Drew Jaymes: Return To Peach Valley

The realistic setting of the novel starts out in a small town down south called Little Bend in Colorado but progresses to up north in a well-known town called Dover in Vermont. The main character, Cody Laredo, has a perfect life. He’s a great quarterback on his high school football team, he might be able to get a full college scholarship, and he’s dating the prettiest and smartest girl in town, but all his luck changes. He hurt his leg preventing him from playing sports, and his girlfriend, Clea, moves away to a boarding school in Vermont. When he thinks all his bad luck is over, he finds out that Clea went missing in Dover. Cody’s life gets turned

The setting takes place in present day Texas throughout the whole novel. The main characters were Sunny Reynolds (14) who was the main detective of the novel, and the younger sister of the dead sister, who died in a fire in New York, but was deeply loved by everyone, Deborah Hallard a girl who looked and pretended to be Jasmine Reynolds (the girl who died), but knew everything about her and her family, and Dan and Lily Reynolds the parents of Sunny and Jasmine. Dan had a drinking problem, and Lily was depressed because of her beloved daughter who was dead, Jasmine. The mystery of the story was when a letter arrived to Sunny’s house from her dead sister, two months after her sister passed away. It said that Jasmine was going to come home because she ran away even though she was reported dead. When Jazz arrived at her family’s doorstep, everyone besides Lily knew that it wasn’t the real Jasmine. They weren’t sure who she was, why she was at their home pretending to be someone who she wasn’t, and how she knew everything about the Reynold’s family and their secrets. The detective in the novel was Sunny Reynolds. She was always trying to find clues about the girl pretending to be her sister, calling people to get as much information as possible, and would even look through the girl’s bags even if that risked her getting caught because unlike some people, she had nothing

Jess, an 18-year-old girl, feels alone as she feels that she does not belong home. She wants to commit suicide after her boyfriend, Chas, leaves her because she then feels completely alone. Jess’s elder sister, Jen, disappeared a few years ago and Jess blames herself for Jen’s disappearance. JJ, a guy with dreams of becoming a successful musician is stuck in the past with thoughts his ex-girlfriend and failure to fulfill his dreams since his band broke up. He also feels alone since he is an immigrant and the people he considered his family abandoned him.

Jessica is a sixteen-year-old girl and a runner. Her whole life is running. She loves the sport and was a champion until there was an accident and she lost her leg. On the way back from a race, Jessica’s school bus was hit by a truck driver who was drunk. Her teammate Lucy, who was sitting right in front of Jessica died. Jessica was left with a horrible injury, her leg was lost. As Jessica is recovering from her accident, she learns to get help, believe in herself, she has a new special friendship with a girl with a disability, Rosa, and she finds a new

Lastly, Erica is an eleven year old girl who takes drugs to try to mask the pain from living her miserable life. Also, she has sex with a sixteen year old boy, and thinks she is in love and does not use any contraceptives and gets pregnant. After becoming pregnant, the father bails and wants nothing to

The movie Precious, is drama-based film that tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Claireece Jones (Precious). Unfortunately, she is struggling with her family, the school system and with her own internal emotions. Her mother despises her due to Precious having two kids from her father. She was kicked out of her high school had to go to an alternative school to get her GED. Precious also is struggling with her internal emotions and capabilities, she has been raped, verbally and physically abused. Some of the main characters that influenced Precious’s life are Miss. Rain, her English teacher at the alternative school and her mother Mary.

Claireece Precious Jones lives in an impoverished part of New York City with her mother, Mary and her daughter, Mongo. Mary stays in the apartment, smoking cigarettes and watching television while barking orders for Precious to tend to her needs. Their relationship is a deeply troubled one. It is evident that Precious has been physically, emotionally and sexually abused since she was a toddler. It appears that Mary may have experienced similar abuse and is simply repeating all that she has ever known. Mary seems incapable of defending her daughter from being repeatedly

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

story develops, we see her father, Nathan Price start losing his wits about him, and she grows

Coby Lily Aberdeen was born on February 25TH 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was raised by two loving parents who dotted on their only daughter. Privileged and spoiled in everything she did, Coby rarely wanted for anything. She was the walking definition of a perfect life. It wasn't until she turned fifteen that her world began to crumble, while Coby was on a camping trip with friends, her parents were killed in an unfortunate automobile accident, ultimately leaving their only child with no other family. However, she was quickly taken in by family friends and though her new guardians tried their best to give Coby everything, they couldn't stop her from pulling away from everyone around her. Retreating into her own world, she soon drifted away from all friends and any form of authority. It wasn't until she met someone tall, dark and mysterious that she began to perk up. His name was Dean Brewin and he came into her life like a sudden flame. Coby was instantly drawn to his looks and attitude, he was

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

Lennie Walker has just lost her sister, Bailey. One day Bailey collapsed at school and she’s gone forever. Lenny was shocked, since Bailey is the closest family she had. While grieving, she found herself getting closer and closer to Toby, who is Bailey’s boyfriend. She feels connection with him because both of them are experiencing the same kind of loss. At the same time, there’s a new boy in school, Joe Fontaine. He’s attractive, talented, and has beautiful eyelashes. As Lennie’s drawn to Toby, at the same time she also found connection with Joe. In grieve; it turns out Lennie discovered love along the way.

In the town of South Lake Tahoe, children played safely outside, the sun always seemed to be shining, and laughter was a common sound. Everyone knew one another and crime ratings were close to zero. Due to the town’s “child-friendly” nature, the Dugard family called this place home (Hawkins). However, on June 10, 1991, a fiery nightmare exploded into reality for eleven year-old Jaycee Dugard. Walking towards the bus stop, Jaycee was dragged into a grey sedan (Hawkins). Jaycee’s stepfather Carl Probyn witnessed this gut-wrenching act from down the street and tried unsuccessfully to trail the car on a bike. (Tresniowski). Jaycee’s mother, Terry, lost control of her emotions after her daughter’s

These constant beatings in Maggie Johnson’s home, furniture thrown from parent to parent, and every aspect of her family life as being negative, her family situation is not an extremly healthy one. But, despite her hardships, Maggie grows up to become a beautiful young lady whose romantic hopes for a more desirable life remain untarnished.

Four months before Ira’s accident, a local rodeo takes place in town. A girl named, Sophia is pressured into going with her roommate in attempt to get her mind off of a recent break-up. At the rodeo, Sophia is confronted by her ex-boyfriend who becomes unexpectedly violent. A cowboy comes to Sophia’s rescue, and she finds herself having a long, pleasant conversation with him.