Book Summary Night Flying Woman is a story about a young girl who had to make a lot of changes during her life. In the beginning of this story Oona(Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe) was a young child who observed from her elders. Her own story is reflected from the hardships she had to go through as a child and how she had to grow as a Native American Woman during the time in which they were being contained and assimilated.
The main character of the book, Allison Mackenzie, came from a middle-class family that owned a home off Chestnut Street. Her mother, Constance, owned a shop in town called the Thrifty Corner Apparel Shoppe. Allison was born out of wedlock and her father was out of the picture. Constance was ashamed of this fact and hide her secret past from society. The situation surrounding Allison was an example of the time period’s denial of family dysfunction.
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson is one of the best books I have ever read, and I would definitely give it a five out of five rating. Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride (Max) is not your ordinary teenage girl, the girl can fly. Max and her winged “flock” are the results of experiments at a secret lab called “The School” to inject avian genes into human infants. The flock includes Fang (a dark-haired boy only 4 months younger than Max), Iggy (another 14-year-old who is blind due to an experiment gone wrong)
Back in the 1800’s being a women was tough. The women’s job was thought of to be just taking care of the kids and assisting her husband with anything he needed. In the novel Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd the two main topics are slavery and women’s rights. Sarah and Handful are two main characters from this novel and are affected most by the actions of other’s during this time. Sarah and Handful are very different but also have many of the same qualities.
Next, perseverance in The Invention of Wings leads to individual growth and strength. First, Sarah Grimke uses her abolitionist thoughts on anti-slavery and gender equality to guide herself and find a religion she abides by to grow. Sarah grows to become an activist on anti-slavery and gender equality that goes against her family’s reputation and mother’s opinions. Sarah is held back from finding and fulfilling her values because of her mother. Which only adds to Sarah’s actions becoming more impactful and greater because she is determined to prove to her mother what she thinks is meaningful.
She ordered not to kill Alex’s killer, but she does not listen. The family tries to give her intervention …. DeLuca sleeps with Adrianna. She requests a leave from the school, but on her first day back there is a school shooting. With Frankie and Adrianna trapped at school and….
This book was different from most books. Gretchen, the main woman character, started off as a girl. Nobody liked her except for her best friend, Katya, and it surprised me because she seemed to be very likeable. She might've came off as judge to males, but that’s because her previous boyfriend used her. The second part of the book was when she turned into a fly that was stuck in the boy’s locker room.
In this historical fiction novel by Laurie Halse Anderson called Fever 1793, Matilda Cook and her few family members that live in Philadelphia, are faced by an epidemic disease called yellow fever. It centers around how Mattie must make due to survive this fatal virus easily contracted by mosquitoes, which at this time period, was not known. By using inner thoughts and description, Anderson constructs a lesson of good things coming out of bad times. A theme that is able to be pulled out of Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is that good things can prevail from bad times.
The story opens with Mrs. Wright imprisoned for strangling her husband. A group, the mostly composed of men, travel to the Wright house in the hopes that they find incriminating evidence against Mrs. Wright. Instead, the two women of the group discover evidence of Mr. Wright’s abuse of his wife. Through the women’s unique perspective, the reader glimpses the reality of the situation and realizes that, though it seemed unreasonable at the time, Mrs. Wright had carefully calculated her actions. When asked about the Wrights, one of the women, Mrs. Hale, replies “I don’t think a place would be a cheerful for John Wright’s being in it” (“A Jury of Her Peers” 7).
Homecoming Queen is the third installment of the Carter House girl series and a major developing point in the series. The book contained many key moments or events that all led up to the end of this story and set up the next one, causing me to write an extra-long summary. The story follows main character DJ and the rest of the Carter House girls. In the previous book Stealing Bradford, Taylor disappeared at the end of the story. Taylor’s disappearing act followed a Myspace incident involving scandalous pictures of her, leaked by an unknown person.
Summary (Goodreads) Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred thousand dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
However, before she can progress onto the next chapter in her life her father falls ill, and with that she begins to isolate herself from the outside world, and from the people around her. Which contributes to why her sister and Hal, her love interest, don’t genuinely understand her as a
Everyone is fighting their own battles that other people don’t know about. This is a theme of the book Ruby in the Sky. This book is about a 12 year old girl named Ruby and recently, she's been moving to a lot of different places. She doesn't want her new classmates to ask or know about her father, and she definitely does not want them to know that her mother was arrested. She goes through challenges and becomes friends with Abigail, the “bird lady” and Ahmed, a Syrian refugee.
By confronting readers with uncomfortable truths and provocative ideas, the novel challenges them to reevaluate their assumptions and reconsider their perspectives on the world around them. In an era defined by rapid change and profound uncertainty, "The Flightless Sky" stands as a beacon of hope and inspiration, reminding us of the transformative potential of literature to illuminate the darkest corners of the human soul and inspire meaningful change in our lives and
Lisa who is diagnosed as a sociopath, the biggest and most problematic for the staff and the most persuasive influence on the other girls in the hospital. Susanna forms a close relationship with Lisa and the girls. Lisa however, is known to make continuous efforts to escape the institution and she somewhat takes Susanna under her rule.
