Book Recomendations

    The book I would like to recommend to you guys is called 13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher I would give it 5 stars.  I loved this book, I just completed it yesterday. One of the reasons I love it so much is the way it is written. I have read a lot of reviews saying that it is a fun book to listen to, because they say that you can hear Hannah's voice.  You would like this book if you like a little bit of suspense. You would also like this book if you want to know what it’s like to lose a classmate or family member to suicide.

 

     13 Reasons Why is a book about a girl who committed suicide and recorded tapes of the 13 people (or reasons) she did it. These tapes are only passed around to the people who are included in the tapes, the 13 people. One of these people is Clay, and this book focuses in on his time with the tapes. The book includes everything on the tapes, and Clay's thoughts while listening to the tapes.  I would add a quote, but I feel like it would spoil the book.  Because literally, nothing in this story is unimportant. If you do read it, do not skim over anything.

A book that I read is Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne.  One theme for this book is: When in danger, or Safety, stick together with the people you know. This is a theme for the book, because in the book, there is a hail storm that ruins everything. Houses, stores, hospitals, vehicles, almost everything is destroyed, except for the buildings with thick metal roofs, or the buildings underground.  In the book, there is a group of kids whose buses got ruined while they were riding to school in the hail storm, their bus driver, Mrs. Wooly, brought them to a Greenway, which is like a super Wal-Mart. This is what happened; “The bus reached the store. I thought she'd stop it outside and we'd walk in, but no, just as she had before, Mrs. Wooly drove it right through the hole where the glass doors had been and then we were inside the greenway, in a bus." At some point later on in the book, Mrs. Wooly leaves to go to the hospital, and doesn’t come back. Before she leaves, she puts Jake in charge. Jake is a senior. Once Mrs. Wooly left, there was a thick black cloud of smoke in the air. Once the cloud came in, the children learned that Jake may not be the best person to be in charge.  So they put Niko, a junior in high school, and a boy scout in charge. The cloud was full of chemicals that made people with different types of blood have different reactions. Because of this cloud, the kids had to close off all of the air supply from the outside. "'This is from NORAD: attention, residents of Colorado and neighboring states. at 8:26 a.m. today, Wednesday, September 8 2024, chemical Weapon storage facilities at the North American Aerospace Defense  Command Department have been breeched. Residents in a 500- mile radius of NORAD are urged to get indoors and seal all windows immediately.'" This is talking about the black cloud.

Once the doors and everything is sealed, the 14 kids, Chloe, Ulysses, Max, Caroline, Henry, Sahalia, Jake, Brayden, Astrid, Dean, Alex, Batiste, Josie, and Niko have to stick together to survive all of the catastrophes that happen. Including the cloud. They have to stay in the store for months, and they have to learn how to live like a family.

The book I read is called 'Don't Tell' by Mercy Amare.

I really liked this book, I loved the plot line, and the characters. The important characters in this book are: Lucy, Ian, Tess, and Charles, Lucy's Dad.
Lucy is  a very dynamic character, at the beginning of the book, she doesn't really trust anyone other than Tess, her best friend. In the book, she thinks to herself "The last thing I wanted was a boyfriend... It would just be one more person I would have to lie to." (Amare, 6).   Towards the end of the book, she starts to learn how to trust people, like Ian. Ian is a static character, because he does not undergo major change.   Tess is also a static character, because she doesnt undergo major change. although she does help to move Lucy along in the story.  Tess helps Lucy realize that maybe all she needed was a boyfriend.  Charles is a static character, he does not change at all through the book. Charles is Lucy's abusive father, who blames Lucy for her mom's death.  All of these characters help move Lucy towards the right path for herself, whether its helping her notice that she needs a safer place, or its giving her the self confidence she needs, they all help her throughout the book.