The Hunger Games 104-204

Cinna and Portia prepared Katniss and Peeta for the interview. Katniss' costume was by far the audience's favorite. Peeta professed his love for Katniss. She was worried that Peeta made her look bad, but really he won her even more sponsors. The next morning the games finally started. Katniss sprinted to get a pack with a sleeping bag and other items in it, and after that she ran into the forest until she thought none of the other tributes would find her. She later found out that Peeta has joined up with all the Career Tributes. He is suppose to help them find Katniss and kill her, since she is suppose to be one of the biggest threats out of all the tributes. The Career Tributes chase Katniss up a tree. She sleeps in the tree while the tributes sleep beneath it, watching to make sure she doesn't escape. Rue is in a neighboring tree, and she warns Katniss about a tracker jacker nest right above her on a branch. Katniss finds a way and uses her knife to cut off the branch, so when it comes down it lands on the tributes. The wasps kill two of the tributes, which are both girls. Katniss makes a run for it and falls. When she wakes up about two days later she finds a stream to freshen up. She walks upstream awhile and shoots a bird similar to the wild turkey and a rabbit. Rue has been following Katniss all this time, and Katniss finally hears her. Rue and Katniss join up together, so they will be a harder force to defeat.

The Color Purple 1-100

Celie is living as a slave. She’s with her mom, and her siblings. Her slave-master rapes her, and she has two children by him. She’s not 100% sure what he did with the children, but she thinks he gave her first one up for adoption, and killed the second one. She has a sister named Nettie, and Nettie fell in love with a man, Mr. _____. Mr. _____ comes to the house to ask the Master’s permission to marry Nettie. Master says no, but he tells Mr. _____ that he can marry Celie. So, Mr. _____ takes Celie as his wife. Mr. _____ is not good to Celie, and he beats her. Nettie gets tired of living as a slave, so she comes to live with them. She stays for a while, and when she leaves, she promises that nothing but death can keep her from writing letters to Celie. She doesn't send a single letter though. One of Mr. _____’s children, Harpo, falls in love with a girl, Sofia. They end up getting married and having five children. Celie finds a picture of a girl, Shug Avery, and learns that she used to have a thing with Mr. _____. Shug Avery is a singer in clubs, and she’s kind of trampy, but she’s coming to their town, and she ends up living with Mr. _____ and Celie. Shug Avery gets to their house, and she’s very sick, so Celie takes care of her. Shug Avery is not the easiest to take care of, but she slowly gets better and better, and a lot more cheerful to be around. In the meantime, Sofia leaves Harpo. She leaves and takes all the kids with her. When she leaves, Harpo turns their old house into a tavern, and they have Shug perform there, to kind of “get back on her feet”. Shug is finally getting back to her normal self, so she tells Celie she’s going to leave. She can live on her own. Celie tells her that when she’s not around, Mr. _____ beats her, so Shug says she’ll stay as long as she has to. Harpo has a new girlfriend, and her name is Squeak. While Harpo and Squeak are together, Sofia comes back with a new boyfriend too. Squeak gets mad, and tells Sofia to leave because Harpo is her man now. Sofia leaves, and then, not too long after, she gets put in jail because she “disrespected the mayor’s wife”. Now, they’re trying to figure out how to get her out of jail.

What I Saw and How I Lied pgs. 201-281 (end of book)

Gossip started spreading about the death of Peter Coleridge. Many people believed foul play was involved, and they think it was Evie’s parents who did it. News came about that Peter was having an affair with Bev (Evie’s mom). Evie didn’t want to believe that the man she was in love with was sleeping with her mom. But in the end it all made sense, and she was devastated. Eventually Evie was questioned in court. She lied about everything. She knew her mom was having an affair with Peter, but she told the judge that she was in love with Peter, and that telling people Bev and Peter were having an affair was a way to cover up the fact that she was in love with an older man. In the end Joe and Bev were found innocent. They left Palm Beach, hoping everything would go back to normal. We never really find out if their family lives went back to normal. The book ends with Evie giving Mrs. Grayson the $8,000 her father had to buy a new house, and telling her to whatever she wanted with it.

If I Stay 1-100

There was no school for Mia because of the snow so her Mom, Dad, and little brother Teddy decided to take the day off and go visit their family friends. The next thing Mia knows she's looking at herself and her family after a tragic car accident. She doesn't know what state she's in all she knows is that she's not alive but she's also not dead. The emergency helicopter takes her and Teddy to the hospital but it is already too late for her parents. She goes with the doctors and nurses to the hospital but no one can see her and she feels like some kind of a ghost. She finds out the condition she's in is not very good and some of her family members like her grandparents are on their way. As she tries to figure out what is going on she thinks back on how she met her boyfriend, Adam, and wonders where he is and how anyone could get ahold of him to let him know about the accident. He's in a band and they are supposed to be performing in Seattle that night and Mia was even supposed to be there. She is in a coma and some of her best friend Kim comes to visit but the only person they will let in the room to talk to her is her grandparents. The nurse that has been taking care of her tells them to be supportive and Mia (watching from the side) knows they will. They are talking to Mia when a young nurse comes along and tells them that it is really Mia's decision when she comes back to them. Mia doesn't understand what this means at first but then she realizes that it is up to her whether she goes with her parents or whether she stays here with Adam and her little brother. She knows the first thing she needs to do though is find Adam.

Water for Elephants. P 1-100.

Mr. Jankowski (Jacob) is in the nursing home, and he sees the circus has come to town. He then starts to think back on when he was younger... After he heard his parents had both died in a car accident, Jacob wasnt sure what he was going to do. Talking with the esquire, Jacob finds out there is really nothing for him becuase his parents had put a second mortgage on the house and so the bank is taking everything they have. Jacobs life flips upside down. He is about ready to graduate college as a vet, but it doesnt matter anymore seeing as his father's practice has been taken away, along with everything else in Jacob's life. He goes back to college to take his final exam to be done, but he cant focus on anything and doesnt even end up making a single mark on the paper. As soon as he leaves the class, he starts walking. He just keeps walking on and on until he realizes he is very far from anywhere and has nothing but himself. A short time after, he hears a train coming and he gets up and tries to get on it. After a few attempts, he makes it. When he gets on the train he instantly is with others. They question him and one man tells him the train is the circus. He goes with Camel (old man on the train) to talk to Uncle Al (man in charge) about getting Jacob a job. At first Camel is unable to get Jacob a job, but after being there for awhile, they get connections for Uncle Al to talk with Jacob. It is here that Uncle Al learns that Jacob is basically a vet. August tells Uncle Al to allow Jacob to stay becuase they have a horse that has something wrong with it. So Jacob looks at the horse and eventually has to kill it. Since Jacob is the vet he is moving higher up on the ladder. He hangs out with August and Marlena a few times.(performers) Marlena is a performer he saw before and she is very appealing to him it seems and he notices that August has issues with the way his behavior is and at any point in time, he may snap.

Tell No One 1-100

Tell No One by Harlan Coben is a really interesting book so far. Dr. Beck and his girlfriend Elizabeth have been going out since after they met each other in the second grade. They got married when they were 25 and were married for awhile before the night Beck's wife was taken from him. Killed, gone, he'd never see her again. Years pass bye and by this time it is almost their 21st Anniversary. He receives an e-mail that was sent to him from an unknown sender. When he opens it there's an error, so he has to wait till the time he first kissed Elizabeth to open it. When he opens it this time there is a camera and he thinks he sees Elizabeth, but she hasn't aged. He doesn't know really what he saw was true or not. This book keeps me wanting to read more and more to see what will happen next. This is a really great book so far. I can't wait to read more and see what will happen next.

What I Saw and How I Lied Pgs. 101-200

Things between Peter and Evie started heating up in pages 101-200. They started by having lunch with their family friends, and Evie’s family. Then Peter invited Evie for a walk to the beach. They kissed on the beach, and Evie had practically fallen head over heals for Peter. The next night Joe had tried to punch Peter because of his suspicion that peter liked Evie .The next day Evie’s mom caught Evie and Peter kissing, and told her that she had to stay away from Peter.  The family and Peter eventually decided to go to boating together, ignoring the rumor of a huge hurricane on the horizon. They told Evie to stay back at the hotel. Eventually the hurricane hit, and Evie had no idea where her parents or Peter were. She stayed with a generous family until she got the news that her parents were alive. She also got the news that her parents were alive. She was overjoyed, but then came the bad news. Peter was dead.  Evie didn’t believe it, and knew then that she was in love with Peter. Then came even worse news, Peter’s body had been found. This confirmed that Peter was, in fact, dead. The chapter ends with the police telling Evie’s parents that they needed to talk to them.

What I Saw and How I Lied Pgs. 1-100

The story starts out post World War 2.  The main character is Evie, a 15-year-old girl. The family decides to take a spur of the moment trip to Palm Beach in Florida.  Evie thought it was going to be an uneventful trip, but was proved very wrong. She went to a dance for a high school that she (obviously) didn’t belong to. She got so frustrated with the fact that no boy would ask her to dance. So, she went to the pool, and threw her sandals in the pool.  There, she caught a boy’s eye, and he asked her for a dance. She thought she would never see him again. To her surprise she saw him the next morning at breakfast, and met her parents. She learned that his name was Peter Colderige, he was twenty-three, and his dad and himself had been army buddies. Peter invited Evie and her family to lunch in a town close to Palm Beach. They half-heartedly accepted, and enjoyed lunch with Peter. During the lunch Peter and Evie escaped, and Peter admitted to thinking Evie was beautiful, but had to stay away from her.

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break 101-154

Ailin then started working for the Warner family, a missionary family sent from America. She worked for them for three long years in Nanjing, and then another year when they moved back to America. On the long boat ride to her new home she met a guy. His name was James Chew, James Chew was on his way back to America because he had to get all of the ingredients for his fathers restaurant. When they finally get to America they meet once again when Ailin is buying Chinese ingredients from Chinatown. It is only then when he tells her that he is going to start his own restaurant and he wants her to marry him.

The Hunger Games 3-103

Katniss lives in District Twelve with her mom and her little sister, Prim. After her dad died, she took over the duties of putting food on the table. Kat had left the boundaries of the town by going under the fence that kept everybody in. As she would go hunting everyday she met a boy named Gale. He was two years older than her. The annual Hunger Games soon rolled around. As every other year, one boy and one girl would be picked to go to the Capitol and fight all the other girls and boys from the other districts. The last one standing would get a celebration for their district with lots of food. It became time to meet in the town square. Katniss had more of a chance of getting picked than Prim. After all of the suspension building, they called the name for the girl. It was Prim. She started making her way up to the stage. When she was almost there, Katniss had stopped her and volunteered to take her place in the fight. Next, was the boy. His name was Peeta. Katniss had hardly ever talked to him before. After Peeta and Katniss had said goodbye to their loved ones, they were on a train headed to the Capitol. Before they knew it they were there and the stylists that had been assigned to them were working their magic. District 12 had made the best and most breathtaking appearance of all. Before they knew it they were training for three days, preparing for the fight.

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break 1-100

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break is about a Chinese girl named Ailin Tao who met her Fiancé Hanwei for the first time when she was just five years old. When they meet Hanweis grandmother realized that Ailin had not yet had her feet bound. This caused Hanweis grandmother to call off the wedding. This was because the Liu family was very high class, and it looked bad to not have a wife with unbound feet. When this happened it caused Ailins mother and uncle to be very upset, although her dad and grandmother supported her the whole time. Later that year Ailin finally got to go to public school, that was until her father died of lung cancer. When he died Big Uncle took Ailin out of public school because he thought it was a waste of money. Since she never married to a good husband Big Uncle gave her two options, become a nun or get married to a man that already had two other wives. This caused Ailin to run away to her teachers house, and ask her to find a job for her.

Push 100-140

Precious continues to attend the “Each One Teach One” school. She always gets to school early, because she loves it. She’s also starting to really enjoy writing poetry. Precious is also going to counseling. Her counselor, Mrs. Weiss, tells her that her mother has been calling wanting to attend a counseling session with her. Precious isn’t sure how she feels about this. After her session, she steals her file folder out of Mrs. Weiss’ office to see what it says about her. She read that she only has a 2.8 reading level, but to get into G.E.D. Classes, she’ll need at least an 8.0. She also reads some things that Mrs. Weiss told her she wouldn’t put in the file, which makes her distrust Mrs. Weiss. Precious begins going to an Incest support group. She’d never realized that this happens to so many girls. The next day, her mother attends her counseling session. Her mother tells a bunch of lies about how Precious had a great childhood, how she was cared for well, and how she had really nice clothes. Precious took the reading test again, and this time she scored 7.8 on it, so she’s close to being able to earn her G.E.D. She knows she doesn’t have many years to live because of her HIV, but she decides she’s going to keep writing poetry, and be a great mom. She will be better to Abdul than her mom ever was to her.

Push 1-100

This book is about Precious Jones, a sixteen year old from Harlem. She is sexually abused by her father, and physically abused by her mother. When she was twelve years old, she had her father's child, and now, at age sixteen, she's pregnant with his child again. Her first child, Mongo, has Downs Syndrome and lives with Precious' grandma. Precious goes to a Harlem junior high school, even though she's old enough to be a junior, because she can't read, write, or even comprehend numbers. After an incident in math class where she cussed out the teacher, she was expelled from school. Her school guidance counselor, Mrs. Lichenstein, comes to her house and suggests that she goes to an alternative school, "Each One Teach One". The next Monday, Precious goes to her new alternative school. Her teacher at the new school is Ms. Rain. She also has several other girls in her class that are illiterate and all have problems at home as bad as she does. She learns the alphabet and how to count. Ms. Rain has the students write in a journal, and then she writes back to them. Precious decides she really likes writing, and she even writes some poems. Then, half way through the school year, she has her second child by her father, and names him Abdul. After her mother has a particularly violent night, Precious can't deal with the abuse anymore, so she runs away with Abdul and goes to a halfway house. Her mom comes to see her at the halfway house, and tells her that her father had AIDS, so she should probably get tested. Also, she said that her father had died. She gets tested, and it turns out she is HIV positive.