Survivor by Paul Langan

Tarah Carson has a good life, good friends, a great family, a job she loves, and a dream boyfriend. She also has a secret she has kept hidden for ten years, but as a family reunion gets closer and she discovers she will once again have to face her Uncle Rudy. Tarah stressing that her Uncle Rudy is coming to Aunt Deborah's 90th birthday party and family reunion. Tarah has never told anyone what happened with Uncle Rudy when she was 6 years old, and now she's having flashbacks. Uncle Rudy was fifteen when he took Tarah innocence and childhood from her. After hearing she's kind of cranky and paranoid because she's stressing. She's now lying to her boyfriend Cooper, her mom, her best friend - well, everyone. She accuses Shanetta of stealing her boyfriend, and is giving Cooper the silent treatment alternating with nagging treatment. Tarah continues to struggle with doing the right thing until it becomes clear that she is not the only one that is in danger and she will do anything to protect someone else from the abuse. At her job, which is at the daycare, her coworker asks Tarah did she want to babysit for her while she finally has time to herself with her husband. Tarah immediately accept the offer to not go to family reunion and not see Uncle Rudy. But, what she had realized is that Uncle Rudy will be staying the night at her cousin house with a 3 year old child Kayla. Tarah had to make a choice: either not babysit or stay with her cousin’s child to keep her from danger of becoming the next victim. Tarah went to work then after she got off work she went straight to the family reunion to look for Uncle Rudy but her cousin said that Uncle Rudy left with Kayla and he is going to be watching Kayla for the night. Tarah left the reunion to go to her cousin house to find out Uncle Rudy was taking a shower while Kayla was in bed. When Uncle Rudy Came out the shower with his sleeping close on Tarah confronted Uncle Rudy about how he rape her and he wasn't going to touch Kayla while she is there. Uncle Rudy was trying to convince Tarah that he was drunk when he did that & she shouldn't tell anyone about what he did because he's engaged. But, Tarah wasn't trying to hear his side of the story so she had text her boyfriend Coop to come pick up her and Kayla and take them to her house. Tarah felt like a survivor when she got home because the incident make her stronger and she use it to save someone else. The author intend to explain a story to about someone who might feel alone can conquer their fear and help someone else who might be in trouble. The orginizational pattern for Survivor is problem and solution because Tara was hiding her problems from everybody but at the end she learn to conquer her fears to move on and forgive her Uncle about the situation.

Promises to Keep by Paul Langan

Tyray Hobbs is a bully. But when his newest target, Darrell, stands up to Tyray, breaking Tyray's wrist in front of everyone in Bluford’s cafeteria. Tyray buys a gun and waits for Darrell one night. When Night has comes, Tyray can't kill Darrell & turns the gun on himself. Darrell prevents Tyray from killing himself by knocking the gun away. Now Tyray has to deal with the fallout. He is a joke at school. His parents have grounded him for life, and his dad doesn't care how he is physically harming Tyray. The only thing standing between Tyray and prison is the fact that Darrell hasn't speak to anyone what really happened that terrifying night. Sometimes Tyray keep wishing Darrell had not knocked the gun away that night however life begin to become change when he understand why his brother, Warren who is in prison, is telling Tyray that living to fast will end him in jail or even worst, dead. After Warren prison visit Tyray began to focus more in school by graduating and believe that he will make it successful in his life. My personal reaction is Tyray has been hurt through past experience and just looking for guidance or help from someone who will listen to him and not judge him by what he did. The author intended to share that even though you may have a bad past, learn and grow from it into a better person. The pattern organization I observe is cause and effect.

Secrets on the Shadows by Anne Schraff

Secrets on the Shadows is about a boy name Roylin Bailey and he started to attend Bluford High School. Roylin moved from his old neighborhood because his younger brother Tray was shot and killed for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Roylin was depressed and started to have it sweet until things start to become different for him when Korie Archer comes to Bluford. She is the most beautiful girl in the world and she likes Roylin; Roylin likes Korie. But when Roylin tries to impress her with a luxurious birthday gift, his life starts heading down a slippery slope. First he steals money from a dear old friend, Mr. Miller, and then his Landlord, Tuttle, finds out that he caused that friend to have a heart attack and die. Tuttle is making Roylin pay for his mistake, big time by blackmailing him to do his dirty work. The guilt is eating away at Roylin and even worse Korie is pulling away. Roylin is left feeling guilty, used, frustrated, and sad and all the emotions in between. As Roylin began to figure out something doubtful about Tuttle knowing about Roylin causing Mr. Miller death. Roylin comes to find out Tuttle sent Mr. Miller away to a nursing and was cashing Mr. Miller retirement check. My personal reaction to this book is very interested because it’s almost like a puzzle and once you put the pieces together you get the big picture. The pattern of orgination is cause and effect because Roylin stole money from Mr.Miller and the effwct was to work for Tuttle or he will go to jail for stealing.

Betrayed by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast

.Betrayed was about Zoey Redbird, a "fledgling Vampyre", who is in training to be a High Priestess at the House of Night. As Zoey arrange for her first ritual as the new leader of the Dark Daughters and Sons, football players from a local high school start to go missing. Zoey knows the boys from her preceding relationship with Heath. Day by day at least one of the from the high school was being kidnapped as murder victims but it is making it look as if they are vampyre attacks. While Zoey is trying to figure out who is murdering the boys, she also has suspicion about her mentor & also the High Priestess & principal of the House of Night, Neferet. While Neferet is supposed to guide Zoey through the process of turning into a vampyre, it seems as if Neferet is involved in betraying Zoey. Zoey pursue to examine the kidnappings and murders, she ties Neferet to recent fledglings that have died during the change. When Zoey's roommate and best friend, Stevie Rae Johnson, dies of the Change, Zoey sees Stevie Rae in the school Zoey realizes Neferet has something to do with changing the dead fledglings into evil creatures. The same evil creatures are responsible for the kidnappings and murders of the high school boys. The outline I would use to help me remember important points because it would be much easier to keep track of the subtopics and details that I had read about.

What Kind of Reader Are You? & The Last Thing I Enjoyed.

Yes, I believe the "What Kind of Reader Are You" quiz is accurate with my results being Comedy because I do love to luagh & not be all gloomy & dull when I watch a video or read a book. With the second genre, Fiction, being as a result makes me nuetral to that answer because I like to have to imagine what the writers is thinking about when writing their book but the con can be to that is sometimes I believe that the books can be exaggerating on a topic. The last thing I read I enjoyed was a text message from my best friend Dannel because she had moved to Connectcuit & I'm in florida so we share our memerories about our first year of high school together all the time. Dannel & I talks about seeing each other sometime when we are adults. I would love to meet her in Connecticut because I had never been in Connecticut. We mention how we are going to eat our favortie jamaican food curry chicken, oxtails, with rice as soon as we meet up. Then we would just build more memories by either going places I never been in Connecticut & take photos so when I get back in Florida I can frame some & send her back the ones she loved too.

My Introduction

Hello! My name is Charmaine Rose and my favorite hobbies I love to do is play basketball and hang out with my friends. I love to be around my friends and basketball because it is amusing and enojyable. The sports I like to play is volleyball, basketball, of course, and shot put, a event in Track and Field. My favorite color is purple and the food I like to eat is Pizza, Espically Papa Johns. Their pizza is delicious!