This book is about a boy and his family, he writes in his journal every day. He doesn’t say anything about his name or what he looks like, all we know about him is people call him Happy Face. He tells us about his family and what they're like and a little bit about them. He has a mom dad and an older brother, his dad's quiet and he likes to write a lot, he drinks a lot. When he writes he drinks because he says it helps him with his writing. His dad’s very intelligent and has even had books published. Happy Face’s mom is loud, crazy, and he thinks she is insane at some points. He thinks that she was considered popular when she was in high school. His older brother’s name is Everett, he is awesome, but can really be a jerk at times, Everett also plays many sports. Everett has a really bad temper and gets mad really easily. Everett always starts fights with Happy Face and winning. He has a crush on a girl at his school, her name is Chloe, Happy Face put Chloe on his portrait even though she isn’t apart of his family, he just enjoys drawing Chloe. In Happy Face’s journal he has a bunch or drawings and …show more content…
One, in fourth grade - sitting at the library, Kerri House asked if he wanted to sit at there table with them, he said no but thought it was very nice that they asked. Two, sixth grade - Everett threw a house party over the weekend while their parents weren't home and said he could stay up with them. Three, seventh grade - he won the art award in school at the end of the year,the whole auditorium cheered. Four, eighth grade - his mom sent in his cartoons to the local paper, they ended up running a full page story on him, he didn't really enjoy the title, but was still really happy that he was in the paper. The title of the paper was “Kid In The Corner Might Be Drawing You!” Five, ninth grade second semester - he meets
This book is Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikaelsen. Touching Spirit Bear is about a 15 year old boy who has been abused and is into crime. The books starts right before he beats up a kid. He then goes to circle justice and is sent to an island to change his ways then he almost dies and goes back later and wants to get rid of his anger problem and change. In the book there is three types of conflict Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs Self. In the beginning Cole beat up a kid named Peter and Cole then had to try to heal himself by learning how to forgive, get over his anger ,and learn to have a clean mind.
writes about a young boy who works at a thrift store and is caught stealing
The cover of this book looks like a painting of a black & white picket fence, with trees in the background behind the fence, and a purple bougainvillea hanging in the front. It suggests the book will be about a family- because of the stereotype of white picket fences in front of traditional family houses, the families that live in the suburbs with two kids and both parents, a canine and a “happy” life. But because behind the fence there are, what look like, pine trees, it prompts to suggest that the story isn’t set in the suburbs. What made me choose ‘Painted Love Letters’ was the thickness. Indeed a bit shallow, I wasn’t in the mood for a thousand paged, completely engaging novel.
Gabe Culligan Pace is the main character in the book The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer. Gabe really wants a family to care for him and he doesn’t want to be alone. Gabe has lived a tough life, his mother died when he was a toddler and he has been from foster home to foster home. Finally, after many years in foster care, Gabe goes to live with his uncle. Unfortunately, Gabe finds his uncle dead and well as the fear of going back to foster care, pushes him to keep the incident a secret. When the truth comes out Gabe finally finds a permanent home when he is adopted by his LA teacher Mr. Bohem. Gabe shows compassion and independence as he learns that life is not always in one’s control, one must learn to move on and accept help.
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is acknowledged as a murder mystery, but it depicts much more. Its thrilling plot about a 13 year old boy coming of age in a small town has many underlying themes that are still present in today’s society. In fact, the plot fuels the themes and showcases them throughout the book. Themes like racism, hypocrisy, secrets, identity and bullying are constantly glimpsed at in Jasper Jones.
The protagonist, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, begins as a six-year-old boy who is always terrorized by his brother. Ender never gives up, even when it seems like everyone is trying to make him fail. He is young, however, which leaves him susceptible to bullies who detest his quick mind. Although Ender proves that he has the ability to be a killer like Peter, he hates himself for that. “And then a worse fear, that he was a killer, only better at it than Peter ever was; that it was this very trait that pleased the teachers” (Card, 85). He is a brilliant, phenomenal genius who understands that ruthlessness is necessary if he is to survive. Valentine is the arbitrator between her two brothers. “Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between” (Card, 166). She constantly protects Ender and keeps Peter from hurting him. She favors Ender more than Peter, but in the end, she understands Peter more due to the time she spends with him. Peter Wiggin is the oldest and most vicious of the Wiggin children. “‘I could kill you like this…Just press and press until you’re dead.’” (Card, 9) Underneath the brutality, Peter is intelligent and calculating. While Valentine is too compassionate and Peter is too manipulative, Ender has both qualities.
Amy manages to fall in love with Alexander as a person, learns to stand up to bullies, and helps to kill a vampire. Amy’s infatuation for the brooding protagonist quickly turns from a crush on a book character to love for who the character really is. Within a week or so Amy admits to Alexander that she loves him. Amy confessing her love so early on of course is not realistic. But what 21 chapter novel
Every Day, a 322-page fictional novel by David Levithan takes place in Maryland. In the novel, Every Day, there are protagonists, and antagonists. The novel’s protagonist goes by the name A, and Rhiannon. The antagonists are Nathan, and Justin. Throughout the novel readers learn that A is not an ordinary human being. When A was born he was able to switch bodies of own his age everyday. When A was a toddler he thought that everyone was just like him, and he started to realize that his life was a lie. As the years went by a made up his own rules so he won’t ruin the person’s life, but that all changed when he was 16. He met a girl named Rhiannon through her boyfriend’s body, Justin. A fell in love with Rhiannon, and took her to the beach, and Rhiannon felt something different, and she liked it. One day A went into Nathan’s body, and went to a party to meet Rhiannon. A danced, and talked with her until he realized it was late and he had to leave as soon as possible. It was around 11 pm, and A couldn’t get to Nathan’s home any sooner so A went to the side of a road, and left the body. When Nathan woke up there were polices investigating his car. He claimed that a demon got inside him because he knew what was going on, but didn’t know how. A couple days later Justin wanted to tell Rhiannon who he was, and when he did she couldn’t believe him, but as time went by he started to fall for her. During the climax of the story Justin saw Rhiannon talking to A. Justin came up to A and they started to...
There once was this boy named _____. He is sixteen years young. He has dark hair with green eyes, he’s 5’9, and likes to eat a lot of deserts. He lives with his mom and dad. He has twin sisters, they are five years young. He was at his house like every other day. He was playing video games, he was playing fortnite. Gets frustrated when he gets bad grades because he feels like he's not good at any school subject. Does everything he can to get all his grades up, because if he fails classes he won’t be able to play soccer. He goes and talks to teachers to see if they could give him worksheet papers that can help him get his grades up.
Author: What you get is a zany, wacky, completely different kind of coming of age realistic fiction story, called The Schwa was Here, by Neal Shusterman. If you like crazy characters, or characters that don’t fit the mold--that are unique and kooky--but still experience the same sort of problems the average kids faces, then you will love this book! Protagonist: Although this book begins with the everyday problems of the protagonist, Ansty Bonano, the book deals with some unlikely situations, as Ansty’s
Bobby is a hardcore boy that likes to read. He liked to be like the books he read, hard to break open but after the shell is broken all the information spills out. Also Bobby learns to be sneaky in this book as his ability to sneak around strengthens his power on his invisibility, and just as he gets go at the sneaking around he finds a cure for his disability. During the story Bobby finds another person tha...
The novel Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, by James Patterson follows a troublemaker named Rafe Kachadorian. When he gets to school although for him it’s more like prison and so far he’s not very fond of his new school. Rafe only has one friend, Leo but his full name is Leonardo the Silent. The only person Leo speaks to is Rafe because Leo is imjainary. Rafe’s first day of school is a difficult day a bully named Miller who chose for his victim of the year. However, it’s there was some good when he found a cute a girl who's name is Jeanne.
Shyam Selvadurai, the author of Funny Boy, felt the necessity to write about this issue because it is kept in the dark, especially in Sri Lanka. In addition, Sri Lanka is faced with many cultural problems. The Tamils and Singhalese are in constant conflict because of their different moral values. Selvadurai grew up in this type of atmosphere, he was homosexual and was raised in an environment where fighting took place regularly. Selvadurai decided to write this book not only as therapy for himself but also to lend a voice to those who still have trouble expressing themselves about both of these issues especially children. "Selvadurai writes as sensitively about the emotional intensity of adolescence as he does about the wonder of childhood" (Hower, 22). Arjie Chelvaratnam, the protagonist in Selvadurai's novel, finds himself going through similar problems. He feels lost because his attitudes towards life differ greatly from those around him. In his novel, Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai uses character and plot to show how conflicting cultural beliefs can lead to confusion and alienation.
boy who goes on with his own humble life but this changes as he meets
Facial expressions have been studied for years and continue to be studied now by researchers. From all the studying that has taken place on facial expressions, there have been two major viewpoints that have spawned. The first viewpoint is emotional expression, this viewpoint says that facial expressions are sporadic and come from raw emotions. The expressions only portray emotion and nothing more. The other is the behavioral ecology viewpoint; this states that the expression is not for just emotion, but the opposite. This viewpoint says that expressions are used or enhanced by the actions and expressions of those around you. This viewpoint states that it is more of a social behavior. I conducted a study that contained 10 observations of other people participating in regular actions. I waited and watched their facial expressions and what may have caused them. From this, I determined which viewpoint their facial expressions aligned with. I plan to compare the results and give some generalizations of my findings. I will also share any interesting things I may have found while observing the people. Then, I will conclude by stating my own personal opinion on the two viewpoints judging by what my results were and what I actually believe.