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The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins

Throughout the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, several topics across the novel contribute to the overall theme. From identity, conformity to bullying, the topics of Stargirl cover everything under the Mica sun. Conformity is touched after everyone in Mica Area High School is described as conformists, blending into one another. Identity is challenged by Stargirl as she breaks away from conformity. Bullying makes its debut after the kids at MAHS reject Stargirls quirky ways. Overall, the Stargirl novel puts a fresh take on the underlining theme most people aren’t true to themselves unless they are confident.

The novel that I chose was Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. The main characters include Molly, Brooke, and Brick Berlin. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Molly Dix, who, after the death of her mother, moves to Los Angeles, California to live with her biological father, Hollywood movie star, Brick Berlin and her half-sister Brooke. Molly isn’t used to living the life of a rich girl, so when she arrives, she is both excited and terrified; not only that, she’s meeting her dad for the very first time. Brooke welcomes Molly to high fashion and fame with an overwhelming dose of “sisterly love”. But in this town, no one is ever what they seem. I think that Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan built the story in a way that would

Would you like to live in a world where you are born ugly and forced to transform pretty by age 16 and you have no say? Well the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a girl named Tally who meets Shay, a teenager just like her, that decides not to turn pretty and escape to a city called “The Smoke.” This gets Tally in trouble as she is threatened by a doctor in Special Circumstances, named Dr. Cable, that she will stay ugly for life if she doesn't find and return her friend, along with other people that escape too. I enjoyed this book very much because I felt that it kept me interested while reading instead of boring me. Throughout the book the main characters showed a variety of different character traits. Also some scenes demonstrate when the character is applying values either positive or negative.

This books main character is Anna and she is faced with many obstacles while she strives to save lives and keep herself healthy at the same time. She is a housemaid and a widow that is stuck on her own trying to heal many people. The main event is the bubonic plague which turns an entire city upside down in fear, sorrow, and hatred. Anna has to deal with many different people accusing her of wrong doing to benefit herself or somebody else in letting somebody die.

The novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, features a fourteen year old girl named Melinda Sordino who lives in Syracuse, New York. The novel takes place close to present day, with the book being written in 1999, which is when the novel was written. Melinda comes from a middle class background and her parents are blue collar workers. Her mother works at a department store at the local mall while her father works in an office building. Both of her parents spend a lot of time at work and Melinda is an only child, which means she spends most of her time alone. The story begins with Melinda entering high school in her freshman year. The summer after eighth grade, Melinda and her friends attended a high school party. At the party, Melinda is assaulted

In monument 14,(2012) a novel written by Emmy Laybourne, 14 children ranging from kindergarten to upperclassmen in high school, become tragically trapped inside of their local greenway grocery store. However, despite their different social classes they are able to put aside their differences to unite for survival. Jake Simonson is a senior and football star. However, Dean Grieder is a 16 year old nerd. Dean is a quiet kid who sits in the back of the classroom and you barely know he’s there. The two both have something in common, Astrid Heyman. Jake, being at the top of the social status can have any girl he desires. However, for Dean that isn’t the case. Dean has been crushing on Astrid as long as he can remember, but has almost no chance

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is a coming of age novel that discovers the complications every teenager experiences to accomplish he emancipation. It does so by how the main character Josie encounters obstacles such as identity, belonging, cultural diversity and changing relationship that influences her everyday life and future. By thinking back on events that are happening, Josie matures as her personality changes her perception of her general surroundings has the ability to release herself from the pressure society enforces on her.

The book Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone is a relatistic fiction about a girl named Samantha Mcalllister who looks justlike the rest of the populars girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the expertly applied makeup is a secret her friends would never understand. Samantha has a purley-obsessional OCD and is consumbed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries she cannot turn off. Later on, she gets introduced toa poet's group by her friend, and slowly begings to feel normal, until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she

Teenagers are young, naïve and impressionable. They are also insecure and usually sometimes unable to express themselves so they put others down. They are pressured daily to do things they really don’t want to do. They often find themselves doing something they said they would never do. Because of the influence of those around them, they are trying to cover their insecurities by saying things to make others feel bad about themselves. The traits above describe the two main characters in the short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”. Both Bernice and Marjorie are young teens dealing with the pressure of being popular and fitting in. Bernice, being the quieter, shyer girl, deals with trying to fit in in a place she feels she doesn’t belong.

The name of the book is “Be yourself”, which was first published in 2007. The author is Fleur Beale. This is a fiction book. This novel is about Gila and Eve. They are best friend. Gila always want to be same as Eve because she is pretty, kind, funny and popular. Gila never change her mind when she met Eve five years ago. Gila’s dream is becoming an actress, walk down the red carpet, wear fashionable clothes. Nevertheless, Gila is an inferiority complex person. Eve can find a boyfriend in a party, but Gila is not so she feels so blue. After that, Gila join the drama club, where she can be herself. She meets Phil and Franco. She likes them. All members in this club put on a performance and Gila do it well. Audiences is laughed and clapped. She

Hey, I just finished the book called Dork Diaries, Tales from a NOT-SO-Happy Heartbreaker By Rachel Renee Russell. My 5th grade teacher recommended it to me because she thought I should read books that have a little bit of everything that I like in a book, I agreed.

hanging around the “cool” crowd, her positive attitude begins to fall. She is no longer,

“Everything, Everything” by Nicola Yoon is the story of a sick girl named Maddy, she has severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). Thanks to her disease Maddy hasn’t left her house in seventeen years. It all changes when a boy moves in next door. Throughout the novel 18 year old Maddy grows; She goes from being a careful and uninformed girl to self-aware and

Another question to ask is, “Is it relatable?” For a lot of people, when they have to read a book, they get upset. They get bored. This is more in a school specific setting. How does a book keep people entertained? A book has to adventure, an easy to see message, understandable plot and characters. Henrik Ibsen’s, An Enemy of the People, is a perfect example of this. Dr. Peter Stockmann finds poison in the water supply. He immediately wants to tell people, but his brother, the mayor, tells him he cannot because of the people. When Thomas ignores this and tells the people, he becomes their enemy. A lot of students and people can relate to this. When they tell something over and over that something is wrong and instead of listening, people get angry at them. It is relatable. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations,is not that relatable. Yes it can be for some people, but when a person reads it, they do not get that feeling of, “I can apply multiple points of this novel to my life.” A book should be able to be