Thursday, March 27, 2008
A Little Piece of Ground
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Bunyan, Butler, Wilmot, and Dryden
I have been reading John Dryden’s poems for my English class and he is so doom and gloom, constantly talking about judgement day, how justice will be passed who don’t follow the rulers or God. His poems seem full of vengeance and they are depressing, because is he of the Puritan faith.
John Bunyan is similar to John Dryden’s
writing, but a little lighter. He focuses
on God’s wrath, but he also writes about God’s love. Bunyan grew up poor and saw both sides of God
equally, while Dryden grew up rich.
Samuel Butler is a very visual writer. He takes you through the scene is trying to
set.
John Wilmot is an anarchist, antireligious, and the most risqué out of the four authors. His writing is full of satire and not full of
doom. He was brave for questioning authority
and making fun of people in charge.
The Giver
Monday, March 17, 2008
Jake, Reinvented
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Prom
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a senior in high school named Ashley, who could care less about Prom. She is ready to move in with her drug dealing boyfriend and ready to leave high school behind. When the math teacher steals all the money for prom, Ashley helps her best friend Natalia plan a new prom. She is not allowed to attend because of too many disciplinary problems and library fines. So, Ashley has to decided whether to stay home or sneak into a prom she worked hard to plan.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Beauty
Beauty by Robin McKinley is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It focuses on how Beauty grows up with two sisters, Hope and Grace, and how they ended up involved with the beast. The beast demands one of the daughters in return for their father picking a rose, and he sends Beauty to him, because the other two sisters are married.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Dreamland
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen is about a sixteen year old girl named Caitlin O’Koren. Her sister runs off to New York City and leaves Caitlin devastated, with no contact. Caitlin would rather live in her dreams than live for real during the day. She starts dating an abusive drug dealer and is ignored by her parents. She gets addicted to the drugs as well.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman is a controversial book. They say everyone has daemon attached to them, in the form of animal. The villains are called Gobblers, who are people taking children to the North to separate them from their daemons.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Historical Fiction
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
- A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
- Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Pearl Harbor 1941 by Nancy Holder
- Sarah's Key by Tatianna De Rosnay
- Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Witch Child by Celia Rees
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Fantasy Reading List
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and The Beast by Robin McKinley
The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Golden Compass
Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Matched by Ally Condie
Miss Peregrines: Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Night Circus by Erin Morgestern
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.F. Baum
Watership Down by Richard Adams
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The Kiesha'ra Series
The Kiesha’ra Series by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is about two shape shifters, named Danica and Zane, who come from two enemy families. They have to get married to bring peace to their kingdoms.
Monday, March 3, 2008
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi is an adventure story. Charlotte reminds me of Elizabeth Swan in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Charlotte is young girl who has to sell on her father’s pirate ship from Europe to America. She is heroine when the crew declares mutiny on the captain.