Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson novel Target

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

This novel was set during the post war period, this was a time when independence and rebelling against parents and law was more important than doing the right thing, during these times of independence, and teenagers needed friendship more than anything else.

People who enjoy realistic-fiction novels that include sibling rivalry, sports, making life changes, and the tension of a dysfunctional family environment will be interested in reading this journal writing from the first person perspective of Paul Fisher. This novel includes characteristics of middle school encounters ; therefor, ages 10 and up will appreciate this

The book, Incarceron, leads you through conflict after conflict. Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped wanting to know the truth about an awful arranged marriage. She realizes her real love that supposedly died is alive and well in the living prison of Incarceron. The boy’s name is Finn, and his memory has been wiped. As Claudia tries to find Finn she goes thru many conflicts that come with coming of age.

Kristina the main character travels to her father that she hasn't seen for most of her life. Before Kristina was a golden child, she got good grade, she made good choices, and she never even thought of drugs. After the trip at her father's she was opened to the idea of drugs, boys and reckless decisions. She wasn't Kristina anymore, she was Bree. This book shows readers how easy it is to get lost into drugs and reckless choices; and the struggle of becoming herself again.

The novel that I am reading is All we have left and it’s by Wendy Mills. Aila is a Muslim and she got caught with cigarette in her hand. Her parents don’t trust her anymore and she wants to go to a program that is a NYU and it’s for drawing program she just can’t go because of her mistake. Alia told her mom that she hates and her mom and runs out of the building and the reason why they don’t trust her because the last time she ran away from home. Now, Jesse is going to Nick’s house and her friends are telling that he’s not right for her but she thinks he is. She goes to his house and he tells her about the bombing of 9/11 and she remembers her brother’s death in the twin

Countries all over the world are dealing with violence, but gun violence is a huge problem in America specifically. With shootings occurring all around the country, disaster strikes the fictional town of Opportunity, Alabama, when a high school dropout re-enrolls with a gun in hand. Tyler is the boy who brings a gun to school, but This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp tells the events of this school shooting through the eyes of Tyler’s ex-girlfriend, Tyler’s sister, her girlfriend, and her girlfriend’s twin brother. Though the event begins and ends within the course of two hours, this book teaches strong lessons about the understanding of privacy, how important preparedness is, and appreciating loved ones.

The archetypal rape victim flaunts her femininity, clad in skimpy clothing whilst walking through darkened parks. The archetypal rape victim is asking for it. At least, that’s the argument used by Teena Maguire’s neighbors to justify her assailants raping her. In Joyce Carol Oates “Rape: A Love Story”, by aligning Teena with the archetypal rape victim, the author employs the switching between second and third point of view, irony, the progressively dismissive diction, as well as the short syntactic structure to emphasize the raw objectiveness of rape in an attempt to delineate the minimizing of rape, and highlight the injustices committed when rapists evade jail time on the basis of technicalities. Written mostly in third person, with the

Porter felt guilty about it later on because he had decided to do nothing about it and let the poor girl continue to be raped by however many men after him. As he got older Porter had realized what exactly he had been doing, he noticed that he was perpetuating toxic masculinity himself with his own two children. Porter has a little boy and a little girl, when the little girl would cry he would ask what was wrong and treat her gently but if the boy ever happened to shed a tear Porter would tell him to suck it and go to his room until he calmed down. He had also onced asked a boy how he would feel if he were to be told that he did something like a girl and the boy said that he would be destroyed by that. That a man being anything like a girl would destroy them.

“Black Out” by Robison Wells is an action packed novel full of twists and turns. We are thrown right into the commotion when a series of deadly attacks sweep across the United States, Aubrey and Jack think that they’ll be safe because they reside in a remote town named Mount Pleasant in the heart of Utah. But when Alec and Laura who are at the centre of the attacks step into Utah, lives throughout not only this state but the whole nation will be affected. Within this novel one important character who showed forgiveness and resilience throughout the text was Jack Cooper. The setting in which Jack was tossed into was also a huge role in the development of his skills and composure.

This book is about a girl named Finley who comes back to her hometown, Williston, every summer. She has a childhood friend named Betty, and Betty was murdered during the summer. All summer, Finley spends her time trying to get the guy who killed her to face the consequences. His name is Calder, he confessed to killing Betty but because it wasn't done properly they couldn’t convict him. Finley does this with another girl, Serena, who was in love with Betty. Finley pursued this mission despite her very close friend, Owen, telling her to give it up. No one talked about Betty, and that made Finley angry and vengeful. Throughout the summer she sets fire to the school, press people for answers, and uses her dad's position as a newspaper reporters to her advantage.

After analyzing Brene Brown’s TED Talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” the basic expression of vulnerability can be seen in John Grady Cole throughout Part two. Even though John Grady Cole comes off as a strong and talented cowboy (vaquero), glimpses of vulnerability are detected when he begins to fall for Alejandra and when he decides to help Jimmy Blevins, a complete stranger. The kind and gentle side of John Grady Cole manifests at this moment because he provides food for this troubled boy, and even puts his life at risk to help steal back Blevin’s beloved horse. Cole understands that Blevins caused this situation for himself, but he doesn’t care because deep inside his good and sensitive side won’t allow him to abandon the poor child

This fictional book tells a heartbreaking story about the change in the bond between two best friends as they grow up. During the 1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, drugs such as marijuana and LSD was common among the hippies and this leads to a life-changing decision that changes the lives of the two best friends, Mark and Bryon. Bryon’s girlfriend’s younger brother, M&M, takes a turn to an unexpected world of drugs that change him from the sweet boy he once was, to a fearful and weak boy. Drugs were the fault for this problem and when Bryon found out that his best friend Mark has sold drugs to earn money, he made a decision that changed both of their lives forever.

Some might be outraged at the notion that rape is not to be considered a tragedy. It is, of course, a horrific act. One that inflicts so much damage that it can cause PTSD type triggers in survivors. Rape is a before/after moment, people who experience it begin to think of how life was before and now after the event. For instance, with the character Salima, her life before the incident included a loving family with her “good husband” (35) and

When the book begins, we learn about the first Will Grayson; a teenage boy with a best friend named Tiny Cooper, who is writing a musical about his life. The next chapter introduces the other Will Grayson, a depressed teenage boy who instant messages with his “boyfriend Isaac” online that he has never met. He finally