The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time

By Mark Haddon

           This book is about a kid named Chris who has autism. He finds his neighbors dog with a pitch fork through the middle of it. He goes up to the dog, removes the pitchfork and hugs the dog. When his neighbors find him in the middle of the night holding the dead dog they immediately call the police. When he realizes that everybody thinks he did it and nobody knows who really killed the dog, he wants to find out who killed him.

          Chris lives with his dad because his mom died of a heart attack a few years earlier. Mrs. Shear was the one who's dog got killed. Mr. Shear had left Mrs. Shear at the same time Chris's mother died. When Chris's dad got really mad when he said Mr. Shear I started to realize what is happening. It takes Chris a lot longer.

Out of my Mind

By Sharon m Draper

Rating 4/5 Stars

         This book is about a 13 year old girl named Melody, who is not able talk or move anything besides her head and thumbs. It creates a lot of challenges for her. On top of all of that she also has a photographic memory. She uses a board and points to the word so she can communicate. She is in a class with some other kids that have disabilities and completely separated from the rest of the school. In 5th grade the school started inclusion classes so that kids like her could join the rest of the school. One day in one of the classes a girl brought in a new computer. Melody said that she wanted a computer that was designed just for her. The next day she is given a chance to research it in one of the classes. Just a little bit later she gets it. After some practice she is able to use it. Later one of the teachers starts talking about Whiz Kids Team that answers questions and goes to competitions. Melody's goal is to get on the team even when everybody in the school is doubting her.

       I think this would be a good movie because it would be really cool to see how the emotion was showed even though Melody cannot talk and how she deals with it. It would also be really hard for the producer to show emotion and feeling in Melody.

Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld

Genre: Young Adult

 

       Uglies is about a girl named Tally. This book takes place in the future after everything has gone wrong. The government created a surgery that makes you pretty. Almost everybody has this surgery once they turn sixteen. Tally has looked forward to becoming pretty her entire life. Her best friend turned pretty just a months before Tally. That meant they would not see each other in tell Tally tuned pretty. For Tally, the months dragged by slowly. She ends up making friends with Shay. Shay teaches tally to hover board and eventually tells tally that she is going to run off to a place called Smoke. Tally chooses not to go along and to turn pretty. When tally goes to the hospital to have the operation, she is sent to another place called Special Circumstances. She meets a person named Dr. Cable. Dr. Cable threatens that if she does not go after Shay and find the place called Smoke, she will never turn pretty.

 

       I really liked this book. The book was not super descriptive but it still gave me a very vivid image of what this world looked like and everything that happened in the book. I also liked the plot of the book. It seemed so unreal but at the same time I was thinking, "What if this ends up happening? How? and Why?" It was also fun to both try to predict what the choice would lead to (I was never right) and would I have make that decision? I think that this book is not a quick read but I would definitely recommend this book to anybody and everybody.

Code Talkers

By Joseph Bruchac

       This book is about Navajos who joined the marines to fight in World War II. In World War II they used there native language to speak to each other over radios as code. The code could not be broken by anyone and so when the Germans and Japanese intercepted the radio talk they would not be able to decode the secret messages that they held. This was a huge part of World War II and those who knew about it were not allowed to talk about it for many years. When Navajos joined the marines they would be taken off to a boot camp with everyone who was joining the military. After they graduated the boot camp most of them would be sent to a camp where they would learn a code. The code used their language and then it would be translated into English.

        I really liked this book. The author was really good at describing how Ned Begay(the main character) felt in every moment of the book. It made it really easy to relate to him because I could easily understand what he was feeling. I also like the descriptiveness of the setting wherever he went.