Philosophical connections to Speak ( Laurie Halse Anderson)

This book Speak is all about a girl who has to suffer throughout all of freshman year just because she called police for safety at a high school keg party. She was raped by some random guy who everyone dreamed about being with. Her best friend betrayed her. She had scabby lips that burned whenever she drank orange juice. This kind of thing totally happens in the world, someone calls the cops at a party, someone sees, slaps them, runs away, yells at everyone to get out, someone gets arrested. Someone gets suicidal/ depressed, and is thrown at by things. That same person gets stalked by the rapist who goes to the same school as she does.

At school the only class she likes is art. Not that shes doing too well on that tree while everyone's moved on, but at the fact that the teacher seems to see inside her and know what shes dealt with. I think that even though you may not notice, there are actually these kind of things happening, whether you know it or not, the person next to you probably has this kind of thing going on as well. After the first few months of school things sort of clear up. Miranda has a friend, her grades are okay, but she still lives with the dread.

Just as the things get better, they get worse once again, she's failing everything except art, her one and only friend leaves her for some clique. She's realized that IT goes to her school. In a snap everything goes down, and she hides in a closet until fate comes and finds her.

Lock and Key...by Sarah Dessen...(did i do this one already???)

    Reread this book about a million times already and still have more to say... I feel like Ruby is really clueless to her surroundings, like how she went out and got high, came home smelling gross and expected her sister the original bad guy waiting for her, about to nail her down, but came home to her brother-in-law instead. Her sister and brother-in-law took her in after her mom left her stranded in a tiny (yellow) house with no heatelectricitywaterprobablyfood and expected her to live on her own... So, social services tracked Ruby down through her landlords and took her to her one and only distinct relative, her sister Cora.
   Cora really is a sweetheart ever since she and Ruby were young since there was no mom and dad between them. Ruby has never seen Cora since she had left her alone for college with her mother. Now Cora was married to a Facebook-popular website owner sort of cool guy... She herself was a lawyer which made them... pretty rich, and a mansion, and an Eco-friendly pond with koi, and Ruby a hot neighbor... Nonetheless, Ruby still tries to run away hours after moving in with them, only to be caught red-handed.
    This is where she meets her hot neighbor... trying to jump his fence--- not the best impression, yet she was still caught by Jamie her brother even though she saw him inside 2.5 seconds ago, yet even though Jamie clearly knew what she was doing, he didn't say anything. After this, she comes home drunk and high, and he's had it. Which was the last thing she'd expect from him since he's always so nice. This is when she finally finds herself being the total opposite of what she was yesterday and becomes a person she'd never seen before. which was the moral of this book.

Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks by Lauren Myracle

This book is about Carly (the main character) and how she deals with problems such as her LITTLE sister developing(physically) WAY ahead of her. Making all the guys at their school drool all over her and bug Carly about when they could catch a date... With Anna.

It's not that Carly would rather have the attention,t's just that she'd rather the guys like Anna because how she is... not for her outer appearance. Carly's the older sister who no one would want to be near, because she wants to be the kind of person who people notice...Visually, and in her case, neon baggy shirts and a broom skirt--- not very attractive. What Carly doesn't realize about Anna, is that she looks up to her, wishes that she was as skinny as her, as smart as her, as beautiful as her, and lastly, her friends, I know pathetic, but she doesn't have any real friends... just her wannabes.

  Anna could easily form a clique with the girls who trail around  her, but that wouldn't be the same as Carly's LOL best friends, and so whenever she tries to hang out with them, Carly starts getting defensive and nothing works out the way she expected.  Anna wants to be like Carly, but not even as youremybestfriend but as an exact clone of her, which Carly does not understand, knowing about all the fame she gets at school.

   At the end Anna does something so bad that Carly finally gets how Anna feels and they become the bffs forever.

Blog Post: Ruthless by Sara Shepard

In this book, the main characters are still being stalked--- even though they "found" out who the person was in the last book, it doesn't  seem like it's the same person now...
The girls have one person in mind, but it just can't be her, she'd way too nice, and she can't do such things like threaten them with death, so... Who is it?? They all consider asking the police again, but there's not much they could do, especially since they're all guilty for a murder case that's happened ten years ago. 
The book reminds me of times when you have the strongest feeling you've gotten rid of something from your life, yet it's not completely gone. Though in this book it's the stalker that they think is the subject which they've been getting rid of for the past few years. 
  Mostly it's a test grade, or an interview to a really good high school that you REALLY want to get into, but in this book, it's the stalker, while the girls think they've gotten rid of the same thing ten years ago, it's still the same thing that keeps haunting them. 
 

Blog Post- Sharp Objects by; Gillian Flynn

   This book I'm reading is about a girl who's been the IT girl all her life, until it comes to home, where she is a totally different person because of they her mother lived. I feel a connection here to almost all the books I've read before, since they're all about teens and their popular lives on the outside, when on the inside they're full of deep dark secrets. Camille, right now is 29, but is a reporter and goes back to her home town for an article based on  the deaths of little girls going missing.
   During her visit, many different people are telling her weird things about her having to leave, yet none of them tell her WHY she has to leaves, and then she knows it's leaded toward the murderer, and how it's after Camille since she's on the case more than the police at the scene. I personally liked this book for another reason too, it was actually about real life stuff that happen in this life, and didn't have a happy ending like all the other books out there.
   Overall, I thought that it was really good, but the thing I didn't like was the fact that Camille cut herself every time she got mad, and the weird thing about her cutting was that she cut in words and that was really creepy.

Blog Post- Faking 19 Alison Noel

    This book is totally real life. The story's about the fact of how some teens are really smart, yet they tend to mess up their lives because of the influence they get from their friends. The main character, Alex, has the bestest life a student can ever have; invitations to scholarships at sophomore year, and  the bestest friend ever. Yet the girl just somehow screws up her life because of the influence of having to be popular.
   These things do happen in real life, it's just that the happy endings happen in the books, not in life. Reading this book made me think about all the teens in this world that probably have the same things going on in their lives, it's just that some of them decide to use their brains and avoid that path.
     Alex was the smartest girl freshman and sophomore year, it just happens to be that M, her best friend drags Alex to her level. There are always these types of people in schools, they need to be a certain type be noticed, and it just happens that they stay like that all their lives which means that they can't go back to their mistakes. They all live the worst lives and regret themselves to ever happen.
   Alex is all about struggles, and she ends up reaching her goal, college. Not community, which is what everyone was expecting her, but an actual college that was given to her by scholarship. So now we know that changing for yourself is totally possible.

Blog Post; Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    This book I'm reading is really cool. It's about witches and spells, Stacey, the main character can tell the future through her dreams, and now knows that her her roommate, best friend is in trouble. Stacey is able to use spells and witch-crafty to make things a bit clearer, but things aren't clear enough... Stacey needs to have a clear image and name of the person behind all this to have an actual reading, otherwise she can't help her best friend Drea.

   Throughout the entire book, Stacey keeps getting mixed messages about who this person is, is it Chad?The boy next door? Or is it Donovan, the guy who's been admiring Drea since the third grade?Stacey keeps going back and forth, thinking differently about each guy every time. She even starts thinking that it could be the snooty Veronica who thinks shes above the universe. Through this mess between prank phone calls and mysterious presents, Stacey is in a mound of her own problems, issues that she can't tell anyone, not even Drea, that they're so humiliating and private.

    So far I think that Donovan is the killer, because every time they go to investigate, Donovan seems to appear out of nowhere. They also saw him calling someone through the pay phone, which they later found was the source where the prank calls were coming from, and they noticed that the person on the other line did not pick up... Then they knew it was definitely him.

   At the beginning, when I was getting mixed messages, I thought it was just some random dude who they saw creeping around their ground at night, which did seem to work out, but why would he want Drea? She is the it girl  at college, but how does that relate to him? Stacey is in between all this, yet she feels the need to help ;o out her friend who doesn't even appreciate it, until the first hit comes.