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  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Blumenthal, K. (2018). Bonnie and clyde the making of a legend. Penguin Young Readers Group. ISBN: 0451471229 2.  PLOT SUMMARY This book details the life of Bonnie and Clyde, through different sources such as news articles and family interviews. This notorious couple is often celebrated and their story is immortalized but in reality, their story of how they came to be “Bonnie and Clyde” is different. Using sequential order, this book shares keys events that led this famous couple to their life of crime.   3.CRITICAL ANALYSIS I want to start by saying that I have heard the songs and I have seen movies that tell the story of these famous outlaws and I admit, I love the Hollywood version! However, reading this book gave me a different perspective on Bonnie and Clyde. Blumenthal’s biography was loaded with facts and stuck only to facts leaving out her personal opinions, which I thought was great! Written using sequential order, Blumenthal really took the tim...

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Brockenbrough, M. (2019). Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary . Square Fish. ISBN: 1250211700 2.  PLOT SUMMARY This biography details the life of Alexander Hamilton and the impact it had on America. This biography shares different aspects of Hamilton’s life, starting from his birth, the key role he played during the American Revolution, post revolution times and his untimely death. As an added bonus, Brockenbrough added additional information at the end of the book that includes timelines and other relevant information to help readers understand the time period. 3.CRITICAL ANALYSIS Let me start by saying this biography was very well researched, I couldn’t put it down. Brockenbrough really put in the time to accurately depict one of our founding fathers as a remarkable leader who greatly impacted the America we know today. After reading the foreword, I was immediately hooked. Hamilton was a portrayed as a fearless leader who brilliantly helped our fo...

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Ogle, R. (2021). Free lunch . W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN: 1324016949 2.  PLOT SUMMARY This novel is a memoir detailing Ogle’s sixth grade year trying to fit in a school filled with rich kids. Some of the challenges he faces include financial struggles, domestic violence, not being able to join the football team, and being humiliated because his mom signed him up for the free lunch program. It wasn’t until he finally visited his friend Ethan’s house that he realized that money wasn’t the answer to all problems. At that moment, he realized that being enrolled in a free lunch program wasn’t meant to hurt him but rather to help him. 3.CRITICAL ANALYSIS This memoir was amazing! I couldn’t put it down. Written as a memoir, Ogle details his family’s financial struggles and how it impacted his sixth-grade year. Rex describes in detail his trips to the grocery store and how his mom only went shopping on Tuesdays to take advantage of “double coupon” day. ...

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bray, L. (2012). The diviners . Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: 0316126101 2.  PLOT SUMMARY This novel starts off in Manhattan when party goers begin playing with an Ouija Board, which are all the rage at the time and they release the spirit of Naught John. Then we meet Evie O'Neill who has a special gift, she can hold someone’s object and read their secrets from it. While at a party, Evie used her gift at a party and got herself in trouble. As a result, her mother decided she should be sent to New York City to stay with her Uncle Will for a bit. While there, she meets up with a childhood friend and soon murders begin to happen. Evie soon realizes her gift can help solve the murders. 3.CRITICAL ANALYSIS This novel was ok. There were several good things but there were also some things I wasn’t a fan of. I would like to start off by mentioning that Bray did an excellent job of researching the time period. Taking place during “Roaring 20’s,” that particular tim...

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Pearson, M. E. (2015). Kiss of deception, the . Square Fish. ISBN: 1250063159 2.  PLOT SUMMARY This Fantastic Fiction novel is about a seventeen-year-old Princess named Lia who runs away from her village on the morning of her wedding to avoid an arranged marriage. As she settles into a new town and a new life, she meets two men whom she is intrigued by. One is the Prince she was suppose to marry, who turned out to be young and handsome, and the other is an assassin who was sent to kill her. Both men present themselves with a false identity, but they know who Lia is. As time goes by, both men begin to fall in love with her and Lia begins to fall in love with one of them, but in a strange twist, their true identity isn’t revealed until near the end of the novel.    3.CRITICAL ANALYSIS Again, as mentioned before, this is my least favorite genre, but OMG!!! This book was sooooooo good!!!!!!! It has a love triangle, deception, lies, and suspense, I can...

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Condie, A. B. (2011). Matched . Penguin Books. ISBN: 9780142419779 2.  PLOT SUMMARY The Science Fiction novel is about a young girl, Cassia, who lives in a future society in which every aspect of their life is controlled. At the age of 17, young people are “matched” with someone for an arranged marriage. As Cassia is paired with her best friend Xander, she mistakenly learns that she was actually paired with another boy in error, but because he was an aberration he could never be matched with anyone. Soon after her grandfather’s death, she begins to question her prearranged marriage and the choices that are made for her like her job.   She soon gets to know Ky he teaches her to write and soon develops a new-found passion for art and poetry.  Cassia soon begins to fall in love with Ky and as she begins breaking the rules, Ky gets taken away to war and Cassia’s family is relocated to a new providence. 3.CRITICAL ANALYSIS I have to start by saying ...