IR Book Review

Every day begins with fear; every night ends with a different strange man. In a touching novel about the horrific life of a thirteen year-old Nepalese girl, Lakshmi, Patricia McCormick uses a fictional story to portray the lives of real girls. McCormick introduces the reader to the harsh truth about the existence of sex slavery. She paints a vivid picture in the reader’s mind of the brothel, where deceitful adults take an unknowing Lakshmi, called the Happiness House. Sold tells the struggles and perseverance of young girls to make the reader consider what life is like for women living in brothels or with pimps and how it affects them after their release or rescue. Having an optimistic outlook can get one far in life, but when considering

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

This book is called "Twins", it was written by Coraline B. Clooney. Caroline is an America author ho has written suspense, horror, romance, and mystery themed books. The book is about a girl named Mary lee, she is the twin sister of Madrigal. Before college, their parents decide to send Mary Lee away to boarding school. Mary Lee expects her sister would be on her side, and help her stop their parents from sending Mary Lee away, but instead, Madrigal agreed to the ides. In boarding school, it was hard for Mary Lee to make friends, while back at home her sister, Madrigal, is getting more beautiful, more popular, and got a boyfriend. Mary wishes that she could live her sisters life.

The cover of this book caught my eye and I wondered what it was. When I saw it I thought to myself and I said I would give this book a chance. I flipped the book over and I started reading a paragraph about the book. It had a lot of details and it was describing the characters very well. A good book for me is one with a

But, the way the author used symbolism, foreshadowing, and relatable quotes stood out to me the most. When I was reading and even after, I found myself making connections and thinking deeper into the books

I picked the book called “Find Me” by Romily Bernard, because my favorite genre of books are mystery. I liked how the cover had a face in the background of it, you could tell it was a girl face because of the hair. The cover also had “Find Me” written all over it, so it made the book stand out a lot. My first impression on the book was that it was going to be a good mystery book just by the cover of it. After I looked at the cover, I read the summary inside of the book and it just grabbed my attention it was really good, well written, and it didn’t spoil the book. I also liked the quotes on the back of the book, I thought that was a cool idea. This book keeps you engaged and wanting to know more.

“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning my brother’s was worth a pocket watch.” This book is Between Shades of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys. The genre of this book is historical fiction. The book is about a 13-year-old girl, Lina, and her family. They are a Jewish family at the time of the Nazi’s. This was not a very good time in Lina, her brother, or her mom’s life. All of a sudden Lina and her family find themselves on a railroad cattle car and they don’t know where they are going or where their dad is. On the cattle car, Lina meets a cute boy her age named Andrius who is trying to find his dad, also. Lina and Andrius go and try to find their dads. Lina finder hers, but Andrius comes up empty-handed. When they get off the cattle car, which is 1 year later, Lina is split up from her dad, so she has to work to try to find him again but then she finds out he is dead. Lina gets out of the camp they are in and her and Andrius get married. In the book Between Shades Of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys Lina is courageous, determined, and loving.

This week’s reflection is on a book titled Girls Like Us and it is authored by Rachel Lloyd. The cover also says “fighting for a world where girls not for sale”. After reading that title I had a feeling this book was going to be about girls being prostituted at a young age and after reading prologue I sadly realized I was right in my prediction.

a struggle between love and family tradition and ways. In the two stories a young girl

It is a hard one. I suppose in terms of the emotions and the fact that it was true to real life in a lot of ways--Beach Lane which came midway through the series and actually involved characters--except for Mick and others who are ongoing--it involves characters we're not even going to see in the TV show at this point. The emotional depth and because of what is going on between those particular characters I thought was a really strong book. The other one, again which we're not going to get to any time soon although it's earlier in the series, is the book in which Mick and Megan finally get back together which was in A Chesapeake Shores Christmas. And I kind of loved the way it all came together. I loved Mick and Megan together. It's one of those things we have to wait and

The Red Book by Barbara Lehman is a wordless book which takes place in an urban snowy city. This book centers around a young boy and a young girl who are at different locations and long to meet each other. The young girl, one of the main characters, walked down the street on a snowy day and found a red book sticking out in the snow. The girl took the book with her to school when she began to look at it during class. The pictures illustrated views of an island, along with a young boy on the island, who happened to be the other main character.

Connie is a fifteen year old girl who is confident and proud of herself, and almost feels as if she’s invincible, until she has a rude awakening when an unwanted visitor appears at her doorstep. The stories, "Lust" by Susan Minot, "ID" by Joyce Carol Oates, and "Where are you going, Where have you been?" also by, Joyce Carol Oates, describe the female coming of age. The female sexuality of these three young girls is that they didn’t understand their own reality, but yet wanted independence. The authors get across the message by using vivid symbols.

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.

This novel stars Beckett Kincaid and Daisy McPhee. All Daisy McPhee is looking for is a stable and safe life. She and her four sisters are stranded after their wagon breaks down during a cruel storm, and it makes her think that her look will never change. A stranger comes to help her and changes her mind on things. With his strength and integrity, he might just be a night in shining armor, just like in the

In order to properly view a story from a feminist perspective, it is important that the reader fully understands what the feminist perspective entails. “There are many feminist perspectives, and each perspective uses different approaches to analyze and interpret texts. One is that gender is “socially constructed” and another is that power is distributed unequally on the basis of sex, race, and ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, ability, sexuality, and economic class status” (South University Online, 2011, para. 1). The story “Girl” is an outline of the things young girls