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GIRL FIGHT
By: Frank Lauria

    This book is a triumphant story of passion, commitment, and love. It is about a teenage girl named Diana Guzman. She is always getting in trouble at school, and her father always underestimates her abilities. Her brother was a boxer, and she thought that she would be a good boxer too. She thought it would be a good sport to let out all of her anger. She trains in secret because she does not want her father to find out. After meeting a guy at her gym, she starts to feel confidence, pride, and respect.

Things Fall Apart
By: Chinua Achebe

    This is a story of a powerful  man named Okonkwo who lived in a village called Umofia. Okonkwo's life is filled with fear and anger. This book is about how the white men took charge, and the village fell apart. The white men's actions led to the breakup of the old ways.

WHERE THE HEART IS
By: Billie Letts

    Where the Heart Is is funny and bittersweet. This book is about a seventeen-year-old, seven month pregnant girl named Novalee Nation. Her unlucky number is seven, and she is heading to California with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend left her at Wal-Mart in Oklahoma, and she was stranded with just $7.77 in change. Being stranded in Oklahoma was the best thing to happen to Novalee in her entire life.

SHADOWS
By: John Saul

    This book takes place in a school called the "Academy". It was a school for gifted children, or so everybody thought. The children were overcome by an intelligence that they couldn't even handle. With this unexplainable intelligence, an evil plan started to form in their minds. The plan that they are forming in their minds is horrifying, and not one person could stop it but one child.

THE PILOT'S WIFE
By: Anita Shreve

    Kathryn Lyons is the pilot's wife.  After her husband dies unexpectedly, rumors begin to fly, and Kathryn sets out to find the truth about him. What she finds out is surprising and disturbing.

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            Volleyball is one of my favorite hobbies. I have been playing volleyball for four years now. I used to love gymnastics, which I was in for three years. Now my thing to do is cheer leading. I really enjoy it because it is something that I can waste all of my energy on. One of my other favorite hobbies is listening to music. My favorite group is Jagged Edge. I listen to other  types of music also. Jagged Edge is my favorite group because R&B is my favorite type of music.
 

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                                            IMAGE SOURCE: World War I Art Archive
 

    This picture really touched me in a lot of ways. It opened up my eyes on the outcome of World War I. The men were just lying there on top of each other like they were nothing. All of the unnecessary deaths of the men caused a lot of heartache and pain. This is what World War I was really like.

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