Have you read any of these books?

Question

Have you read any of these books? I am writing an essay on challenged books and these are on the list but I am unfamiliar with them. Could you give me a brief synopsis or at least what you thought of the book.

Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, I've read "Of Mice and Men"-
It's about two men, one who is mentally disabled. He ends up killing mice by squeezing them too hard. The whole story is just about their relationship and how they treat eachother.

Alice Series-
My students read these on occasion.....they are about a teenage girl and her "trials and tribulations". I think they touch on some sensitive subjects like dating, periods, etc...

The Great Gilly Hopkins-
This is a children's book, about 5th grade level, about a little girl who gets sent around to various foster homes. It talks about how courageous she is and the obstacles she has to overcome.

Go Ask Alice-
This is a disturbing autobiographical diary about a young girl who gets very addicted to drugs. She ends up dying in the end.

The Handmaid's Tale-
This is about a young girl called a "Handmaid" who lives in the Republic of Gilead. She is never allowed to leave her house and she must sleep with a man called the commander once a month and pray that she gets pregnant. She is only appreciated for her ovaries. She remembers having a husband that loved her.

Answer 2

I've read:
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

I liked Of Mice & Men but, I like most anything by Steinbeck.
I read Catcher In The Rye in High School (before some people thought it should be banned or I went to a decent school that didn't believe in CENSORSHIP) I didn't much care for the book but that may be because it was a bit deeper than I could fathom at the time.
My personal opinion is no book should be banned. Those that would ban books would also burn books. That's such a closed mind type of thinking it should have been relegated to the dust of history along with Nazism. Like idiot knee jerk reactionary Fundamentalist Christians that think Harry Poter promotes devil worship, there's no place for them in the social evolution of mankind except maybe as a challenge to be overcome to make us stronger.

Answer 3

I've read of mice and men, the giver, and go ask alice. Personally, i liked all of them..and they are each very different.
Of Mice and Men is about 2 guys who have worked on ranches all their lives. One is pretty slow but very strong, and the other has to constantly look out for him. It's basically the story of their friendship and how Lennie (the slow guy) gets into trouble even when he doesn't mean any harm...its good and has a surprise ending (in my opinion) and it's short (only about 100 pages)

The giver is about a boy who lives in a bubble, literally. Kind of like the truman show. Everyone gets assigned a job (you don't get to pick your profession) and the boy was given the task of being the giver. The giver holds all the information of the outside world. Long story short, he eventually tries to discover it for himself....good book..with a sort of 'up to interpretation' kind of ending.

Go ask alice was a book about a teenager who was a normal girl, not too special, and not to defiant. One day she goes to a party where people are doing drugs and she's like, just this once i'll do it. She doesn't stop though, and it shows her continuous decline. I liked it because it felt so real and i could feel her through the pages. It's written in diary form

i also like anything Judy bloom, and the catcher in the rye is supposed to be good too.

Answer 4

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
>A little boring in my opinion, but good morals. If you don't like sad stories try another book. Seemed to be well written, but I read it a few years ago, so that might be wrong. About two hired hands on a ranch. They try to save up for a their own farm. Obviously there are some plot twists.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
>Sci-Fi. Really strange, at least when I read it. Can't give any more specifics.

Try going to cliff notes.com and doing a search. It might help or try something like it. Good luck!

Answer 5

The Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel are really good books You should read them if you can. I'm not too good at summarizing books myself, I tend to give too many details, or not enough! lol But this is from the back cover of the first book of the series, The Clan of the Cave Bear:
"Here is a novel of awesome beauty and power. A moving saga about people, relationships and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling, we are taken back to the dawn of mankind and swept up in the wonderful world of a very special heroine, Ayla. Her enthralling story is one we can all share. A natural disaster has left young Ayla alone, wandering, fending for herself in an unfamiliar land. One day, she is discovered by the Clan of the Cave Bear, men and women far different from her own people. The tall, blond blue-eyed Ayla is a mysterious stranger to the Clan and at first they mistrust her and cast her out. But as she grows to know them and to learn the ways of the Clan, she is welcomed. And as she leads them in their struggle for survival, the Clan comes to worship Ayla. For in her blood flows the future of humanity."
So the first book is about Ayla joining th Clan and growing up. The Second book is The Valley of Horses. It's about Ayla's life after she leaves the Clan and finally meets one of the mysterious "Others" that she's heard about all her life.
Book 3, The Mammoth Hunters has her meeting a new community of people and learning new way and ideas, but also teaching them some of the ways of the Clan.
Book 4 is The Plains of Passage, and is about her journey to a distant land to meet the people of her mate.
And the fifth book, Shelters of Stone, is what happens when they arrive.
All are very good books, well-written and well-researched. Very descriptive, informative, detailed and factual. Amazing, some of the things that our 'pre-historic' ancestors knew! We tend to think of 'cave-men' running around with clubs bashing away at dinosaurs and each other, dressed in only some crude animal skin. lol But they knew how to make tools and weapons, knew herbs and plants for medicines and for cooking, had their own 'religion' or set of beliefs in some higher being, etc.

Answer 6

ive only read one of those! wrinkle in time. its an okay book. i dont know exactly what a synopsis is but ill tell u a summary. i read it when i was in 6th grade (a year ago) its about a boy named charles wallace and he has "special powers" and then him, meg and calvin all travel to a place forgot the name of to rescue their father, he was taken a long time before and was claimed dead. but there is this powerful thing called it! it is controling charles wallca to be evil and so meg and calvin have to save charles wallace and their father. calvin is just a friend of meg's. meg and charles wallace are bor and sister.

Answer 7

I read Forever...about a young girls first love and first sexual experiences.

Earth's Children (series)....great books...well written about early man and how they lived. The main character is a woman who becomes a hunter (secretly, as woman were treated as inferiors) and healer of her tribe. It is basically about a strong woman back when woman were only supposed to be mothers.

Answer 8

No.
Go to www.wikipedia.com and search for the title of the book you will find a synopsis there.

Answer 9

whoa,i read a lot of books but not i never read that books in your list,sorry my friend!

Answer 10

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