Lauren's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:09:29 -0800 60 Lauren's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 445542 Little Women is the delightful story of the four March girls and their approach towards womanhood.

Meg, the eldest and most beautiful, shrugs off her vanity and social ambition, discovering fulfillment in romantic love. Boyish Jo on the other hand, with her contempt of all "lovering", turns impetuously towards writing for solace. Gentle Beth rejects worldly interests, preferring to devote her life to her family, to the joy of music and to timidly aiding all who suffer in life. Amy, the youngest and most imperfect of the March girls, continually tries to overcome her selfishness and girlish pretensions, though he has a hard task before her.

The progress of these four "little women" is narrated along the lines of Bunyan's pilgrim, and we are shown how - encountering struggles and learning important lessons along the way - each one attains her own Celestial City.]]> 477 Louisa May Alcott 1593083661 Lauren 3 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
i think this book relates to the secret garden, because they both take place in new england. Also both the girls seem to grow up a bit durring the book, so when both the girls grow up they both end up marring someone. I feel that both the books help me understand the other book by relateing it to another charicter.

I gave this book three stars because i thought it was very good and i liked the plot. Although i dont feel i had alot to relate to this book makeing it hard for me to fallow. i would recomend this book to any young teens, although it does take alot of stamina to read.]]> 4.31 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)
author: Louisa May Alcott
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1868
rating: 3
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This books basic setting is in New England during the Civlil war. its a story about the march sisters who they share everything. Althought beth meg and jo are the main people of this book, so the book starts off near chistmas eve, and them complaining on how they dont have any presants. So, the family is not that wealthy, although they do find ways to enjoy life.

i think this book relates to the secret garden, because they both take place in new england. Also both the girls seem to grow up a bit durring the book, so when both the girls grow up they both end up marring someone. I feel that both the books help me understand the other book by relateing it to another charicter.

I gave this book three stars because i thought it was very good and i liked the plot. Although i dont feel i had alot to relate to this book makeing it hard for me to fallow. i would recomend this book to any young teens, although it does take alot of stamina to read.
]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 37449 here .

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.]]> 376 Harper Lee 1439550417 Lauren 3 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
i can relate this book to the book " a tree grows in Brooklyn because both girls are around the same age. Although the girl in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn she does not grow up with segregation she grows up with racist people and she is an irish immigrate her self. Although i think that both girls kind of try to find beauty in every thing.

i gave this book 3 stars because i thought the charter was very believable. although i did not have a lot to relate to and i thought it wasn't written in the right age sense. i would recommend this book to anyone who likes the little things in life.]]> 4.30 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
author: Harper Lee
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1960
rating: 3
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This book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a girl nicknamed "Scout". Scout grows up in a southern town to with is segragragated. She kind of thinks of it as a "scary neiborhod " or "strange" there are riots and rape, although she tries to find beauty in things. she looks for adventure in a lot of things and seeking to find it she goes off on one. she has this dad whom she is not so fond of so she takes a journey between her town and peoples emotions.

i can relate this book to the book " a tree grows in Brooklyn because both girls are around the same age. Although the girl in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn she does not grow up with segregation she grows up with racist people and she is an irish immigrate her self. Although i think that both girls kind of try to find beauty in every thing.

i gave this book 3 stars because i thought the charter was very believable. although i did not have a lot to relate to and i thought it wasn't written in the right age sense. i would recommend this book to anyone who likes the little things in life.
]]> Running with Scissors 6989639 Lust & Wonder, a new memoir coming in March 2016.

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs....

Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.]]> 320 Augusten Burroughs 1429902523 Lauren 4 10th-grade-reading-shelf Notes:
the theme is a disfucntional family
augusten is strugleing iwth unkown problems
augsten is not a "star image" of what poepla round him want him to be. ]]> 3.76 2002 Running with Scissors
author: Augusten Burroughs
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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This book was about a kid named augusten
Notes:
the theme is a disfucntional family
augusten is strugleing iwth unkown problems
augsten is not a "star image" of what poepla round him want him to be.
]]> Prozac Nation 227603 368 Elizabeth Wurtzel 1573225126 Lauren 3 she soon over comes it after a while although this book kindof i got a little distracted from i will have to finish the rest of the book when i get a chance but it didnt really hold me in after the first few chapters. ]]> 3.64 1994 Prozac Nation
author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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THis was a good book and talks about the characters depression
she soon over comes it after a while although this book kindof i got a little distracted from i will have to finish the rest of the book when i get a chance but it didnt really hold me in after the first few chapters.
]]> Thirteen Reasons Why 1217100 You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.]]> 288 Jay Asher 1595141715 Lauren 4 10th-grade-reading-shelf 4.00 2007 Thirteen Reasons Why
author: Jay Asher
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal]]> 1097
Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.
(back cover)]]> 383 Eric Schlosser 0060838582 Lauren 3 10th-grade-reading-shelf this book is about how the fast food indestury affects america, its actually pretty discusting on how fast food resturants perpare there food.]]> 3.75 2001 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
author: Eric Schlosser
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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date added: 2011/09/19
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I breifly read this for a science project.
this book is about how the fast food indestury affects america, its actually pretty discusting on how fast food resturants perpare there food.
]]> <![CDATA[Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain]]> 9219901
Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work—first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying.

In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.

Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet, a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet, Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviors and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder.

From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love with and eventually marrying Ellen DeGeneres, and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues.

In this remarkable and beautifully written work, Portia shines a bright light on a dark subject. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies, Unbearable Lightness is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.]]> 320 Portia de Rossi 1439177805 Lauren 5 3.82 2010 Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
author: Portia de Rossi
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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I loved this book so much, it takes you through portias journy with anorexia and how in the beginning she strugles with her bingeing and purgeing eating disorter. She goes back and forth from when she begain as a model, strait on to her on ally mc beal and her role. She then gets affected because this loreal dressing fitter said she was too fat and she needed to lose weight so portia took it to the exteam and lost alot of weight.
]]> <![CDATA[Outliers: The Story of Success]]> 3228917 Learn what sets high achievers apart � from Bill Gates to the Beatles � in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.]]> 309 Malcolm Gladwell 0316017922 Lauren 5 10th-grade-reading-shelf 4.19 2008 Outliers: The Story of Success
author: Malcolm Gladwell
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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I loved this book so much, Malcome explains how alot of things have a reason for them and people assume they are just a quincedance. he explains how he belives how creative minds can help more thne makeing students just very book smart.
]]> The Lovely Bones 12232938
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.]]> 372 Alice Sebold 0316166685 Lauren 4 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
I think this connects to the movie. I only saw half of the movie but i think that the book is better than the movie because the book kindof explains in detail on how susie is feeling and thinking, and shows the story through her point of view. The book seems like the better dissection though.

I would recomend this book to anyone over the age of 12 and even that the book is pretty mature. It involves rape and murder so i would recomend this book to someone who is matrue. I gave this book 4 stars because the book was really good, and kept me intrested.]]> 3.87 2002 The Lovely Bones
author: Alice Sebold
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a book a book about a girl named susie who is raped and killed, one day when she was walking home. This is the story on how she gets her father to relize her killer, and figure out her murder. The story shows what hevan is like and how the family copes with a family member missing.

I think this connects to the movie. I only saw half of the movie but i think that the book is better than the movie because the book kindof explains in detail on how susie is feeling and thinking, and shows the story through her point of view. The book seems like the better dissection though.

I would recomend this book to anyone over the age of 12 and even that the book is pretty mature. It involves rape and murder so i would recomend this book to someone who is matrue. I gave this book 4 stars because the book was really good, and kept me intrested.
]]> Rumors (Luxe, #2) 2218252 423 Anna Godbersen 0061345695 Lauren 4 3.85 2008 Rumors (Luxe, #2)
author: Anna Godbersen
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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Rumors is a book about this girl its the 2'd book of the luxe, it takes place in minhaten and this girl is threatened to go to bordingschool. I would recomend this book to any teen girl who likes historical fiction.
]]> Extras (Uglies, #4) 493456
Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse is no exception. But Aya’s face rank is so low, she’s a total nobody. An extra. Her only chance at stardom is to kick a wild and unexpected story.

Then she stumbles upon a big secret. Aya knows she is on the cusp of celebrity. But the information she is about to disclose will change both her fate…and that of the brave new world]]> 417 Scott Westerfeld 1416951172 Lauren 2 9th-grade-kesho-read-books 3.60 2006 Extras (Uglies, #4)
author: Scott Westerfeld
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2006
rating: 2
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date added: 2011/01/02
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I really had trouble getting into this book. Its basically the last book to the ugliness series and basically the pretties are gone, and this girl Aya has a feed and she gets popular to make her sortove like a pretty.
]]> L.A. Candy (L.A. Candy, #1) 4758093 everything. Nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts can't wait to start living it up. She may be in L.A. for an internship, but Jane plans to play as hard as she works, and has enlisted her BFF Scarlett to join in the fun.

When Jane and Scarlett are approached by a producer who wants them to be on his new series, a "reality version of Sex and the City," they can hardly believe their luck. Their own show? Yes, please!

Soon Jane is TV's hottest star. Fame brings more than she ever imagined possible for a girl from Santa Barbara-free designer clothes, the choicest tables at the most exclusive clubs, invites to Hollywood premieres-and she's lapping up the VIP treatment with her eclectic entourage of new pals. But those same friends who are always up for a wild night are also out for a piece of Jane's spotlight.

In a city filled with people chasing after their dreams, it's not long before Jane wakes up to the reality that everyone wants something from her, and nothing is what it seems to be.]]> 326 Lauren Conrad 0061767581 Lauren 4 9th-grade-kesho-read-books 3.35 2009 L.A. Candy (L.A. Candy, #1)
author: Lauren Conrad
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)]]> 3682
It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?]]> 403 Libba Bray 0689875347 Lauren 4 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
I think that i can make this book connect to, the clique series becuase they both are sort of a appart of a clique. The only difference is in a great and terrible beauty is in sort of only england, so the setting is different.
I gave this book 5 stars because even though i didnt really have time to finish it i really tried to, and it really kept me going wanting me to know whats gona happen next. Its a great book and i would recomend it to teen girls between the ages of 11-16.]]> 3.80 2003 A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
author: Libba Bray
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2010/03/16
date added: 2010/06/11
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
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This book is about a girl who comes from Inda and goes to a bording school, to meet new friends. Where she soon finds her self a part of a clique, the clique of all the popular girls. But the only reason she is in that clique is because she caught one of the popular girls with a gypsy and she now has to hold her secret. It is sort of a mid evial clique book.

I think that i can make this book connect to, the clique series becuase they both are sort of a appart of a clique. The only difference is in a great and terrible beauty is in sort of only england, so the setting is different.
I gave this book 5 stars because even though i didnt really have time to finish it i really tried to, and it really kept me going wanting me to know whats gona happen next. Its a great book and i would recomend it to teen girls between the ages of 11-16.
]]> Going Too Far 4570679 HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO?

All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost doesn't make it back.

John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge -- and over....]]> 245 Jennifer Echols 1416571736 Lauren 3 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t i think this book relates to alot of rebeing teens. i think it definatly conects to alot of rebelling teens throughout the book it explains what she is going through in very nice detail.
I gave this bok 3 stars because even though i liked her sarcastic adittued she kind of didnt know exactly how to act like a teen. The author didnt seeme to have the most relistic teen relationship.]]> 3.92 2009 Going Too Far
author: Jennifer Echols
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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This book is about this girl meg who kindof pushes her dad off the edge, in the sense of "going to far". Aswell as haveing a strugeling relationship with her boy friend. her boy friend to seem conetnually off and on, resalting him and her as well both frustraited with there reletionship.
i think this book relates to alot of rebeing teens. i think it definatly conects to alot of rebelling teens throughout the book it explains what she is going through in very nice detail.
I gave this bok 3 stars because even though i liked her sarcastic adittued she kind of didnt know exactly how to act like a teen. The author didnt seeme to have the most relistic teen relationship.
]]> <![CDATA[Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath]]> 1906839 Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage. Michael Paul Mason is one of an elite group of experts who coordinate care in the complicated aftermath of tragic injuries that can last a lifetime. On the road with Mason, we encounter survivors of brain injuries as they struggle to map and make sense of the new worlds they inhabit.]]> 320 Michael Paul Mason 0374134529 Lauren 5 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
I think book can verry much relate to real life beucaus more than 5.3 americans suffer from brain damage due to indury. as well as normal people in this world who suffer from life threatingin brain indureies.

i gave this book 5 stars because think that it was very good and it used alot of insite into the "science" world to show you kindof what it is really like. It als shows the sintific matter of the book.]]> 3.94 2008 Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
author: Michael Paul Mason
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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Head cases by Michael paul mason was a verry good nonfiction book about a verioty of brain injories tha the had stutyd. I feel that it was a verry good book wih alot of explanations to why and how people get brain indureies. it also explained how different indureies can effect peoples lives. He studies people who have disabilities that barraly affect there lives, yet other people who turn into veggitabels because of there indureies.

I think book can verry much relate to real life beucaus more than 5.3 americans suffer from brain damage due to indury. as well as normal people in this world who suffer from life threatingin brain indureies.

i gave this book 5 stars because think that it was very good and it used alot of insite into the "science" world to show you kindof what it is really like. It als shows the sintific matter of the book.
]]> Skinny 468657
Do you ever get hungry?Ěý Too hungry to eat?
Ěý
Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Haunted by her love-deprived relationship with her late father, this once strong role model and medical student is gripped by anorexia. Holly, a track star, struggles to keep her own life in balance while coping with the mental and physical deterioration of her beloved sister. Together, they can feel themselves slipping and are holding on for dear life.
Ěý
This honest look at the special bond between sisters is told from the perspective of both girls, as they alternate narrating each chapter.Ěý Gritty and often wryly funny, Skinny explores family relationships, love, pain, and the hunger for acceptance that drives all of us.
]]> 256 Ibi Kaslik 0802796087 Lauren 5 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t I think this book relates to the real word because it kind of gives you a sense of what its like in side a rehabilitation center. What its like to recover from Anorexia or any other disese. I think it really explains all that you can see behind someone elses eyes.

i gave this book 5 stars because i felt that i really understood it and it had alot to relate to. I Thout it had alot of information and i just cold understand Gizzel. I think what made it extra interesting was that they threw is science facts and quotes about the human body. I would recomend this book to any girl who is in 8th or 9th grade, its a great book and i think everyone should read it. ]]> 3.44 2004 Skinny
author: Ibi Kaslik
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 2010/03/16
date added: 2010/03/16
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The book Skinny By Ibi Kaslik is a book about a girl named gizzel who becomes an anorexic. Her father dies at the begaining of the book and she was tormented by him calling or showng her that she was big boned. So soon she begain to stop eating and then became an anorexic. The book starts out with her geting out of rehab and the mental hospital for anorexia. The book talks about how she felt coming out of anorexia felt, and how she overcame it, with haveing a new relationship and having the rest of her family there. The book swiches between gizzeles point of veiw and her sister hollys point of view, in hadd wich gizzel sometimes is jelouse of holly. Gizzel Just got out of collage when this happend so she is trying to get her life back together and go to metical school.
I think this book relates to the real word because it kind of gives you a sense of what its like in side a rehabilitation center. What its like to recover from Anorexia or any other disese. I think it really explains all that you can see behind someone elses eyes.

i gave this book 5 stars because i felt that i really understood it and it had alot to relate to. I Thout it had alot of information and i just cold understand Gizzel. I think what made it extra interesting was that they threw is science facts and quotes about the human body. I would recomend this book to any girl who is in 8th or 9th grade, its a great book and i think everyone should read it.
]]> High Dive 2419774 But the house in Sardinia beckons and she has to make a choice. Is Arden ready to jump off the high dive?]]> 201 Tammar Stein 0375830243 Lauren 4 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
I can relate this book to another book called Girl Hearts, in this book her mom actually dies and she shows herself going though school with flash backs though out the book. In High Dive she talks about how when she was little and how she used to be when her dad was still alive and she used to be and how things used to be. and in girl hearts the book actually starts out in a flash back, getting used to flash back and thought the book it goes like this.

i gave this book 4 stars because i thought it was very interesting to see what it is like to travel throughout the world. also having a mom who was in the army really how it affects the family in this book. in this book although i think that it was a little confusing with the flash backs it could get a little confusing with the setting.]]> 3.74 2008 High Dive
author: Tammar Stein
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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High Dive by Tammar Stein is a book about this girl who goes to pairs on a suprise trip. She just got out of collage and her father died not so long ago, and her mom is always traveling because she is a docter in the army. So she is used to traveling a lot. so when her mom asks her to go to germany to sell there old home she goes on a plane ready to go to germany. Although along the way she runs in to these collage girls who are going to paris and offer for her to come with them. She soon finds her self going to Pariis and droping a lot of her responsibilities and going off to Paris and staying at this hostile with these girls. through out this whole book she goes through flash backs; back to when she was little and back to when her dad was alive.

I can relate this book to another book called Girl Hearts, in this book her mom actually dies and she shows herself going though school with flash backs though out the book. In High Dive she talks about how when she was little and how she used to be when her dad was still alive and she used to be and how things used to be. and in girl hearts the book actually starts out in a flash back, getting used to flash back and thought the book it goes like this.

i gave this book 4 stars because i thought it was very interesting to see what it is like to travel throughout the world. also having a mom who was in the army really how it affects the family in this book. in this book although i think that it was a little confusing with the flash backs it could get a little confusing with the setting.
]]> The Luxe (Luxe, #1) 1254951 433 Anna Godbersen 0061345660 Lauren 4 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
i think this book relates to the book vamps. ok, i know that vamps is about girls and how they are vampires but the first part of the book relates because they both take place in the 1800/1900. So they both are very popular and get around allot. so this helped me understand the book because its a nice way to relate it too another book and think about it in a different way.

i gave this book 4 stars because i thought it was a very good book full with intergrody and betrayal. i thought i kept me on the edge of my seat. Although i thought that sometimes it wondered off of the 1800's theme. i would recommend this book to anyone ages 12-21 ]]> 3.65 2007 The Luxe (Luxe, #1)
author: Anna Godbersen
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2010/01/03
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen takes place in Manhattan 1899 elizabeth and Dina Holland are very popular and rich. but they find out that there family cant affront most things and the family is slowly loosing there money. so her and her sister both fight for this money in a mean and horrible way that tears the family apart.

i think this book relates to the book vamps. ok, i know that vamps is about girls and how they are vampires but the first part of the book relates because they both take place in the 1800/1900. So they both are very popular and get around allot. so this helped me understand the book because its a nice way to relate it too another book and think about it in a different way.

i gave this book 4 stars because i thought it was a very good book full with intergrody and betrayal. i thought i kept me on the edge of my seat. Although i thought that sometimes it wondered off of the 1800's theme. i would recommend this book to anyone ages 12-21
]]> Specials (Uglies, #3) 24765
And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.

The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.

Still, it's easy to tune that out -- until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.]]> 384 Scott Westerfeld 0689865406 Lauren 3 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
I think this book relates to the past books because it is basically tally;s journey throughout the book. she has gone through allot and reading the past books defiantly helped me understand this one. although i feel towards the 2nd book the writing started to change up a bit and how Tally's personality changed.

i gave this book 3 stars because i thought this book really was thought out and i usually don't like sifi or fairy tale books but i was a fan of this series. although this book was not the best book out of all of them i defiantly thought it was one of her worst books.]]> 3.76 2006 Specials (Uglies, #3)
author: Scott Westerfeld
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2010/01/03
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
Tally finally becomes a special. specials are more or less creatures that seems to be better than everyone else. they kind of control the peace. in this book tally is finally becomes a special, so she has gone from a ugly to a pretty to a special, so you can assume tally has been though a very fortunate life.

I think this book relates to the past books because it is basically tally;s journey throughout the book. she has gone through allot and reading the past books defiantly helped me understand this one. although i feel towards the 2nd book the writing started to change up a bit and how Tally's personality changed.

i gave this book 3 stars because i thought this book really was thought out and i usually don't like sifi or fairy tale books but i was a fan of this series. although this book was not the best book out of all of them i defiantly thought it was one of her worst books.
]]> <![CDATA[Murder in Little Italy (Gaslight Mystery, #8)]]> 561726
A second death in the tenements nearly leads to riots in the streets as political factions and organized crime take sides and square off over wild rumors and newspaper accusations.

Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy is going to need Sarah's help to unravel the secrets of these troubled families, bring a killer to justice-and restore order to the volatile community.]]> 304 Victoria Thompson 0425216063 Lauren 4 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
I think this is a little silly but i think this book relates to the TV show 'my name is earl'. it is kind of like a modern american vision of this story. this helps me understand the story a bit because its kind of like a modern version that helps you understand. although i think that it does not exactly relate to each other.

i gave this book 4 stars because it was very good. i defiantly liked the story line of the book because it was kind of a miscarry throughout the book. I loved the fact that it took place in little italy and a stereo type italian family. although one thing i didn't like is how much it jumped around. it was a bit confessing to stay on track of whose who.]]> 3.98 2006 Murder in Little Italy (Gaslight Mystery, #8)
author: Victoria Thompson
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2009/12/27
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
This was a very good book, it is about this italian family, and there son marries a irish girl. This irish girl soon becomes pregnant... a bit too soon. and she has a heathy baby 3 months earlier than planed. now you can assume the skepticism the family had that this baby was really attires ( the son). They soon come to believe that the daughter had sex with another man became pregnant and had no where to go and married there son. Although the next day the mother of the chilled and the woman who married there son was died the next morning, and this is the story on how they figured out how/who and if she was married.

I think this is a little silly but i think this book relates to the TV show 'my name is earl'. it is kind of like a modern american vision of this story. this helps me understand the story a bit because its kind of like a modern version that helps you understand. although i think that it does not exactly relate to each other.

i gave this book 4 stars because it was very good. i defiantly liked the story line of the book because it was kind of a miscarry throughout the book. I loved the fact that it took place in little italy and a stereo type italian family. although one thing i didn't like is how much it jumped around. it was a bit confessing to stay on track of whose who.
]]> Saving Juliet 2095336
When Mimi is magically thrust into the middle of Shakespeare’s Verona, she must find a way to help Juliet fight for her future happiness. Will she be able to give this classic tragedy a happy ending?]]> 256 Suzanne Selfors 0802797407 Lauren 5 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
i think this relates to the actual book because it is the same type of story and falows the basic story but in Mimi's point of view in the book. I also think that she has a similar life style as juliet because she too has her mother diside her future and every thing for her .

i gave this book 5 stars because it gives a modern perspective of the book romeo and juliet. Also it has to do with NYC and i live in new york city so i have something to relate to it. also it has to do with acting which i also love, so i think this is one of the best books i have read in a long time and i derfinatly recomend this book to teens who live in NYC or love brodway and shakespear ]]> 3.69 2008 Saving Juliet
author: Suzanne Selfors
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2009/12/14
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
The basic setting of this book starts out in NYC, where she works as an actress at her parents thearter and plays the role of juliet. Where Mimi the main charichter gets this vail that breaks opens ashes, all throughout her where she breathes them in and its seems to be that she is transported. She was transported strait into romeo and juliet caplets story.

i think this relates to the actual book because it is the same type of story and falows the basic story but in Mimi's point of view in the book. I also think that she has a similar life style as juliet because she too has her mother diside her future and every thing for her .

i gave this book 5 stars because it gives a modern perspective of the book romeo and juliet. Also it has to do with NYC and i live in new york city so i have something to relate to it. also it has to do with acting which i also love, so i think this is one of the best books i have read in a long time and i derfinatly recomend this book to teens who live in NYC or love brodway and shakespear
]]> <![CDATA[Generation Dead (Generation Dead, #1)]]> 3157877 Phoebe Kendall is just your typical Goth girl with a crush. He's strong and silent... and dead.

All over the country, a strange phenomenon is occurring. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. But when they come back to life, they are no longer the same. Feared and misunderstood, they are doing their best to blend into a society that doesn’t want them.

The administration at Oakvale High attempts to be more welcoming of the “differently biotic." But the students don’t want to take classes or eat in the cafeteria next to someone who isn’t breathing. And there are no laws that exist to protect the “living impaired� from the people who want them to disappear—for good.

When Phoebe falls for Tommy Williams, the leader of the dead kids, no one can believe it; not her best friend, Margi, and especially not her neighbor, Adam, the star of the football team. Adam has feelings for Phoebe that run much deeper than just friendship; he would do anything for her. But what if protecting Tommy is the one thing that would make her happy?]]> 392 Daniel Waters 142310921X Lauren 3 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
I think this book relates to racesem in the way that the zombies or living impared were kindof all portrayed as smelly dead kids no one wanted to touch. It kindof is like the living kids were bieist agenst the living impared kids. Kindof like racesm in america and other countries.

i gave this book 3 stars because even though it was good in the end it was not the best at the begaining.]]> 3.62 2008 Generation Dead (Generation Dead, #1)
author: Daniel Waters
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2009/11/06
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
Generation Dead by Daniel Waters, is a book about a time were its like normal teen suberbs but there is a twist. Wail children and adults die in this world, some teens dont they are called the " living impared" other know as zombies. Now in this school their is this girl, phoebe shes a tipical goth girl, although she is actualy liveing. phoebe falls in love with a "liveing impared" boy (tommy). Now these liveing impared kids have realy no perpose and they are trying to fit into a sesiody that doesnt want them, so non of the kids whant to take clases with the living impared or go to lunch. so this was a big suprise to the school that phoebes falling for this liveing impared guy. soon enough the whole school knew and its kindof like some form of equal rights.

I think this book relates to racesem in the way that the zombies or living impared were kindof all portrayed as smelly dead kids no one wanted to touch. It kindof is like the living kids were bieist agenst the living impared kids. Kindof like racesm in america and other countries.

i gave this book 3 stars because even though it was good in the end it was not the best at the begaining.
]]> <![CDATA[Dylan (The Clique Summer Collection, #2)]]> 2690808 117 Lisi Harrison 0316035653 Lauren 2 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
i think this book relates to the other books in the series because thats a very dylan move. because dylan is 3ed in command of the clique she just has these kind dylan moves. as in someone might say thats something dylan might do.

i gave this book 2 stars because i have nothing to relate to it. i mean yes i like the concept but it was just to hard to relate to. this book is mutually about tennis and her trying to get the tennis player. dylan basically just wants him and it was just not easy to relate to at all. i recommend this book with any one who has a love of tennis and loves the series.]]> 3.60 2008 Dylan (The Clique Summer Collection, #2)
author: Lisi Harrison
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2008
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2009/11/04
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
This book is about this girl dylan and her mom is a television host and she got sent to Hawaii to talk to this teenage tennis player. the tennis player ended his carrier by hitting someone in the face with a tennis racket because they were cheering for the other team. dylan soon becomes upsides with this guy, and she starts to become obsessed with tennis.

i think this book relates to the other books in the series because thats a very dylan move. because dylan is 3ed in command of the clique she just has these kind dylan moves. as in someone might say thats something dylan might do.

i gave this book 2 stars because i have nothing to relate to it. i mean yes i like the concept but it was just to hard to relate to. this book is mutually about tennis and her trying to get the tennis player. dylan basically just wants him and it was just not easy to relate to at all. i recommend this book with any one who has a love of tennis and loves the series.
]]> <![CDATA[Massie (The Clique Summer Collection, #1)]]> 2157372 Massie gets BE-yoo-tiful: After Massie Block gets kicked off her high horse and out of her ultra exclusive Westchester riding camp, her parents force her to do the unthinkable-find a summer job. Not one for dog-walking or brat-sitting, Massie comes up with the ah-bvious solution: She'll be a sales rep for the cosmetics brand Be Pretty. Massie fully hearts her new role as fairy gawdmother of makeup-until she discovers transforming LBRs into glam-girls takes more than a swish of her royal purple mascara wand.]]> 123 Lisi Harrison 0316027510 Lauren 0 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
a text to text about the other books. i feel this is a consistent power that Massie's a snob and mean. Although in one of the other books she sposeivly changed, so i don't think they correspond well.
i gave this book 4 stars because i feel it was very realistic and i had allot to relate to. although i would recommend this book to any middle schooler. this book was very good but one thing i didn't like is how it dragged one subject on for so long.]]> 3.59 2008 Massie (The Clique Summer Collection, #1)
author: Lisi Harrison
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2009/11/04
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
Massie is a very rich girl or her parents are very weathey so they sent her to a very expensive rideing camp. she is very snoby and she goes to a rideing camp were their is a race, and she realy wants to win so she cheats. Massie gets caught and is kicked out of her rideing camp, so when she told her parents they made her pay it back by geting a job. Massie gets a job at a make up company and is a snob as useual.

a text to text about the other books. i feel this is a consistent power that Massie's a snob and mean. Although in one of the other books she sposeivly changed, so i don't think they correspond well.
i gave this book 4 stars because i feel it was very realistic and i had allot to relate to. although i would recommend this book to any middle schooler. this book was very good but one thing i didn't like is how it dragged one subject on for so long.
]]> <![CDATA[Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade]]> 371898
Written with warm, knowing humor, this story perfectly captures seventh grade life.]]> 241 Denise Vega 0316985597 Lauren 2 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
a text to text connection to the book O, O (olivia) is a basic suburbian girl who has her fist boy friend and she has to go through the 7th grade as well. i think that click here and O have allot of things in common book wise. although O does better on the social scale.

i gave this book 2 stars because i feel that i cant really relate to it, i feel the book is good but i have troble connecting to it. i feel that any one who is going through the 7th grade who is a girl should read this book, although its not set for everyone. ]]> 3.85 2005 Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade
author: Denise Vega
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2005
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2009/11/04
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
click here by denise vega is a book about a girl with big feet braces and she loves totsie pops. she has a best friend (Jilly) who always seems to push her around. although she seems to take a stand for her self and stands up to jilly. Before that tho she realize sometimes friends are better than boy friends. So this is basically how she survived the 7th grade.

a text to text connection to the book O, O (olivia) is a basic suburbian girl who has her fist boy friend and she has to go through the 7th grade as well. i think that click here and O have allot of things in common book wise. although O does better on the social scale.

i gave this book 2 stars because i feel that i cant really relate to it, i feel the book is good but i have troble connecting to it. i feel that any one who is going through the 7th grade who is a girl should read this book, although its not set for everyone.
]]> The Clique (The Clique, #1) 890143 Mean Girls meets Middle School in The Clique... The only thing harder than getting in, is staying in.

Enter Claire Lyons, the new girl from Florida in Keds and two-year-old Gap overalls, who is clearly not Clique material. Unfortunately for her, while they look for a new home, Claire's family is staying in the guesthouse of the one and only Massie Block—Queen Bee of Octavian Country Day School. Claire's future looks worse than a bad Prada knockoff. But with a little luck and a lot of scheming, Claire might just come up smelling like Chanel No. 19.

Meet the rest of the Clique:

Massie Block: With her glossy brunette bob and laser-whitened smile, Massie is the uncontested ruler of The Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Day School, an exclusive private girls' school in Westchester County, New York. Massie knows you'd give anything to be just like her.

Dylan Marvil: Massie's second in command who divides her time between sucking up to Massie and sucking down Atkins Diet shakes.

Alicia Rivera: As sneaky as she is beautiful, Alicia floats easily under adult radar because she seems so "sweet." Would love to take Massie's throne one day. Just might.

Kristen Gregory: She's smart, hardworking, and will insult you to tears faster than you can say "my haircut isn't ugly!"]]> 220 Lisi Harrison 0689872992 Lauren 3 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t i can relate this to the old books because this one is kind of the start off books but defiantly the individual books give you a good back round story. i think on page 53 when claire was at the sleepover reminded me of my own life when someone walks in and you cant notice them or don't. or on the opposite side when your like clair when you walk into a room and nobody notices you it really makes you understand her situation.

i gave this book 3 out of five stars because i thought it was a very good teen book. although i thought that it was very interesting it was to original; and it should have had a more elaborate plot.
]]> 3.61 2004 The Clique (The Clique, #1)
author: Lisi Harrison
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2009/11/01
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
this book is about a grope of girls who are friends who all go to privet all girls school to gether. they are one big posy and there kind-of lead member is massy. massy's dad has some friends over to stay at there guest house so clair this new girl sees an of lot of massi who the two are nothing alike. so clair attempts to steals Masses friends and ends finding the true meaning of friendship.
i can relate this to the old books because this one is kind of the start off books but defiantly the individual books give you a good back round story. i think on page 53 when claire was at the sleepover reminded me of my own life when someone walks in and you cant notice them or don't. or on the opposite side when your like clair when you walk into a room and nobody notices you it really makes you understand her situation.

i gave this book 3 out of five stars because i thought it was a very good teen book. although i thought that it was very interesting it was to original; and it should have had a more elaborate plot.

]]> Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1) 22188
S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends� hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely . . .

You know you love me,

gossip girl]]> 224 Cecily von Ziegesar 0316910333 Lauren 4 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
i think this book relates ALOT to upper east side girls in Manhattan. because for the most part there cloths match the description. It sounds just like it came out of mean girls with cirten rules and what not. Gossip girl by cecily von ziegesar incorporates so much of the typical teen upper east sider.

i gave this book 4 stars because very deeply i feel this describes upper Manhattan very well. i also think that the book incorporates a lot of Manhattan and takes a good picture of it. although i think that the book is alittle hard to fallow along when reading and keeping my ation span.]]> 3.52 2002 Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)
author: Cecily von Ziegesar
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2009/11/01
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
this book is about a girl 17 year old blair who lives with her mom in Manhattan who strides to sussed. blair has a small blog online and when you read it you relies that Serina is trying to take over her life by screwing up her relationship with her boyfriend Nate.

i think this book relates ALOT to upper east side girls in Manhattan. because for the most part there cloths match the description. It sounds just like it came out of mean girls with cirten rules and what not. Gossip girl by cecily von ziegesar incorporates so much of the typical teen upper east sider.

i gave this book 4 stars because very deeply i feel this describes upper Manhattan very well. i also think that the book incorporates a lot of Manhattan and takes a good picture of it. although i think that the book is alittle hard to fallow along when reading and keeping my ation span.
]]> Pretties (Uglies, #2) 24768 Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect.

Perfectly wrong.

Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.

But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.

Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive.]]> 370 Scott Westerfeld 0689865392 Lauren 4 grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
This book connects to real life and how people take pills to get an Over Dose on drugs or to get away from life. so Tally basically becomes a drug addict because she starts popping pills trying to num the pain of her being an ugly. so tally is like a normal day drug addict in the real world and needs to get some help.

i gave this book 4 stars because it was a very good book to my standards. although i did like that the book seemed to catch the eye of me when i first looked at it. I thought it was a little to sifi for me to read, and understand. i would recommend this book to a teen who likes sifi.]]> 3.84 2005 Pretties (Uglies, #2)
author: Scott Westerfeld
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2009/11/01
shelves: grade-8-ir-books-rick-f-t
review:
much like the first book uglies pretties starts off in the same setting or the girl comes from the same setting. Tally soon becomes a pretty and she gets an encounter in her strange past. she starts to try to block all memories out of being ugly; anything she had ever don't/ thought about. She knew it would haunt her so she starts to get on pills that num the pain on her.

This book connects to real life and how people take pills to get an Over Dose on drugs or to get away from life. so Tally basically becomes a drug addict because she starts popping pills trying to num the pain of her being an ugly. so tally is like a normal day drug addict in the real world and needs to get some help.

i gave this book 4 stars because it was a very good book to my standards. although i did like that the book seemed to catch the eye of me when i first looked at it. I thought it was a little to sifi for me to read, and understand. i would recommend this book to a teen who likes sifi.
]]> A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 14891 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.]]> 496 Betty Smith 0061120073 Lauren 4 2009-summer-book-reading
I think that Fracie and I have a connection because we both try to find something dutiful in any thing. I think that all my life I think mostly in animals I try to find something dutiful in everything. I think Frankie looks at more things half glass full though. “She lived in the negleticed parts of town and she had quarrels. She had her brother that she loved� page 73

I gave this book 4 stars because i think that this book is a very good positive attitude girl and its very informatioable about poverty and immigration. I would recommend this book to anyone between the ages of 12 to 40 because its mostly a all ages book that everyone should read one point in there life.
]]> 4.29 1943 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
author: Betty Smith
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1943
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2009/09/08
shelves: 2009-summer-book-reading
review:
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, by Betty Smith is a story about a girl who grows up in the slums of Brooklyn and she’s sweet and nice and that’s the metaphor a tree grows in brookelan. The storey takes place in Brooklyn New York 1900 and she starts off as an 11 year old Irish emergent. She lives in the low down Brocken down part of brookelyn that has been unattended. She grows up through the cores of the book then divides to find love and that’s exactly what she got in the end of the book. She goes through poverty and not having everything that every one else may have that she doesn’t. Frankie just always wants to find beauty in everything and that’s just exactly what she does.

I think that Fracie and I have a connection because we both try to find something dutiful in any thing. I think that all my life I think mostly in animals I try to find something dutiful in everything. I think Frankie looks at more things half glass full though. “She lived in the negleticed parts of town and she had quarrels. She had her brother that she loved� page 73

I gave this book 4 stars because i think that this book is a very good positive attitude girl and its very informatioable about poverty and immigration. I would recommend this book to anyone between the ages of 12 to 40 because its mostly a all ages book that everyone should read one point in there life.

]]> The Last Lecture 2318271
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.]]> 206 Randy Pausch 1401323251 Lauren 5 2009-summer-book-reading
text to world connection to the bucket list its a movie about to guys and what they want to do before they die and they try to for-fill it. i think the last lecture relates to this movie because instead of him making a list of things he wants to do to complete his life he left some things for his kids to remember him by. I think that booth movies captures death and having a positive attitude of it.

I gave this book five stars because i love the fact that he had a good positive attitude, even though he soon is going to die. I also liked the fact that he left some things for his family to remember him.]]> 4.25 2008 The Last Lecture
author: Randy Pausch
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2009/09/04
shelves: 2009-summer-book-reading
review:
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is a book about a computer since professor who just had a positive attitude on life. he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and knew he would die soon but he still stayed positive and did not doubt he would soon leave his family. The guy had 3 young kids who probably will not even remember him and he was just leaving a few things around the house ( like. a equation, a sine that says hope, and many more little things.) This is his essentially his last lecture that he performed a few months before his unfortunate death.

text to world connection to the bucket list its a movie about to guys and what they want to do before they die and they try to for-fill it. i think the last lecture relates to this movie because instead of him making a list of things he wants to do to complete his life he left some things for his kids to remember him by. I think that booth movies captures death and having a positive attitude of it.

I gave this book five stars because i love the fact that he had a good positive attitude, even though he soon is going to die. I also liked the fact that he left some things for his family to remember him.
]]> <![CDATA[Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking]]> 40102 The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.]]> 296 Malcolm Gladwell 0316010669 Lauren 4 2009-summer-book-reading
A connection to the book click and its about planing about what your going to do and the difference between planing and just doing with out thinking of any thing. which i think is kind of the opposite of the book but interesting to look t book sides of the story. I feel click is kind of make things go together to make you get what you want. Blink is more of the scene that done think about what about to happen and it will happen.
I gave this book 4 stars because i love how they analyze human instances and human dissections and how they are different and you can make things worse. the criticism that i did have was that it was a little boring and had times were it would not keep my action but others were i couldn't put the book down.]]> 3.97 2005 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
author: Malcolm Gladwell
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about phycology and how some people can make a dissection before thinking and some have to take there time. I think it relay plays out the saying think before you cat or you act before you think. It is used in a different way though people who act before they think use there instances more so the author feels that works out better for them when using there in-stinks. Another part of the book was a psychiatrist dissuade if a couple would stay married just by talking too them for two minutes.

A connection to the book click and its about planing about what your going to do and the difference between planing and just doing with out thinking of any thing. which i think is kind of the opposite of the book but interesting to look t book sides of the story. I feel click is kind of make things go together to make you get what you want. Blink is more of the scene that done think about what about to happen and it will happen.
I gave this book 4 stars because i love how they analyze human instances and human dissections and how they are different and you can make things worse. the criticism that i did have was that it was a little boring and had times were it would not keep my action but others were i couldn't put the book down.
]]> The Art of War 10534 170 Sun Tzu Lauren 3 2009-summer-book-reading text to world connection from kind of what we learn in class they demonstrate gorilla war fair in a way, and how they used it in china. there is a difference because of the time and place it was taken or documented and the strategies they used. the way it relates to the book is because of the way they used to do things and how it .

i gave this 3 stars because even though i thought it was very interesting and informational. Im personally not into war or strategy. The part i really did like is that the smarts that he used to win i think that he tried new things to win.]]> 3.98 -400 The Art of War
author: Sun Tzu
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.98
book published: -400
rating: 3
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date added: 2009/09/02
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu is bacicaly a back story and kind of a list or instructions to "The Art of War." What the back storey is that that sun tzu fled from ch'i chi, to a nearby state and he was offered a job managing soldiers. what happened was that he brought 180 women into the war then was permuted latrine and this is basically a list of things he did to win. 13 chapters of stradigiseing and planing, the author used many quotes and tactics used.
text to world connection from kind of what we learn in class they demonstrate gorilla war fair in a way, and how they used it in china. there is a difference because of the time and place it was taken or documented and the strategies they used. the way it relates to the book is because of the way they used to do things and how it .

i gave this 3 stars because even though i thought it was very interesting and informational. Im personally not into war or strategy. The part i really did like is that the smarts that he used to win i think that he tried new things to win.
]]> <![CDATA[Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Shopaholic, #2)]]> 9418 With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to pack light. But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces he's moving to New York for business--and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say "Prada sample sale," Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques.
Surely it's only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky's bills miles away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan--but will she have to return it?]]> 387 Sophie Kinsella 0440241812 Lauren 5 2009-summer-book-reading
text to text connection to the first book but i think its pretty much the same although becky kind of leads from her mistakes. She soon gets too carried away and gets back into her debt after london contacts her about her debt. becky though in this book has her boyfriend already and her mind is focussed more on keeping him then her debt. i think the difference from this book is its in Manhattan so she turns into a celebrity.

i give this book 5 stars, because i thought it was very realistic and it was very easy to get into Becky's shoes.
But i think that somethings were kind of handed to her which was one of the things i didn't like. I feel this book was great all in all.]]> 3.78 2001 Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Shopaholic, #2)
author: Sophie Kinsella
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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date added: 2009/09/01
shelves: 2009-summer-book-reading
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Shopaholic Takes Manhattan By Sophie Kinsella is about a shopaholic Rebeca (becky) who just dissuaded to get rid of her debt. she works as a finical guru on tv so when her boyfriend luke asked her to move to new york she couldn't resist. She just got her debt in her grasp she starts spending bunches of money on new york fashions. soon then becomes a celerity, but rediscovers her debt in new york.

text to text connection to the first book but i think its pretty much the same although becky kind of leads from her mistakes. She soon gets too carried away and gets back into her debt after london contacts her about her debt. becky though in this book has her boyfriend already and her mind is focussed more on keeping him then her debt. i think the difference from this book is its in Manhattan so she turns into a celebrity.

i give this book 5 stars, because i thought it was very realistic and it was very easy to get into Becky's shoes.
But i think that somethings were kind of handed to her which was one of the things i didn't like. I feel this book was great all in all.
]]> <![CDATA[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 Lauren 3 2009-summer-book-reading
i feel this book connects to the book Loser by Jerry Spinelli he is a kid who is not so good socially so he doesn't get along like other kids do. so i feel this relates back to the book because christopher doesn't let anyone touch him. He also can not read peoples emotions well, just like in loser he doesn't really just know how to make friends. i feel that they both relate in a way of how they were raised and how they show and control there emotions.

i gave this book 3 stars because i thought that the book had allot of surprises and it was suspenseful. My criticism comes when the way Christopher is smart but not sociable I think it just made him very perdictible
i thought that was a reason to put the book down. other than that i did think the actually story about the dog was different and i would suggest this book to 'non-normal' people.]]> 3.89 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
author: Mark Haddon
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 2009/08/16
date added: 2009/08/27
shelves: 2009-summer-book-reading
review:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon is a story about a dog who was murdered with a garden fork. the story starts off when Christopher finds the dog with the garden fork in her belly on the ground when he picks up the dog to find out its the nabbers. so he goes on this "quest" to find out who killed this dog. Although on the way he finds out about another death that he wasn't aware of that he was not to happy about. Christopher's very smart but his social skills are week and he has lots of trouble reading peoples emotions which makes it just a bit harder to find the murderer.

i feel this book connects to the book Loser by Jerry Spinelli he is a kid who is not so good socially so he doesn't get along like other kids do. so i feel this relates back to the book because christopher doesn't let anyone touch him. He also can not read peoples emotions well, just like in loser he doesn't really just know how to make friends. i feel that they both relate in a way of how they were raised and how they show and control there emotions.

i gave this book 3 stars because i thought that the book had allot of surprises and it was suspenseful. My criticism comes when the way Christopher is smart but not sociable I think it just made him very perdictible
i thought that was a reason to put the book down. other than that i did think the actually story about the dog was different and i would suggest this book to 'non-normal' people.
]]> A Death in the Family 113091 The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.


]]> 320 James Agee 0375701230 Lauren 4 2009-summer-book-reading
I feel this book has a text to world connection, for an example I have herd of so many stories that people might have said a lie or played a prank that ended , not well. For an example my friend had told me a very sad story about her teacher who had a huge fight with her dad then her dad died knowing that she said she hates him. i feel this relates to the book by jay leaving his brother on the wrong note.

I gave this book 4 stars because I feel that it is a very nice kind of slap in the face; meaning that it really opens your eyes to be careful what you wish for or just be nicer to people. I felt this book was easy to put your self in the family members position which gives you a scene be careful what you say or do. the only downfall in this book was how confusing it was when it jumped from charter to charter made it really hard to keep up. although i suggest that everyone should read this book one time in their life.]]> 3.90 1957 A Death in the Family
author: James Agee
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1957
rating: 4
read at: 2009/08/08
date added: 2009/08/26
shelves: 2009-summer-book-reading
review:
A death in the family by james Agree is a book about a family that experiences a tragic death ( as explained in the tittle). when Jay Folit gets a call in the middle of the night from his brother saying that his dad is in the hospital. Jay can tell the brother is sober and it could be a false alert, when jay goes down to see his brother he soon finds out that his father is fine he leaves in a huff then gets hit by a car on his way home and killed. After this the brother and the family all are devastated and the brother seems to feel that he killed his brother. The book change viewpoints in-between each family members grief .

I feel this book has a text to world connection, for an example I have herd of so many stories that people might have said a lie or played a prank that ended , not well. For an example my friend had told me a very sad story about her teacher who had a huge fight with her dad then her dad died knowing that she said she hates him. i feel this relates to the book by jay leaving his brother on the wrong note.

I gave this book 4 stars because I feel that it is a very nice kind of slap in the face; meaning that it really opens your eyes to be careful what you wish for or just be nicer to people. I felt this book was easy to put your self in the family members position which gives you a scene be careful what you say or do. the only downfall in this book was how confusing it was when it jumped from charter to charter made it really hard to keep up. although i suggest that everyone should read this book one time in their life.
]]> Being Nikki (Airhead, #2) 5135798
Em was sure there couldn't be anything worse than being a brainiac in the body of a teenaged supermodel.

But it turned out she was wrong.

It turns out she has a mother who's gone mysteriously missing, a brother who's shown up on her doorstep demanding answers, a former best friend who's intent on destroying Stark Enterprises, and a British heartthrob who's written a song about her that's topping the charts.

How can Em balance all that with school and runway shows - especially when she's got ex-boyfriends crawling out of the woodwork who want more than just a photo op, a sister who is headed to the high school cheerleading championships, and a company she represents that seems to be turning to the dark side...

Not to mention trying to convince the love of her life that models aren't really airheads after all... especially one model in particular.

BUT THEN, NOBODY SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE EASY BEING NIKKI.]]> 336 Meg Cabot 0545040566 Lauren 4 2009-summer-book-reading
i feel this book conects to "my hollywood diary" because insted of a modle shes a actress and she has troble balanceing school, friends, acting, and publicaty. so she thinks of a discuise to go back to school. I feel this relates to Being Nikki because insted of her finding a way to go to school its kind of reverse. when em(neerd) becomes nikki(teen modle) and in my hollywood diary she becomes a normal teen. both giveing the message the grass is not always greener on the other side.


i rate this book 4 stars because even though i couldnt put it down, i didnt like the consept of there brains switching. it wasnt verry relistic int that part but i felt when nikki was being a modle or trying to balace school it was very real.]]> 3.85 2009 Being Nikki (Airhead, #2)
author: Meg Cabot
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2009/08/16
shelves: 2009-summer-book-reading
review:
Being nikki by meg cabot was about a superfishal famose teen modle (nikki) and a girl (em) who is a nerd/"normal". So em the very smart teen gets stuck in a teenage super modles body. so as soon as she feels that she has the good life she soon figures out that balanceing school, modleing, and the guy she likes is not esay. she soon figures out that the guy who she likes wouldnt notice her as a em but would once she became nikki, and modleing takes you out of most of your school and school keeps you from some of your modleing your in a pickle. shes ok untile she fides out that her brother left and her mother chased after him only to be disapointed when she fides them.

i feel this book conects to "my hollywood diary" because insted of a modle shes a actress and she has troble balanceing school, friends, acting, and publicaty. so she thinks of a discuise to go back to school. I feel this relates to Being Nikki because insted of her finding a way to go to school its kind of reverse. when em(neerd) becomes nikki(teen modle) and in my hollywood diary she becomes a normal teen. both giveing the message the grass is not always greener on the other side.


i rate this book 4 stars because even though i couldnt put it down, i didnt like the consept of there brains switching. it wasnt verry relistic int that part but i felt when nikki was being a modle or trying to balace school it was very real.
]]> Copper Sun 90420 Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder,
fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own: hope.

Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful village, she could not have imagined everything could be taken away from her in an instant. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present.

Survival seems all that Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimaginable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to escape, and with an indentured servant named Polly she flees to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony. Can the elusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?

]]> 302 Sharon M. Draper 0689821816 Lauren 5 good book :-) 4.35 2006 Copper Sun
author: Sharon M. Draper
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2009/03/04
date added: 2009/03/04
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good book :-)
]]> ttfn (Internet Girls, #2) 301024 With sophomore year and its troubles behind them, the winsome threesome is on cruise control, enjoying the well-earned perks of being sixteen. But then Angela (SnowAngel) gets some seriously bad family news :'( that threatens to change her life forever. On top of that, Maddie (mad maddie) decides to let loose her wild side :P and Zoe (zoegirl) struggles to keep a big secret from Angela :O. Will junior year pull the girls apart just when they need each other most? Only their instant messages reveal the full story...]]> 250 Lauren Myracle 0810992795 Lauren 5 3.69 2006 ttfn (Internet Girls, #2)
author: Lauren Myracle
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2009/01/04
date added: 2009/01/04
shelves:
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this book is about a girl and how she gets through high school
]]> <![CDATA[New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)]]> 49041 There is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13 9780316160193 here.

I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

FOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning....

LEGIONS OF READERS ENTRANCED BY THE New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers Bell and Edward. In New Moon, Stephanie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural spin. passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.]]> 563 Stephenie Meyer 0316160199 Lauren 5 this is a good book 3.61 2006 New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Lauren
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2007/12/31
date added: 2009/01/04
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review:
this is a good book
]]> The Secret Garden 2998
Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.

With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.]]> 331 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0517189607 Lauren 4 4.16 1911 The Secret Garden
author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
name: Lauren
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1911
rating: 4
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date added: 2008/12/06
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it was realy good couldnt put it down
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