Ivy Calhoun's Forevermore

The journey begins when the family first moves to America through a work visa that is obtained through her dad. The family has high hopes for what is to come. In this point of time, they are convinced that life will be much easier and that their daughter will have a smooth sailing special education that only America could give. Once the family moves into the Redwood apartments they are quick to reinsure that it wasn’t what they had hope for.

The book The End Or Something Like That takes place in the small town USA. It take time during the summer and during the school year. The narrator is Emmy and it First person point of view. Emmy is the Main Character Kim is the protagonist also with Gabby and Skeeter. Emmy is very awkward and antisocial. Kim is very friendly and happy most time. Skeeter talks all the time and he mostly want to please others. Secondary characters are Trish (kim mom) Emmy mom and dad, and Ms. Homeyer. Trish is all about herself and she works all the time. Emmy mom and dad are caring and they are little weird. Also, Ms. Homeyer and she is just plain weird and she lonely. Important event are. First, Kim is born with rare heart diseases she knows she is going to die soon. Kim and Emmy are best friends Kim tells Emmy all that she has to do to talk to Kim when she up in heaven. Kim and Emmy do naughty things together and they do everything together. Then one day another girl named Gabby came along and start to hang out with Emmy and Kim. Then, Kim starts to hang out with Gabby and not with Emmy. Emmy finds out and she get mad. They are mad at each other and a couple days into there

The story is about Josie Moraine, living in the French Quarter of New Orleans and wants a new life away from New Orleans. Josie dreams of going to college in the East, where nobody knows her. Josie's mom is a prostitute and has never been a good mother to Josie. Josie is very ashamed of her mother and embarrassed because she is a prostitute.

This story is mostly about a ten year old girl named Opal. she wants friends because she is new in Naomi, Florida. She also wants her mama, who left her when Opal was only 3 years old. In the book, Opal learned that she can’t hold onto something that wants to go.

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.

The burst of a door, the gritty scream signaling the end of a family. Cheating. One spouse sneaking around behind the other’s back. What started off as cordial conversation turned into so much more than either could have ever imagined. A literal snowball rolling down a hill, if you will. In The Cellar by Natasha Preston, Clover’s whole world fell apart after the previously

Brief Plot Summary: Lily Melissa Owens, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives on a peach farm with her father, T. Ray, who is both neglectful and abusive. Lily has a guilty secret, She believes she shot and killed her mother, Deborah, when she was younger, because of a pesky memory of what she thinks was the day she killed her mother. Lily has a housekeeper named Rosaleen, who has cared for Lily for years. When Rosaleen watches President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act on television, she decides she will register to vote. On the way to register they run into some trouble that winds Rosaleen in jail. When T. Ray comes to pick Lily up from the police station, he is angry, and yells at her for such stupid behavior. Once home, Lily stands up to her father during an argument, and T. Ray hurts her by saying that ten years ago her mother was only coming back to get her clothes, and that she had planned to abandon Lily. But Lily isn 't sure if she believes her father, and she plans to escape, leaving behind her abusive father and finding a way to free Rosaleen.

begins to grow up a little and realizes she is now seeing her parents otherwise, almost with a new

The summary of this story begins with a fifteen year old girl named Connie. At home she was perceived

This novel starts off on June 9, 1976, in California with an African American Girl named Dana on her 26th birthday with her husband Kevin and are moving into their new home. Kevin has started to unpack his office and Dana is unpacking books. Then Kevin walks out of the office to talk to Dana when Dana all of a sudden starts to get dizzy and Dana then finds herself in a grove of trees thats in the late 1800’s in the state of Maryland by a nearby river when she spots a young boy drowning named Rufus. She then goes into the river to save the unconscious boy. Once the boy has came back to life and she dealt with his mother she reappears back into her apartment. Several minutes later she begins to feel dizzy again and then disappears.

eleven-year- old girl named Aubrey who is forced to make changes to her life after surviving a car crash

The story takes place in small town in the state of Oregon where the unnamed protagonist lives with her family that consist of herself, her mother and father. Timewise the story takes place under the depression which however doesn’t affect the family since the father works at the local Penney’s. The protagonist has finished high school but hasn’t moved on. Instead she spends most of her days with a movie magazine in one hand and the remote in the other watching movies. While watching movies the protagonist would dream that one day she herself would move to Hollywood.

Estella Goodwin, now renamed Stella, witnessed something horrible. She came home to a murder scene, and her entire life is overturned because of it. Placed in the witness protection program, she gets carted off to Thunder Basin, Nebraska – and she hates it. That is, until she meets the boy/man who mows her new “foster mom’s” lawn: Chet Falconer. I have to say, Dangerous Lies has launched Becca Fitzpatrick up into the league of my favorite authors. I’ve read her other work, The Hush Hush Saga and Black Ice – but those don’t compare to Dangerous Lies. This new book, this wonderful thriller of a book, blew my expectations out of the water and up into thin air. I hadn’t doubted Fitzpatrick’s skill, but this book has proven her to be an amazing writer and brilliant in the art of crafting stories.

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