Stand Tall by Joan Bauer

This book is about a boy named Tree, who is 6 foot 3 inches and a seventh grader. He always gets made fun of, and is having a hard time after his parents' recent divorce. His grandfather, has served in the Vietnam War has lost his foot and is learning how to walk without it, and he fails being an athlete. This book is kind of touching, and has a lot to do with friendship, and helping people. I didn't think this book was very good, but it is a quick read for anyone who wants to read a short book. It is a really easy read as well and doesn't really have any mature topics or language.
I think I will read a book called Sarah's Key over break but I don't really know what it is about, and I would also like to read Wintergirls. 

SOL- Snow Day

I wake up to my dog barking. I look at my alarm, which reads 7:00 AM. My eyes widen thinking my alarm didn't go off, but then I see a note on my nightstand from my mom. 'SNOW DAY!!!' the note says. Glancing over at my window, I see a white sky, and I run up to my window, where there is a bunch of snow, and a blizzard is going on. The trees, and the ground, and bushes are covered in snow. It's beautiful. I love winter, when it's snowing and I love being inside when it snows a lot. It's only November, and this is a bunch of snow for the month. I go outside, and enjoy the fresh air, knowing when I go inside warm hot chocolate will greet me.

Anne Frank- The Diary of a Young Girl

This book was the diary of Anne Frank, where she wrote about her feelings and what was happening in her life. It starts off on her thirteenth birthday, and she talk about what happened. Toward the beginning of the book, Anne Frank and her family must move into there hiding place, which is in Amsterdam, to escape the war and Holocaust. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl, who had at age 15 been put into a concentration camp where she died, but Anne does not mention anything about concentration camps in this book. 

This book was a pretty good book, I was very interested, although some parts weren't at interesting as others, and I was a little confused sometimes. I think that everyone should read this book, because it is a very important book, although I wasn't exactly the person to really enjoy it. It doesn't have many mature topics or language, but it is sad at some parts, and reflects a lot on who Anne Frank and her family were.

Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Love, Stargirl is a sequel to the book Stargirl. It's about a girl named Stargirl who moved to Pennsylvania from Arizona because of her dad's job. She is a very unique 16 year old, and she is homeschooled. She then meets a little girl named Dootsie who becomes a pretty important character in the book. Stargirl and her friends who she meets along the way go on many adventures throughout the book, which become important in this book. This book is written as if she was writing letters to her previous boyfriend from Arizona, and will he ever receive these so called letters? I really liked this book, it is a fairly quick and easy book, with some funny and touching parts. There are no mature topics or language, and I think that anyone could read this and enjoy it. I would first recommend reading the first Stargirl because there are some characters that are from that book that she mentions in this book.
I would like to be in a realistic fiction book group next because it would be very interesting to discuss.

Poem

We go down the streets picking up trash. Looking at the community. I picture people going down the same sidewalk. People who live here. People who pick up trash too, who try to make a difference. Even the littlest difference can be seen. They help their community only to come back and see tomorrow that there is more trash. I know that even though we made a noticeable difference in the amount of trash, I know that won't last long. But we did good deed. And we know we could do more.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

This is a book about a man named Atticus Finch, a lawyer, defending an African American man who was framed to have raped a woman. His kids, Scout and Jem, who are always trying to get Boo Radley out of his house, because he is considered to be a scary man, who eats rats and sits locked up in that house. But they realize that may not be true. This is a book about adventures, and history. Its a really good book, although has some mature topics and language. Overall, I really liked this book although it was a little bit tough.

I am looking into some realistic fiction, lately that has been really interesting for me. If you have any recommendations, let me know!

Smile By Raina Telgemeier

This book is about a girl named Raina, and she experiences a lot of problems from 6th grade to high school. The book starts out as Raina being in 6th grade, right when she has a girl scout meeting and on the way back she trips and falls flat on her face, her two from teeth getting knocked out. So she has to get two fake teeth, and throughout the book she gets braces, and you can see the whole process. She also has troubles socially with her group of friends, and emotionally. This is a graphic novel, and has no mature topics at all. I think that is was a pretty good book, because it was interesting and really short. I would recommend this to people who want an easy quick read, and anyone in general.