Summary Of The Book 'Bifocal'

This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.

Characters and Background: I just got in reading this book called variant by Robison wells with a total of 373 pages. This book is about a boy named Benson Fisher Who gets enrolled into a new school program called Maxfield Academy. This is a very suspicious school to Benson because it has a barbed wire fence that surrounds the entire school. There are no teachers or adults in the building at all, and There are three gangs called Variant, Havoc, and the Society, but the thing that makes suspense in the most suspicious, is the fact that everyone seems to be okay with this. Out of the three gangs that are at the school, Benson decided to be a Variant also known as the “V’s”. The V's are the smallest gang That consists of only 18 people. The largest gang is the Society. The Society are

The novel Bifocal, written by Eric Walters and Debra Ellis is about racism and two people’s point of views about how they see it happen or experience it. Three characters help the protagonist, Jay, positively and negatively. The protagonist, Jay, is influenced by Kevin, Zana and Haroon both positively and negatively through their ignorance, determination and unselfish nature.

book tells the story of the high school experiences of a fourteen-year-old boy named Scott

The book That was Then, This Is Now is about to really good friends Bryon and Mark starting to go their separate ways. Bryon was a 16 year old hustler who lived in a hood. His mother was poor and she had adopted his best friend Mark. Mark was an illegitimate who was adopted by new parents that got in a drunken fight and killed each other. Mark was a thief, and he always got away with everything that he possibly could do. Teen kids in there element who thought they could rule the world, everything was theirs and that nothing could possibly go wrong. They did everything bad together smoke, drink, jump kids for their money, steal, skip school, take drugs and get into gang brawls.

This book is called Forged by Fire, by Sharon M. Drapper. In the book Gerald has to grow up with many challenges. The book takes place in the Hazelwood area. Gerald is a three year old boy who lives with his single mom. Gerald's mom is a major drug addict, she doesn't really take good care of Gerald. If he were to have a “accident”, she would make him keep it in his pants or not change him till the end of the day as a lesson to him. Gerald has many problems to deal with in this book, but the main one is having to deal with Jordan, his mom's husband who abuses all 3 of them, Monique (mom), Gerald, and Angel (sister). But worst of all Gerald has to deal with the fact that Jordan is sexually abusing Angel.

The novel takes place in futuristic communist like world; the year is 2081 and the government controls everything and everyone. No one acts out against the government or thinks outside or the social norm. But rather content with the way life is, no problems no concerns. Thus, there is one family with a lot of concerns and problems, the Bergeron family. Fueled and lead by the son Harrison Bergeron, Harrison a smart and curious 14 year old boy who does not like the world he is living and has the courage to speak up against the government. A country that is thriving off of fear, the government uses Harrison as an example and throws him in prison.

The book Quarantine the loners starts out with the main character David who figures out his girlfriend Hillary has been cheating on him with one of his teammates from his football team. David's mother did about a year back and David's girlfriend said he hasn't been the same ever since she passed away and Hillary wouldn't wanna be with David anymore. The next day David and Will were heading back to school which was a new school with the same teachers and students just a new school. Right as David and Will enter the school another part of it explodes a canopy has been dropped on top of the school, soldiers rush in and tell the students they have been Quarantined because of a virus the teen has that could kill others and infect them the teen has came there from a local testing facility. The virus can kill or spread to anyone of any age or size when coming close to the infected teen or people.

An example of racism occurred at the beginning of the film when the Arab looking father and daughter attempted to buy a gun. The clerk at the gun shop made a few blatantly racist comments about the customers because he assumes they are Middle Eastern. There were several references to the September 11 attacks. It didn’t matter that the two were Persian, not Arab. Unfortunately, the reoccurring theme post 9/11 is that all Middle Eastern people became potential terrorists. It is amazing that people have the ability to interpret bad events and cast their own prejudices on different ethnic groups to mask their own feelings of anger and frustration.

This book is about how this kid named Donovan Curtis who knocked down a humongous globe, destroys a school gym, and goes into a school for the GT students. But he does get caught by the superintendent of the district, Dr. Schultz. But luckily Dr. Schultz had to go do something. That's when Donovan made a run for it.

To begin with, the plot of the show is centered on a teenage boy who encounters an abundant amount of situations with most of them being racist remarks. For example, he attends an all-white school, where he is constantly bullied by his peers and as well as his teachers, yes his teacher a person of authority verbally bullies her student. She makes racist remarks about the African American community by using words such as “Black people” to associate all people of

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson novel Target accounts the life of a sixteen year old boy name Grady West . Grady was your average high school sixteen year old who hung out with a group of friends, very outgoing, and likable. But, everything changed on a tragic uneventful November night. While walking home Grady was attack, beaten, and raped. From that very moment Grady’s life changed. He would no longer became the Grady he once was to his friends, family, and even to himself. Grady tried to escape his friends, old school, and what happened that night. But, every so often the memories reoccur. A year later, he now attended Thomas Jefferson High where no one would know who he was and what had happened to him. His journey at his new school is

The book starts off in a high school with the main character, Adam Daley. He is a 16 years old living in the United States and his mother is the local police captain. Adam is in the tech lab helping his friend Todd with an essay. Suddenly the electricity lights go out, the computers stop and all other electric tools also stop working. Later we find out that the power outage is nationwide and probably worldwide. Because of this civil order breaks down and basic human necessities also become scarce. Eventually, society falls apart, Adam and his community, Eden Mills, band together for protection against hostile neighbours. With the help of Adam’s neighbour, a retired spy and Adam’s mother the local police chief. They keep the community together by establishing a government, building walls and turning whatever open land they have into farmland. However, they met a formidable enemy; “The Division”. The Division is a large bandit group

Even though the film was meant to funny, it did make me think about different cultural preduice and obstacles interacial relationships may face. Over all I enjoyed the film it poked fun at racial prejudice and brought some good topics to the table. However, I wish they would have take the opportunity to have gone deeper into racism and brought it out into the open for people to

The book is about 4 kids who go to Twttawa high school in a town. One day when they go to school Micheals friend, tommy, was in math class and they were answering square routes and one of the equations had the number three in it and he has trouble pronounce the ‘thr’ in three and he doesn't want to butcher it in front of a girl he likes, so he decided to flip his desk and the