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Ashely’s mother pledged to her, “Sunshine, you’re my baby and I’m your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she’s not your mama.” Three Little Words is a memoir about Ashely Rhodes-Courter who has spent nine years in fourteen different foster homes. During Ashely’s journey, those words gave Ashely hope that one day her mother would get her act together and so that she and her brother Luke can return back home.

Griffin 1 The Killer Angels Review Michael Shaara was born in June 23, 1929. He was raised by a southern mother and had roots back to Thomas Jefferson. Michael was a teacher at Florida State University and taught a writing class there. He wrote multiple books but The Killer Angels was definitely one of his most successful books he wrote. The Killer Angels tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Journal 4 I am reading Crossed by Ally Condie and I am on page 252. This book is about Cassia looking for, and eventually finding Ky in the Carving. Early on, Ky escapes into the Carving with his friend Vick and a little boy named Eli. They navigate the channels, paths, and caves, trying to find a way back to the Provinces, so Ky can reunite with Cassia. Meanwhile, Cassia and her friend Indie also travel amongst the canyons.

The story Killer Angels provides an in-depth perspective of both Confederate and Union soldiers during the Civil War. The author, Michael Shaara, accomplishes a special feat due to the fact that throughout the novel he rarely breaks away from the factual aspects of America's bloodiest war. The Civil War had seemingly various causes despite numerous soldiers and outsiders believing it was entirely about slavery. The Union and Confederates weren't just fighting over the rights and ideas of slavery, they were fighting for much more. It was a power struggle.

Character Analysis A mystery that is so deep and so complex, that the ones who were involved would do anything to keep it covered up, even kill two reporters and many runaway girls. In the novel Deadly Sanctuary, by Sylvia Nobel a reporter, Kendall O’Dell is taken into a complex conspiracy that could cost her, her life. In Castle Valley, Arizona a reporter went missing after the discovery of two dead teenage girls. This reporter, John Dexter, was always trying to cause trouble, and only wrote about topics that would get someone into trouble.

After being rescued Jaycee had to learn how to live as an adult in the real world. When she was rescued the only thing she could think to do was reunited with her mother. The whole time she was held hostage at the Garridos the only thing she wanted was her mother. Jaycee had lost her whole childhood while she was at the Garrido’s. She didn’t get to go to school, hang out with friends, learn how to drive, playing sports,going on dates, or anything that most teenagers have the opportunity to do in there life.

Essential Data Genre: Biography Format: Picturebook Brief Summary: Sky All Around is a picture book for both adults and children. This book is filled with bold pictures using evocative watercolors, follwed by lyrical rhymes. This book captures the life of a typical Iowa family farm. 2.

Katja von Garnier's "Iron Jawed Angels" tells the remarkable and little-known story of a group of passionate and dynamic young women, led by Alice Paul and her friend Lucy Burns, who put their lives on the line to fight for American women's right to vote in the early twentieth century in the United States of America. The story began when Alice Paul was permitted to take over the National American Woman Suffrage Association's (NAWSA) Washington, D.C. committee after a meeting with Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw, their superiors in NAWSA. Alice and Lucy then carried on to recruit volunteers to join their cause and to fight for women's suffrage, they planned parades to promote women's suffrage, called for women to boycott President Wilson

In the article, “Alcohol Use and Abuse Statistics” states, “thirty-five percent of offenders were under the influence of alcohol in a case of an abuse” (Alcohol Use and Abuse Statistics - Alcoholism - Addictions). The abuser’s violent action affects the relationship between the family and the abuser’s significant other. The actions of the abuser affect their victim physical and mental state through control and victim blaming. A Step from Heaven by An Na depicts a Korean family experiences the life of an American immigrant. The adolescent narrator, Young Joon, describes the difficulty of the family migrating to the United States in hope of a better life.

The novel follows a girl in heaven after her death. She must learn to cope with seeing her family from afar as they try to solve her murder. Susie must conquer the fact that she cannot reveal who murdered. Although her family is trying to heal, Susie feels unable to let go of her thirst for revenge. Eventually she is able to hold onto love instead of vengeance.

Book Report #4 The book I read this quarter was Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood. Its Lexile level is 680. This book is about a 11-year old girl named Gloriana Hemphill, who now comprehends how much racism is a problem in her hometown in Mississippi in 1963.

The story “The Charmer” written by Budge Wilson depicts the life of a family who is brainwashed by their son, but the oldest daughter Winnifred goes from adoring Zach, to realizing his not so charming colours, and eventually educating her own child to not make the same mistakes as Zach. Winnifred adores Zach as children but never realizes that she is completely charmed by him and unintentionally becomes his slave. An example of that is when the narrator says, “Zach [sits] down and [eats] half [of] the cake… the three [sisters] wash up old baking dishes… and his plate and fork and glass” (4). Winnifred and her sisters willingly wash the dishes, not noticing how selfish Zach is being by not helping them out and eating the cake that was meant for the Church Bazaar. Only in a matter of

Almost everyone is aware of some story behind historic colonizers in his or her country. Whether it’s the United States’ story of Columbus, or the Mexico’s story of Cortes, people are familiar with what it means to be a colonizer. However, in the short story, “Maryanne’s Clouds Today”, by Ivan Rehorek, the author takes a spin on the post colonial mindset that is known as othering. This is when the colonizer sets himself apart from the colonized people by cultural values, difference in appearance or personality as a whole. Columbus used this sense of othering by pointing out the differences between himself and the natives he encountered.

One can even make the comparison between Mrs.Lovenheim and a guardian angel. She is always present but she is under the radar most of the time, but when danger strikes, she acts

Elizabeth Bowen, the author of “The Demon Lover,” was born in a small town in Ireland. During World War II, Bowen was employed by the Ministry Information in London and also served as a an air raid warden. This inspired Bowen to write most of her stories about the events and the effect of World War II. One of the effects Bowen writes about is the wives of fallen or missing soldiers. Many women today are currently waiting on their fiances or husbands to come back from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.