response on "Lush" by Natasha Friend

Lush By Natasha Friend, Is an extremely amazing book. The main character is so powerful, she goes through MANY problems, and they affect her so much but she deals with them

Her dad is a druggie. He is a drug addict, he is an alcoholic, Sam wakes up every night to something crashing, her dad cursing, going upstairs and screaming at her mom.

At school things are pretty much the same, Her best friend backstabbed her by doing something that changed her reputation in school, she is constantly bullied for her appereance, and called names. She does have friends to back her up, but that doesnt change a thing.

A place Sam feels better is the library. She writes to this mysterious person "AJK" AJK knows everything about Sam, and everything about Sam's life, but Sam has no idea who AJK is.

Then there is the usual love problems. Sam has a crush on this boy at school, he also like her, but the thing he doesnt know is that shes 13 years old and still a child. One night, he got Sam drunk, When Sam was drunk, She managed to mutter "Im a Kid" this is when her relation ship with the guy she likes ends.

The next day at school, she is called names, but nobody knows the truth. Her friends get mad at her because they assume things about her, and then she is left alone.

One day, her father was drunk and smashed a bottle against her baby brother's head, severely injuring him. Her father is sent to a place where druggies are.

Sam forgets her dad for a while

Near the end, Sam finds out about the Mysterious person AJK. Apperently it's someone she would never have imagined. This person brings Sam to her Dad.

I guess i could relate to Sam in a way, we both have brother which we are very self conscious, and we are the same age.

i thought it was amazing how Sam managed to put up with much, Especially when she found out she was a born mistake, which was not true.

Sam has an amazing personality, and Natasha Friend is a really great and descriptive writer

Response on Responses!

I really enjoyed reading Hale's Response, she  connected to one of the characters (Not the main one) But she gave a reason why. She connected to a character as the same age as her. She couldn't connect with the character well because there wasn't alot going on but she still connected in some ways. Hale was connected with 2 out of 3 of the main characters in her book. Hale also connected the main character of her book to the main character of another book called "The Drummer boy of Shiloh" Hale gave reasons why she thought these characters could similar, and i would have agreed with her. The response Hale wrote was great, and she explained alot, and it seemed interesting the way she blogged it, but she wouldn't reccomend to others, so i would prefer not to!

I also read Asma's blog of "Wicked" By Sara Shepard. This is a story of the Pretty Little Liars series. I watched the whole thing and am waiting for the next season, but i also read all the books quite awhile ago, i was really looking forward to reading Asma's blog, because i wanted to see her thoughts on the book. Asma summarized the whole book, which was a great idea, so people who didn't read it could get an idea of the book, i loved how she didn't give away too much though. She jots down what she notices in the book and she goes deep into her thoughts.

Make Lemonade response

Make Lemonade
By: Virginia Euwer Wolff

How does it feel to leave your best friend? or when they have to leave you? Its a very hard decision, sometimes. Sometimes you are forced to leave them, and sometimes they are forced to leave you. It makes a big difference in your life, it impacts it. I experienced it, but i actually couldn't care less and i don't regret it all because, she didn't impact my life at all. She was just, a person, who wanted to ruin it? When your really attached to someone  you don't want to leave them, no matter what. It is a decision you have to think hard about. In the book Make Lemonade, they main character experienced it.

A fourteen year old girl named La Vaughn, needs to work, go to school and save money for college and she needed to get out of America,her mom supported her, she needed a job for that. She decides to babysit a lonely teen age mother named Jolly. Jolly had two kids. Jeremy and Jilly. Jolly loves her kids with everything they have, but the environment they live in is disgusting. No proper food, no education, and no going outside of the world at all. They have a terrible living. The beginning is fine, where Jolly goes work and La Vaughn baby sits the kids after school, and she works very hard, to finish her homework in time and babysitting, she has confidence in her self because she was a polite girl. La Vaughn gives Jeremy and Jilly lemon seeds, but they never sprout. Jolly could afford to pay La Vaughn for her escape and for herself. La Vaughn and Jolly become good friends. But then La Vaughn realizes that Jolly, cant escape. She had no education, she was completely illiterate, and she has no family, she can go to. She cant take the welfare charges, they will take away her children. La Vaughn Baby sits Jeremy and Jilly for free. La Vaughn Persuades Jolly to go to school since she lost her job. La Vaughn works hard for the kids, she even uses her own money for their clothes. But over all La Vaughn works hard for them, and so does Jolly, but La Vaughn Still needs to get out of the inner city. In the end of the book, La Vaughn leave the job with Jolly since there is a day care in her high school.

In the end of the book, Jolly tells a Vaughn that the lemon seeds she gave Jeremy and Jilly, had sprouted. and then the book ends. That part pretty much summed up the whole story, in the beginning, it wouldn't sprout because of the problems, and in the end, when they succeed the lemon seeds sprout. That explains the tite, and i think the author used the lemon seeds as a story board, which was a really good idea. And it was a great way to end the book. Throughout the whole book i was confused with the name "Make Lemonade" and the end gives away alot. When i first saw the book, i thought it would be about a girl who makes lemonade for college, but it was different. Virginia Euwer Wolff is a clever writer! I would reccomend this book to everyone in my class, its a GREAT book!