Always Running, Chapter 2-3

So far, in the story, Luis is involved in a bunch of arrests, shooting, drinking, and drug use. Luis's mother hates him, and kicks him out, after he tried commit suicide at age 13. He tried to cut his wrist with a razor. One night, his friend Clavo was shot. So, he was on wheelchairs, and after he came out the hospital, their gang decided to take a trip to the "white beach." Since's he's Mexican, it was restricted for him. So there, he has love affairs, and gets caught using mescaline, by some police officers.

The Twilight Saga vs The Hunger Games Trilogy... which is better?

If you ask me which series I like better, "The Hunger Games Trilogy," or "The Twilight Saga," I would choose "The Hunger Games," because Katniss has a want. Bella on the other hand does not have a want, which doesn't make anything interesting. She's just like, "I don't know who I should choose. Will it be Edward or Jacob?" Katniss has a want. She wants to be free from the Capitol's custody.

In Twilight, you meet Bella's dad who's living in Forks, Washington. Then you meet all the other characters at a high school lunch table. There's another table. That's where the Cullens( the secret vampires) sit. Over the course of the book, Bella and Edward get closer, due to Edward saving her life several times. But at the end, when a vampire is hunting Bella down for her blood, and has drained her, Edward revives Bella. So... yeah, it's your basic vampire-teen romance novel. It's cliched

The Hunger Games is unique. It's inspired by ancient Rome, and an ancient saying, "Panem et Circenses." The saying means, "Bread and Circuses." That's what runs the dystopian country. Literally. There's a Capitol ringed by once 13, now 12 districts. The Districts provide bread, symbolizing human wants and necessities, and circuses, which represent, entertainment. The story follows Katniss, a girl who lives in the poverty of District 12. But annually the capitol makes all the districts offer 1 girl and 1 boy tribute to participate in the annual Hunger Games. Teenagers between the ages of 12-18 are forced enter their names in the giant glass ball for the reaping. When her sister, Prim's, name is reaped, Katniss bravely volunteers as tribute. She fights to death againts the 23 other people, and wins with the boy from her district, Peeta, which is irregular, because only one tribute is supposed to win.

Twilight continues into three other books, just describin her confusion between Edward and Jacob. I mean, come on! Really? It's been used a billion times.

The Hunger Games continues, expressing Katniss's will to destroy everything, her growing hate, her want, the Capitol's reign of torture, and becoming the Mockingjay.

Always Running... Chapter 1

Always Running is a childhood autobiography written by Luis J. Rodriguez. Luis talks about his time being new to Los Angeles... new to the U.S. Luis arrived in Los Angeles in the 1950s, so everyone was racist and cruel to Mexicans, who they called spics. His family were very poor, and could not speak in English very well. One time, they went to the park to rest on the benches, and a Caucasian woman with three children yelled at them to get off, telling them that they didn't belong, it wasn't their country. I felt bad for them. Wherever this woman is now, she must be feeling really guilty, because if she isn't then there is something wrong with her. Mexicans are as equal as her. No one can dominate another person.

Another time, he talks about going to a Caucasian area with his brother, when he was six, and his brother was nine, to do groceries. Everything had gone well in the start. But when they left with their purchases, a couple of teenagers showed up. They said, "Well, well, well, look at who dared to come into the white side of town. Two spics." They knocked the groceries to the floor. One teenager held Luis up, and the other two threw his brother to the floor. They slapped him, kicked him, cut his skin, and punched his stomach until he vomited. They all took turns beating Rano. Luis was forced to watch. The teenagers left, laughing. Rano cried a lot. And that was the start of Luis's violent childhood. As the blurb says, he has experienced violence,  shootings, arrests, drugs, murder, saw suicide, attempted slow suicide, and gang culture.

Anya's Ghost

Anya's ghost may seem like an inappropriate (too young) book for seventh graders, but it's just the right thing... but if you read it too much, your skills will fall behind. It's a graphic novel about a girl named Anya, of course. She was teased when she first moved to the U.S. She was falled fat and ugly, and everyone laughed at her Russian accent. So she turns her back on her religion, culture, and family. She HATES people from her country and is ashamed of her last name,  Borzakovskaya.

But one day, she falls in a hole, and finds a girl named Emily Reilly. Emily is a ghost. At the beginning, she's very dainty, and kind, and helpful. But then, she gets involved in Anya's social life. And Emily becomes controlling, by making Anya go after a boy who broke her heart. And when Anya refuses to do this, Emily starts terrorizing the whole family.

But Anya finds out Emily's secret. Tha's when everything becomes a lie. Anya finds out that Emily died of a broken heart, and wants Anya to live her life for her. At the end, Emily fades away with a sad and broken heart.

I Might Be Too Old for This, but I Certainly Don't Feel Like It

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Third Wheel...

I will read all these books by Jeff Kinney. It's hilarious and I'll never stop reading it. Is it my favorite series? No. That's The Hunger Games. But in the story, reading about Greg Heffley (the protagonist) makes you realize how smart you are a person. It's a sweet ambition, and I'm pretty sure me and everyone else has this too, Greg wants to grow up and be famous. He believes it too. But he says it like if you can just clap your hand, then you can be famous. You actually have to run a few miles to be famous, everyone knows that. Meanwhile, Greg justs sits back, acts lazy, fails, and keeps going on with his middle school obsessions.

In the Third Wheel, there's a Valentine's Day Dance at his school, and he wants a date. He tries really stupid and pointless things to get one, but at the end, he's stuck going to the dance as part of a group. His group includes a girl named Abigail Brown, his best friend Rowley, and himself. But Greg keeps failing at his chances with Abigail. Instead, Abigail starts paying more attention to Rowley.

I won't say more except Greg has an okay ending for himself. After all, he is a wimpy kid.

The Lucky Kind

I didn't finish this book yet, but I'm reading The Lucky Kind. The story is told in first person bya really perverted Jewish boy that gets drunk on weekends and smokes cigarettes on roofs. The horrible part is that he's only a teen. But it seems that all the time, he is lucky. He got away with smoking and drinking, when his parents knew. They seemed upset for like two seconds in the book, it suddenly turned into another topic.

But he finds out that he isn't the only one into dirt. His father was too, like about thirty years ago. He finds out that he is his mother's first-bron, but not his father's. His father had another son who's 29. He now starts to rethink all he thought about father, because his father is hiding things from him.

Sarah's Key

Nowadays, you just can't find a book without all the teenage dirt in it. So, I just took a historical fiction by random, it is just great! Great with no sarcasm. In Sarah's Key, it shows a family in France during the beginning of the Holocaust. The police went door to door, just before dawn, arresting Jewish families. Sarah's father is hiding in their cellar, and when the police shows up at their door, she hides her little brother in the cupboard, and locks him up, telling him that she'll come back. When police have Sarah and her mother, they search for her father. And they find him.

Fifty years later, an American woman, her French husband, and their eleven year-old daughter, become involved with Sarah and her history with her little brother. Bertrand, the husband, disagrees with this idea. The woman collects files, research, sources, and travels around Europe and North America, to find Sarah.

It turns out that she never told anyone about her brother, her religion, or her past. Her son didn't even know!

And in the end, there is no Sarah. There was, but not anymore.