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Monday, April 12, 2010

What are YOU reading on Mondays (1)

It's Monday!!!! I had to run to the library quickly after school to pick up a new personal book. So here I go! As you guys may or may not know, I am currently in a book club. In this book club I have to read....

I am the cheese by robert cormier.
So far... I'm not enjoying it that much, because it is sort of repeatitive. I have no idea what is going on with the tapes... I expect to finish the book on thursday if i finish all of my goals.

I am also reading The Chosen one by Carol Lynch Williams.
below is the descpription from amazon.
Grade 7 Up–In this thriller, 13-year-old Kyra lives in an isolated polygamist cult. Life in the compound is as dry as the surrounding desert, more confining than the chain-link fence on its perimeter. But Kyra finds small freedoms despite the tightly controlled communal environment and is able to slip outside to wander the desert. There she chances upon a friendly book-mobile driver who opens the world of children's literature to her. Kyra even begins a flirtation with her classmate, Joshua, a dangerous sin for which they will both pay dearly. The brutal leader, Prophet Childs, has plans for Kyra and will brook no disobedience. He assigns her to be the seventh wife of her own 60-year-old uncle. Repelled, she resists. She and Joshua are badly beaten and she is told that other young people have been killed for taking a similarly defiant stand. Kyra's loving father is powerless to help her and counsels her to accept her fate, but she cannot. The story ends in a high-speed chase with the Prophet's goons gunning for her as she improbably races toward freedom in the blood-spattered book mobile. Has the friendly driver been killed on her account? Is anyone looking for him? What retribution will be taken on her family and what kind of a life lies ahead for her? These unsettling questions are not addressed, but these omissions do not diminish the relief of her successful escape. For a more layered examination of the internal as well as external struggles of a young teen coming of age in a polygamist community, see Shelley Hrdlitschka's Sister Wife (Orca, 2008).–Carolyn Lehman, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
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I just started, to read this book, and so far it is really good. I read the book escape by... Um... oh yeah! Carolyn Jessop, and that was a really scary and good book. It really shocks me how some people still live like that, and are being brainwashed into thinking it's normal. Plus they CANT READ BOOKS!!! that really stinks!

So that's what I'm reading this Monday! How about you?

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