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While bearing some resemblance to the author’s life, Keeper’n Me illustrates an intriguing story behind a young man, Garnet Raven, who going through residential schools and the foster care system starting at a very young age, eventually finds his way home to White Dog Reserve where his family awaits his return. The novel begins with the protagonist along with his siblings, Jane, Jackie, and Stanley, being taken away from their family then becoming split up among themselves. While his brothers and sister find their way back, Garnet faces a more troublesome path. Following his escape from his foster home in his teen years, he

Many children are suffering due to various complications in their life. Children of all ages end up in the foster care system year after year. Their hardships influence them to feel really depressed and stoic. Many people do not read autobiographies, but the book, Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter teaches people about the complications of a first-hand foster child, how the foster care system is, and book reviews of famous authors and well-known magazines, as well. The story gives hope to people who believe there is no way out anymore, and it influences upon the world’s culture greatly.

Once he gets out into the rooms with other boys he is immediately questioned on what gang he is going to join but Hal does not want to be any part of a gang and the other boys do not like that. The members of different gangs keep bothering Hal about what gang to join and Hal is not having it. A boy tells Hal he is going to have problems no matter if he chooses a side or not. Hal tried his best to stay out of trouble and it all paid off in the end he started going to real school and was able to go home.

The book Max can be viewed in the perspective of many different people, the one that is going to be focused on is through the eyes of Max and Justin. Max is a military dog that watched his partner Kyle get killed in action while they were in Afghanistan serving a tour. Max’s job is to protect his partner and to warn him of any danger that may be ahead. After losing his best friend, hero and marine Max becomes traumatized and is no longer able to work with the Marines. Along with the setting that takes place in Afghanistan, there is characterization, conflict, foreshadowing, points of views and symbols throughout the book.

The main idea of this book is to show everyone what child abuse and what living in different foster homes is like because most of the time people don’t usually talk about this topic due to sensitivity and this book helped everyone realize in a subtle way. I learned that this story isn’t just imagined, but it does indeed happen in real life. Children do live in households where the mother or father or whoever treats them unfair and that is what opened up my eyes.

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

He doesn’t want to join gangs, he wants to stay and school, and he wants to get out of the ghettos. But after awhile his friends join the gangs and have a bunch of money and his family starts getting bigger and they start getting more

The book written by Joel Spring was based on the constant derogation and the oppression of the people that were not considered “white”. The constant segregation between races caused many fights for equal rights among Native Americans, African American, Asian and Hispanic people. The conflict was never easy because the United States demonstrated an ethnocentric attitude, which caused the idea of deculturalization for many of the incoming immigrant races. The book demonstrates accuracy in many of the historical struggles between education, language, culture lands, and equal rights for a voice among the people in the United States.

Groups are portrayed in Nineteen Minutes from when they started kindergarten to high school. “Every kid in the school played a role; Jock, Nerd, Beauty and freak” (Kindle loc. 11600) Peter was viewed as an easy target throughout his school years, but had always had Josie to stand up for him. Josie gravitates away from Peter to be in the ‘cool’ group, and becomes to focused on how everyone views her and struggles with her own issues of acceptance, image and her sense of ‘belonging’.

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons is the story of a young white girl, Ellen, who shares her life experiences over the course of two years. In that time, both of Ellen’s parents pass away, she moves multiple times to temporary homes until she finally finds a safe welcoming place in a foster home. Ellen’s story is rich because it is told in first person narrative and the readers are given context not only to what Ellen is experiencing, but context of the environment she is experiencing it in. To better understand and analyze Ellen, we can view Ellen, and everyone and everything in the novel from a biopsychosocial and systems perspective.

Conflict: In this book, The main conflict is between Benson and his friends. I say this because at the ending Benson finds out that most of the children that go to school are actually androids! They tried to kill him because he's trying to escape. He must escape before they all kill him. Jane, a girl that he meets in this story, is the only person that decides to come with

4. In the book, the social school hierarchy are clans. There are many clans and some clans can make you stand out. They help you and make you feel a part of something. This clan is based on girls only. You have to get good marks, have a taste in fashion, and just helping the community. Heather wants to be part of the Martha's clan because she wants to stand out and wants

Punished was written by Victor Rios and published in 2011. Rios wrote the book to chronicle the challenges young black and Latino boys faced within their improvised highly criminalized neighborhoods. Rios grew up in Oakland California and lived in what was considered the ghettos mainly a minority poor community; he was also a gang member with his fair share of trouble. Rios began looking for answers to the plights he and his community faced after the murder of his friend while they ran from a rival gang member. A conversation with the police whom Rios claimed told him they wanted the gangs to kill each other off made him seek answers to the prevalence of violence that plagues his community.

It gives a positive message to other foster care children. This book tells them that when they had a sad and devastating life that they need to have faith and trust in the Lord that he will find them a loving and supportive family like Hollis. Apart from her foster care families and God of course, Hollis Woods has no family to love and support her.

Jalapeno bagels is about a boy named Pablo whom cannot decide what to take to school for International Day. He wants to bring something from his parents’ baker. He wants something that represent his heritage but he cannot decide what to bring. His mother who is Mexican baked pan dulce and change bars. His father who is Jewish baked bagels and challah. Both of the bake good were good but while helping his parents with the bakery on Sunday morning, Pablo made a decision on what to bring. He decided to bring jalapeno bagels because they are a mixture both of his parents and just like him too. The multicultural representations in the story line is Mexican and Jewish. The pictures that were drawn in the book, the family has the same color of skin even though the parents are different cultures and the main character is mixed. There were no different skin colors.