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= **Alana D.** =

I hope that this blog helps you on your quest to finding a great book to read and also to help you to decide if you want to read a certain book or not. J

**//Title: //** Across the Universe //**Author: **// Beth Revis = = **//Publisher: //** The Penguin Group

**//First: //** I think that the book __Across the Universe__ will be about a girl named Amy who is supposed to be frozen so that she can go to a faraway planet. But I think that during the time she is frozen something is going to go wrong. I think this because on the back cover it says, "Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship God-speed. She has left her boyfriend, friends, and planet behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship." I also think that something is going to go wrong because I don't think that the author would write a book when there wasn't a main conflict. All in all, I am really looking forward to reading this book even if I don't know exactly what it is about.

//**Sixth: **////your opinion or reaction to the literature (book) (like, dislike, how it could be improved) support with reasons and or evidence. // Well, I started out reading this book but got really bored about a fifth of the way through. It was kind of boring and took a long time to get into, not to mention the flipping back from character to character got really confusing.

**//Title: //** Numbers <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Author: //** Rachel Ward **//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Publisher: //**<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chicken House <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Fourth: //** //<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Setting: // <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The setting of the book __Numbers__ by Rachel Ward is in London England. <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Time Period: //The time period that this book takes place in is present or current time. //<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Main Characters: // <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The main characters in the book are Jem and Spider. I would consider Jem a round character because throughout the book she changed a lot. Jem was a 15 year old girl. She lost her mother at the age of 7. She was really antisocial and tried to avoid people at any cost. She never really did well in school because she didn’t feel like it was necessary. She grew up in foster care with a lot of other kids so no one was really there for her to make her do anything and keep her on track. Throughout the book, Jem became more social especially when she met her best friend spider. Spider was more of a flat character because although he had a big personality in the book he really didn't go through very many changes or face conflicts like Jem did. Unlike Jem, Spider was very loud and was always running around. He was also 15 and also has had his mother die. That is one of the reasons Jem and Spider became friends. But like Jem, Spider was also an outcast who no one could really care less about. Even though he was an outcast, Spider still remained happy and full of energy throughout the book. <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Story Message: // <span style="font-family: Centaur,serif; font-size: 11pt;">The story message of the book Numbers by Rachel Ward in my opinion was to tell people that even if you have a problem or people don't like you or anything like that, in the end, everything will turn out okay. And I know that is very cliché but I think that the author did a great job telling an amazing story but also having a good message be portrayed throughout the entire book. <span style="font-family: Centaur,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I think the author wrote this book because she wanted people to write science fiction in a different way. I also think she wrote it to tell people that no matter who you are there is always a place for you.

<span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Sixth #2: //** <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Your opinion or reaction to the literature (book) (like, dislike, how it could be improved) // <span style="color: #a60c0c; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I think that the book __Numbers__ by Rachel Ward was good. It was a quick read that I got done within a couple of days. Writing whys, it wasn't necessarily the best writing but it had good description. The characters that Rachel Ward created in her writing were very life like and she wrote about them in a way that they were fun to read about because of their personalities. I think that this book could be improved by taking out some of the bad words. For instance, I think that all of the cussing Jem did may have taken away from the writing in some places. But then again, the words the characters used really helped to make a picture of them in your mind.

<span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//**<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Title: **////<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Crank // //**<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Author: **////<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ellen Hopkins // //**<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Publisher: **////<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Margaret K, McElderry Books //

<span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Fourth: //** = = <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Setting: // <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The setting in this book is mainly in the state of Nevada. The book starts with Kristina going to visit her dad in Reno, Nevada. If you wanted to get more specific, the setting could be the bowling alley in Reno or maybe her dad's house. <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Time Period: // <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The time period in __Crank__ would be modern time or present. <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Main Characters: // <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The main character of this book was most definitely Kristina. I would consider her as a round character because she went through some huge changes throughout the book, from getting on drugs, and being top of her class to getting C's and D's. Kristina is a person with kind of two completely separate personalities. For example, throughout the book it mentions two people, Kristina and Bree. Now, physically they are the same person but mentally they are not. Kristina is the girl she was before she met the monster crank, but after that, she went by Bree. Kristina is a 17 year old girl who has gotten good grades and been the best daughter forever, but then she decided that she didn't need all of that. That is when she met the monster named crank, she then became Bree. = = <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Story Message: // <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I think Ellen Hopkins wrote this book to make sure people knew about the danger of drugs. I think she wrote it so that people could see that a great kid who had a lot of potential for them can just through it all away if they do drugs. She wrote it to tell people that you can't just do drugs once and that once you start you can't stop.

<span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">Sixth #2 //** <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Centaur','serif';">your opinion or reaction to the literature (book) (like, dislike, how it could be improved) // <span style="color: #378637; font-family: 'Centaur','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I loved the way that the author wrote this book. She wrote in so that it was almost poetry. I thought it was really fun to read also because of the different spacing she used. Now, from a writing standpoint, I think that Ellen Hopkins’s writing was very good. She wrote her book in a very relatable way. Her characters really came alive and I was practically transported to Reno with Kristina. I also like the book because, like I said before, it was like poetry and instead of having chapters; she made a lot of individual poems. The last reason I liked this book was because it was a quick read. Although it was shorter, the author was really able to create an image of the characters and setting throughout the entire book.