10 Books That have Impacted me 9/4/14

10. Island of the Blue Dolphins , Scott O'Dell
The Island of the Blue Dolphins is a great book and what got me into realistic fiction. I read it in the fifth grade because we did a unit on it. I learned that you're not always lonely and have to give people
(or animals) a second chance. Like how she kept the wolf and it was her friend after a while.

9. Cardboard, Doug TenNapel

Cardboard was a pretty good graphic novel. It told of a story of a man to poor to buy his son a birthday present after his wife died .So he got him magical cardboard. After making a cardboard person, he came to life. I read this book in 6th grade and I liked it a lot because of the realistic back story. Also, it kind of enforced to be happy with whatever you have/get.

 
8. Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

I read Esperanza Rising in 5th grade and we did a unit in it. The unit definitely helped make the theme way more clear. I liked the book because it started off with a wealthy girl that got robbed and started working with the people she once knew as servants. At first she was snobby but then realized that it doesn't matter if you're not wealthy or rich

 7. After Ever After, Jordan Sonnenblick
First off, Jordan Sonnenblick is my favorite author. I love his books. I found out about him in the 6th grade battle of the books. The book was about a boy who had been a cancer survivor and how he had hated being treated differently. Although he loved biking. I like more of the realistic fiction and this book was perfect for me. I loved that he made the time after he had survived. This book has made me wonder even more what happened after some kind of event. So, to basically try to think deeper. After the "happy ending."

6. The Outsiders, S.E Hinton
I read the outsiders in the 6th grade Battle of the Books to. I loved this book. It felt like you were reading a 90's movie. greasers vs. socs.There was some pretty emotional stuff in that book. I think this book is a very close second to my favorite. I liked it because of the idea of what happens when they run away and the consequences. Also my view on the world and it's injustices. Also you can't forget, "Stay golden Ponyboy".

5. Ramona Quimby Series, Beverly Cleary
This book series is THE best. I loved reading these in second and third grade. I still ream them today sometimes like on road trips. Overall the book list has been kind of serious/young adult books. Ramona has had multiple adventures like trying to find the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, ruining Beezus' birthday cake with her doll, biting one bite and putting the apples back for almost all of the apples, and much more. This is my favorite/has impacted me because it has changed my view on little kids. They don't know much and are very curious.

4. Harry Potter Series, J.K Rowling
Harry Potter is my favorite series. I kind of grew up with it. I remember being like 9 or 10 and my sister asked me to go with her to see Order of the Phoniex. My love for fantasy/fiction has originated in the Harry Potter series. That's how it's impacted me. I'm so fascinated and want to know more of witchcraft and alchemy. Also the old tails of how they used to burn people they thought were witches. Also necromancy always fascinated me. Harry Potter is my favorite casual book to read.    

 

3. The Giver, Lois Lowry 
This book has been read more recently. I loved the Giver. We did a unit on it in 7th grade. It changed my whole view on the world. Just the thought of an enclosed community. Not being able to see color or have certain feelings. Also, being assigned to almost everything. Being assigned to a wife/husband, job, and kids. It has impacted me by showing how we take the littleest things for granted and how we could make mistakes by picking wrong.

2. Mississippi trial, 1955, Christopher E. Crowe

 This book is very sorrowful, but has been made for a reason. The book focused on the murder and discrimination on an African-American boy. When they held the trial, all the people that were against equal rights, which was a large amount in Mississippi, voted the man innocent. This has impacted me by seeing how this world used to be in equal and by getting me into reading books like this. Talking about the old, cruel world.  

 

1. Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
I read this book near the end of seventh grade. It was a very interesting and gloomy. It was the diary of a young girl named Anne Frank. She had to move to a warehouse and couldn't go to school. She still had the same problems a 12 year-old girl usually had. But there was distress and panic at times. I think it was the ending that got me. Just to know that the diary wouldn't be written in again. Since she was taken away.