Student+Work

Student Work

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By Ali J.** Once you open the cover of __Evernight__, you can’t put it down. This is not only because Claudia Gray’s words trap you in to the story and leave you wanting more but because once you think you know what is going on, something is uncovered and changes everything. This enchanting book is about an ordinary teenage girl trying to figure out who she is and where she belongs, but every time she begins to find the place she finally fits in, she suddenly finds herself searching again for a place to belong.
 * __Evernight__** **Book Review

The main character, Bianca, an ordinary teenage girl, moves to the creepy gothic Evernight Academy when her parents get teaching jobs there. Bianca finds herself surrounded by popular, rich, snobby, preppy students who all seem to ignore her and leave her all alone. While trying to escape the world she doesn’t belong in, she runs into a gorgeous boy, Lucas, who might actually connect to her. But as she begins to hope that there might be something between them, Lucas ignores her. Then as she begins to learn why, she questions who she is and what is the right thing to do and what her heart wants. As you get to know Bianca and finally think you understand her, half way through the book, all of that changes as you learn a surprising detail about Bianca and why she can’t open up to people, as well as normal people can, and why Lucas and her can’t be together.

I highly recommend this book for many reasons. Of course the amazing suspense is a big reason. I love this suspense, but I also loved the everlasting love between Lucas and Bianca. Although there are so many forces and factors that pull them apart they still hold each other’s hearts. I also loved this book because of the way Claudia Gray paints this beautiful story into your mind. I love the way she describes Bianca’s surrounding and each character, allowing you to picture what Claudia pictured as she wrote this. I also loved the characters that are all so different but also share the same big secret.

This book reminds me so much of many things. I connected this book to other books, real life, movies, and much more. First of all, you can connect to the way Bianca feels on her first day of school and how she feels alienated by all of the students at Evernight Academy. She feels like someone who doesn’t belong and can never fit in no matter what. I connect to this by when I first moved to a different school and I knew no one while everyone else knew each other since kindergarten. This book is perfect for any reader who loves mysteries, action, and romance. This book reminds me of __Twilight__ and __Vampire Kisses__ because all of these books are romantic novels between two completely different people that go against nature to be together. It is also similar to __Vampire Academy__ and __Harry Potter__ because all of these books are set in a boarding school. __ Evernight __ by Claudia Gray is worth giving it a look and reading it. I loved this book and would give it 4 stars out of 5. This book is an enchanting novel of how true love endures anything. Give this book a try and get absorbed in the story like I did. I hope you like as much as I did.

Dear Anonymous,

I have an incredible book that I think you would enjoy reading. It is called __Walk Two Moons__ by Sharon Creech. I think that if you read it, you will like it a lot, like I did. This book can leave you sitting in a chair staring blankly when you finish it because of what happens. When you read it, you will figure out what happens.

I am recommending this book to you because it is a really good book. It will probably be a pretty short book to you. This book suddenly will smack you upside the head while you're reading it. I would give you more detail, but I might give away part of the book. Because of this, this book is mysterio us. While you are reading it, you find out things that you would have never predicted to happen, like someone dying after an accident happening. On the bright side, this story can be very exciting, like an eleven year old girl driving her grandfather's car to Idaho. It makes you want to keep reading to find out what happens. This leads me to the conclusion that __Walk Two Moons__ is like a puzzle. There are pieces that you need to put together to figure out what is really going on.

So, anyway, __Walk Two Moons__ is about an eleven year old country girl named Salamanca (Sal) who just moved from Bybanks, Kentucky to Euclid, Ohio with her dad. . They moved down the street from a lady named Margaret who her dad is close friends with, but Sal thinks it's more than that. She befriends a girl her age named Phoebe Winterbottom and they end up being a little alike. Sal is in a car most of the story because she and her grandparents are taking a car ride to go see Sal's mom. While they are in the car, Sal is telling a story of Phoebe. Of course, like any other drive to somewhere miles away, they run into a few incidents, like a sudden trip to the hospital. And when Sal finally reaches Idaho, she finds out something tragic that could change her life forever.

I also made a few connections from this book to the real world. First, Salamanca lives a typical life (almost) with a friend that has a wild imagination. Sal and her dad move right in the beginning of the story. Just like in our world people move from house to house (like I did). In our world, there are also long car trips, like the one Sal and and her grandparents take. Finally, there are lots of family things in this story and it makes you think about if this ever happened to you, how would you feel?

I rate this book * * * * out of 5 because it's really good and I enjoyed reading it! I hope you read this book and love it, like I did. I will talk to you soon! ~ i8hersheys