In this novel, this story follows a girl name Piper McCloud, who may be deemed as the most abnormal girl in Lowland County. Piper has the ability to fly. Now this isn’t some cheesy happy story you would expect from a title such as this. But it is is far from it. When she accidently exposes her secret to half all the townsfolk at a Lowland baseball game, the news quickly spreads, causing an array of reporters to crowd their house. It all seems like perfect timing when a woman, Dr. Letitia Hellion, comes to their ‘rescue’. Dr. Hellion is your stunning beautiful woman who works at an academy for children with ‘special’ abilities. Dr. Hellion offers to let Piper become their newest student at I.N.S.A.N.E Academy and her parents agree. When she
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.
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)
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.
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.
Her grandmother, however, had financial constraint, which resulted in the student being absent from school since March 29, 2015. Ashaby’s maternal aunt, Kadia Jarette, had recently moved to live in the same community during the summer. Upon communicating with Ashaby; she discovered that she had not been attending school. Since
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….
In the story Hidden Wings there are many struggles . First , Emma Wise has an internal conflict with the fact that she has lost both of her parents. She also has a conflict when she is adopted by her aunt and has move to Alaska . She also has leave all of her friends behind .
American writer Sue Monk Kidd’s fiction novel, The Secret Life of Bees, is set in the interracial landscape of the American South in 1964, where 14-year-old Lily Owens is left to navigate a life of longing based around the blurred memory of her late mother. After fleeing her abusive home with her caregiver, Rosaleen, Lily finds herself living with the Boatwright sisters, who she later discovers are the key to her mother’s past. With the Boatwright sisters, Lily learns about spirituality through the Black Madonna, the fundamentals of beekeeping, and most importantly, the importance of family. She finds herself in a home surrounded by female role models, and is able to fill the hole her parents left behind with persistent love and feminine guidance.
The story is about a 14- year- old girl, Lily Owens who is from Sylvan, South Carolina. She is trying to find more information about her mother. When she does, her life was changes around. Lily has faced many obstacles. She is introduced to the secret life of bees which mirrors the secrets in her own life.
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.
They slipped their maps into their pockets, tested their wings, and off they flew to Earth and the forgotten city. It took them all night to get there. They finally arrived in the city where Maggie lived, the young girl who sent the prayer to God. As they flew near her neighborhood, hundreds of red and green and yellow lights sparkled from all the Christmas decorations on the houses. “Ooh, this is a cheerful place,” said Mugsie.
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.
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.
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).
This book should be read because of its great plot, themes, and characters. In a small town, Annette Burnier, works hard as a twelve-year-old girl, taking care of her younger brother Dani. Trouble hits when Dani falls over a cliff into the ravine. When Lucien, the town bully confesses to taking part in Dani’s