Fairy Tale By Cyn Balog

Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog is about a girl named Morgan who has the talent to look into the future. This talent is extremely helpful when guessing the score of her boyfriend's football game, but when she sees herself gasping at something on his back, she becomes very concerned. It turns out that Cameron, her boyfriend, has two growths coming out of his back. They are fairy wings.

Cameron finds out that he is actually a fairy that was switched when he was a baby, and now he has to go back into the fairy world to rule his kingdom. Cameron is surrounded by fairy keepers, trying to keep him safe while he changes before his sixteenth birthday, but Morgan is set on keeping him in the human world.

I would use this book in my classroom because I thought it was very interesting and kept my attention. I probably would not actually teach from this book, but I would have it available in a classroom library. The great thing about this book has fantasy themes in it, but it is not overbearing. I usually do not like fantasy or science fiction books, but I really liked this novel.

Breaking Dawn By Stephanie Meyers !!!Spoilers!!!

The reason I chose to read Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers was because I needed a motivation to finish reading it. I have read the whole Twilight series and this is the last book. I was having such a hard time finishing it because the first part of the book (the novel is broken up into 3 parts, Bella's story, Jacob's story and the 2nd Part of Bella's story) did not turn out the way I wanted it to. Bella ended up getting married to Edward and Jacob was forced to deal with the situation. Not only did I not like what was happening in the story, but I hated the way the first part was written. It was extremely corny. I honestly could not stand reading the book.

In the second part of the book that focused on Jacob's perspective, Bella becomes pregnant with Edward's child (and because it is part vampire, it is killing her from the inside) and Edward wants Bella to loose the baby so she could live. Edward even gives Jacob permission to have sex with Bella, because she clearly wants to get pregnant, Edward just does not want her to have his child. This made me extremely mad, because neither Edward or Jacob asked Bella if it was okay for her to be with Jacob.

I would never teacher this book. I feel that this book out of the whole series would teach young girls that men could treat them like property. The male characters in this story tried to control whether Bella was pregnant, who's child she was pregnant with, and in the end, Jacob's family takes Bella's child away. I loved the series until I read this book, so I am really disappointed in Breaking Dawn.

Tricks By Ellen Hopkins

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins is a novel in verse, like most of Ellen Hopkins books, about five teenagers dealing with the lives surrounding them. The focus in this book seems to be on sex, not only about the sex lives the teenagers have , but also the sex lives and judgments from the people around them.

The reason I started t o read this book was because I loved Identical by Ellen Hopkins. The novels in verse are very quick reads and I thought I would not be disappointed. Unfortunately, this book did not impress me as much as Identical did. I thought that having five very different characters was a little confusing to keep up with. I am bad with keeping characters straight in my head, so it was extremely hard reading this book. I had to constantly go back and see who's story I was reading.

I feel that each individual story in Tricks was very interesting. Even though I was disapointed with this book compared to Identical, it was still a good book. I would not teach it in the classroom because, like a lot of the book I have read, I feel I would have parents knocking at my door angry at me.