Title: Swindle Author: Gordon Korman Pages: 252 1. Characters Griffin Bing- The main character in this story, and the guy who finds the Babe Ruth card. S. Wendell Palomino (Swindle)- Card collector who tricks Griffin, and he get’s the nickname swindle because it means dishonest.
“Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” -Louis Pasteur. Forge, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about Curzon, a boy that turns into a young man as he faces the hardships of Valley Forge in the winter.
Invisible City (2009) is a documentary directed by Hubert Davis that follows two teenage boys journey as their community in Toronto's Regent Park undergoes a housing revitalization project. Davis followed the lives of Mickey and Kendall for three years exploring how they are individually affected by structural changes within their neighborhood. The boys are African-Canadian and due to their ethnicity experienced racial discrimination and segregation (Davis, 2009). Regent Park was a community that consisted of a vast number of people that are lower income and living in poverty (Davis, 2009). The communities geographical location placed Mickey and Kendall at a greater risk of engaging in law-violating behaviors (Davis, 2009).
She stands up for what is right and encourages others to stick out and be different. At first she was shy but when she met Adam she realized being different is ok. Hattie is independent because she likes to do things on her own. She also likes being in charge of her own life.
In the young adult suspense novel, Variant, by Robison Wells, a young man named Benson Fisher arrives at Maxfield Private Academy. This school is supposed to be the pinnacle of educational research. What he finds it to actually be, is worse than any nightmare you could dream. Benson falls upon this school through his old school, where he applies for a scholarship to attend Maxfield. He is a foster child and has been moved to 33 different foster homes since the age of five, so the thought of a private school was a beacon for a home at last.
The story talks about the kid in school, in which we can imagine us going to kindergarten in our early childhood. We used to hate going to the school and
In the book Scrawl, the school is where most of the action happens. Tod and his friends break into the school to steal a video camera that a student is using to take videos of students and his "friends" get caught trying to steal the camera. Tod has to either go to jail or write in notebook after school for a month. The teacher who is overseeing Tod 's detention is Mrs. Woodrow, and she doesn 't expel him or his friends because Tod reads the sign and it said " No Trespassing Violators Will Be Prosecuted." During this time Luz, a girl from school, asks Tod to ask his mom to make costumes for the school play.
In the excerpt “Under the Eye of the Clock” by Christopher Nolan, talks about the paralyzed boy joseph who is overwhelming with muscle pains. The excerpt develops an idea that tell us that no matter what the situation is, there is always hope. According to text, “Typing festered hope” (line 20). The author of the excerpt, means to tell us that you should never think that, you will not able to do anything, since you are paralyzed; there is always hope and you should wait for right time to come. In addition to that, author also says “great spasms gripped him rigid and sent his simple nod into a farcical effort which ran to each and every one of his limbs” (line 24 and 25).
Stargirl is a book by Jerry Spinelli based off of a boy named Leo and when he moved from Pennsylvania to Arizona, On the first day of school, Leo makes friends with a boy named Kevin. On the same day there has been talk about a new girl named “Stargirl” Caraway. It appears that she was homeschooled and everyone thought she was weird. One day during lunch, a girl named Hillari Kimble, Hillari makes an exclamation stating that Stargirl is fake and she is just there to bring school spirit back up. After a few weeks people were questioning the rumour, now every lunchtime after she finished eating, she would play her ukulele and sing “Happy Birthday” to random people, they would all applaud her.
I’m in the process of seeking representation for my 1st Young Adult/ Children Comedy novel, The Silly Elites, the first in a series, , and given to your previous publications, I think it might fir your list. Richard Korman is a normal student who both wants to study at an Ivy League School and gets rid of his annoying, bossy mother, so he enrolls at Gordan Hill High School, a boarding school that trumpets its high rate of students who go on to Ivy League Schools. However, he soon realizes that his normal life is gradually being ruined, thanks to his three crazy classmates: Simon Harary, son of the CEO of Lesia Group; Abena Okafor, son of an African dictator; Eugene Lin, who finished high school in his own country in just a year- with whom
“What I Learned and What I Said at Princeton” by David Saderis and “Against School: How Public Education Cripple Our Kids, And Why” by John Taylor Gatto both relate to school using the experience that they encounter in the system. Both writers give example of how the education can affect the student reflection. In “What I Learned and What I Said at Princeton,” Saderis mention how his dad was in character of his school, “He had the whole outfit: Princeton breastplate, Princeton nightcap; he even got the velvet cape with the tiger hanging like a rucksack from between the should blades (Saderis 197).” Failing was not an option for Saderis; his dad is constantly bloated about him as a Princeton student. In the second essay, “Against School:
We will never know what could happen in the future with all the advancements in technology. Technology could help make the world a better place, or the opposite could happen, and technology could cause people to lose touch with reality and the world will slowly crumble. The novel Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline is a sci-fi novel that is written in a futuristic world with an advanced virtual reality video game called the OASIS that everybody uses. Cline uses the dystopian structure, the OASIS, and character development to show that while technology can have many benefits, many people can lose touch with reality and not know what is real anymore.
With the help of his unique pre-teen perspective, Oskar faces an intricate emotional journey as he attempts to understand the unknown emotions he is experiencing . With vivid details, Jonathan Safran Foer skillfully depicts how a young boy would feel and react in the aftermath of an immense tragedy. Amid the September 11 suicide terrorist attacks, Jonathan Safran Foer's book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”conveys how political events affect individuals, their relationships, and their perspective on the future. The persistent emotional impact of traumatic events on individuals and families is a major theme frequently demonstrated to the reader in “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”.
While school may teach lessons, they are certainly not valuable life lessons. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird repeatedly shows the ineffectiveness of the education system in a child’s morals. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the Great Depression era in Alabama, where education was not the best. Teachers would only seek to teach their classes average, everyday lessons rather than valuable life teachings.
First off,Cap doesn’t understand anything at his new school,but here are a few that stand out to me: physical violence,the day being “chopped” into 9 periods,the PA system,or that someone is pranking him. Other than that anyone can tell that the school thinks Cap is a weirdo. Some names are weirdo to being from Krypton,to sheriff of dweebs. Cap doesn’t seem to mind that he’s been called those name thanks to his hippie wisdom. If you don’t believe it that people would be so rude as to call this innocent boy such things, this is what Hugh,his first “friend” calls him on page 28
