Books I've Read This Year

I have read many books throughout the year such as,
1. Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
2.Ending of Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
3.When It Happens by Susane Colasanti
4.Cracked up to Be by Courtney Summers

Over the Summer of 2009 I read, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago. I am currently reading Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen.

Along for the Ride: Connection to Movies

There are many ways to connect the novel Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen, to certain movies. This novel, reminds me of a movie I saw called How To Deal. This movie was based on other Sarah Dessen novels, but they were two books blended together into one movie. Those books had two different story lines but in the movie were combined into one. The movie How to Deal and the books remind me a lot of the current book I am reading now because this novel and the other novels by Sarah Dessen including the movie that was made, have very similar story lines and the novels are in general just very similar to each other in many different ways.

Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen: Plot.

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen is mainly about a teenage girl named Auden, who is about to start her college life. She goes to stay with her stepmother,father and her soon to-be baby sister. While she stays there she gets many surprises a long the way. Auden's life starts to slowly turn into a drama, and she experiences new things a long the way as well. Auden starts to experience riding a bike, life with her father and step mother, having a baby sister, and dating. The readers go 'Along for the Ride' in Sarah Dessen's journey filled novel.

Cracked Up to Be Writing Style

In the book Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers, Parker Fadley is the narrator. She is the narrator througout the book. She speaks about her high school life, and the things that are happening in her senior year of high school. She breaks up with her boyfriend, meets a new guy, and bonds with an old friend. Parker goes through many things through the book, and its through her point of view of how her high school life went. Parker Fadley, gives readers a view of her high school experience and the obstacles that get in her way of graduating high school.

Cracked Up To Be Genre

The genre of the novel Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers, is a young adult novel. This very well written novel, deals with an abundant amount of teen drama with many teen dilemmas throughout the book. Parker Fadley has many issues throughout the book from Parker's parents on suicide watch to failing school to quitting the cheerleading squad. Her and her classmates in the novel, are all apart of her dilemmas that create the book into a teen drama.

Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers Plot

In the novel Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers the main character Parker Fadley is far from perfect. Her parents are on suicide watch, Parker quit the cheerleading squad, she's failing school and she broke up with her picture perfect boyfriend. Parker has a secret, but she can't reveal it to people, so she keeps it bottled up inside her. The only thing she needs in order to let her secret out to others even herself is, if she was left alone for once instead of being surrounded by people that are preventing her from letting her secret out.

Ending of Born On A Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

I really enjoyed the novel Born On a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet. In the book Daniel was a boy who had many talents when it came to schoolwork such as, math and many other subjects. He is a very smart man who goes through many things in his life other than dealing with his autism. Daniel ends up discovering many things. He discovers his sexuality, that he is gay. Also he meets people throughout the book and tries to achieve his goals. Also he meets a guy named Neil who he has a very tight bond with, and they can relate to eachother. Over all the novel was very interesting and a very positive look on how people with autism deal with it in different ways.