Can you imagine being locked in an 11 ft by 11 ft room for your whole life and never knowing more than the four walls around you? That’s the case for five year old Jack who lives in a small room with his mother, who was taken by a man many years ago. Room is told from the perspective of a Jack, which can make it hard to understand at times. It is when Jack turns five that his mother tells him that what she once told […]
Columbine
Columbine details the before and after of the shooting at Columbine High School in April, 1999. I found this an interesting read and had a hard time putting it down. While reading, it really made me wonder, could all of this have been prevented? I know that looking back it is easy to see all the signs that were missed, but there were some things that I feel the police should have taken more seriously, and I think that knew they should have too considering […]
This is Where it Ends
This is Where it Ends is a story about a school shooting in Opportunity, Alabama. The school sits outside of town. We see this story from four students perspectives, and everything happens within the span of fifty-four minutes. It seemed like a normal start to a new semester, the principal had gathered the students and staff in the auditorium for the yearly speech she gives at the start of second semester. When students stand up to leave at the end of the speech, they begin […]
Son
The final book of The Giver quartet is called Son. This book is broken into three parts, and ends up tying the quartet together. We begin with meeting Claire after she has been selected to be a birthmother. We see a new part of the community that Jonas grew up in. Giving birth is hard for her and it is decided that this is not the best job for Claire, and she is reassigned. But she wonders, what happened to her child? Nearly a year later, […]
Messenger
In continuation with The Giver quartet, the third book of the series is Messenger and follows Matt, who is now Matty from Gathering Blue. Also back in this book is Jonas, however he now goes by another name. Matty lives with Kira’s father, who is known in the community as the Seer, (ironic since he is blind). This village is made up of outcasts from other communities. They earn a name as they get older, they are given a new name, such as Mentor, or Seer. Matty is […]
Gathering Blue
As a middle school teacher, I’m always asking my students what they are reading, and this took me back to middle school. In their Language Arts class, they read the book The Giver and were very interested in it. On their own, many of them went of and borrowed the next book in The Giver quartet, Gathering Blue. I knew that since I enjoyed the book when I read it in middle school, I needed to read this book too. This is a different community than the community […]
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