This book is called sleeping freshmen never lie, by david lubar. This book is about how 14 year old scott hudson is starting high school and scott becomes attracted to a girl named julia. While scott starts of school he discovers that his mom is pregnant. As his friends start to disappear from his life he starts to find new friends. The genre of sleeping freshmen never lie is young adult fiction. The setting of where it takes place at is unknown but the author does make you feel like you are with him with the way he would describe things that would happened. The main characters in this book include scott hudson, julia, kyle, patrick, kyle, mitch, and mouth. The main problem in that scott faces in this book is that scott is trying to find his
High school. It’s tough. Especially if you’re a freshman. Everything changes when you get to high school. You start to notice specific people more, your friends start to change, and even your likes and dislikes change. These may just sound like the typical high school cliche sayings, but in the novel Sleeping Freshman Never Lie, written by David Lubar, Scott Hudson had to go through all of that in just his first year of high school. Throughout the novel, Scott Hudson encounters many changes in his freshman year of high school including, the arrival of a new baby sibling, friends coming and leaving, being on student council, writing for the school’s newspaper, working on the school’s play, all while he is chasing the “girl of his dreams”. The
The name of my book is Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan. This is a mystery thriller about five teens who plan to kidnap their English teacher to teach him a lesson. Their teacher is very hard on them and does not allow any room for slacking. But instead of just kidnapping him for a while, they decide to abandon him for a while by a deserted lake in the middle of nowhere. Two of the teens come back to find that he is dead. Now they must decide what to do with the body and how to explain his death.
My Freshman Year by Rebekah Nathan is essentially a book about the narrator, Rebekah Nathan, attempting to understand and assimilate to the culture of being a freshman in college. What’s ironic about the novel is that Rebekah Nathan is in her fifties and is a professor at the college of which she is going “undercover” as a student. She is an anthropologist who studies other cultures, and tries to understand how they think and act.
My book is The Detention Club that was written by David Yoo. The main character, Peter Lee attends middle school with his big sister Sunny, and his best friend Drew. At Fenwick Middle School, the teachers consider Sunny the star student of the school. Along with having his sister being in his school, he also is bullied by the Sweet brothers. Later on he ends up in detention for a month after stealing chemicals from the science lab for a project.
Ring Ring! Nobody likes the sound of their alarm clock when they’re trying to get some sleep. The article entitled “The Teen Who Woke Up Her School” by Jane Bianchi, the video named “Should Students Start Later in the Morning?” by ABC News, and the infographic called “Wake Up Call” by Sarah McKibben, all talk about the efforts that students are trying to make to change the school starting time. Allowing students to be able to sleep more would be very beneficial to attendance, academic scores, and the student’s energy!
The book “In Case You Missed It” by Sarah Darer Littman is about a teenage girl named Sammy, she's in high school getting ready for APs and SATs. Her mom mostly stays at home and her dad is the CEO of New Territories Bank. Sammy snuck out of her house and went to a concert with her friends. It turns out to be awful because somebody barfed all over them. But her family runs into a problem. Their family cloud and the bank's database were hacked and publishes for the world to see. Sammy had an online diary and that was published. When Sammy goes back to school everybody stares at her and she decides to skip class.
The turning point in Middle School Loneliness is that the boys father got a new job in another city
I found The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson overall very interesting. It is a realistic fiction book and it contains a lot of events that happen in Hayley Kincains life. Her father is constantly getting drunk and quitting his jobs because of his PTSD that he developed from being a former veteran. She's constantly struggling with succeeding in school and watching after her dad. “It started in detention. No surprise there, right?” She was practically homeschooled for 5 years since her dad constantly moved to new places. She also develops a love interest with a boy she was supposed to be tutored by. She developed feelings for him and he turned into her boyfriend. She has to watch out for him so her dad won't find out about
I’m reading Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Normally I don’t like to read a all, but this book is making it more fun to read. Whenever I pick it up I just keep on going. This is like one of the only books I can actually get into. It’s about a girl named Melinda, and she is a freshman starting school just like me. When she gets to school she has no friends because all of her old friends are still mad at her from last year. The author still has not said why all of her friends hate her. She feels like an outcast and is that one girl who has no friends to sit by at lunch or anywhere else. But, she found one other girl who is alone to and she calls the other girl a wounded zebra. They will probably end up becoming friends. So, I can kinda relate
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.
In the book Sleeping freshmen never lie many characters have different things that happen and they change a lot throughout the book. Wesley cobble asked Scott Hudson for spare change and took it from him, but later on he becomes one of Scott’s biggest friends. Many of changes happened to Scott. Scott changed the most because his friendships have changed and he didn’t want Julia as bad, while on the other hand Mouth tried to kill himself.
Melinda Sordino started off her high school experience like an outcast. She didn’t have any friends and she just expected it to stay that way. All Melinda wanted was to tell her best friend what really happened, but the closest she got to a friend was Heather from Ohio. She became depressed not only from what happened but also from being stuck in the tiny town of Syracuse, New York. She is going through her freshman year acting like nothing ever happened. She spends almost the entire year mute because she thinks no one will want to hear what she has to say. Melinda struggles with trying to find her voice the entire book. It’s not until the end that she realizes how much she’s dying to say, and what she has been missing all this time. She somehow
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
Sleeping is something that is an essential part of human nature and is a must in order for one to be a functional human being. Sleep is an idea that is accompanied by many wives’ tales, including the ideas that one needs seven to eight hours of sleep each night and alcohol helps one fall asleep and sleep more soundly. One myth about sleep is that during sleeping, one is in a state of nothingness. In truth, however, it has been discovered that during sleep the brain is active, variations in heartbeat and breathing occur, and the eyes and ears are active throughout the time of sleep. These activities during a person’s sleep are important because they help that person be more aware, awake, and alert during consciousness. If all of these important activities occur during sleep, why is it that people are so willing to short themselves of this vital activity? Although much about sleep still remains a mystery, research and experiments continue to show how important sleep is to each and every person. Throughout this paper, I will discuss sleep and the effects that it has on performance and health, especially in college students. A college student’s sleeping pattern is a reliable indicator to their level of performance in the classroom and other school-affiliated activities, as a lack of sleep leads to decreased performance. Sleep is directly related the level of performance and health in an individual; the more rested a person is, the better that person will perform and feel (Dryer, 2006).
It's your freshman year of high school. You walk through the halls and notice that you can barely find anyone from your freshman class. All you can see are these older kids that you had never noticed before. It feels like everyone is watching your every move. Suddenly you run into an older boy in front of you because you were too busy looking at your feet trying to dodge eye contact. Your books are now on the hallway floor and so are you. You scramble to grab them before anyone notices, but just as you look up you meet eyes with the older boy. He smiles and helps you regain your composure. Then you both walk your separate ways down the hallway.