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Plastic Angels - Nerissa Nields (Novel Reflection)

For the first time, Gellie asked herself what she wanted to do. She has never decide anything by herself, it's all up for her mom to do it. But after the time she met Randi, her life totally changed. Since she was burned, her mom believed that, her life is to be a roll model, and no one ever thought about what she wanted. Randi and her started out a band, which named Plastic Angels. Waiting patiently, Randi finally told herself, to convince Gellie to do what she wanted.

Unfortunately, Gellie's mom isn't that kind of easy person who gave up all her work in 3 years and let Gellie be in a band that didn't even popular. Gellie's very confused. Would she choose to be with her mom, leaving to Hollywood, or stay there with her friend, and begin to start something?

Read and enjoy.


I didn't really like this book. It has no clear conflict, but it's kind of cute that Gellie and Randi started out a band. But however, it's not my type. :D

This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen (Novel Reflection)

You like sweet loving books? You love how the characters made up and broke up? This is the right book for you. A little touch to your heart, and it's about to blow your mind offffff!!!! Remy Star - a normal girl who is enjoying her last time of her life with high school friends and leaving for college. She accidentally met a guy named Dexter - totally annoying but at the same time, so sweet, so cute. It was her mom's wedding with Don. She slowly found herself falling for Dexter. But things aren't right. After he heard that it was just a summer fling between her and Dexter, they broke up. Remy then dates a perfect guy, but Dexter was always on her mind. Would she just keep it simple like that... or follow her heart? Read and find out.

I was in love with this! Totally hook me :D I LOVE DEXTER!!! HAHA! They are both so cute :) <3 love it!

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys - Kate Brian (Novel Reflection)

I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU FIRST THING IS THIS BOOK IS TOTALLY AMAZING. I JUST WANT TO READ AND READ. AND THIS ACTUALLY MADE ME GO MAD AND ALSO SAY OMG OUTLOUD (like my parents were like... da heck?). Seriously... SO GOOD! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ^^.

Megan - a girl who always proves that she's strong, but actually, she's very sensitive. Have you ever live in a house where another 7 guys live? No way. But Megan, she's still alive! At first, she got to the McGowan's house by a no-choice way which are: one, she must move to Korea and live with her parents, or rather stay in a house like that, in Boston. So she did make a decision, hard one, to move to the McGowan's house.
Living a new life, new school, new house, she has to adapt to it all. How could she make it that far? Wow! Add to that, she has a "boy" problem too, obviously. She thought she fell in love with one of the guy in the house... But actually there's another guy who she has a strong connection to. But the rest, or maybe half of them, want her to move. Ever since she came, their laws, life messed up. So some of them planned things to make her want to move. Would she stay to find out who does her heart belong to? Or leave and go to Korea? READ AND SUPER ENJOY :]

If I have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's my Prince? - Mellisa Kantor (Novel Reflection)

Poor little Lucy. She has an unfortunate life living with her stepmother, two stepsisters and facing them everyday, listen to her stepmother lecturing. It's been long enough but she still cannot get used to it. Since her mom died, she cannot choose what she wants, do what she like, it's like living another person life, not herself anymore.
She wakes up everyday, finding herself, laying on the bed in her "room" (which actually a basement). At school, it's hard for her to make any friends. But for the first time of her life, she felt her heart beats faster when she first talked to a guy she barely knows - a popular guy - Conner. Turn out, Connor likes her too, so they dated. Lucy thought that her dream has came true, just the way she wanted.
Lucy likes drawing, and it leads her to meet a new guy named Sam - an anti-social-art-loving nerd. She cannot lie that he's truly talented. She doesn't know that she's close to him enough that he has fallen hard for her.
Is anything going wrong? Is she going to find out her geek friend is in love with her? What will change by then? Read and find out.

I rated this book 5 stars! It's really cute, a story around a girl with her stepmother, relationships, and all of that. I cannot put this book down because OMG, it's soooo... cute :"> If you're the person who likes these kind of book, like love teenagers... Then this will fit you. :]

Jealousy - LiLi St. Crow (Novel Reflection)

The sucker - her best friend - Graves, is going really fast chasing Dru. She feels safe when she's with him, so secure. She likes it, of course. But believe that's another handsome, kindly savior - Christophe, who's also in love with her, she cannot resist it. Her feelings for both of them are so strong. She flinched. Who would she pick? A super sweet, hot werwulf, or a silence charming savior? Her heart has to make a decision.
It's not just it. There's more problems adding to her silly life. Anna - ANOTHER Svetchota, whose heart is for Christophe, she has her eyes on Dru for every action that Dru made. They're in a battlefield, looking for a right guy to trust him with their hearts. Would Dru just give up and choose Graves? Or would she fight for Christophe? Read and enjoy :]

OH FLUFFING GOD! I LOVE THIS! BUT IN THE LIBRARY THERE AREN'T THE FOURTH AND THE FIFTH BOOK... UGHH! Okay so I have to admit that I'm in love with this series.
You cannot predict what will happen in the book. It's just very magical and I love how the author write about two guys fighting for a girl <3 LOVE IT!
So check this outttt peopleeee!

Betrayals - LiLi St. Crow (Novel Reflection)

Now Dru Anderson has to face the fact that her best friend - Graves - a Loup-garou, is going to change because in the school full of teens like her are different, and she - herself, is going to adapt it somehow, some way.
She's stuck here with all the strangers, and cross her heart to trust someone. What else can be worse? Her feelings of trusting someone who's not going to hurt her, betray her, are the same of giving someone a gun and trust them not to pull the trigger. She lost her dad, her mother, she lost her house, she even lost her trust to Christophe, believe that he's not the son of Sergej, what else she can loose?
Dru is struggling with all the memories coming back to her. She dreamt of her mother - she can hardly  remember everything, but she knew it was just started. She felt like someone in the school is going to kill her - a betrayer. Can Dru stay there to find out who betray her-or even her heart? Read and find out.

This book really hook me into another world with suspenseful and magical. I'm going to read the whole series because it's SOOOO FLUFFING GOOODD!!! I was like OMG in that part, and Holy Moly in another part. It's just amazing :] Go check this out in the library.

Strange Angels - LiLi St. Crow (Novel Reflection)

It all started out with Dru Anderson's father turned into a zombie. Dru is a strongwilled girl who always responsible for what she did. And so, she has to be response for Graves - a half wolf, half human (Loup-garou). In this treacherous world, Dru found herself the special, the rare one. After meeting Christophe - a Djamphir, who was once in love with her mother - a Svetchota. But her mom was long gone and now she's the only one left - one in a billion. Since she is so rare, Sergej - a guy who hunt Djamphir, werewolf, and her kind down. Therefore, she and Graves left the Dakotas and flee to a place where all strange kinds attend - the Schola. She - herself, has to be afraid of trust someone and she knew one thing, that Sergej has always looked after her, she must be very wary. Would she escaped from Sergej on the way go to Schola? Or would she end up with herself tangled with problems pilling high mountain? Read, enjoy and found out :]

I really do recommend this book, and the whole Strange Angels series. It reveals an endless story and very adventure journey. So go now to the library and check this out :]

I'm Not Her - Janet Gurtler (Novel Reflection)

Tess is a normal girl who really likes art, has a sister with an angel's face. Her sister - Kristina was perfect to Tess. "Was" only; but since her sister got cancer and her blonde, pretty hair fell down cause of the strong medicine. Kristina wanted to hide her pain and her sickness from people from school. But the story just began. All the students in school get worried and suddenly, Tess became popular. She got through the amputation of her sister's leg (bone cancer) with her sister's best friend, Jeremy, who has made Kristina more joyful and went through her most horrible time of her life. Things didn't go well after that, her family started to split up, her mom is just can't handle it all by herself, but her dad is all busy playing golf, and now all the responsibilities are on Tess's hands; Jeremy died in a car accident and that made Kristina almost had no strength to fight back cancer. Can Tess do it all alone? What will happen next? Read the book and enjoy :)


This book actually attract me since the first time I read the few lines. It was so good and it has a great plot and an interesting conflict. The story flows from this nerve to the other nerve. It gets better after pages. I was appealed by it and I cannot put the book down.

12 Finally - Wendy Mass (Novel Reflection)

Rory Swenson has been waiting patiently for her long long 11 years to do whatever she wants on her wishlist. Finally, it was her 12th birthday. Everything she has wanted has come true:

1. Get a cell phone
2. Stay home alone
3. Get her own screen name so she can IM
4. Shave my legs

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Firstly, with her phone, something happened that she didn't like! There was a phone number kept calling her ordering pizza! It was weird but she was still happy to get a phone. Later on, she got to stay at home alone because she's independent and responsible enough to do that stuff. But it didn't go well actually, she heard some kind of strange sounds and she really did think it was a thief (I'd never stay home alone...). After that day, she didn't even want to think of staying home alone. Things aren't going right on her wishlist. People misunderstand that she is a boy because Rory can use for both gender. When she shaved her leg... It was terrible! She didn't read the instruction well so her skin... was like felling off her leg! She terrified by that! But at the end she was happy because all of those on her wishlist lead her to a whole different relationship, more friends, more freedom... Mom trusted her, she got new friends and that is what a teenager really needs.


I did enjoy this book so I'd rate it 5 out of 5. You might find it interesting too. Go to the library and check it out for the break.

11 birthdays - Wendy Mass (Novel Reflection)

Since a little kid, Amanda has always celebrated her birthday with Leo - her best friend. But on her 10th birthday Leo said something that hurts her feelings which is he doesn't want to celebrate every birthdays with Amanda. Since that, Amanda and Leo have never talk again. Soon, it was her 11th birthday. She started to get rid of anything that reminds her of Leo. A pot that she and Leo grew a little plant in it, the pictures... she threw them straight out of the window. After that night, it was morning, it was .. her 11th birthday! It wasn't like what she expected, it was horrible! Her dad was totally sick, her mom has an important meeting so she has to take a bus, and when she came to school, it was history POP quiz! She hated it! Her mom got fired because she took the wrong poster. It was messes up! Amanda just want her birthday to end. But the next morning, when she woke up, it was her birthday AGAIN! That happened the same to Leo too, so that's why they got back together to solve the problems. Finally, they figured out that, their great-great-grandfathers were enemies and the tree pots were those who kept Amanda and Leo save, but Amanda threw it out of the window. They were stuck in the same day, and no one else can help. They just have to change it by themselves.



I really like this book, it entertained me a lot and I'd suggest it to my friends because it's very funny and teenagers like us might enjoy it!

The Last Survirors - Susan Beth Pfeffer (Novel Reflection)

Since Miranda's family heard that the asteroid is going to hit directly to the Moon. Even though they were excited at first, but later on... the series of chaos happened. Her family has to went through all the problems and disasters together. For the first time in Miranda's life, she has to skip lunch or meal because the food aren't going to last forever and especially, water, electricity became the rarest thing that a person could afford. People no longer use phones to contact, instead, they use letters. But after the asteroid hit the moon, lesser people who pick up the letters and when it finally came, it's probably from ages ago. It was super hot in the summer and extremely cold in winter. Things aren't going really well, they didn't even think about showering and doing laundry because the electricity no longer on. Disasters happened everywhere. More amount of people died. How could they survive through all of that? It was epic back then but untill Miranda's 17th birthday, it was fine, they were all still alive.

Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix (Novel Reflection)

Luke - a boy who was a third child in a house that already had two children. Those children are called Shadow Children. AFter sneaking out of the house for the first time of Luke, he found out that the Sport Family - who also had two children. That person was a girl name Jenn, Jennifer. Her family is so rich that she could get a fake I.D card but she rejected. Why? Because she didn't want to be someone else! She wanted to be her - herself. Freedom is all children supposed to have but the Shadow Children have to hide. Jennifer has planned on everything to demonstrate that every kids should be live in free and not worry of being killed. She asked Luke to come...Would Luke take a risk? Or he would rather stay at home and live in hidden?

 

Demon Glass - Rachel Hawkins (Novel Reflection)

Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. Though, she is actually a demon. And that's all why their parents divorced. She was shocked that their parents hide those secret from her since she was born. First, she decided to go through the Removal, but after seeing another two demons at Abbey Thorne, she wanted to keep her power so she can protect herself from the Eye. Before she was training two months spending her vacation with her dad at London, she went to a club with Jenna and another two damons. That was when she got attacked by the Eye. She met Archer again! Stranger though, he supposed to kill her but Archer let her go. Once again, on her birthday, Archer Cross attempted there and screwed up the whole thing. She realized that she still didn't over Cross yet... What is she going to do, trying to hide it, or explain it to her family that she has a crush on an Eye...?

Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins (Novel Reflection)

It was her 11th birthday, Sophie Mercer discovered herself that she is a witch. Her parents divorced before she was even born. After all of that magic things she did in "human" school, her father - a warlock, forced her to go to Hecate Hall - a school for all Prodigiums, witches, shifters like her. For the first day attempting at Hex hall, Sophie Mercer was known as a dark witch. Her roomate - Jenna, who is a vampire, was doubted for a series of killing. In the three enemies of Sophie, two were attacked by an unknown person. That's why Jenna got kick out of the school. Even worse, Sophie had a crush on an Eye - Archer, which she found out who he really is when making-out-on-the-ceiling stuff happened. Her biggest threat was in front of her and now she has to prepared for the whole new life with all magic and dangers.
 

The Rose that Grew from Concrete - Tupac Shakur

The Rose that Grew from Concrete

---  Tupac Shakur ---

Did you hear about the rose that grew

from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it

learned to walk with out having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,

it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete

when no one else ever cared.

• 1. What is concrete? Explain, using imagery, what it looks, feels, smells, tastes and sounds like. 

-        -  Concrete is something people use to build house and it needs to be strong enough to make the house solid. It doesn’t look nice and it actually looks disgusting. People walk on it, spit on it. It represents something bad or problems.

• 2. What is a rose? Using imagery to explain it. 

-       -   A rose is a pretty and pleasant flower. It represents something nice, beauty, or something that overcome the problems.

• 3. What is the tone of this poem?

-        -  The tone of this poem is strong but soft at the same time. It probably cheers people up. It sounds great and happy.

• 4. What is the message of the poem?

-         - The message is to believe in ourselves. We can do anything if we try and we can make something out of nothing. We can change, from bad to good.

• 5. What figurative language does the poet use?

-          - The poet uses imagination to compare concrete as a bad person; and rose is that person after some changes, that person becomes a better person. 

Homework (Changes-Tupac)

1) What's the tone of the song?
- Aggressive and angry. He tried to tell people to not fight over each other and also don't be racist toward black-Americans.

2) What imagery does Tupac use?
- He used the experience of his life to describe the world around him. He saw his friend died in the game and that really sad. He was forced to do something that he didn't want to. And he prefer a better life.

3) What figurative language does he use?
- He used rhymes, alliteration, onomatopocia, repetion.

4) Text to Self.
- Tupac sent the messages through the song and

5) Text to Text.
- This song has the same content and meaning as the speech of MLK - I have a dream. They both tell us about being racist toward each other is not the right thing to do.

6) Text to World.
- In this world, lots of people still live in poor and they have to do dirty jobs like: stealing and selling drugs because that's the only thing they can do to survive. Tupac has describe the situation very well. The world has to change.

My Favorite Song "Safe & Sound"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4PGpXsOAI

Novel Reflection for "Out of my mind"

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             Melody is not like the other people. She cannot do easy thing like normal human can like: talk, walk, but the special thing she has – a miracle: photographic memory. She can remember anything very details. She is so smart, even smarter than the fortune kids who can talk and walk. She went to a normal school and she joins a group of smart kids to compete with other schools and she can show them that not because she has a mental problem doesn’t mean she isn’t intelligence. But when they got to the final round, Melody was left behind because everyone else went eat breakfast together and they got to the airport earlier; the flight was delayed and the group just got into the plane in time. Melody was left… L After that, the team didn’t win. Everything got to the most normal it can be in school – silence. 

Novel Reflection for "Gregor and the curse of the Warmbloods" ♥

Gregor was told to go to the Underworld to complete the "Prophecy of Blood". But his mom didn't let him go alone with his sister so she follows them, if not she won't let them go. At first, she thought it was only a meeting and it's only for a day, but actually... It's not normal like a meeting, her son - Gregor has to risk himself to save all the animals and people life because of the warmblood disease. It killed so many people and now he had to go and find the medicine which is starshades. But when they finally got there - the sVineyard of Eyes, but ants destroy all the starshades and leaving no hope of cure. Later on, Gregor thought about it again and again, he figured out that he can get the medicine from the laboratory, All the problems has been solve... but his mom got the disease so she has to stay down there and take treatments. :D