She said, in this strange, soft voice " Steven your brother is really sick"
Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie by: Jordan Sonnenblick is a very sweet and sad book and shows how two brothers fought a lot ,but one of them gets sick and they close along the book. When I finished reading this book, I was about cry... Steven is a normal 13 year old who has a crush on the prettiest girl in his class named Renee. But like everybody else who has a sibling, Steven has an annoying little brother named Jeffrey. Jeff is constantly bothering Steve when he plays drums. Steve barely spends time with little Jeff, but Steve's life turns upside when Jeff gets a nosebleed... not an ordinary nosebleed. So, during the weekend Jeff wants breakfast and asks Steve to make him some. Steve puts him on a stool, but when Steve turned around Jeff fell and had a nosebleed, it was bleeding so much!!
Steve's mother runs downstairs after hearing Jeff's scream and takes him to the hospital and Jeff has .... luekemia. Steve blames himself and feels guilty and tries to be in his brothers side as much as he can, but he takes so much care of his brother that he begins to fail. Steve forgets about his crush and forgets about playing drums. Jeff gets bruises all over his body and loses all his hair * wahhhh*
Then the rest of the book is about how stressed out his family was. At the end, Jeffrey recovered and it ended like " You could the hair growing back at Jeff's head"
"Some bonds just can't be broken"
I Heart You, You Haunt Me by: Lisa Schroeder is a very romantic and sad book. The book's writing was different, it was not written in paragraph's, it was sort of written in stanza's. The book starts of as a girl's point of view named Ava and she she is attending a funeral... not any funeral, but her boyfriend's funeral. Ava explain's her feelings as guilty and that Jackson's (her boyfriend) must've hated Ava, but at this part got me thinking... why does Ava guilty? Did she do something wrong? After the funeral, Ava is depressed and feels so akward around everyone and does not hang out with her friends and that's when Ava thinks that she is dreaming... she hears Jackson's voice. It's actually Jackson's ghost who can talk to Ava by his thoughts. Ava feels overwhelmed, confused and frustrated. Jackson kept putting love songs and kept on making a mess if she ever went out, and Ava yells at Jackson about how they cannot love each other forever and to stop making her feel guilty and Jackson explains to her ( with his mind) that he came here to stop making her feel guilty about his death. Basically, when Ava and Jackson were dating they had sort of a Daring Game where they dared each other to do risky things, but Ava once dared him to jump off the highest cliff and Jackson jumped, hit his head on a rock and died. Jackson came to Ava to take all the guilt away with him an Ava realizes and promises to not feel guilty and Jackson disappears. Ava continues with her life ,but always has Jackson in his heart.
Roger abuses her till Caitlin is covered with bruises and she even wears long turtlenecks in the summer, and at one point Roger begins beating her till her mother catches her.( YES!!!) and Roger is arrested. ( Such a happy ending!)
(Crank by: Ellen Hopkins) Katherine deals with issues that I recognized most teenagers dealt with such as drug and addiction.
Katherine used to have a perfect life. She used to be and A+ student and never got into any trouble. Katherine's mom and her dad were divorced. So, Katherine decided to visit her dad, but her dad ... didn't act like a real dad to Katherine. Katherine was pretty lonely and hung out by herself... until she met Adam. Adam was a drug addict and made Katherine try Crank (type of drug) , but when Katherine tried it, she loved it! Katherine constantly kept visiting Adam to try more drugs till she was completely a drug addict. Katherine forgot all about her school work and her friends and family.
Most teenager are drug addicts. I visited a website: http://helpguide.org/mental/drug_substance_abuse_addiction_signs_effects_treatment.htm for more information on Teenager Drug Addiction. "People experiment with drugs for many different reasons. Many first try drugs out of curiosity, to have a good time, because friends are doing it, or in an effort to improve athletic performance or ease another problem, such as stress, anxiety, or depression" from the Article Drug Abuse and Addiction. I think that this makes sense because Katherine was sort of depressed and stressed about her parent's divorce and her sister being homosexual she tried to ignore all her family problems or maybe she was just curious.
Well, I can connect to Katherine (not about drugs) usually when I find something cool that I like (ex: T.V.) I don't do my homework... I get addicted with it or a type of food.
Katherine life gets totally ruined because she gets raped by her boyfriend and she nearly killed her baby because she still kept taking drugs and I'm sure most teenagers lives were ruined because of drug addiction.
