Hidden Figures details the lives of the African American women who were the computers for NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became NASA. Before reading this, I assumed that these women were relatively young and fresh out of college without families of there own, but I quickly learned that this was not true. One of the first women we meet is married with children of her own. She’s a teacher (as some of the other women are) and took extra jobs to […]
A WWII story you never hear about
Between Shades of Gray is a World War Two story that is not often told. It is the story of the Soviet Union’s occupation of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. The Soviets captured those who they saw as anti-Soviet, mainly the educated- doctors, lawyers, teachers, military servicemen, writers, business owners, musicians, artists, and librarians. These people were rounded up and murdered, sent to prison, or sold into slavery in Siberia. We follow the story of Lina, who is separated from her father, but is with her […]
Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice is the diary of a teenage girl. She struggles with friendships in school, especially after her family moves for her father’s job. Over the summer, she goes to live with her grandparents, in the town that she moved from, even though she doesn’t have many friends there either. It is during this summer, at the age of fifteen, that she experiences drugs for the first time- accidentally, as she did not recognize the game that was being played at a party, and […]
Stolen
Stolen is written in the perspective of a letter to the kidnapper. Gemma, a sixteen year old girl, is traveling with her mother and father. While at an airport in Bangkok, China. Gemma goes to get a cup of coffee and meets Ty, who offers to pay for her drink. After paying, he quickly drugs her drink, and is able to get her out of the airport unnoticed. Ty takes Gemma to the Australian Outback. She awakes in a room in the middle of nowhere. […]
A Mother’s Reckoning
Sue Klebold was like any other parent, thinking that a parent would recognize if something was wrong with their child, that there would be signs. That a parent couldn’t possibly NOT know if there child was planning the unimaginable. Sue Klebold acknowledges that she was wrong. Looking back, she knows there were signs, but she pushed them off as normal phases of growing up. Klebold talks about how she thought at first the her son Dylan, one of the shooters, was made to participate in […]
Good Morning Flowers
Summer lives in Long Thorpe, a boring town where nothing happens. One evening, she goes to meet her friends at a nearby club; however, when she arrives, she learns from her friends Kerri, that another friend, Rachel, had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend and was unreachable- she had turned off her cell phone. The girls head off in separate directions in search of Rachel, a choice that Summer will later regret. In her search, she begins to walk through a nearby park where […]
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