Book Review: The Unidentified

I read The Unidentified by Rae Mariz . This book is about teenagers that go to a school and it's pretty much a game, they have arcade time, they have missions, it's very different then a normal school, and it's in an old mall. For most teens it would be the best school to go to, it's a very fun school. One of the major conflicts is a group of people dropped a dummy from the 4th floor and its balloon head exploded, but no one knew who did it. It is a big mystery. But there are fliers all around the school that say, "Choose your suicide." Kid and her friends are trying to figure out who did it. Its very intense and interesting.

I didn't really like this book, I couldn't get into it. It starts off very slow. But I think it would be a good book for male or female teenagers, because it's like the dream school not having class and being able to do what you want. That's what most teens want. So this book would definitely interest a lot of people. The book is about 200 pages long, so it's not a long book. But a lot goes on in those 200 pages.

It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder

Eatin' out of garbage pails

Got a bum education

Can't stop to turn around

Stabbed that man right in his heart

I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark

Of how you lived so fast and died so young

In the book a long way gone its like a jungle for him, there are so many things going on, it’s crazy, and scary. He doesn’t have a steady food source so he has to find his own food, he sometimes doesn’t even know if it’s going to make him sick, or die. He has very little education, he went to school for a couple years. He can’t stop to turn around because it means death, he has to keep pushing on. He can’t just walk anywhere, he can’t go into certain places. He’s only going where he thinks it’s safe.

Ruf

RUF, revolutionary united front. They were a rebel army that fought in a war with Sierra Leone for 11 years, because they wanted to be in control. Plus they were fighting for there rainforest. The rainforest is very valuable, and a lot of them are being taking out for the wood. They did not win the war, but many of them were prosecuted in 2009, and many of them went to jail. A lot of them also are amputee's.

Along for the Ride

I am currently reading a book called Along for the Ride, by Sarah Dessen. I would recommend this book for a lot of people, mostly girls though. It's a very realistic realistic realistic. It is about this girl, her mother and father get a divorce. She is a very smart girl, she studies all the time. She doesn't hang out with her friends to much. Her father is an author, he is working on a novel, and her mother is a english teacher. Auden decides to go down to her fathers beach front house for the summer, and she experiences many different things and does thing she would have never done at her mom. She brakes out of her shell and finds someone different inside herself.

Banning Book

The absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian is banned in some schools because of swearing, and sexual topics. But if you really think about it, our freshmen are 14 or 15 and most of them know more then people think they do. Also we can't shelter our schools from swearing and sexual topics. It's now a big part of there life's now as they are growing up. Everyday they are going to hear or say a swear word and they are most likely going to hear about sex or a sexual topic or they might be talking about it them self. So banning this book isn't really doing anything because it's a part of there everyday life.

Poetry

Poetry Friday has helped me become a better poet. I have learned a lot from doing this, it helps a lot. Especially in our class, some of us were very bad at poetry, and doing this made it so they could learn and understand how to write poetry. Now after we have been doing poetry Friday I have began to enjoy writing poetry. I think its a good thing that should be continued next year. I think it will help us so much more to continue this.

Snow White

My book was "The Fairest of All". This book is related to Snow White. It basically is Snow White. But it is more detailed and it is more focused on Snow Whites step-mom. It shows where she came from, what her life was before she married the king. It talks about how beautiful she is. It shows how much she really loved the king and the effects it had on her when he died. At the beginning it shows how nice she, and how much she loves Snow (Snow White). But when the king kept going out to war she got meaner and meaner. Then when she died she relied on the man in the mirror to keep her happy by telling her she was the fairest of all. If the mirror was to tell her someone else was the fairest of all, she would send them away. The queen got worse everyday, she made Snow work in the house and do chores. When Snow started to get older she was beautiful, and when the queen asked who was the fairest of all he said Snow. The queen was SO mad, but she couldn't send her away, so she tried having people kill Snow, and find things she could do that would take her away from the house for awhile. But nothing worked... I haven't yet finished the book, but it is an extremely good book!