This report is on the book “The Haunting of Sunshine Girl” by Paige McKenzie. The story takes place in the small, rainy town of Ridgemont, Washington shortly after the protagonist, Sunshine Griffith’s, 16th birthday. As previously mentioned the protagonist of the book is 16-year-old Sunshine Griffith. Sunshine has always been a bit of an oddball, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Unlike most kids her age, Sunshine has an appreciation for antiques, maintains a very close relationship with her adopted mother, and is perfectly happy with just having her one best friend, Ashely. According to the text “I have long brown hair that’s usually trapped somewhere in between wavy and frizzy.” Sunshine also describes her eyes as being a milky kind of green and resembling a cat’s eyes. Sunshine got her unusual name when her adopted mother, Kat, first found her. “She was a pediatric nurse at the hospital in Austin where I was found—left swaddled in the emergency room: no parents, no paperwork, no nothing—and once she got her hands on me, she says, she knew she was never going to let me go. We were meant for each other, she’d say, simple as that.” Sunshine said. Kat said when she held the child she felt like she had her own personal Sunshine, hence the uncommon name. …show more content…
Kat is also a very important character in the book.
She has a very close bond with Sunshine and has raised her as she would her own child. She was offered her dream job in the ghost town that is Ridgemont, Washington and decided on the move that triggered all of the story’s events. Along with Kat, Nolan and Victoria are also very important to the story. Nolan is one of Sunshine’s classmates and her only friend in Ridgemont. They bond trying to solve the mystery that lies in Sunshine’s house. Victoria is Sunshine and Nolan’s visual art’s teacher who ends up being far more important than meets the eye later on in the
story. The story begins when Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from their hometown of Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched Ridgemont, Washington. From the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels as if the temperature has dropped 20 degrees and everything feels grey. With the eerie feeling surrounding Sunshine everywhere she goes, she knows that something is not right. Over the next couple of days, Sunshine begins to find sure signs that her house is haunted. She meets a young boy named Nolan who miraculously believes her and assists her in solving the mystery. After many hours interpreting an old raggedy book he acquired from his late grandfather, Nolan finds a lead. He discovers that sunshine is a luiseach or a kind of paranormal guardian angel. They also realize that there are in fact two spirits, one of a little girl and the other, a demon, roaming the house. It soon becomes evident that the demon has inhabited Kat’s body and Sunshine must accept what she is in order to save her mother and to free the little girl’s spirit. With some assistance from fellow luiseach, Victoria Wilde, Sunshine prepares to fight the demon. After a long, back and forth battle, between Sunshine and the demon, Sunshine prevails and saves her mother along with countless others. In my opinion, this book is an amazing piece of art. It takes the classic ghost story of good versus evil and turns it on its head. The paranormal elements were free of cliché, and while this was a book I would normally dismiss It is one of the best books I've read in a while. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like a real page-turner that will keep them on the edge of their seat. But I must warn that before reading you may want to clear your schedule for a few days because this book is virtually impossible to put down.
It is often said that the setting of the story can change the character’s mentality and personality. In the classic vignette, A Summer Life, Gary Soto addresses his childhood to adulthood in Fresno in the course of a short vivid chapters. Born on April 12, 1952, a year before the Korean War ended, Gary experiences his life in Fresno of what he describes “what I knew best was at ground level,” and learns what is going on around the neighborhood with his religious background behind him. Later, when he realizes his father passes away, he undergoes hardships which cause his family to be miserable. Growing up in the heart of Fresno, Gary Soto, the author, explains his journey as a young man to adolescence through his use of figurative language and other adventures. The settings of this book revise Gary’s action and feelings around his surroundings.
Have you ever loved a place as a child, but as you got older you realized how sugar coated it really was? Well, that is how Jacqueline Woodson felt about her mother’s hometown and where she went every summer for vacation. The story, When A Southern Town Broke A Heart, starts off with the author feeling as if Greenville is her home. But one year when she has 9 she saw it as the racist place it really is. This causes her to feel betrayed, but also as if she isn't the naive little girl she once was. By observing this change, you can conclude that the theme she is trying to convey is that as you get older, you also get wiser.
31 percent of children under 18 only live with one parent in America today. In Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, both kids are living with a single parent. In both stories, the parent and their kid do not understand each other's wants and needs. The parents both push interests on their kids and make decisions for them. This is most likely due t their lack of communication. In the stories Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the authors use different points of view to create tension between the single parent and their kid when they are trying to connect.
The Horror story of “Diary Of A Haunting” was written by M. Verano. The main character is Paige. Paige is very capable of what she believes in. She also is very strong and fearless and curious about what is going on in her house. The theme of my book is “If You Have Something To Say, Say It.” I believe that Paige knew something was going on, but she was too afraid to say it because she was soon to know if her family would think shes crazy. Since she didn't say anything things got worse. I believe it is important to speak up if your know that something is wrong.
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
Lily traveled all the way up from Sylvan, Georgia to Tiburon, South Carolina without much help at all. That takes a lot of luck, at least some skill. Zach navigates all over South Carolina in his truck on a daily basis throughout the summer to gather honey. They both have skills in finding their way around. Lily's tireless heart is always searching for love from her father, whom she calls T. Ray, no matter how many times he crushes her with his words and actions.
This book is about a girl name Ellen Foster who is ten years old. Her mother committed suicide by over dosing on her medication. When Ellen tried to go look for help for her mother her father stopped her. He told them that if she looked for helped he would kill them both. After her mother died she was left under her fathers custody.
In Crow Lake, Mary Lawson portrays a family who experience a great tragedy when Mr. and Mrs. Morrison are killed in a car accident. This tragedy changes the lifestyles of the seven years old protagonist Kate Morrison and her siblings Matt, Luke and Bo. The settings are very important in this novel. Though there are limited numbers of settings, the settings used are highly effective. Without effective use of themes in this novel, the reader would not have been able to connect with the characters and be sympathetic. Lawson uses an exceptionally high degree of literary devices to develop each character in this novel.
As a child, Judy had a large imagination; and loved to play. Judy always had an adoration of books; she relished the texture, scent, and everything about them. There was one thing though, Judy wanted a book about a child that she could relate to. When Judy was about ten years old, she had to leave her New Jersey home for Miami, Florida, along with her Mother, Nanny Mama, and David. They were going to Florida for the winter because the cold weather in New Jersey was bad for David's health. Doey had to stay in New Jersey to manage his dentist office. Judy wasn't so sure about Miami, plus she was worried about her father because he was forty-two and all of his older brothers had died at that very age. At first Judy wasn't so sure about living in Miami, it was so different. Judy soon made friends with a few girls that lived in the same apartment building as her. They did everything together. They hung out at the beach, did ballet lessons, and went to the same school. Judy left Miami and went back to New Jersey for the summer. The n...
Her father works out of town and does not seem to be involved in his daughters lives as much. Her older sister, who works at the school, is nothing but plain Jane. Connie’s mother, who did nothing nag at her, to Connie, her mother’s words were nothing but jealousy from the beauty she had once had. The only thing Connie seems to enjoy is going out with her best friend to the mall, at times even sneaking into a drive-in restaurant across the road. Connie has two sides to herself, a version her family sees and a version everyone else sees.
In the novel Missing Sarah by Maggie deVries she writes and illustrates a sad tribute to the memory of her sister, Sarah. The author Maggie deVries makes a clear connection between Sarah's adoption by her family and Sarah's incredibly sad life. Adoption of children from another background, heritage and race into white families sometimes doesn't go well, despite the best efforts of the family. Sarah deVries was one of at least 21 women who could only be identified by DNA found on a pig farm in Port Coquitlam, BC. The women were all sex workers or prostitutes who were killed, and the cause of their vanishing was not investigated promptly possibly because they were engaged in selling sex to survive. Even the choice of whether to refer to these women as 'prostitutes' or 'sex
This book tells the story of a young girl named Deja Barnes, who lives in New York City with her younger brother and sister
4)The setting is in Ohio in the present times. The story takes place at Melody’s school and her house.
In her story Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs presents what life was like living as a female slave during the 19th century. Born into slavery, she exhibits, to people living in the North who thought slaves were treated fairly and well, how living as a slave, especially as a female slave during that time, was a heinous and horrible experience. Perhaps even harder than it was if one had been a male slave, as female slaves had to deal with issues, such as unwanted sexual attention, sexual victimization and for some the suffering of being separated from their children. Harriet Jacobs shows that despite all of the hardship that she struggled with, having a cause to fight for, that is trying to get your children a better life
Her parents meet at a social gathering in town and where married shortly thereafter. Marie’s name was chosen by her grandmother and mother, “because they loved to read the list was quite long with much debate over each name.” If she was a boy her name would have been Francis, so she is very happy to have born a girl. Marie’s great uncle was a physician and delivered her in the local hospital. Her mother, was a housewife, as was the norm in those days and her father ran his own business. Her mother was very close with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters. When her grandmother was diagnosed with asthma the family had to move. In those days a warm and dry climate was recommended, Arizona was the chosen state. Because her grandma could never quite leave home, KY, the family made many trips between the states. These trips back and forth dominated Marie’s childhood with her uncles and aunts being her childhood playmates.