A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L' Engle

Significance- I think this work matters because it is about good being way stronger than evil. And how a girl had never really realized that. And she, her youngest brother and her friend, go on an adventure where you need love and support. And it is good for people to know that you are always loved by your firends and family. You should care about this because having love ion your life will make you a happy loveable person adn you will be able to maybe love someone that doesn't really know what it is or was never loved by their families.

Perspective- If I had to explain this issue to a third grader, I would tell them how their parents love them and how they love their parents. And even though there parents might not let you do something and you get really angry and shout "I HATE YOU!!!!" You don't really mean it and you love them. That is goodness and love being stronger than evil and hatred. And in bad situations when something evil is trying to take over or what ecer. Good always wins.

Evidence- The author is clearly for the fact that people are not being nice human-beings or good ones. And they aren't even trying to make good decisions. When really you should be doing that all the time. And we all no this is true because alot of bad things are happening in the world. And alot of people who could make a difference aren't really doing anything.

Connections- This work connects to the real world because this kind of stuff ahppens all the time. And this book is filled with all of theemotions humans feel and everything was just the same as the real world except that the book is a fantasy book. This of course still affects us today, it affested us in the past and continue to in the future. The main character, Meg, connects with my sister because Meg is very stubborn and impatient like my sister but is also very caring and loving.

Suppostion- If Meg's little brother Charles Wallace was not so proud then one bad thing would have never happened but then one good thing would have never happened. Charles Wallace had special powers that allowed him to easily understand other Universes and read people's minds. or at least be able to get a sense of what they were thing. They go to another planet in another universe and it is 'perfect'. They have a hypnotist that hypnotizes youto be perfect and thinking that it is wonderful. Charles Wallace thought that he would be able to find out more information if he got hypnotized. He thought that he would be able to break out of it because he thinks he is able to do that, but he isn't. So then he was hypnotized. But if he was never hypnotized, then Meg and Charles Wallace would have never found their father. So if he wasn't so proud then they would ahve had a failed mission because that was what they were supposed to be doing, finding and rescuing their father.

Angels in Pink:Raina's Story by Lurlene McDaniel

Significance- This is significant because it is about a girl and her best friends who are all very different, but stay together because they are all different. They have way different personalities, different issues in their lives, and different points of view. This one is about Raina(it is a series about all of them like Holly's story or Kathleen's Story). Raina's mom has a family secret and finally decides to tell Raina. It is a life altering secret and Raina feels betrayed. This doesn't always happen to teens. But throughout the book there are all kinds of things that regular people go through and have to deal with. And anyone who reads this book can relate to it.
Perspective- If I wear to explain this to a third-grader then I would say that when youi become a teen-ager, you have alot of responsibilities and some times people don't like to handle those responsibilities. And then there becomes and issue. Maybe your responsibilities is to take out the trash. If you don't then the trash is full and it stinks up your kitchen and someone else has to take it out and they might get angry becasuse you were supposed to and then there is conflict. Those things happen more the older you get. But you also have more freedom. And not only do kids make those mistakes but adults too. In the book Raina's mom kept a secret from her. Something that would totally change her life. So her mom was lying to her and that made Raina feel very sad and angry.

Evidence- The author didn't make any argument.

Connection- This connects to my life because these girls make so many mistakes and they are really clumsy like me. I am most like Kathleen because she is really shy and down to earth and modest. Not so much about what goes on in her life though.

Supposition- The world would be the weirdest and unhappiest place if no one ever made mistakes or kept secrets. The world would be perfect but we would not know that it was because we would necer know what a mistake was. So to me the world would not be a very happy or good place to live. Because we would not know what sadness was so when we were happy we would not realize it because we never felt sadness or anger or diappointment. We would just feel the same every single day and not know what it was. And that would suck.

Trudy by Jessica Lee Anderson

Significance-I think that this work matters because it is about a girl who's parents are old enough to be her Grandparents and her Dad starts to get sick and she has to deal with that and how everyone thinks that her parents are her Grandparents. This is good for girls who's parents are really old or if your parents are different than others. And that is what I think is important. You should care about this situation because she has alot to deal with. As you get older you have more health problems to deal with and the main character(Trudy) is just in Middle School so her Dad is close to death while she is just turning twelve.

Perspective-The author is clearly for these kinds of situations because how she describes how Trudy is coping with all of this is very real. And it seems like the author wants to tell girls who's parents are like that that it's okay, and girls who have friends or knows someone who's parents are really old have an idea of what they are dealing with. I would tell a third grader that this girls parents are old enough to be her grandparents and that grandparents usually have alot of health problems. And Trudy's dad could die because he is getting very old and he has health prolems. So this book is about a girl who tries to cope with everything new because she also has to go to Middle School now.

Evidence- I know the author is presenting factual information because I have friends who have older parents and I know (by my friends telling me) that their parents do have more health problems and all of the older people stuff going on. You can support your opinion by presenting facts that help you and having back-up information if somone says something that is not to your benefit.

Connection-This connects to the real world because their are some people who don't have their first child until they are fifty-three.(Like in the book.) And as their kids get older they do too and sometimes they will get a disease or something that causes them to die when their kid is five or six. This happened in the past and it will continue to happen in the future. This connects very well to a kid that I know who was adopted by a women who was prbably in her fifties when he was born and now is in her late sixties and her husband died around this time last year and he was in his seventies. And the little boy is only ten. His mom (who adopted him) has alot of health problems and he might have to go back up for adoption because his mom gets so sick very easily. And that is sad. And it is pretty close to what Trudy is going through in the book just not as bad as the little boy.

Supposition-If I changed one the elements it would deffinity affect the whole thing. Even if it was very very small thing that I had changed like she stopped failing her math class. That would deffinitly change alot. If this took place in the 1700's. Then her dad would be dead. Her mom probably too. And Trudy would be an orphin. If her mom didn't die. Then they would be dirt poor. And her mom would end up dying sooner anyways sine they were so poor.

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Significance- The reason I chose to read this book was because I thought it would have good message in it and it would be interesting to read about what the main character Gemma is going through. And how she handles it. What I think a reader would take from this book is that this is about a girl named Gemma who is very depressed in the beginning because she feels that she is the cause for her mother's suicide. And ever since her mom gave her a special necklace that she alwayswore she has been having this visions of the past, present, and future. Her family used tolive in Bombay, India, and her brother going to school in London and her father and alcholic starts drinking again. they send her to a school in London and she makes friends and she is still secretly feelin horrible. Towards the middle of the book she learns to cope with everything happenig and is not so upset with herself. And by the end of the book she is totally fine and having fun and being happy. So they would take the fact that everybody goes through hard times and eventually gets over it and still live their lives like a normal human being.


Perspective- If I had to explain this to a third grader then I would say that a girl was having an attitude with her mom and threatened to run far away. When she was having the attitude her mom gave her the necklace that she always wore. Then the girl ran away and had a vision that her mom stabbed herself with a knife because their was a very bad dark shadow thing coming after her. When the vision was over she went to the spot where her mom commit suicide. And saw her actually lying there dead. Then her family all went to London, England because, before her mom died they lived in Bombay, India. The girl was sent to a school in England. And she was always very very sad because she thought that she was the reason for her mom killing herself. But in the middle of the book she is still very sad but she is slowly getting happier and happier. And by the end of the book she is happy and can live her life normaly.



Evidance- The argument the author is trying to make is that when you go through a hard time you need people by your side to help you get through that time. And even though they may not know excactly what is going on in your life you should still open up about your feelings. And not lie about what you feel. And that everything is going to be alright. I also think the author is writing about how you react to other poeple helping you or trying to help. And people think that no one can help them and people who think this don't know anything about what is happening to them. And I think that the author wants to try and help people realize this.

Connections- This book connects to the real world because people do really face their own parents feeling depressed and attempting to commit sucide. And you watch that person that you love go through this and it makes you feel horrible and think well what am I doing wrong? And about how many times you probably don't do what this person tells you to do and how you sometimes ignore them and all of it gets to your head and you think that you are one of the main causes your parents or someone you love is doing what they are doing. And that is what the character in the book is going through. And she feels like no one understands. And that is what happens in real life. The only part that doesn't happen in real life is the visions. But that makes her feel more like an outsider. And all that kind of stuff happened in the past it happens now and will continue to happen in the future. But it is sad.

Supposition- If people going through hard times never happened then I think that life would be the same every single day. You would always be happy and never know what feeling bad was or having to struggle or anything. So I think that if no one went through difficult times then everyone would have to not feel. Because bad things will still happen but you just wouldn't feel it. So you wouldn't feel anything else either. If I could change part of it insted of taking the whole thing out then I would do that. I would just make people feel that they aren't the reason why someone did something that was bad. That it was the other person's problem and that they don't need to worry about them being the cause. It is the other person's choice that they made.

Fix by Leslie Margolis

Significance- I think that this work matters because the author is trying to say is that you don't need to have somehting done to you to make you better or prettier. You should feel good about yourself and if you do then you are a beautiful person on the inside and that is what matters. You shouldn't have to get something done to your body to make you feel prettier because you will want more and more. And usually people that get ALOT of plastic surgery done to there body like nose jobs and face lifts they end up looking fake and ugly and you know how much that person cares about how they look. I chose to read this book because it seemed to be interesting and I thought it would have a good message inside it. I think that the author should have been a little more clear on the message because I think someone that didn't know what the message was would end up think that that was an okay way to think.

Perspective- The author of this book ( I think) was against caring so much about what you look like, but thought that you should also care about how you look, but not as much as the caracter in the book. This book was written about to people. Each chapter would change to the other person. One was VERY concerned about her looks. But the other person didn't really care about how she looked. But they are sisters. So the older one had a nose job done at the age of 15. Her younger sister was going to get one also but everyone assumed that she wanted it done. In the end she never gets it done though. If I needed to explain this to someone alot younger than me I would say that there are some people in the world that think that having all the cute clothes and that having a perfect nose and perfect face and everything is important. There is a surgery that can fix that or you. And some people will risk having painful side effects that may or may not last forever, or risk dying just to look better.

Evidence- The reason the author wrote the book was because she wanted teens to know that looks aren't everything. And she wants teens to stop thinking that. The author put alot of information on all of the side affects of having plastic surgery done. Like how the recations for different people are for anesthesia. How someone is barely affected by it and how some people 's body does it do what ever your body does with it and how people die. Even though that hardly ever happens.

Connection- This has affected people since about 700 B.C.E. The Ancient Indians would make skin graphs for reconstructive work as early as the 8th century B.C.E. Ofcourse it wans't like it is today, like not liking your nose and getting it "fixed". This can connect to my life because I am a very self-contious person, but I would never think about going under the knife. Where as I have a very close friend who has a nose that is slightly pointed but she cannot stand that. And I remember a long time ago that she said, "As soon as I am old enough I will get a nose job." I don't know if she still fells that way but I don't want her to think that it is really that important.

Supposition- If plastic surgery was never invented or thought of or anything. Then I would think that there would be less people concerned about how they look. But this would also be not such a good thing because there are people with a cleft palate. That is something that someone would want fixed. So those people would end up going through life with that. But looks wouldn't be as important so it wouldn't matter on how it looked. Or breast reduction surgery where they are causing a women back pain. Or if you have cancer. But plastic surgery should be for functional things and not things that don't need to be done.