Second Chance Summer

Second Chance Summer By - Morgan Malson

 “Cancer. Pancreatic. Stage four. Four months, maybe more. Maybe less.”

Taylor is spending her last “normal” summer with her family at their lake house like old times. However, this summer is different, she has no friends and her dad is sick, really sick. Her dad’s disease is taking his life away faster then she imagined. Taylor doesn’t imagine her summer getting any worse.  But it does.  Her ex-best friend  just so happens to be her co-worker at the beach snack bar.  But wait… her ex-boy friend moved into the house next door! And, he is more gorgeous then she remembers. Will Taylor be able to fix her past mistakes and have enough time with her dying father before the summer ends?

Second Chance Summer was a fabulous book meant for anyone who loves heartfelt  novels. This book made me cry, laugh, and want to shout with anger. The emotion in this book was so real. You feel as if you have known the characters for years. When one character feels sad, you want to jump in comfort them as if you were best friends.  I remember feeling this way when Taylor asked her dad, “Are you scared?” and he simple nodded. Taylor got sad and confused. Her dad was always the strong one but now he is not; I wanted to jump in the book so bad just to comfort her. In addition, the book was a page turner; I could not wait to flip the page to see what would happen next. I recommend this book to anyone who loves heartfelt novels.              

-          Ray <3                                                                                                       

Demon Glass

     

 I just finished reading Demon Glass by Rachel Hawkins. It is the second book in the Hex Hall series. It was a very good book, which I recommend to all but read the first book in the series title Hex Hall first. This book was very suspenseful and you will not want to put it down. I wonder when reading the book, why am I so nervous for Sophie? My answer was Rachel Hawkins made the book seem so real that you were sucked in and placed in the middle of all the suspense.

The book is about Sophie a girl who is a demon. She is sent to Hex Hall a school for troubled witches, fairies, werewolves, vampires, demons and other magical creatures. Sophie was sent there in the first book after she exposed herself to humans at a dance. There she finds out that she is a demon and not a witch like she believed. Strange things have been happening at Hex Hall and students have been disappearing. So when Sophie goes to visit her father the head of the prodigium council in England for the summer she finds out that The Eye, a group out to kill all the prodigrium in the world, has grown and has her ex-crush working for them who is a warlock. But what she finds out about who is making the teens at Hex Hall disappear will surprise all.

Read Demon Glass by Rachel Hawkins.

-Ray <3

The Theme

The message in the book Found is, do not take one day of your life for granted because it can change in an instant. One time this was proved in the book was when the 36 children got "kidnapped" and stuck in the cave. After spending awhile in cave all the children wanted life to go back to normal. This also was proved when Jonah got his second letter. He wished the letters never come and his life would go back to normal.

Found the Character I Would Meet

           I am reading Found by Haddix for a book club at school. I f had to choose to meet one character from this book I would have to choose Katherine. I would want to meet her to find out why she wants to be involved with Jonah and Chip's research to find out why people are coming after them.  I would want to find this out because Jonah and Chip are in danger and Katherine is not she easily could turn the other cheek but she choose to help her brother and his friend. Also she has changed so much through out the book at first she was annoying and self absorbed. She would take stuff from her brother like when it was his turn to have the cell-phone or get the better shower in the morning but now she is really helpful to Jonah and Chip. She has helped them by finding out why people are after them and  also she has stuck by them and considered everything the have said. That is why i would want to meet Katherine from the book Found.

                                                                               -Rachel

My Favorite Character

My favorite character is Katniss, from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Katniss is a character that I think a lot of women and girls want to be like. She is a strong and brave character.

She was strong and fought for what she believed in. She was strongest in the book when she took her sisters place at the reaping. This showed she was strong because in the hunger games you have a good chance of dying. Only one child can survive the games, out of 24. She took her sister places knowing her sister would most likely not survive and knowing she had a good chance of dying know that she was one of 24 in the  hunger games.

The part in the book were she was the bravest was when she went to the feast to get Peeta’s medicine. This showed bravery because at the feast many people normally die.  This also shows bravery because she had to drug Peeta, with sleeping medicine, to leave because he did not want her to go and die, for they were in “love”.

-Rachel

About My Reading

I have to say Nicholas Sparks is my favorite author.  His books are always heartfelt and in the end the main characters problems are solved. My favorite book of his has to be Safe Haven. I read the book in one day. The characters seemed so real and the drama in the book just sucked you in. I loved how I was scared when Katie (the main character) was scared or when she was sad I felt the emotion as if it was my own.

My favorite genre is historical fiction because you enter a world that is so different but it actual existed at one point in history.

I just finished Out of my Mind by Sharon Draper. In this book, Melody, an eleven year old with cerebral palsy, has a photo-graphic memory but no one knows since she cannot walk nor talk. At school the children ignore her besides the children in Homeroom 5, who also have special needs. When her school has an inclusion program which lets her go to normal fifth grade classes, she cannot wait.  She soon notice she can't praticapte because she can not say anything or control her body movements. She wants to talk so badly that she gets her aids attention and manages to tell her that she needs a speak devise. When her parents agree to the plan she is so excited and her first words to them is "i love you." She soon can voice opionion and makes on to math team and helps them win states and when her team goes to national, they leave her behind on purpose not wanting her to slow them down. I would recomned this book to anyone who loves heart felt novels.
                                                                        -Rachel