desert wastelands. Therefore comparing his new life in the US to his life back in Sudan. However, he recollects his memory on various accounts in which he'd seen or experienced true horrors, but how those felt like home. He explains how hard it was even to get to America, and the hardships before, and still, wishes to go back. “This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book” (Eggers, 52). As the young boy represents the American readers. This shows the
Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson novel Target accounts the life of a sixteen year old boy name Grady West . Grady was your average high school sixteen year old who hung out with a group of friends, very outgoing, and likable. But, everything changed on a tragic uneventful November night. While walking home Grady was attack, beaten, and raped. From that very moment Grady’s life changed. He would no longer became the Grady he once was to his friends, family, and even to himself. Grady tried to escape his friends, old school, and what happened that night. But, every so often the memories reoccur. A year later, he now attended Thomas Jefferson High where no one would know who he was and what had happened to him. His journey at his new school is
Have you ever thought of what it would be like to be in a gang? Or even just live in a high-populated gang area? This book is about a girl named Tina and he is Teddy’s little sister. Tina got shot in a drive by shooting on her way home from school. Teddy’s goal is to get revenge on the gang that killed her in the shooting.
Within this novel, she introduces a group of young children who join the battle against evil that detests individuality. It is a story filled with mystery and adventure, with a young girl who wants nothing more than to go on a journey to find her father. Many places around
Claudia Kincaid is a normal twelve year old girl who feels as if she is being treated unjustly and wants to run away, but she doesn't have much money and it just so happens that she he nine year old brother Jamie, is a expert bus gambler, and every day on the bus he and his friend play war for money! While Claudia only has 5 dollars, Jamie has a whopping 24 dollars and 43 cents!!! they run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Less kid-friendly, but more filled with pretty, elegant things that
The story introduces itself with two kids named June and Day. They lived far ways apart and never spoke to each other in years until one day June’s brother is murdered and Day was the leading suspect. They both go through a compelling adventure that leads them to know the reasoning of why they were brought together. After going through police searches and city lockdowns it seems as if everyone is locked on to them and trying to stop them. After time they uncover that what they know needs to stay a secret and can’t be uncovered by anyone. They have to go city to city keeping their secret away from the rest of the world. They struggle getting food, sleep and money. They would hope every day for something to help them but day after day nothing
The story revolves around a young
The plot of the story was very mysterious Tyler and Lymin figured out who murder Boo Boo the janitor it was the principal's boy who did it . It was all about the mystery of who murder Boo Boo the janitor and how two little boys solve the mystery. Tyler and Lymin total different boys who become friends and work together to make it through life and school in order for them to survive they solve the case. They knew who the murder was they needed proof so they went to find some clues anywhere they could look for them. How they end up making more friends than they thought they could. How their were bullies and murders how close to reality it was. The plot was all about mystery and deceit and misfortune. This book describes what the real life
The town turns quickly turns to a frenzy, when all of the younger kids start roaming the streets looking for their parents. The really young kids, between the ages of 1-9 years-old have absolutely no clue whats going on or where their parents are. Some are crying, and they are absolutely terrified.