My Summer Reading Summary

I read two books over the summer. Both of the books I read were Young Adult novels. The first book I read was Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It was about a girl starting her freshman year of highschool. She starts the year off with no friends, and her social life is ruined because of it. She goes through most of her highschool year alone, because of one secret that changed her life over the summer that she has kept bottled up inside her. Another book I read was called When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago. It is a memoir about a puerto rican girl and her life in Puerto Rico, and her growing up in Puerto Rico. Also her experience of what its like moving from one place to another. The memoir also talks about how she was brought up, and the rules she had to follow when she was a young girl.