By Morgan Hatfield The Fault In our Stars is a very interesting and fantastic book to read. Its story is very motivational and has important connections to real life events. A lot of people can connect with this book and have interests in reading it. A connection many people can have with this book is that there is a tragic love story. Who wouldn’t want to read a book about love? Love is a very catchy topic for teenagers and can…
Kasey Ackert I first read The Outsiders when I was in the 8th grade. Not a lot of books stand out to me when I read them, but this is one that has stood out to me. I would say that I liked the book a lot back then because I related a lot to one of the main characters, Ponyboy. Ponyboy is constantly trying to find himself throughout the book. I also feel like I was trying to find…
By Jacob Dehart The work that I have selected is called The Castes and The Outcasts. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting, where all of humanity lives in isolated cities across the world. The reason is that there is this powerful being that is trying to wipe out humanity with its army of chimaeras. The only reason that humanity hadn’t been wiped off of the face of the planet was because of a mystical barrier that stopped this…
By Tyler Bell The smell of fire fills the air as smoke blocks out the street lights. For the fireman “it was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” Books burn on the street corner as many come out to watch the scene for their evening entertainment. The number 451 is illuminated by the burning books. This is the world of Fahrenheit 451 as envisioned by Ray Bradbury in 1953. While living through the…
By Siarra Hoover I had always told my friends and family that I did not like to read on my own time, let alone for a school assignment. But then I walked into my seventh-grade language arts class. I found out that we had to read books on our own as well as a couple as a class. I was dreading going to that class every day because I had no desire to read whatsoever. However, that changed slightly when I…
By Ethan Brooker During my junior year of high school, I took an AP language course with the wonderful Ms. Hale. This class was rather quite different, as we focused on the values and lessons taught in literature instead of the basic curriculum taught. This class is where I was gratefully introduced to the masterpiece that is Tuesdays With Morrie. The many lessons that we learned from reading Tuesdays With Morrie revolved around the ideas and values introduced. As I…
By Ellie Harshbarger When I came across The Last Song for the first time it was the movie, not the book. Miley Cyrus played the lead role and just like every other girl my age that was the reason I had to watch it. I was nine years old at the time, so my understanding of the events occurring in the movie is drastically different from how I now view things while reading the novel. When I was younger I…
By Ash Moen My father has a poster in his bedroom that has scary monsters on it. They swing from branches that should not be able to support their weight and they look disturbing. It is a poster from the pages of the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. It was his favorite book growing up, and the source of nightmares for me. But as I have gotten older I am able to appreciate the story for…
By Alan Cohn Rick Riordan is a New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels. He is known for mythology-based book series like The Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, and Percy Jackson and & the Olympians. I have been well versed in Rick Riordan’s books since middle school. If I remember correctly, I started reading them because I needed something to do during my library period. Back then I was, and even now I am,…
By Halima Elmajdoubi In many novels, the protagonist is often the character that you root for. They are the hero that will save the day, or the underdog that you wish will inevitably prove themselves, discover true love, escape persecution, or all of the above. Right? This could not be said for Edna Pontellier–or at least not at first. In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, is not particularly likable, nor immediately relatable. I did not turn the…