Keeping Literature Lit with Mrs. B

BIBLIOGRAPHY Carter, Ally. 2006. I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU. New York: Hyperion/Disney Publishing Group.  ISBN: 9781484785058 PLOT SUMMARY This teenage drama is focused on Cammie Morgan. She is a student at the secret and highly classified, Gallager Academy for Exceptional Young Women. One would think it was a typical all-girls school; however, they are trained in the latest technology and everything needed to become a spy. Cammie herself is fluent in fourteen languages, yet struggles to talk to a cute boy when she meets him. Using her spy knowledge, she secretly finds out more about this guy and then a budding romance begins. In the end, she must decide if spy life is for her or if she wants a normal life with a cute boy. CRITICAL ANALYSIS Realistic life for a teenage girl who just happens to be in a spy school, but goes through the same emotions as a normal girl. This book has a theme that falls in line with the coming of age and trying to figure out w...

  BIBLIOGRAPHY Norton, Preston. 2018. NEANDERTHAL OPENS THE DOOR TO THE UNIVERSE. New York: Hyperion Publishing Group.  ISBN: 9781484790625 PLOT SUMMARY Cliff Hubbard, a 16-year-old, is known as an outsider, someone who doesn’t fit in. Others at his high school pick on him and call him “Neanderthal” due to his size, an enormous six foot six inches and 250 pounds. He comes from a not-so-wonderful home life where he lives in a trailer park with his alcoholic father after his brother committed suicide. The one who picks on Cliff the most is the quarterback football star Aaron, that is until he has a near-death experience and comes back from a coma with a new look on life. Aaron believes that God gave him a list of things to do to help others at the high school. He convinces Cliff to work with him to help heal their school and students going through things at their high school. Cliff finally begins to feel like he fits in and has a friend since his brother’s death. CRITICAL ANALYS...

  BIBLIOGRAPHY Stone, Nic. 2017. DEAR MARTIN. New York: Crown Publishing Group.  ISBN: 9781101939499 Stone, Nic. 2017. DEAR MARTIN. Dion Graham , Narr.) [Unabridged Audiobook]. Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Dear-Martin-Audiobook/B074FC374M?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShare (Original work published 2017.) PLOT SUMMARY This engaging story focuses on the struggles of Justyce McAllister. While he is a top student in his class and has his eyes set on Ivy League, there are constant issues at his mostly white school. Follow Justyce as he is seen through the eyes of officers that have racial profiling issues despite him being a good kid. Justyce seeks refuge in writing a journal titled “Dear Martin” as if he is writing to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His goal is to be like MLK, Jr. and strive to take nonviolent routes when dealing with racism. Things take a turn when his best friend is killed in front of him due to racial profiling and...

  BIBLIOGRAPHY Armentrout, Jennifer. 2018. Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9781328759870 PLOT SUMMARY Fourteen short stories that highlight the moment when a couple meets for the first time. Each story captivates the reader into someone else’s first-time meeting scenario. Each story is focused on the romance of a first encounter; however, some are not so romantic until later. Authors : Jennifer Armentrout, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Huntley Fitzpatrick, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Katharine McGee, Kass Morgan, Julie Murphy, Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard, Nicola Yoon, and Ibi Zoboi CRITICAL ANALYSIS I was sucked in right away with Hailey and Wolf’s encounter in the first story titled “Siege Etiquette.” I wanted to keep reading! Then it just ended and while I was disappointed because I wanted to see where their recent encounter would take them in their relationship, I was sucked into the next short story. ...

  BIBLIOGRAPHY Horikoshi, Kohei. 2015. MY HERO ACADEMIA. VOL. 1, IZUKU MIDORIYA: ORIGIN. California: Viz Media, LLC. ISBN 9781421582696 PLOT SUMMARY Fourteen-year-old Izuku Midoriya is alive during a time when everyone, well almost everyone, is born with a superpower known as a “quirk.” Unfortunately for him, he is in that small percentage of people who do not have a quirk. However, as he grows up he decides that he is not going to let that stop him from becoming a hero. After a few helpful friends, he is able to get into the hero High School and begins his training for becoming a hero. Now that he has a quirk, he must learn how to control it in the continuing of the series. CRITICAL ANALYSIS This was my first time ever reading a Manga book and it was so difficult to understand and not read things out of order. Once I was able to get past that, the book became enjoyable. Horikoshi does a good job of making the story relatable to teens even though in real life we don’t have superpow...

  BIBLIOGRAPHY McCullough, Joy. 2018. BLOOD WATER PAINT. New York: Dutton Books. ISBN 9780735232136 McCullough, Joy. 2018. BLOOD WATER PAINT. (X. Sands, Narr.) [Unabridged Audiobook]. Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/Blood-Water-Paint-Audiobook/B07CTYB3TL?action_co de=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShare (Orginial work published 2018.) PLOT SUMMARY Artemisia Gentileschi is a seventeen-year-old painter from the seventeenth century. Based on the true story of her life. She spends most of her time grinding up pigment for paint since her mother's death and paints for her father. Her father takes credit for all of her paintings. She thinks life will turn around for her when her dad hires a tutor, a famous painter named Agostino Tassi, to help her grow as an artist. She begins to grow feelings for him until he rapes her. In a time when women did not speak up, she decided to take a stand and push the issue with her father who finally decided to press charg...