Both Laurel, Belly, and Steven, and Jeremiah and Conrad are distraught after the death of Susannah. The relationships between everyone have become strained and unfamiliar. But, when Belly gets a call from Jeremiah that Conrad has disappeared from school, she springs at the chance to help her boys.
At the start of the book we are introduced to a young baseball player named Roy Hobbs. He is an up-and-coming baseball prodigy with many scouts and professional players looking his way. Then unexpectedly the woman whom he is with shoots him which injures him badly. This sets back his career for more than a decade. Now, Roy faces trials and tribulations as he has to go through a baseball career as the oldest rookie in the league. Throughout his time, he starts to make friends both good and bad that impact him as a person and a player.
Posted by John David Anderson is a fiction book, in the realistic fiction genre. The book is about Frost, the main character, and his group of friends overcoming many challenges. They get a new friend, they almost lose one, and they overcome various amounts of bullying.
After their mysterious appearance, the men in rat masks answer none of the questions given to them. No one seems to be keen to ask questions when they provide food and shelter though, in a secret city underground. But who can explain the masks everyone wears? Or the disappearance of everyone assigned maintenance duty? OR most importantly where have all the children gone?
Proloff was once a revered Explorer, one of the only ones allowed to leave the train. So important was their job that only once a year did the train stop and it was for them to deboard. After discovering some things he shouldn’t have, how does Proloff come to terms with his questions about the very world he lives in?
“Across the white immensity of an eternal winter, from one end of the frozen planet to the other, there travels a train that never stops.”
The prequal to the original series, this French graphic novel covers an apocalyptic future where the remainder of the human race lives on a never-ending train to avoid the desolate wasteland outside.
As you continue to read the story, you will notice a lot of ups and downs during America’s and Maxon relationship. They constantly fight and it’s almost as if nothing really happened in the second book because America decides to shut down. There wasn’t as much content in this book as the first one, but I will say it was pretty good. Again the author does a great job at writing it in the perspective of a girl who has a temper, you could really feel the anger inside of America when reading from her POV. And sometimes you just really want to punch Maxon in the face.
This book was really a crossover of The Bachelor and The Hunger Games. I loved reading it from America’s perspective and it’s funny how everyone else wants the crown or the prince but America doesn’t. I also love how Maxon has the ability to punish America for her manners and doings but he lets it go since every girl he’s ever met is polite and virtuous. Another thing that has caught my eye is that the first 3 books are about Maxon’s selection, and the covers are the same color of the American flag.
Tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence are the four pillars that Welton Academy lives and dies by. Well, most of the people at Welton Academy at least. The dead poets society is formed when the school begins its new year, and with this come new students and a magnificent new teacher. This eccentric new teacher, Mr. Keating teaches the boys how to be their own person, not just a student. Keating teaches like no other, telling the boys to rip out the pages of their textbooks and go outside and play football.
Check & Mate, by Ali Hazelwood, is a witty and sweet read about rival chess players. Mallory Greenleaf has quit chess, and instead works as a mechanic to care for her mother and sisters. However, when given an opportunity to return to chess, Mallory finds herself matched up against world champion Nolan Sawyer in a charity chess tournament. When Mallory beats Nolan, she finds herself roped back into chess and has to deal with the complicated emotions she has for the game and her growing feelings for Nolan.
