I chose this book because I thought the
Which in my opinion makes it more interesting. These are some of the reasons why I like the book and reasons why you should read the book sometime in the
Additional Characteristics: This story has a strong portrayel of feelings and actions that the family goes through. While their father has been withdrawn, and his younger brother is running wild, Josh tries to find some meaning in all of this. This story is both filled with sadness mixed in with humor. 4. Awards This book was nominated for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award
Then, he meets Catherine, a girl who just can 't stop staring at him in the Occupational Therapy office. Rules by Cynthia Lord, teaches a valuable lesson that people are not always as they appear to be. Catherine, a twelve year old girl, is having a pretty depressing summer. She doesn 't go to camp and is stuck going to OT everyday with her autistic brother, David.
I was also connected to the text more listening to her and how she tries to match her family experience to the family in the book. I noticed that she was very passionate about Japanese Internment camps, this made me want to strive to be passionate about the book as much as
The book truly keeps you hardwired in, making you focus on what is going to happen next. Moreover, the writer of the book displays a wonderful mapping to further explain where and how things happen. He does this by giving both sides of the story from the North and the South. The writer also broke down the story telling into four days.
How family will always be there for young adults through hard changing times. Such as death of a loved one because of age or sickness. Or even for people who have family overseas serving for their country and need comfort while they are gone. While reading, teens will be able to comprehend the comfort and availability of very close relationships, such as Byron was for Kenny, or even close friends. This shows that students should read this novel because it will insinuate that it is necessary for them to rely and forge a stronger relationship with friends and
Another motivation behind the novel is to teach good morals and lessons
Also in the movie the boy had to play games with his grandma and his mom, I think some kids could relate to this because every kid is forced to do things they don't want to do. In the movie he was spacing out about this girl he liked all of the time and then he lied to his mom about what he was thinking about, this relates with kids lives because all kids are lying to their parents sometime or another. In the story there was a huge wall that no one was allowed to cross over and the boy did it anyway and then he got in trouble be the short guy that ran Thleed Ville found out he left the town and he got in big trouble, people can relate to this because everyone does things that we are not suppose to do for no
I often found it easy to care for the characters of the book as if I knew them. The book often draws the reader in, making
This is one of the many important themes to the book
The characters all have many things in common with how strong and dynamic they are and become. They are Jewish children that were either forced into concentration camps or that went into hiding, with or without their family, because of WWII. Each of the children grow up and mature along with the story, they all have very strong hearts that they will do whatever they can to survive and stay tough. The theme of this book is all around very gripping and inspiring.
This book was interesting for me because it allowed me to relate to a character. I love reading novels that not only allow me to feel a connection with a character, but allow me to relate to their personality or
When I was reading this book I wanted to keep reading because I just wanted to know what was going to happen next. The book was always
This book was fantastic for showing those incidents in the ways it sometimes
