Farenheight 451 - Ray Bradbury Part 1

I didn't like this book very much. It is really dense and boring partly because sometimes people in the book will talk for 3 pages straight. It is about a man named Montag in a future world who is a fireman, but firemen burn books instead of putting out fires. Many people around him are unhappy, but he loves his job until Montag starts to question his job and the world he lives in. This symbolizes things about a possible future world, that Ray Bradbury predicted would happen right around now, since this book was written a while ago. We are lucky it hasn't happened, but maybe books will be gone sometime soon and replaced by kindles and ebooks...

Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli

This book is about a runaway boy who accomplishes many impossible challenges and stands up to segregation. In this town there are to sides, the East side and the West side. The east side is full of black people, and the West side is full of white people. This boy, nicknamed Maniac, astonishingly brings both sides together, but he loses many homes and families along the way. I dont think this book would be a good movie because there are so many important little things that really change the book.

Stargirl

Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
This is a book from a perspective of an average high school boy named Leo that lives in a town in Arizona. When he goes back to school again there is a new girl named Stargirl who is very different from the norm. She sings to people and wears different clothing and even has a pet rat. Everybody in the school wants see what weird thing she does next. Leo ends up falling in love with Stargirl, and they are happy together for a while. But the school starts not talking to them and shunning them because of Stargirl's actions. Leo has to make a hard choice: Would he rather have Stargirl or everybody else?
I think this was a great book because of the way the author set the scene and described the characters. I also liked the plot. The ending of the book could be more satisfying though.

Catching Fire

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

In this book, Katniss and Peeta are forced to go on the Victory Tour, which is a way to remind all the districts of the sickening Hunger Games. Strange uprisings in the districts happen on the tour. There have been talks of rebellion ever since their first Hunger Games. After the Victory Tour, Katniss and Peeta are sent into the arena for a second time, but this time around they never finish.

I really like this book a lot because of the plot. I love futuristic plots like this one. I think this book is a little, similar to The Book of Ember, because of the corrupt future world plot. I also really like all the character descriptions and scene settings that the author put into your head.