#8 The Hunger Games (last one!!!)

                                                                       Premise

       Water to survive, food to survive, and KILLING to survive.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins which is science fiction. Katniss Everdeen, sixteen-year-old who lives with her mother and younger sister after the mine accident of her father. She has been taking care of her family since she was 11 by feeding them. The future of North America turned into Panem got dived into 12 districts.The Capitol keeps each district together from not going into war by forcing one girl and one boy from each district from ages twelve and eighteen to be in the Hunger Games. Which is a fight against life and death on TV...LIVE! Katniss is a stubborn teen who has never loved anyone after her father died except for her little sister. Her mom just zoned out for a long time after Katniss's dad died her mother would've just let Katniss and her little sister Prim die if Katniss didn't start hunting. So after that Katniss didn't care for her mom. For the annual reaping (picking of the teens) Katniss's sister gets called and Katniss would just not let that happen and volunteers herself. Then the boy gets called out who is Petta he gave Katniss hope to start hunting by trowing her a piece of bread something non-verbal. Out of the 24 tributes two are Katniss Everdeen, and Petta Malark from district 12.


                           My Reaction

         I feel so sad I didn't read this book before I think I really did miss out in life by not reading this before. Everyone knows where you read a book then you watch the movie and notice so many things that were different I did to. Like to people who did read the book and watch the movie Madge gives her the mocking jay pin not her sister. I really recommend reading this book to any type of person. I love realistic fiction, and nothing ales I was very surprised to find out this wasn't realistic fiction but science fiction. I think the most thought-provoking part was how Suzanne Collins had imagined about the future these amazing thoughts. Like the peace keepers (robots) but people. The actual thought of the hunger games a way to prevent war, the country once know as the U.S.A. in the future Panem. I just loved the book in general, I hope you do read it I recommend it to anyone, and I can't wait to read the next two (but not write a blog on it).    

           
  

     

#7 Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality

                                                                        Premise 

                       Lexi's smart, she's funny to, but she isn't one of those. The ones who get attention from guys. And one top of that, her seven-year-old sister, Makenzie, is in pageants where she gets praised by her "beauty" everyday (beauty a.k.a. tons of makeup and fake hair).She's so sick of having money wasted on pageants money that her family doesn't have. The two questions are how many loans can you take and how long can you not get noticed. This is Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality a realistic fictional novel by Elizabeth Eulberg. Lexi is a smart girl whose weekends are always wasted in pageants with hundreds of girls who are all brats. Her mom and dad got a divorce four years ago. Her dad moved to Houston and Lexi, Makenzie, and her mom still live in Austin, Texas. The family is still trying to recover. Though Lexi has a bigger problem Logan never notices her. Who she's been crushing on for most of her life. Should she change to make him notice. This is the sort of book where Lexi fighting herself in some way to find out who she really is and what she's is capable of doing.

                                                                   Theme Analysis/SPOILER !!!
                                                    
                      I think this book was all about finding yourself, who you really are, to be yourself. That just because of someone or some guy you shouldn't change. That might of been a spoiler. Though that's what the theme of this book is. Close to the end of the book Lexi realized that Logan isn't the one. He only liked her cause of the clothes she wore and makeup not the real her. 

                     Like when Lexi is thinking when Logan asks her out "Wait a second. Logan Reeves is asking me out. Not to coffee or to the athletic dinner as friends. He is asking me on a date. But I think he's asking Glam Lexi, not me, just Lex. This is everything I ever wanted. I've been dreaming, fantasizing, obsessing about this moment for years. And now that it's here... I don't really feel anything at all". 

                      After thinking about it she gave Logan an answer she said "All I did over the few last weeks was kill myself to get accepted by you and your friends. And to be honest, I didn't really have fun even when I was. Maybe that's because part of me knew that I didn't belong. And you know Logan I really like you". 

                      "You do?" He grabs my hand. 

                       "Yeah." I take away my hand. But I like myself more. I'd rather be single and myself than to fit into a mold a person that I'm not for a guy.'' So those were some of the reasons i thought this book was to be yourself and never change. I really did enjoy this book, and if you read it I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  

Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet #6

                                                                           Premise


        What if it wasn't your choice to pick who you get married with. And women were no where compared to men. Everyone wanted a boy rather than a girl. this all happens in Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet (a koyal is a black bird) by Kashmira Sheth a realistic novel. This still happens in India it is the parents who get to choose. Maybe it does not happen as much as it used to, but it still does happen. In Jeeta's family there is her mom, dad, older sisters Mohini, and Nimita, younger brothers Vivek, Chiraj, and herself. The conflict is that when a girl is around her late-teens-young adult age the parents start to look for boys. Jeeta's mother is very sexiest Jeeta can have no friends that are boys or even look at boys. If Jeeta's friends have older brothers then Jeeta can't be their friend. Jeeta is at that age where her parents are starting to look for guys. She must find a way to get the guy of her choice.



                  The Authors Writing Style


          I thought it was fascinating that the author wrote so many words in Hindi. So it was an incredible experience to read it and understand it. Even if I couldn't understand the words there was a glossary at the back of the book to help me understand. The author didn't really use a wide variety of words though some words being in Hindi brought the vocabulary up. When Jeeta's parents are finding someone Mohini her mom tells Mohini "Mummy had shown Mohini's and Sunand's horoscopes to a pundit, a scholar of Vedic philosophy, including astrology". This shows that the parents mostly care and girls really care about if the horoscopes. The writing shows that after every Hindi word she writes Kashmira the author explains what it means. 

The Upstairs Room

                                                                     Premise

            To be discriminated by color is wrong, we know that. To be discriminated by what you believe in is just another that's wrong. The Holocaust. There are a lot of stories about this time. Though this book is something different. Its not about inside the concentration camps. Its about being outside of it. Read all about it in the Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss. A non-fictional story. Annie is just 10 when the Germans' are trying to get rid of Jews'. Family members are starting to move, her German friends aren't  talking to her. Annie's dad wants to do something move or hide or anything. Though Annie's mom is in the hospital they cant do anything about that. The story is about this family Racheal (the oldest sister), Sini (middle sister),Annie (youngest and main charcter), dad and mom being separated. Trying to re-unite. Tyring to survive.


                                                                    Criticisim

           In genral I think it's cool that it's a true story. Though the setting never really changed. Litterally their in the upsairs room the whole time. Also that Annie and her sister Sini seem to be fighting about the stupidest things. For example not standing up straight. This is a super sad story though there was no emotion. Esspecially Annie. (SPOLIER ALEART) like when Annie found out her mom died. The only emotion she had was " we knew it was going to happen ". Who would say that about their mom ? And she was eleven when she said that. Just the thought of sisters staying in a house with nothing to do, it doesn't really get you excited. They really stayed safe through out the whole book. I mean it's amazing this really happened. I guess it was the only way to survive. Though it as a story not as amazing.

#4 Will The Real Raisin Rodriguez Please Stand Up ?

                                                                   The Premise          

                     So you move across the country, but make great friends you love it there. Now you are going back there for vacation. Your old friends and you are very excited, but... they've replaced you ? Your dad also has a new... girlfriend? Every things just changed! This is exactly what happened to Raisin in the book Will The Real Raisin Rodriguez Please Stand Up? by Judy Goldschmidt. Pia and Claudia ( her old friends in California ) have found a new Raisin. The cover is what got me interested into this book. It's also another realistic fictions which I love. This is also the third and last book of the series. A cool thing about this book is that she talks to the friends she's not with through her blog. So will Raisin be able to get her old life in California back? If not, what if things changed back in Philadelphia.                     
                                                               Significant Passage

                   "The girls just looked at one another with confused expressions. Meanwhile I was the one who was still a little confused. Why would Danny stay overnight at my dad's house? " OOOOOOHHHHHHH!" I said. And then I burst into tears. Started sobbing. Uncontrollably. The girls kept asking me why I was crying and trying to calm me down, but I couldn't stop.  Eventually I went to the bathroom to wash my face, and then I finally stopped crying. When I came back, they all looked seriously concerned. " You guys, I'm a complete idiot. I really didn't think my dad and Danny were anything more than friends. He called her ' his friend Danny ', and I took him literally."  ( Goldschmidt 140 )To me the main two conflicts in this book is her old friends and her dad's girlfriend. This passage tells you how the character finds out one of the conflicts. The biggest twist comes right after this paragraph. So I did give you a big clue, but not everything. The writing style in this passage of " OOOOOOHHHHHHH " shows a lot of emotion. the paragraph also tells you the real her. Like the kind of person she really is. How the title's name is Will The Real Raisin Rodriguez Please Stand Up?. I feel it's about being herself she can let out a good cry in front of her friends. I really recommend this if you want to read something easy, fun, and has a good twist at the end. If you do read it I hope you get to enjoy it as much as I did.