The story is about a girl who lives in a shanty town during the Great Depression. Fourteen year-old Lizabeth is followed along, by her future self, as she goes on a journey, which ultimately results in the loss of her innocence. Towards the beginning, Lizabeth was
She explains how happy, but conflicted because her parents refuse money from her and live as homeless people. She writes the memoir to work through her feelings and share’s her story. Some topics that I could identify in the text are: poverty, teenage pregnancy and child rights. The issue of poverty is portrayed from the beginning of the book to the end.
From there she is hooked and she begins to experiment with even harder drugs, which eventually lead her to run away from home to San Francisco with her friend Chris who is also a drug user. While in San Francisco, Alice lives in a putrid apartment with hopes of one day opening a store of her own. Weeks pass and Alice gets tired of living in San Francisco, and moves back in to her house with her parents and her two siblings Tim and Alexandria. Alice stays sober for a while and begins to take care of herself again, when she is hooked on drugs again and leaves to Oregon where she travels all along the west coast. Alice meets a girl by the name of Doris and is shocked when she finds out that Doris is 14 years old prostitute whos been having sex for drugs since she was 12 years old.
They live in a future world where Jenna is feels controlled by her mother and who she was. Technology has made it far into the world. The setting is a time in the future in which people had given themselves too much medicine. Many people died because of overuse and now the world is slowly coming to terms with the new governments.
It takes the reader through her story of how she felt great, invincible when she was high, until she became addicted. Then she always needed it, felt trapped by the “monster.” It started to become a downhill roller coaster, but there was also ups like the feeling she had when she was high. Crank being a New York Times best seller. It left readers wanting to know what happened after the book and this is what leads Hopkins’ to write her next book Glass.
It's about a 16 year old girl named Neema Powell that gets kicked out of her house, because her moms boyfriend was a drunken pervert. She ends up staying with her boyfriend where she was unwanted. Neema forgot to grab her birth control at home and she didn't take it for two days. That lead to the decisions she had to make throughout the story. This book has very good twist and turns throughout the story.
Imagine leaving home to live in a foreign place with new rules, people, and activities. Katherine Tyler, a girl originally from the island of Barbados, has to leave her beautiful home when her grandfather dies. She hopes her aunt and uncle in America will take her in, but she does not realize how much she will have to change in order to fit in. Her cousins, Judith and Mercy, are nothing like her, and her uncle forbids her to wander around and visit her friend, Hannah Tupper. In The Witch of Blackbird Pond, a young, carefree girl struggles to fit in a new society, causing her to mature into a skilled young woman.
Her and her family get deported the "ghetto" because they were Jewish. There life was flipped upside down; she came from a decently wealthy bakeground. With everything going down around them it was a harsh awkening for all of them. She became a goods smuggler to help her family services. Even with all the danger and risker around
The main characters mature and come to appreciate how important their families are to them. Each of the main characters is plagued by memories that have their roots in the past and are being brought back by events taking place in the
Odysseus’s Never Lasting Journey 1- Troy- Troy was a city in ancient Europe, where the Spartans and Trojans had gone to war for ten years. During the war the Trojans had built a huge wooden horse which they hid in and that got them to end up inside the city, causing them to win the war.
The courts send her to rehab where she begins a path of self-discovery that is marked by a few corny scenes and sobering moments. Overall, 28 Days is one of the best movies for addiction
Saturday night parties are what most high school teenagers look forward to when bringing on the weekend. Drinking, smoking weed, and fighting are “fun” to these young adults, right? Recovery Road is the story of Madeline, who is not only recovering from heavy drinking problems, but partying and anger issues as well. This is a story that I got pulled into more than I had expected to. I enjoyed it, because I was able to sympathize with the characters struggles throughout the book, watch the young adults be peer pressured, and lastly, I got to watch Madeline overcome her terrible addictions.
It also includes information about three older women in the community that the two young girls formed a friendship with. These two young girls grew up in the same town however lived in totally different worlds outside of their friendship. The people in the town expected Nelly to live a wonderful life being she was such a beautiful girl and came from a well to do family. Everyone in town, including her parents were so nice and went out of their
Susie is the main character, she is murdered at the age of 13 and the book is her watching her family and friends deal with her death well they try to find the murderer. well susies in heaven she doesn't actually like all that much she wishes she could be back on earth growing up with her family, well in heaven she wonders “Heavens where a girl like me didn't fit in. Where they horrific, these other heavens? worse than feeling so solitary among ones living, growing peers?”(119).
It talks about loneliness, desperation and confusion that anyone who has no guide to ease them into the world goes through. It also talks greatly about the human mind’s ability to repress the memories that it finds too traumatic to deal with. The plot starts out simple, an unnamed protagonist attending a funeral in his childhood hometown. He then visits the home that he and his sister grew up in, bringing back memories of a little girl named Lettie Hempstock who lived at the end of the lane, in the Hempstocks’ farmhouse, with her mother and grandmother.
