Hello, reader today I will be talking about a realistic fictional book called Faceless, by Alyssa Sheinmel. The story takes place in a suburb of San Francisco in the present day, it is the end of the school year. Maisie Winters, a seventeen-year-old girl, tells this story in first person narrative. When someone told me about Faceless, I want’ed to read it. I have read a book about a face transplant and it sounded intriguing. In Faceless the protagonist is Macie Winters, she has to deal with a huge roadblock that will be difficult to overcome. The antagonist is her appearance because the way she looks causes almost all of her problems. The conflict in this story is that one morning Macie was running but today it started to storm. Lightning
(1) Patrick Carman’s Pulse is a fantasy action book that tells the story of a young girl named Faith Daniels, who lives on the outside of the states and finds out she has special abilities that need to be trained for an upcoming battle against the states with the help of Dylan Gilmore, a friend and love interest she made throughout the book. (2) The book starts with a young girl named Faith sleeping, but she isn’t just sleeping, objects are somehow moving by themselves around her without her noticing. (3) During school, her life was pretty normal if it weren’t for the fact that a very sporty boy named Wade Quinn decided to force Faith into a relationship with him and went on a date with her, feeding her two wire codes, which is basically something
The Invisible Hero, by Elizabeth Fensham, is a novel set in a high school, showing a group of students. The main antagonist in the story is Jake MacKinnon(nicknamed Macca) a good looking popular kid with villainous actions, and thoughts. The story begins with the teacher assigning the students to write journal entries and create a presentation about a real life hero or villain. Later on, the book tells the friendships and rivalries of the group of students. Through the entries, the characters show their perspective, allowing the audience to explore aspects of the character’s emotion, personalities, and behaviors. The journal entries are put together to put a story. The book outlines the significance of bullying, as the book itself, is based
Have you ever spent nights where you slept with hot tears rolling down your cheeks? Days where you wake up with the same nightmare as yesterday? Imagine that all you desired was someone to be beside you, to have a friend. “Speak”, by Laurie Hase Anderson reveals the bitter life of a high school outcast, Melinda Sordino. This story uncovers how Melinda manages to confess an appalling truth to a group of friends that despised her ever since she called the cops at an 8th-grade summer party.
The main conflict in my book "Between shades of gray ", would be, when Lina, her little brother Jonas, and their mother have to survive to find whether their father and husband are alive or dead. The protagonist in my book would be Lina and her family and the event that would be happing to them would be that they have to go through tough things to get the answer if her father is alive or dead, but in the middle of the story, Lina finds out that her father has been shot and she is now devastated . The antagonist in my book would be, the NVKD soldiers because, they are the ones who are punishing poor people because of their own problems in this book.
This book contains a futuristic setting where everyone is ugly, and then when they turn 16, they get an operation done where they become absolutely beautiful. All of the pretties live together, completely separated from all of the uglies who live together. The main character is a 15 year old girl, almost 16, named Tally Youngblood. She is an adventurous girl who loves to sneak out and play tricks on others in Uglyville, but she is excited to grow up and become pretty. She is also loyal which plays a big role throughout the book because she
It is inevitable for someone to go through life and not ever have to feel the unfortunate feeling of grief. Eden Robinson provides a heart wrenching novel that gives readers the feeling of hope and doubt all at once. When a tragedy strikes it is in those moments that people show their true character. Although, when some people experience tragic situations they are never able to recover. Monkey Beach tells a story of a teenage girl named Lisa, who just so happens to face death, discrimination, and the spiritual world all at once. For Lisa she discovers who she is, ironically through the losses of others. Even though Lisa has to face many struggles in the novel, not only does it bring her closer with her culture, it lets her connect with people who have been disconnected.
Main character, protagonist, 12-14 years old, blond hair, dark eyes, foster daughter of Hans and Rosa Hubermann. She does not know how to read when she arrives at Himmel street and is distrusting. By the end of the novel she loves her friends and family and has her own set of morals.
Every individual person has their own way of finding comfort in difficult situations. From finding comfort in simple things like eating a cupcake to harmful and unhealthy ways like self-harm. As readers read through Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, they witness the cruelty and pain Lucy goes through as she gets treated for her cancer and how it drastically changes her appearance and affects her whole life. When Lucy was young, before she was diagnosed with cancer, her comfort was being an excellent tomboy because she was a terrible athlete but a good gamer for casual and daring games. However, that all changed when her treatment for cancer started. Ever since then, Lucy’s life became full of pain, and she withstood that pain by taking comfort in certain things.
My book was called Someone named Eva, Eva was an 11 year old girl with blonde hair and light colored eyes from Czechoslovakia. Eva and her family was Jewish, but she did not have the same features of her parents and family. Eva’s real name is Milada, but soon changes when she is taken away from her family.Milada/Eva had her mother, little sister Anecha, grandmother Babichka and her neighbors who were girls to an old school. Milada was taken away from the girls to a classroom, but all those people in the room had similarities, which were blonde hair and light colored eyes. The school was an all girls school with German female teachers teaching the girls from all different European countries, German. During this book all the girls there had
The contemporary classic novel Speak, profounds a girl, Melinda Sordino, entering freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Unlike regular students, Melinda isolates herself from the society after a devastating event that she had experienced. Through her perspective, we enter her world of depression as she struggles her way through the school year. From her eyes we see the way she sees life, hear the ways others described her and enter her mind on how she thinks of the world. On a journey of gaining back herself, bad things turn worse, as that one person enters her life again. ‘It’, who made her fall into misery, ‘It’ who destroyed her once happy life. Melinda fights not only with herself, but It, the school, the world. The only thing that she feels comfortable in doing is art, where she drew trees to Anderson will definitely make you laugh throughout her book, however along holds undeniable sadness as we watch Melinda heals her way through her trauma that doesn’t seem to leave her.
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff was a very moving and inspirational read for myself that made me feel appreciative and grateful for everything that has been given to me in my life. In the memoir, An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff, an active advertisement sales representative residing in Manhattan comes across a homeless eleven-year-old panhandler on the street whose unexpected friendship becomes life-changing. While reading this memoir, I was taken by surprise at how the simple things in most people's lives were nonexistent in Maurice’s unfortunate life. Such things are knowing how to blow your nose, or that single family homes existed. In addition, I enjoyed reading how Laura and Maurice’s lives parallel in the way that they both grew
The novel Parvana written by Deborah Ellis is about a young Afghanistan girl who has to pretend to be a boy in a war torn town called Kabul. Parvana is a very courageous girl because she does everything for family, such as going to into town to help her father him with his work, knowing that there are no girls allowed outside of their houses. Parvana is also very brave because she wants to earn more money for her family, so her and a friend Shauzia decide to go and dig up bones to earn more money. That’s not the only time Parana was being courageous, because Parvana had to go with her mother to go and get her father from the jail and bring him home.
Stranger with My face by Lois Duncan explains the puzzling yet frightening experience of finding out who you truly are. Laurie Stratton is a typical seventeen year old girl who lives in New England with her mother, father, sister, and brother. The story begins with Laurie’s friends claiming they see her wandering around during the night, Laurie swears it isn’t her and begins to wonder what is going on. After several accusations of seeing Laurie wandering around at night she begins to investigate. Laurie then finds out that she is in-fact adopted, and nonetheless she has an identical twin, Lia, that she had no idea about.
The Girl Who He Never Noticed, by Neilani Alejandrino tells a story of rocketing feeling about Jade who after her father's death and her childhood love. Jade is determined to meet ends meet along with keeping her beauty under a thick rimmed glasses and black wig. Everything changed after renowned as a ruthless billionaire Eros came into her life. An ew adventure begins with tear-jerking romance and characters that seems to make the story even more interesting than it already
Nemesis is one of the best novels I have read so far. Nemesis talks about the effect of the 1940s polio epidemic on a close family oriented Newark Jewish community of Weequahic neighborhood. Nemesis is about enthusiastic, beautiful, 23-year-old teacher and game director. Bucky was raised with his grandparents because his mother died during giving birth to Bucky. Bucky wanted to teach his students what his grandfather had thought him which was toughness and determination, to be physically brave and physically fit and never to allow themselves to be pushed around.