The Crucible Review

"I belive that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the stongest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seveteenth century Salem, Massachusetts. When a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leadres and townspeople insist thatElizabeth be brought to trial.

I enjoyed this book. If you like books that dramatic and romatic then you will enjoy this book.

Bullying

Have you ever been bullied. Well many people do. I see a ton of people in High School or in any school where they get picked on. There is a different types of bullying. The main type of bullying is someone beating up someone or other people talking bad about someone else and making fun of them. I see kids in school who talk bad about someone else or saying they hate them or telling them they want to beat them up. Bullying is in society or in public schools.

Speak

You should read this book.. everyone Laurie Anderson's book Speak. Have you ever felt like you need to tell someone something but could never open you mouth and tell them.

Well, thats what Melinda goes through in the book Speak. She gets attacked by a boy named Andy at an end-of-summer party, and she calls the cops, so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place for her to be alone is in her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she is trying not to think about, something about the night at the party that, if she let in, she would blow her carefully constructed disguise and would have to speak the truth.

If you like a tough, tender, and darkly funny story of a teenage outcast then I recommend this book to you.

Touching Spirit Bear

In Touching Spirit Bear this book is about a fifteen year old boy named Cole Matthews. He has been fighting and stealing for years. The punishment for smashing Peter Driscal’s skull into the sidewalk was to be banished to an Island in Alaska by the Native American Circle Justice. Cole hates the island and every one who is making him go. He thinks it is all a game and he is just waiting for it to start. Later on he burns the shed and all the supplies inside. He then tries to swim to where Garvey and Edwin came from to find a boat to get on so he could run away to somewhere else. But the water was to cold and the tide took him back to the beach. He then tries to kill the spirit bear and the bear attacks him back and breaks his right arm, his hips and rib cages, he also sliced his chest. Cole laid in the woods for a couple of days and in misery. He finally decided not to give up and to live. He ate a mouse and bugs to keep him alive and have energy. Then Garvey and Edwin came and went to check on Cole and they found him lying there almost dead. Later on Cole goes back to the island to rebuild the shed and tries to restart all over again and to prove the Circle of Justice he really wants to change. I recommend you read this book was very stressful and if you want to find out what happens to Cole you should read this book.

Copper Sun

Slavery brought many tears and was the saddest thing that happened in history.
Amari's life was perfect. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family. Amari finds her self dragged to a slave ship headed to the Cape Coast, an infamous slave-holding prison. When Amari is on the "death ship" she meets a girl named Afi, who helps her get through the abusive beatings and the raping that the sailors’ did for fun. After Amari arrives at Carolina she is then auction off to a plantation owner and given to his son, Clay Derby, as a birthday present. Amari then meets Polly who is a 16 year old servant girl who hates slaves and thinks they are a waste of time. But then Mr. Derby tells Polly she has to teach Amari the rules and how to speak enough English so she can be told what to do.
Amari, summoned to Clay's bedroom twice a week, is excused from working in the plantation's rice paddies. When another sexual treachery blows up violently, the ensuing chaos provides Polly and Amari a cover for escape. They escape to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in adventure. This book kept me on the edge.

A Walk to Remember- Pioneer Never Quits-Book Review

There was a time when the world was sweeter; when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses and the men wore hats. It was a time when something happened to a seventeen year old boy that changed his life forever.
Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk to Remember is about a boy named Landon Carter who meets a girl named Jamie Sullivan. Jamie Sullivan is a quiet girl who always carries a bible. She takes care of her widowed father, rescues hurt animals, and helps in the local orphanage. No boy had ever asked her out, well until Landon did. Landon would have never dreamed of it; Jamie was certainly the last girl in town he thought he’d fall for. The daughter of the town’s Baptist Minister was definitely someone his heart never saw coming.
Then a twist of fate made Jamie his partner for the homecoming dance. With this unexpected position, Landon’s life was never the same. “Being with Jamie showed him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision that would send him on the road to manhood.”
This book kept me mesmerized and on the edge. I loved this book and I recommend it anyone who is captured by Love stories.

Driving off campus

As we move forwards throw the years on our way to adulthood, we gain privileges. First, they are small. We tie our own shoes; pick what we want to eat, and what to wear: the decisions grow with age. In this moment, we are Juniors in High School. Well on our way to college. We make bigger choices now. Where do I want to work? Who do I want to be in a relationship with? Who are my truest friends? These decisions are everyday choices that as Juniors, we make. Another choice that we should have EVERY day is where we want to eat. Why should a group of people who make adult decisions everyday be forced to eat in only one place? As juniors we are all driving, busy with everyday life. We drive ourselves to school, so should we not make the choice to go OFF CAMPUS to eat lunch? Juniors are considered upper classmen, there for we should share the privileges as the other upper classmen (Seniors).