Thursday, February 14, 2013

Reading Response #1

The book that I currently is called "Homeboyz" by Alan Lawrence Sitomer.

Its talked about Teddy's little sister, Tina, is gunned down in drive-by shooting, the gang members who rule the streets in the Anderson family's rapidly deterioring neighborhood dismiss the incident as a wrong place and wrong time. When the Anderson family mourns, Teddy plots the revenge. He is arrested for attempted homicide and thrown into the dark reality of California's juvenile prison, his plans for revenge foiled.
Blink try to steal one of the teacher's car Toyota Camry stereo. The teacher yelled at her to give the stereo back and all the sudden Blink slammed the stereo at the teacher's face. The teacher's face had to have despite multiple plastic surgeries.
That's all i read so far at the beginning of the class.

"Gimme a chocolate Bomb Pop."
"That'll be two dollars"
"Here"
"Sorry, I'm out of singles, you have nothing smaller"
"Naw, this all I got. Hey girl, you got fo' a ten-dolla' bill?"
"Maybe.."
Meeksha heard the jingly bells of ice cream truck coming by the curb and parked. She decide that she want something sweet for ice cream truck. Something what happen next when she don't have any smaller bills change.


Monday, January 28, 2013

Shift by Jennifer Bradbury

I just read the book called Shift by Jennifer Bradbury.

Imagine that you and your best friend head to West on a cross-country bike trek, get into a fight and stop riding together, you reach seattle, go back home, starting college, think your former best friend does too but he doesn't, and your world shifting.
When Chris Collins start to take the bike out of the house and he let go the bike so it would fell. he walk to the mailbox and got the messages from his mom because his mom panicked a lot and worried.
In about three weeks before his graduated from high school. His mother asked Chris about summer job because Chris might be sitting all around and using his parent's money but his mother try to get Chris to get a job because Chris will apply the college after high school. Even Chris decide to go to the college or not.

that's all I read a few chapters of the book.