Dumplin'

By Julie Murphy

This book is about a self-designated fat girl named Willowdean. She is comfortable in her own skin with her perfect, model looking best friend, but has always wondered what it would be like to have the perfect body. 

I like this book because the protagonist is not perfect or normal like they usually are in other books. This was a pretty good book, but it was pretty predictable. Over winter break I hope to read Tigers Curse and The Martian.

Slice of Life #1

I slip on my shoes and tie the laces. My phone blasts music into my ears, the background music to my life. I step out of the house and start to run. My feet carrying me to the end of the block to the next one. A few blocks down, a dog starts barking at me. The loud roars snap me out of my running trance and I stumble. The woman on the other side of the street looks over at me and quickly goes back to the baby in the stroller. I regain my balance and keep going. My trance returns and my mind floods with images and thoughts. Questions pop into my head with each foot step. Pictures of my friends and my family flow through my mind followed by trails of christmas and summer and everything. I'm not even paying attention to where I'm going anymore, I'm just going where my feet take me. Running and running.

Gathering Blue

By Lois Lowry

This book is about a orphaned girl named Kira who has a disability in a society that looks down on nay sort of flaws. One day she is summoned by the Council of Guardians and expects to have to fight for her life, but they say that they have some plans for her. I liked this book because it was an interesting story and a plot that I have never come across before.