Please recommend a book for someone to read for the independent work. Share a book either you’ve read from the list for the independent work, or one not on the list. Don’t give the book away, but try to interest the reader by introducing what the book is about.
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A good book i have read was Sarah's Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay. It is a book about a young girl growing up in the middle of the Holocaust in France, then managing to escape, although leaving her family behind at the camp, and her little brother locked in a closet at their old home, in a desperate attempt to save him, and a woman living in modern day france, Julia jarmond, trying to unravel the past, while attempting to save her failing marriage and family life. This book is extremely profound, giving an intimate glimpse into the past, and back forward to the present as Julia travels all over the world to find out the truth behind the the little girl who survived.
For an independent work, I would recommend reading My Sisters Keeper if you are doing the free choice book. My Sisters Keeper is about a girl trying to get medical emancipation from her parents after her sister is diagnosed with cancer. The parents purposely had Ana, the daughter without the cancer, to donate and give blood to her sister with cancer, Kate. The whole story is about Ana and Kate fighting for what they feel is right. At the end of the book, there is a huge twist that changes your whole view on each character. This book was a movie, but had a completely different ending than there was in the movie.
The book was definitely better than the movie because it was more descriptive and it analyzed all aspects of the book very intensely. Also, the book had a better plot outline than the movie, which was very scattered and disorganized.
One of my favorite books is called The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albon. This book is about a man named Eddie who ends up in heaven and while he is there he sees five people who have greatly affected his life. One reason why I loved this book is because the beginning really caught my attention. It starts with a Chapter called, "The End". This chapter was about the end of Eddie's life and how he died. Weather Eddie realized it before or not, there were many people that affected his life. Some were people he has never even met until now. They told him stories about how he affected others lives without him even realizing it.
This book was probably more of an emotional book. It is very sad but makes you really think about everything that goes on in your life. It makes you think about everything you do and how it affects everything around you. If one thing didn't happen, many other things may have/ not have happened. Mitch Albom has written many books that I enjoyed very much. Another one of his books that I love is called, "For One More Day". This is another one of my favorite books. I would highly recommend reading these books not just because they are interesting to read, but make you really think about life and how it makes such an impact on everyone around you.
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For the final independent work, I would suggest the book For Freedom. It is a book about the French revolution. The main character, Betsy, lives with her family and is of the high upper class. Soldiers come to her house and force them to live on the streets, and the only option is to join the army. She dresses up as a guy and joins the army and quickly works her way up the ranks. She lives through many battles and sees many people killed. Later, she is discovered to be a woman. The army still likes her as a soldier, so they offer her a job as a spy. She quickly gets a case that nobody so far has been able to solve, and has to figure out for herself. She is all alone and can trust nobody except herself.
A really thrilling book that I read a few years ago was And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. This was a very suspensful book about ten people that were invited to go spend time on an island together. When they first arrive at the mansion on the island, they gather for some drinks that evening and start talking and getting to know one another. They all notice ten little figurines sitting on the dining room table, but no one makes any connections. Before dinner, a voice recording starts to play from a nearby room in the house, blaming the ten people for commiting a murder. Now they all see that they are trapped on this island and they cannot escape. One by one each person is murdered secretly, and all of the remaining people get more nervous everytime another person is killed, because they realize that the killer is among them. In each of the people's rooms, there is also a framed nursery rhyme called the "Ten Little Soldiers", and it is a poem about different ways ten people die. This poem turns out to have a great significance at the end of the story. I read this book in class in 7th grade, and as a school book, I was pleasantly surprised. It was very entertaining and incredibly suspensful!
I good book i read this year is "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman. It is about a 17 year old from a normal family who gets into a car crash when after a snow storm. She becomes stuck in a world inbetween life and death. She reflects on everything in her life and watches her friends and family come and visit her in the hospital while she is in a coma. The book is her describing certain moments in her life based on who is visiting her. She then must choose between life or death. This book is sad and happy and it is a quick read.
A good book I would recommend for an independant book is Cat's Cradle bu Kurt Vonnegut. Its about a man going around to interveiw the family of a man who worked on the atomic bomb in order to make a book about the moment the bomb was dropped on Japan. The man runs into many strange and interesting situations upon his way, including the introduction of him to the extremely dangerous freezing agent Ice-9. This book explores the idea of the apocolypse. Throughout the book there are also othe things that vonnegut comments on, like the stupidity of human nature through his character of Bokonon. Overall it is an enjoyable read.
A good book that I would recomend reading for the Independant work this marking period would be, "The Lovely Bones", by Alice Sebold, is a story about a teenage girl named Suzie Salmon who was brutally murdered by a pedophilic neighbor. The story is told through Suzie's perspective while in heaven. She follows the lives of her family, friends, and murderer. Watching them grow up and try to solve her crime. Of course I can't go into detail, but this is a beautifully written book and a page turner too.
A good book I read this year was The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I chose it off of the list and it was even better than I had expected from what people told me. I didn't think I was going to like it that much but after I read it it became one of my favorite books. Hosseini's descriptive writing style is captivating and the story he tells about two boys growing up in Afghanistan is so interesting. Amir is from a very wealthy family and Hassan, his servant, is his best friend. As they grow older their social class starts to split them and one day a very traumatic thing happens to Hassan that completely tears apart their friendship. Eventually Amir moves to America but has to go back to Afghanistan during its worst time of turmoil with the Taliban to fix some unfinished business. Overall, it was definitely worth reading.
A good book for the quarterly work that I would recomend is the book called Fahrenheit 451 by Rad Burry. This book is about a young man named Guy Moantag who lives in an upside down society. All the people have no indivduality and spend their days watching tv on huge flat screen monitors. Montag's society also burns books, ironically fire men burn books in this novel instead of putting out the fire. Montag is one of those Firemen, until one day a girl named Clarisse opens his eyes up and he goes against his society and becomes an outlaw. I thought this was a really good book and perhaps the best sci fi book.
One of the best books I've ever read was The Count of Monte Cristo from the reading list. Its about a man who is the captain of a ship in 19th century france and is about to be married, when jealous colleagues frame him for a crime he did not commit. He goes to jail and meets a man who gives him a map to a trasure. He escapes the prison and finds the treasure using his newfound wealth to wreak revenge on those who made him lose everything.
A great book that I read for my independent reading was The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. This book is about the author's family and all the struggles they went through as a very poor family. There were four kids and a mom and a dad. The dad was brilliant and knew so much but, never liked to work and so he could never support the family. The mother only knew how to paint and all she wanted to do all day was paint. With the little money that they had the father would take it and go to the bar or the mother would use it to buy a lot of art supplies. The children sometimes didn't have dinner at night and they would sleep on top of card board boxes and run down-house that didn't have any running water. The author did a great job in making the characters very lively, which made the book even more interesting. This book shows that anyone can succeed if they put their minds to it. I really liked this book and I would suggest reading it.
A book I chose to read for the independent reading assignment that was not on the list is "13 Reasons Why". Although I have not finished the book yet, I am very intrigued. It is a great mystery/suspense novel with some light-hearted humor. The combination makes the novel seem very realistic, and simplicity makes it even more believable. The novel is about a teenager named Clay who finds a package on his doormat after returning from school one day. It is full of cassette tapes. They are all recorded by a girl named Hannah Baker, his crush. She committed suicide a week before. These tapes describe her life story and the reasons for her death. If you received the tapes, then you are one of the reasons why. The novel follows the journey of Clay throughout the night as he listens to the tapes and unravels the entwined mystery of Hannah's suicide.
A great book that I read over the past summer was The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The family it revolves around seems to be a sturdy family until one day their daughter/sister goes missing one day. The girl is not found alive, but dead in a hole in the ground. She goes to heaven and watches her family fall apart without her down below. She tries to appear in the house to her family members so they might see her, but it never lasts more than a couple of seconds. Alice Sebold makes the novel so heart-wrenching you will want to read it again and again.
One of the best books I have read in a long time was "Tyrant" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. The book is a historical fiction about Dionysius of Syracuse who was a Tyrant from 405 BC to 367. The story beings with Dionysius as a young boy, and it proceeds to follow the rest of his life. In the early years of his life Dionysius was a skilled fighter. He quickly rose through the ranks of war and proved himself in battle many times. However after witnessing the terrifying massacre of Selinus Dionysius realizes that the government was at fault. Feeling it was his duty to make Sicily a better place, he leads a coup to become the leader of Sicily, however he realizes just being a leader is not enough. He decides that the only way to properly unite all of Sicily he must become a hated Tyrant. The story takes an interesting take on the history of this Tyrant, making the reader pity the difficult life of Dionysius. Even thought it says all of the terrible things he forces people to do as a Tyrant, the story makes one understand why it was necessary for Dionysius to do these things. It is in this manner that Tyrant derives its best qualities. It makes Dionysius seem distinctly human, and it forces the reader to feel the gravity of each one of his decisions.
A classical novel that has been published since the Romantic Period, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a tale of a young aristocrat who's mortality is painted indefinately onto a picture of himself. The man, Dorian Gray, is known only for his astounding beauty. He becomes distressed and depressed to realize that all that he does (go to parties and be beautiful) will quickly end forever. That Dorian will age, and become unsightly, weak. Dorian canot cope with this, and exclaims that he will sell his soul if all of his age would appear on his picture but not himself. His wish comes as he later realizes and soon discovers that with immortality comes no consequence to anything. This story I found highly engrossing, full and philosophically fascinating, in a theoretical morality kind of way.
One book I have recently read over spring break was The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen. This book is definitely a girl book, seeing as it focus's on the relationship between the two main characters and ends up as a love relationship.
This book includes a girl named Macy and her summer adventure at getting a new job, and getting over her recent ex boyfriend. While she beings the summer doing as he would have wanted her to, working at the town library and staying home most of the time while he was off at "Brain Camp". Her summer changes though as decides to quit the job that she doesn't fit in at, and boldly starts catering with a boy who she falls for.
This book again is mostly for a girls liking, but I would completely recommend it to anyone who is doing the free choice book.
If anyone is stuck without a book to read, Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five' is an excellent choice. It is somewhat humourous, contains a great deal of swearing, and a handful about sex. It is also somewhat of a science fiction book, but if you get easily confused by numerous setting changes, then you shoul dprobably find another book.
"Slaughterhouse Five" is about a man who decides to write a book about the bombing of Dresden (one of the many bombs appearing in the book is the one marked 'F'). As it is a frametale, the story then changes from first-person to third-person view, from the narrator to that of Billy Pilgrim. It is an exciting read that carries the reader along, and I recommend it to anyone (except the people with the afore mentioned confusion problem).
The book that I read was Atonement. In this book, a young girl named Briony Tallis is visited by her cousins after their parents divorce. Briony develops a dislike for them and hides from them. When she is hiding, she sees flirting between her older sister Cecilia and a family friend Robbie. Briony also after reading a secret letter between them starts to believe he is trying to hurt her. Out of her confusion, Briony comes up with a lie and blames Robbie of commiting a crime which he didn't commit. Robbie is sent to jail and all of their lives change for worse.
If you're looking for a good book, then I highly recommend Slaughterhouse Five.
It is a smart, quick read. The plotline is rather random, but it makes you laugh at the characters and how silly they seem. The entire book is stock-piled with irony and it goes from different areas, including aliens, war prisoners, and time travel. It may sound really out there, but as I mentioned, it's a smart book. It goes over life issues such as war and death. It's from the book list provided by Mr. Moccia.
A book that I would recommend for someone to read for the independent work would be The Time Traveler's Wife. This book would probably appeal more to girls than it would to boys. This book is not on the list, it is just one I picked on my own. The book is about Henry DeTamlbe a librarian, who involentarily time travels. He visits the past and can also travel into the future. Things begin to change when he meets Clare Abshire a promising artist whom he meets in his present and later travels back in time to when she was a little girl. Henry and Clare's relationship is put to the test when they are constantly seperated by Henry's ability to travel. Clare is always waiting for him to come back. This story is a testimate to love in its myriad of forms and the journey of two people over time.
A book that I enjoyed was called "Bringing Down the House". Some of you may know it as "21", which was the title of the movie that was made based on it. It is about a group of MIT students when take weekend trips to Vegas so they can count cards in blackjack. Counting cards is essentially a way to predict what cards you will get next so you can change you bet accordingly. They used their own system to win millions of dollars from the casinos. The main conflict is the students trying to stay out of trouble because, although counting cards is not illegal, it is "frowned upon like" doing something gross "on an aiplane" (The Hangover). It is a very good book and I highly recommend it.
As an independent reading book, my recommendation would mostly be for girls. I recommend reading the book "The Last Song" by Nicholas Sparks. I loved this book and I'm sure many of the girls would too. It's about a girl named Ronnie who grew up believing that her dad left her because he cheated on her mom. Soon she finds out that her mom is making her and her brother Jonah spend the summer with their dad in North Carolina. While their she falls in love with a boy named Will and her relationship with her dad begins to grow. However she also runs into some trouble along the way, followed by terrible tragedy.
This book is filled with emotions such as love, sadness, anger, and forgiveness. It is based off of first love and a father-daughter relationship. The characters will touch your heart and you will instantly fall in love with Nicholas Sparks' writing.
I recommend the book The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. This is an amazing book about a boy who is the son of a zoo keeper who owns a zoo in india. While on there way to north america, their boat sinks. The only other living species on that boat with them is some animals left from the zoo. Pi then has to survive on this boat, with the animals, some of which dont like Pi very much. He not only has to worry about the animals, but he has to find a way to get the boat to safety, and save everyones lives.
This book will not only teach you some good lessons,it will also keep you on edge of your seat from start to finish. i recoment reading this book because you have nothing to lose and you will love it.
I reccommend the book Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver. The book is about a girl who is very popular and shallow, but dies in a car crash. Instead of going to heaven, though, she wakes up on the morning of her death, only to find that everything is perfectly normal again. When she relives her day, though, she finds herself in the exact same situation, and dies again. She relives the last day of her life a total of seven times, changing something different each time. Through doing this, she learns important lessons about doing the right thing for others, and maybe even dying for someone's sake other than your own.
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