GirlBomb

Janice Erlbaumwas fifteen when she left her home and lived in a girls shelter for about a year. Our home is in Brooklyne, New York. During that year she was going to school but in the shelter many accidents happened to her. She was beaten up by the girls and almost killed by a pregnant girl with a small knife. She left the shelter to go to treatment but started doing drugs with her friends. She started drinking alcohol at parties and clubs. Her mom finally got a divorce and Janice went home for about 2 years. When she was 17. She graduated from high school in 1987 and got her own apartment. Now she is a volunteer at a shelter for homeless teens and a longtime columnist for BUST magazine. She still lives in New York City with her partner, Bill Scurry and their three cats.

Quotations- "No regets,"  they'd say. "Wouldn't change a thing." That's what you're suppose to say, when you've survived something: that which does kill you makes you stronger. And it's true- leaving home showed me a strength I didn't know I had, it taught me skills I'd never had before, and it introduced me to people I never would have met other wise."

"My experience raised my tolerence for pain, and reduced my willingness to invite it. It taught me to fight for my life, and to be reckless in the pursuit of my own survival. "

"I have a lot of survivor's guilt, wondering why I didn't suffer the same consequences some of my peers did. I never thought of myself as "lucky" before, but now I do."

Mean Girls lyrics- SugarLand

The Fortelling

 Rain is a young girl that tells about her people and the ways they live their life. She encounters many things like going to war and getting to be queen of her people.They have horses to ride into battle and be like sisters trusting each other. The bees make the honey while her people build homes for them. Rain also encounters finding love and accepting death even if its a loved one. And making friends even if it's a man or animal. There are only women in there city, men mean nothing to them except for a male smith for making weapons for when they go to war. They live in tents so that when winter comes they can move to the caves where there are food and where there other past quenns died with their horses beside them. 285 pages long but its really easy to read and anyboddy that likes horses will not put this book down. Its got some suspence and a few surprising events that will amaze you. This book is mostly about Rain trying to understand things she never knew and becoming a queen to her people. 

My thoughts about the book were this is the greatest book I ever read because it has alot of telling about Rain and how she lives. What happens to during her time of confusion and finding the truth. This book is fiction but when I read, it feels like your the person that is saying the words or going through that kind of feeling. It feels like when you get a image even on the first page it feels like you can see what is happening while the words say it all.