The Glass Castle

By: Jeanette Walls

o      When Jeanette was 4 years old she cooked her own food using the stove, she started her dress on fire and was in the hospital for weeks with terrible burns on her body. But Jeanette’s father didn’t believe in hospitals so he kidnapped her and they escaped. He didn’t believe in paying bills. In fact Rex Wall didn’t believe in anything normal. He had an imagination that was crazy and he was never realistic, he took his family on adventures moving around the world week by week, they lived in their car, on the ground, in boxes, in the mountains, in the desert. Rex and Rose Wall had four kids, none of them got a real education, but all were almost genius. All four kids knew what they wanted in life and that was to escape their parents. After being molested by there family members and there few dollars being stolen from them by their father all they could think about was the day they got out of there parents hut. There parents didn’t work, so they mainly ate out of garbage cans, and all the kids raised themselves. They wanted a real life like normal kids, so they did there best to wash themselves with the water they borrowed from the neighbors house, they made their own braces and always wore the same clothes, but they kept there heads high and eventually they all escaped their parents and made it to the city of New York. In New York they all got jobs apartments and families, but there parents followed them and they would meet them on the streets homeless and causing trouble. But they have all achieved there dreams and are living happy clean healthy lives.

The Secret Life of Bees

by sue monk kidd

Quotes From My Book:

“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.” Lily, p.2

“But she’s white, August.” -June, p.87

“Lily, I like you better than any girl I’ve ever known, but you have to understand, there are people who would kill boys like me for even looking at girls like you.” -Zach, p.135

“Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about” -August, p.148

“The truth is your mother ran off and left you.” -T. Ray, p.39

About My Book:

The book The Secret Life of Bees, was set in the 60’s in South Carolina, this is the story of lily a 14 year old girl and her story of being haunted by her mothers tragic death that happened when lily was only a toddler. 

      In this book you can feel the tension that society has against race in the south, because lily is a white girl interacting with a black society.

     I would reccomend this book to women and girls because it has girl issues and boys would probably get bored of it...I thought it was a good book but probably not good enough to read again...I liked how it got me hooked and explained things very detailed, I felt like i was in the book and it kept me interested...