The book I have recently finished (yes, I finished it already!) is called "Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have). It is about a girl named April Berman. She was left behind by her mom- Since her mom cheated on her dad with a french dude named Daniel, then moved to Paris with April's younger brother-, then when her dad and his new wife, Penny, decide to move to Cleveland, April had to make a decision whether to move with them and start a new life, or to stay in Westport with her friends and her boyfriend and her old life. April chose to stay.
Parentless and living with her friend Vi, also parentless-her mom works in the traveling show business so she is never home-, April decides live the party lifestyle, which goes against the rules she promised to obey by her father. Throughout the chapters of the book, she starts listing all of the things she and her friends did that they should have never done. Thats why each chapter says "number_:________", she says what she did.
Her parents have no idea what she has done, though. when her father email's Vi's mother, he is actually emailing Vi. And when Vi's real mom email's April's dad, she really is emailing April. The only reason, though, they can't get caught is because of Lucy the Spy. She knows everything and if April and Vi didn't let hre go to their parties, she would tell their parents and they BOTH will be screwed. So thats the only reason they get away with it.
During the book, you will start to realize that living without parents has its benifits, but also dire consequences. By having sex with her boyfriend, April catches Chlamydia, an STD, and she has to go on a hunt to get the truth out of her boyfriend if he slept with someone else. She did find out that he did and she broke up with him and decided to hook up with her best (guy) friend, Hudson. She also starts to miss her parents and wishes that they had never broken up and that they were still living together as one big happy family.
When you read this book, you will feel like April: going through tough times, without any parents to explain it with. See you later!!!!!
-Alicea \(*-*)/
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Ten Things We Did (and probably shouldn't have) reader's response by Alicea Mendez 805
This book is about a girl named April Berman. She is coping with her parents divorce, her mom moving away to Paris taking April's little brother with her, her parents getting remarried, and now she has to deal with her father moving to Cleveland with his new wife, who is planning on taking her with them. In this book, though, the way it is written is that it is naming ten things April did that she probably shouldn't had (hence the name). And although she didn't move with her dad to Cleveland, but moved into her friend Vi's house, she did lie to him saying that :
*she won't have any boys in the house whatsoever
*she won't drink
*she won't skip school
*she won't use the money he gives her on wasteful things
She has a boyfriend named Noah (which she plans on losing her virginity with), she has had plenty of parties at the house (in which they have boys), she did drink, she did skip school so she can go to Planned Parenthood to get on birth control and then after that go to the mall, and she wasted money on clothes, and a grocery bill worth $625, in which there were things that did not need to be bought.
April thinks that she is going to get away with this crazy scheme of lying to her folks so that she can stay with her friends and boyriend, but there is this one girl that she, Vi, and I, the reader, have been suspicious about...
At one party, a girl named Lucy Michaels recorded what was going on (underage drinking etc.) and showed her mom, who then showed April's dad, who grounded April for that. So now every time April sees Lucy, she gets scared because Lucy is kind of like a spy: you never really know what she is up too...
I haven't finished reading the book yet, so that is all I can say about the book right now... See you later!!!
- Alicea
*she won't have any boys in the house whatsoever
*she won't drink
*she won't skip school
*she won't use the money he gives her on wasteful things
She has a boyfriend named Noah (which she plans on losing her virginity with), she has had plenty of parties at the house (in which they have boys), she did drink, she did skip school so she can go to Planned Parenthood to get on birth control and then after that go to the mall, and she wasted money on clothes, and a grocery bill worth $625, in which there were things that did not need to be bought.
April thinks that she is going to get away with this crazy scheme of lying to her folks so that she can stay with her friends and boyriend, but there is this one girl that she, Vi, and I, the reader, have been suspicious about...
At one party, a girl named Lucy Michaels recorded what was going on (underage drinking etc.) and showed her mom, who then showed April's dad, who grounded April for that. So now every time April sees Lucy, she gets scared because Lucy is kind of like a spy: you never really know what she is up too...
I haven't finished reading the book yet, so that is all I can say about the book right now... See you later!!!
- Alicea
Friday, October 12, 2012
Clash reader's response by Alicea Mendez 805
The book that I have just finished is called " Clash" by Nicole Williams. Right off the bat, I would like to say that this is a really good book. This is the second book in the " Crash" series, and it is really more shocking than the first one...
In the beginning, Lucy Larson is in college and back together with her boyfriend, Jude Ryder. She is taking up a dancing career in Julliard, and Jude is taking up a football career in Syracuse. But as Lucy goes to see Jude and go on a lovely date with him, another girl comes into the picture. And that girl is Jude's spirit sister, Adriana Vix...
As Lucy and Adriana fight over Jude's love, Jude is caught in the middle as a pawn, in love with Lucy, but trying to steer clear of Adriana's seductive ways. Then one day, Lucy sees a disturbing scene that she was not supposed to see ( I'll leave that for the next reader to find out...) and breaks up with Jude, leading him into being half dead of dehydration and starving, trying to find Lucy to explain to her what really happened on that fateful night.
I would not like to spoil the ending since this is the best book (or should I say series) that I have ever read. But the ending will suprise you in a way that you haven't expected. It will leave you crying, I swear (well unless you can't go into the reading zone while you are reading), out of joy, sadness, and a hint of anger as this book and this series altogether takes you on a wild ride called the Jude and Lucy Rollercoaster. Well, see you all later!!!!!!!!
-Alicea \(^.^)/
In the beginning, Lucy Larson is in college and back together with her boyfriend, Jude Ryder. She is taking up a dancing career in Julliard, and Jude is taking up a football career in Syracuse. But as Lucy goes to see Jude and go on a lovely date with him, another girl comes into the picture. And that girl is Jude's spirit sister, Adriana Vix...
As Lucy and Adriana fight over Jude's love, Jude is caught in the middle as a pawn, in love with Lucy, but trying to steer clear of Adriana's seductive ways. Then one day, Lucy sees a disturbing scene that she was not supposed to see ( I'll leave that for the next reader to find out...) and breaks up with Jude, leading him into being half dead of dehydration and starving, trying to find Lucy to explain to her what really happened on that fateful night.
I would not like to spoil the ending since this is the best book (or should I say series) that I have ever read. But the ending will suprise you in a way that you haven't expected. It will leave you crying, I swear (well unless you can't go into the reading zone while you are reading), out of joy, sadness, and a hint of anger as this book and this series altogether takes you on a wild ride called the Jude and Lucy Rollercoaster. Well, see you all later!!!!!!!!
-Alicea \(^.^)/
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Am I Blue reader's response: Alicea Mendez 805
Bruce Coville's short story "Am I Blue" talks to the reader about being insecure with yourself and that it doesn't matter if you are gay or not, just that if you believe in yourself, you can be whatever you want, no matter what anyone says about you.
In the beginning of the story, Vincent, the main character, was bullied by another kid named Butch Carrigan. Vincent looks at Butch a certain way that Butch perceives it like something else. Butch tells Vincent "You little fruit! I'll teach you to look at me!". This shows that Vincent is gay (or at least he thinks he is) and that Butch always bullies him for it. But in this case, all Vincent did was catch a glance at him when Butch decided that Vincent was "interested in jumping his bones".
In the middle of the story, Vincent was with his "fairy Godfather" Melvin in a cafe. Vincent asked: "'Me being your first case. Does that mean I'm gay?' I didn't mention that I have been trying to figure out the same thing for myself for about a year know." This shows that Vincent isn't really sure that he wants to tell himself, or anyone else for that matter, that he is gay because he is scared for what people might say and do to him. He really isn't sure about his sexuallity yet, and he doesn't know whether to come out of the closet or not.
In the end of the story, Vincent, who now has gaydar vision ( a type of vision that allows you to see all of the gay people in the world by turning them blue) and now knows that Butch is gay since he was "blue as a summer sky", says he: "Decided to save my third wish for when i really need it--maybe when i meet the girl of my dreams. Or Prince Charming. Whichever." This shows that he is now satisfied about who he is (and who Butch Carrigan really is) and that it won't really matter to what he is going to be when he gets older : gay or straight. He would be happy either way. But he still isn't sure what he is, though.
And in conclusion, Bruce Coville short story "Am I Blue" teaches readers to be yourself, no matter what you are. Bruce shows readers that being gay is a choice, whether you want to come out of the closet or not, and that it expresses part of who you are.
In the beginning of the story, Vincent, the main character, was bullied by another kid named Butch Carrigan. Vincent looks at Butch a certain way that Butch perceives it like something else. Butch tells Vincent "You little fruit! I'll teach you to look at me!". This shows that Vincent is gay (or at least he thinks he is) and that Butch always bullies him for it. But in this case, all Vincent did was catch a glance at him when Butch decided that Vincent was "interested in jumping his bones".
In the middle of the story, Vincent was with his "fairy Godfather" Melvin in a cafe. Vincent asked: "'Me being your first case. Does that mean I'm gay?' I didn't mention that I have been trying to figure out the same thing for myself for about a year know." This shows that Vincent isn't really sure that he wants to tell himself, or anyone else for that matter, that he is gay because he is scared for what people might say and do to him. He really isn't sure about his sexuallity yet, and he doesn't know whether to come out of the closet or not.
In the end of the story, Vincent, who now has gaydar vision ( a type of vision that allows you to see all of the gay people in the world by turning them blue) and now knows that Butch is gay since he was "blue as a summer sky", says he: "Decided to save my third wish for when i really need it--maybe when i meet the girl of my dreams. Or Prince Charming. Whichever." This shows that he is now satisfied about who he is (and who Butch Carrigan really is) and that it won't really matter to what he is going to be when he gets older : gay or straight. He would be happy either way. But he still isn't sure what he is, though.
And in conclusion, Bruce Coville short story "Am I Blue" teaches readers to be yourself, no matter what you are. Bruce shows readers that being gay is a choice, whether you want to come out of the closet or not, and that it expresses part of who you are.
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