Runyan,+Alicia

Blog 1 Hello, my name is Alicia. I have picked to read __A Swift Pure Cry__ by Siobhan Dowd. I found this book at the school library. I decided to get it because the cover looked very good and the summary inside the book seemed very interesting, and made me want to read it right there. By the summary it makes me think that she's a normal teenage girl having troubles with drugs. Also her mother died when she was a child., Then something changed, which ends up changing her life. Blog 2

Im on chapter two, paige 15 of __ A Swift Pure Cry .__ its very interesting so far. It starts of telling when her mother died. It went back when she was a child, (it didnt tell what age though.) " A sinking ship, wood creaked on the floor, across the pews, up in the gallery," is how Siobhan Dowd explained Shell's(main character) mothers funeral. Shell had three brothers;younger ones, so shes always tough she was in charge and she never acted week. Well she did this time and she really didn't seem to care eather. Her and her mother were very close. They did almost everthing together. Then it skiped to when her and her family were older. It went to where her, and her brothers were sitting at church like usuall listening to there dad( the priest at the church). Then they had a guest speeker who was practicing to go to his own church when he got better. That day was his first day, all though it was his first day it changed Shell's life. Shell was shocked by how wonderfull he did! "A miracle happend." "Jesus came out of the bar and got right back up on the high cross." "mam danced in heaven, waltzing with spirits!" That is was Shell saw while the young priest preached. She never believed in god after she saw that her mother didn't float into heaven when she died, but once she saw the spirit of her mother, she knew what the truth was!

Blog 3 I didnt have time to read this week becasue i had to work every day. Also i had to big research projects to work on.

Blog 4 Since i didnt read last week i read the rest of my book. It was so good it had me sitting on the edge of my seat. Every sunday after she saw her mom appear she kept appearing. Shell started doing drugs and getting in trouble becasue seeing her mom made her go crazy. she didnt think it was reall. thats why she started. Well one time she decided to to go talk to the priest and tell him everything she has been seeing. Well he knew something was up by the way she acted every saturdaty. He started askiing her questions and got out of her that she was doing drugs. So he started helping her with it untill she didnt do it anymore. Many weeks passed Shell was done with drugs but still saw her mother which the priest said is normal its her brain making her think that shes there but shes really not. Then Shell turned back into a normal teenager again thinks to that one priest.

Blog 5 " Firefighters Save our country", this is my favorite line becasue i agree with it one hundred percent! I have started reading a new book called __Med Center__ by Diane hoh. I have picked this book becasue on the front it shoes firefighters. This is a big deal to me becaue my mom and dad are firefighters. Im also a volinter one. So far it tells how this small town about the size of boone on how the described it is having a really bad rain storm. Well this is during the time of year were its really cold out so it turns to ice. These teenagers were driving around and ended up sliding into the car infront of them. Well you would thank that if u saw someone got in a accadent it would be really slick well they had to ambulances come which also colided, so it wasnt a pretty story. I cant wait to read on and see what happens to the teenagers and the town as the storm gets worse!

Blog 6 I finished the book Med Center. it was a really good book, I loved it. Well the storm kept getting worse and people kept getting stuck in the snow, so the doctors and nurses had to travel around town and help anyone who was stuck or very badly ill. Well it just so happend that the main characters boyfriend ended up getting stuck some wehre and nobody could find were he was. So she was looking for him everywhere and all her and his freinds got together to help find him. They ended up finding him in his car right outside the town stuck in a big snow/ice pile. He ended up hitting a pole and got knocked out by it. While she was freeking out they found a snow plow to get him in and take him to the hospital wehre he would be safe. A week went by and he finaly got to leave the hospital, but the doctor told him he had to be in a wheel chair the rest of his life. He wasnt very happy about it but then he realized at least he isnt dead. blog 7 I am now reading a non blond cheerleader in love. I just got done reading the first chapter. Its prety good so far its about a girl that the only bernet on the squad and she just got asked out by the cutest football player on the team(the quarter back). she is trying to get him to join cheerleading for wrestling season so she can see him every day but the only problem is that there are better guys at doing flips and stuff then him.

Final Blog Have you ever been someone who isn't very popular but then end up dating the most popular and hotest guy in the school. Well in the book A Non-Blond Cheerleader in love, Annish (the only non blond cheerleader at the school) starts to fall for the star football player at the school. She never thinks that he would even talk to her untill one day he did. This proves that it could happen to anybody so always keep your head up hight.

It took a while thought for Daniel( superstar football player) to even relize Annish even liked him but once he relized it he started liking her too. Daniel is the prepy and stuck up type, but for once he talked to someone who wasnt. Even though he is a star he had a major problem with his grades. Untill he met annish and decided to join the cheerleading squad for the other sports. Annish the main character is a quit but brilliant girl. She has perfect grades and a pretty good life untill she meet Daniel then her life got tons more better so she thinks.

It started getting bad when he only wanted one thing and started getting really grumpy when he lost some of the games then had to turn around and cheer. He started saying it was all Annsih's fault even though he's the one who sighned up and everthing. I think the message in this book is that even though someone acts like there cool doesnt meen there cool in the inside. " You should never judge someone by their outside." Something that i thought the auther Kieran Scott did really well was making the book kind of both sides not just one. So it told what all the characters were thinking throught the whole book not just one character. Something i didnt really like was how it jumped around and seemed like it was all squished in just acouple adays when realisticly all of it had to have of taken a few months.

On a scale 1 to 10 i give it an 8. This is becasue it's a good book for a teenager with all the drama in it stuff just like us teenagers deal with now. Also i can relate to some of the things going on like some of the arguments with Annish and her friends. Also how some of the teenagers grades and stuff. Reading this book makes me relize how much i should car about school and not so much on the drama thats not even that big of a deal in the first place. I also learned that people that i think look cool or act cool sometimes may not always be like that latter on when you get to know them better. I really think people should read this so they can realize what i have relized about drama and boys.