Pretty Ugly

     I'm reading a book called Pretty Ugly and so far it is a pretty good book. Its about a a girl named Jamee who is under a lot of pressure by her parents and teachers to be just like her older sister Darcy. But Jamee wants to be a cheerleader and doesn't care about grades as much as her older sister. She then meets a small skinny girl trying out for cheer leading too. They became friends but the other girls trying out started bullying the little girl because they didn't like her appearance and just doesn't like her.

     My question is why does appearance matter so much in modern life today? Everyone in the world today gets judged by how they look, what they wear and all type of things. I don't understand why everyone has to judge other people. To me its stupid to judge people by how they look and what they wear. Its silly.

     Another question i have is why do girls always seem to bully each other for the stupidest reasons? Boys do this too but girls get mean, in my book for example the cheerleaders took a picture of the two girls to together and edited to make it look like they were dating and sent it to everyone in the whole school. That can really hurt someones feeling and someones reputation. Boys maybe fight but then make up and become friends again. In my opinion girls are way more cruel to each other then boys are and really try to hurt each others feeling in a horrible way.

     Overall The book was very good so far and i want to finish soon and find out what the girls do about the picture and all the bullying that is going on to them. All i know is that it is going to be very cruel and mean. i recommend this book to read overall.

The Test

     The book I just finished reading was called The test from the Bluford high series. It was about this girl who went back to her high school to tell kids about her teenage pregnancy experience how it happened And all that. It was actually a really good and interesting book. One thing I noticed in the book was there was a really big social issue of teenage kids getting pregnant and the father not wanting to be apart of it.
    One example I saw of that social issue was that the guy never talked to her or called her he just used her for unprotected sex. Then once she told him that he got pregnant he promised to call and to try and help but then after about a week he avoided her and never called or even texted her. I think that this happens a lot in the real world because when teenagers have kids they don't want it to ruin there life so they try and run from it. It's always the boy though because the girl is pregnant so she really does have to deal with it.
    Another social issue I noticed was running away from home and daddy issues. The father of the pregnant teen was never really apart of her life, so when she got pregnant her mom and her got in a huge fight and she tried to run away. The first place she tried to run to was her fathers house. He said she could spend the night but she over heard on the phone him telling her mom that he didn't want her there and that she needed her to go home. It was really mean and showed how some dads really don't wanna get involved no matter what.
    Overall I thought it was a really good book and there were a bunch of social issues. I thought it was good however that the girl was trying to tell these kids to not make the same mistake she did. This book reminded me of the show Degrassi because the same thing happens and the father refuses to help to not ruin his social life. It's a really big issue and really messed up.

     I just Finished my Book secret in the shadows about a sophmore in high school named Roylin Bailey. Throughout the book it just seemed like nothing he did ended up well in his social life, and no matter how hard he tried things did not go his way. He had a really good friend in the building who was an elderly man and who kept him company throughout his whole childhood. One day while the man was asleep Roylin decided to take his money to borrow for a birthday gift for this girl he met. The main was sent to a nursing home but the super in the building said that the man had a heart attack from the lost money so he could get Roylin to do whatever he wanted to keep his mouth shut. It was pretty ridiculous.

     One thing in the book that happened to show nothing went Roylins way was that after he went through all the trouble to borrow the money from the man to get this new girl an expensive necklace, she ended up just using him for the gift and dropped him completly. So then he had to do all that work and go through all that stress for no reason.

     There was also kind of an ethical dilemma in this story. Roylin thought he basically caused the death of a man in his building yet he decided to try and work so the super would keep it a secret and not tell anyone about it himself. The author did an amazing job of having a lot of intense moments at the end of the book. For example when Roylin finally tells his new friend about how he cause the death the friend comes up with all these ideas to see if its actually true. And the last scene of the book was when the super comes to the house to realize that they know he was lying the whole time. The author made the whole ending insane and intense.

     Overall i think the book was a really good book and the author did an amazing job of making key parts more important then others also a good job of showing how Roylin was having a tough time and in the end a new friend ended up helping him out big.

Secrets in The Shadows

     I just Finished my Book secret in the shadows about a sophmore in high school named Roylin Bailey throughout the book it just seemed like nothing he did ended up well. He had a really good friend in the building who was an elderly man and who kept him company throughout his whole childhood. One day while the man was asleep Roylin decided to take his money to borrow for a birthday gift for this girl he met. The main was sent to a nursing home but the super in the building said that the man had a heart attack from the lost money so he could get Roylin to do whatever he wanted to keep his mouth shut. It was pretty ridiculous.

     One thing in the book that happened to show nothing went Roylins way was that after he went through all the trouble to borrow the money from the man to get this new girl an expensive necklace, she ended up just using him for the gift and dropped him completly. So then he had to do all that work and go through all that stress for no reason.

     There was also kind of an ethical dilemma in this story. Roylin thought he basically caused the death of a man in his building yet he decided to try and work so the super would keep it a secret and not tell anyone about it himself. The author did an amazing job of having a lot of intense moments at the end of the book. For example when Roylin finally tells his new friend about how he cause the death the friend comes up with all these ideas to see if its actually true. And the last scene of the book was when the super comes to the house to realize that they know he was lying the whole time. The author made the whole ending insane and intense.

     Overall i think the book was a really good book and the author did an amazing job of making key parts more important then others also a good job of showing how Roylin was having a tough time and in the end a new friend ended up helping him out big.