Son

By Lois Lowry

This book is about a girl named Clair who washes up onto the shore. She remembers the feeling of having a child in her stomach so she goes on a quest to find her child. I liked this book because it was an original story and it had a lot of details, but not to may that it gets boring. This week I will read the Silent Boy.

Confessions of a Murder Suspect

By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

This book is about a girl named Tandy who has grown up in an extraordinary family with brilliant parents worth millions of dollars. There is no junk food or anything unintelligent in their household. Two of her three brothers are extremely athletic and her other brother is an art prodigy and Tandy herself has a talent of surprising emotion. There all seem to be going amazing places until it all crashes down when their parents are found dead in their room. Their is no signs of forced entry or anything which leaves the prime suspects the kids.
I really liked this book. I have read other books by this author and loves all of them. The writing is very good and there are good characters and original plots.

Ember in the Ashes

By Sabaa Tahir

This book is about a girl named Laia who's brother is arrested for treason so she goes undercover in a military academy in exchange for help from scholars who say that they can help her save her brother from being executed. I liked that the plot of this book was very original and I also really liked the characters.
For a book group later this year I would like to do a realistic fiction book.

Headphones

You create a bubble of solitude

The wondering whispers of bitterness can't get past your barricade

You are my life interlude

When I succeed you are the accolade 

Breathing sweet sounds of ecstasy into my mind 

Filling me with bliss

When you play it seems like the stars are aligned 

Your magnificent melody makes alley worries fall away into the abyss 

The Siren

by Kiera Cass

This book is about a siren named Kahlen who lures strangers to their death, but when she meets a boy and starts to fall in love with him she worries what will happen to them when they find out that he is human. This book was pretty good, but I didn't love the plot because it didn't seem very original. I did like this book, but I like some of Kiera Cass's books better like The Selection.  

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.