My classmates reading responses

                      I recently read 3 of my classmates reading responses from books that they read over the summer. But out of the three, two of them caught my attention and helped me get the message of the book that they read. The first one was by my classmate Amelia Bedilia, who wrote about a story that she read called Make Lemonade . I loved her summary because it really persuaded me to want to read the book, that I went and Googled it to see more of what it was about. Amelia really caught the essence of the story and shared her feeling about this book very well and that is what I liked about it. Another summary that I liked was from Helen Rodriguez, who wrote about Pretty Little Liars . She too caught the essence of her story and really got my attention with her choice of words for this book. She clearly explains to you who the main character is and why they played such a big role in the story and has you focused on that one thing the whole time. I really loved how Helen described the story in such a way that you felt like you were almost reading it yourself. And that is what I liked about these two summaries.

Shattered

A book that I read over the summer is called shattered by Paul Langan. This book is about a girl named Darcy who goes to a school called Bluford High. Darcy has a lot of problems at home and school but no one knows it. She goes through a lot of things with family and also ends up getting raped by someone at her school. The things that happened to Darcy even though it is a fictional book, helps me realize and appreciate more things in my life. When Darcy looses her grandmother, I don't know how she managed to mend with that. She already doesn't have her father there for her and her little sister  and then when she gets raped and looses someone close to her, It made me stop and think about how good my life is. I have my mother, and my grandmother and father. Even though this story was fictional, it still teaches you lessons in life and how grateful you should be. While reading this story, I was amazed at the ways that Darcy handled what she was going through. She did make some bad choices (like most people would) , but she still got through everything and in my opinion handled all of that better than most people would.