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. 

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

By John Green and David Leviathan

This book is about two boys, both named Will Grayson, and how their lives intertwine. I liked this book but not as much as some of John Greens other books.  It has some funny parts and a some mature topics.

The genre of the next book group book I would like to read is realistic fiction because I really enjoy those kids of books and there are so many unique book in this genre that could take discussions so many different places.

This Poem is for the One Who Waved Back

The streets glittering with trash illuminate the peoples smiles

Their feet mark the plastic bottles on the sidewalk

Friends laugh infant of the gas station scarred with tags and broken glass

The case driving past blow plastic bags into the path of a mother and son, smiling and talking into a store

The man with a grin lacking of teeth waves at us and gives us friendly heroes as we pick up cheat bags and old beer bottles

This poem is for the one who waves back

Rooftoppers

By Katherine Rundell

After a ship reck, a baby is found by a man named Charles, floating in the middle of the English Channel in a cello case. They lived together for many years until the child services organization decides that it's time for her to live in an orphanage and lear how to be a proper lady. To prevent them from taking her, they go on a journey to find the girls birth mother.

I really liked this book. The characters  are reliable and it is a very good story. It was a very fast read for me. I really like realistic fiction books such as Wintergirls and Skinny.

The Host

By Stephanie Meyer

This book is about a girl in a post apocalyptic world where aliens called "Souls" have taken over. Her body is being taken over by Soul, but she is resisting. I really like this book because it is a very unique story and it the book never really gets boring. I also really like the movie, it is very similar to the book. The characters are relatable and they are all different and developed.