the house on mango street by sandra cisneros
In story of The House on Mango Street, the main character Esperanza starts off as a immature little girl. As she grows up she is observes all the different scenes going on around her. She is heavily influenced by what goes on around her. Throughout the story she meets a lot of friends, they all seem to influence her in a certain way. While living on mango street Esperanza learns from other peoples mistakes and takes her own route out of mango street and uses her writing to escape and become successful.
sammy and juliana in hollywood by benjamin alire saenz
Sammy and juliana in hollywood, written by Benjamin Seanz is an interesting book. It was a well thought out book about a boy who goes through terrible times in his life. Like when juliana is killed by her father
of mice & men
In the story Of Mice & Men there are two good friends George Milton and Lennie Small. George had promised Lennies Aunt Clara that he would take care of lennie and make sure that Lennie is alright. So they travel all through california looking for work after Lennie got in trouble and screwed up their last job. They finally find work on a ranch a little while away from their last job. When they get there they meet alot of new people some good, some bad. Eventually Lennie screws up again by accidently murdering curleys wife by snapping her neck. Soon after George has to kill Lennie in order to save him from curley and the guys.
the art of racing in the rain
The art of racing in the rain is a novel written by Garth Stein. The book is told from the perspective of a dog. At the start the dog, Enzo is with his owner Denny. Denny is a race car driver and he just happens to be good at it. the book is centered around how Enzo deals with denny up and down lifestyle. At first Denny the love of his life Eve. Shortly after they started dating Eve became sick. Enzo notices the strange smell coming from her head, it is a brain tumor. Eve goes through the sickness and soon dies. After wards denny is charged with rape and has to fight for custody of his daughter even though he didnt rape anybody. He soon wins but Enzo dies and he goes on to be a good racer.
mY SISTERS keeper
My sisters keeper is a novel written by Jodi Picoult. The story is about a girl named Anna who was created to be a doner for her older sister Kate who needs a bone marrow and nobody in her family was a match so that is why they created Anna. Then later in the story Anna did not want to be her doner anymore so she went and got a lawyer to help her against her mom who wanted her to continue being a doner.
antigone
Antigone is a short novel written by sophocles who is a greek poet. The story is about a young women ehose brother dies and wishes for him to be buried underground. However, the king Creon would not let this happen beacause his brother betrayed him. The sister, Antigone, Tries to change the kings decision, but the king is stubborn and wont change his decision, Soon the kings family commits suicide because of the kings mistakes.
romeo and juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a famous play written by William Shakespeare. the story is about two young people from two different families that hate eachother, the Montagues and the Capulets. The two young people are Romeo and Juliet. They fall in love and plan to get married but their plans are ruined when Tybalt and Mercutio get into a fight. Tybalt kills mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt. Because of that Romeo is banished from verona and when Juliet hears she is forced to marry parris. They make a plan for her to see Romeo again and when they do she sees romeo dead so she then kills herself with his sword.
dear zoe
Dear zoe is a novel written by Phillip Beard. The book is based on a 15 year old