Showing posts with label literary fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literary fiction. Show all posts

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Weedflower

Sumiko has been living with her auntie, uncle, grandpa, cousins(Bull and Ichiro) and her beloved brother Tak-Tak since her parents died when she was seven. Her family had always worked on a flower farm in California, Sumiko loved the scent that the flowers gave out especially the weedflowers, her dream was to open a flower shop when she grew up. One day big news breaks out in America that Japan had bombed Hawaii and all Japanese-Americans were forced to move to internment camps.
Sumiko desperetly tries to avoid ultimate boredom. She finds life at camp pretty dull and misses grandpa and uncle who was sent to another camp that was unknown to her, she yearns for the normal, carefree and happy life she used to own back when the war had not broke out.
One day she meets a mohave indian boy named Frank, althought they hate each other at first, Sumiko finds the indians are just as unwanted as the Japanese by the American government. Frank becomes her first initial friend, their friendship continued to develop until one day Sumiko moves out of camp with her auntie and her brother.
This book has taught me that friend ship can still bloom even in the harshest conditions and I recommened this book to everyone

Monday, February 22, 2010

My Sister's Keeper-Jodi Picoult

Every now and then, you will read a book that really touches your heart, and leaves you thinking long after you had finished it. Well for me, one of those books is called, "My Sister's Keeper."
Anna Fitzgerald, a thirteen year old girl, who had gone through a few painful operations to provide bone marrow and blood to keep her sister Kate alive, had decided to go against her parents. Kate has suffered from leukemia, a type of cancer since she was two. Anna had been forced to donate one of her kidneys to her sister. She hired a lawyer, Campbell Alaxander, to sue her parents for the rights of her body. Will Anna win this case and watch her sister die, or will she be persuaded to give up one of her kidneys? Read this book and find out.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about relationships and emotions. It's a well plotted book and keeps your head burried to the book until the last page. I also recommend a box of tissue ready because it's a book that really gets you.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Lockie Leonard by Tim Winton


You might think romance is boring but really this isn't just romance it's about a boy who is 12 years of age who is moving to the cost of Australia with his family after living in the city called perth. The book is made up of romance of a young teenager, humor of a family who likes to tease each other and the not very nice experiences of starting at a new school.
Lockie Leonard (main character) is a surfer who moves to the costs and is hit by all the problems of growing up. It isn't easy starting at a new school and starting high school at the same time but Lockie Leonard has to put up with it . lockie does like school too much so he spends most his time at school day dreaming. when he isn't day dreaming he is thinking about the girl who sits at the front of class. Lockie Leonard knows he has no chance with the girl who sit at the front of the class first of all he doesn't even know her name second of all she is like the most popular girl in school.
But if you want to know what happens between the girl at the front of class and Lockie then you better read the book.
i'd recommend this from the ages of 12 to 14 because people younger would find it disgusting and the people older would find it boring. i'd give the book out of 10 about 9

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Goosebumps how to kill a monster


Clark hate staying at her grandparents house. Grandpa Eddie is totally deaf. And the most thing that will not want her to stay at her grandparents house is the room upstairs. It is going to kill you!! And every night you can hear strange noises from it.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Diary of a Wimpy Kid-The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney

"The Last Straw" is the third published book by Jeff Kinney. So far, this book has been an all time favorite, ever since it's release. this book is a humor/fiction book. It displays a teenager, Greg Heffley, who goes through lots of incidents, which are too funny to be true.

This book is set out like a diary entry. It starts out from January the first, where they talk about their new year resolutions". And it ends with Christmas, where they speak about having Christmas back again the Author uses perfect description to describe each minute, of each event.

Here is a summary of the story: Greg Heffley starts his new year of by talking about new year resolutions. It then goes on to school matters, brother conflicts, girlfriend descriptions , birthday and celebration events, and many more things. This book is a 24 hour entertainer, and it will keep you engaged and amused as long as you read it for.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Ersatz Elevator - Written by : Lemony Snicket


Ersatz Elevator

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" books are the story about Baudelaire orphans. Their parents died from a fire in their house, so Baudelaires lived with their new guardians. Their first guardian was Count Olaf. He was not really a good guardian, though. He just wanted Baudelaire fortune, and he follows any place where Baudelaires live in his disguises.
In this story, Baudelaires live in a penthouse. Their new guardians are Esme and Jerome Squalor. Esme is the city's 6Th most important financial adviser and Jerome is her husband. Count Olaf who disguised as Gunther is a boy friend of Esme. He used an ersatz elevator which he made himself on the top floor (where the Baudelaires lived) to hide Quagmires he had captured before. The elevator which Count Olaf made had one mistake, and it was that the ersatz elevator had an "up" button although it was at the top floor. Buadelaires had found this and figured out that there is Quagmires under the elevator and tried to rescue them, but they failed and they were also trapped in the elevator. Because of Sunny (the youngest Baudelaire) 's effort (climbing on elevator walls with her big frond teeth) Baudelairs came out from that elevator, and tried to save Quagmires again, but they failed.
This story is really unfortunate and it is bit sad, but you can feel love between siblings, friendships between Baudelaires and Quagmires, and grown-ups' greed especially related to money. I would recommend this book to read, and it is one of my favorites. I hope you also enjoy this book, too.