The Girlfriend Project

Many people would think ‘what kind of project is it? And how can you do it?’ Well it cannot be done on the paper, only in the real life. The problem with Reed is that he never had a girlfriend. He was a short dork with braces. He once tried to ask a girl out and she just laughed at him, and this scared him for life. To help Reed, his best friends, Ronnie and Lonnie, create the girlfriend project.

Reed is a senior now; he grew a few inches, got his braces taken of. Now he is handsome, and almost every girl wants to go out with him, but all he can think about is that he didn’t really change, only on the outside, and it is not fair that girls didn’t even care about his existence until now.

Who will Reed end up with? This is really interesting question, because until the end of the book I thought he would end up with one person, but I was very wrong. This book is really intriguing and interesting. When you open it, you just cannot close it until you find out who is Reed’s one and only. This book shows that when you fail something, you should try it again, and never stop on the first thing you try.

Dangerous Minds

Dangerous Minds is a very famous book, it also is a movie based on the book. Both are really good, even though in the movie they shortened the story a lot, and changed many events. For example, in the book Raul, the Mexican guy from her class, needed to pay a guy from the street for the jacket $100, and Ms. Johnson found out about from him in the class. While in the movie, he told her that he needed $200 when they were sitting in the restaurant, eating dinner. There are many changes, and short cuts like this. Those changes weren’t very good. They should have just shortened the scenario, but leave the story the way it should be.

When Louanne Johnson got hired as a teacher in Parkmont High, she was very scared because she never taught kids by herself. They assured her she could do it, but didn’t give any information about her new class. Louanne wasn’t prepared for students not caring about anything, or even worth, them throwing books at her. She ran out, but in a few minutes was back, prepared for anything.

The class she got, never tried to study. They didn’t even care whether they would graduate or not. Louanne Johnson bribed, scared, and threatened her students to do their work. She made them understand, that no one makes them come to school, and that it was their own choose.

Dangerous Minds is a really great book. It is really emotional. While reading it, I experienced excitement, happiness, sadness, joy, and satisfaction. It can easily take your mind of everything else. The only confusing thing about it is that it goes in order it happened, but the most important event goes first. I think that people should read the book, and watch the movie, it would give a better understanding of the story.

Head Games

When people see the words ‘head’ and ‘game’ combined, they think that it’s either about some crazy person or someone is messing with someone else’s mind. This is not the case though. In this book the main character actually plays “the game” in her head.

Judith is a teenager, but doesn't have any friends. Her best friend ditched her so she has a new best friend, “the game.” She thinks that people that play “the game” with her are strangers that live far away from her, but she is wrong. Judith leaves “the game” because it occurs to her that it doesn't have fair rules. A few days after “the game” ends for her, Judith finds out that one of the players actually lives right next to her.

Judith confronts Jonathan, her next door neighbor, in playing the game, but he doesn't admit it. The same evening he comes to her house and proposes to make up their own game. They can be whoever they want to be. Judith really loves the idea, even though she knows that her mom would not be thrilled with her hanging out with Jonathan, the trouble maker.

As usual Judith picks a male character, Gareth. Gareth is in the military academy, and Evans (Jonathan) is his teacher. Sometimes they don't even play in their characters; they become someone else, like a governor, or governor’s wife. Usually their game is on the roof of their building, but because of the winter, they changed the place to play the game, to Judith's house. Judith doesn’t realize that games don’t last forever; they either end or it grows into something bigger.

This was a really great story, and very well written. It kept my attention very well, and nothing could get me distracted. I felt like I was there, and just watched from the side. This book is like a love-action story. I have never read anything like it. The greatest thing about this book is that it doesn’t have any confusing words in it, and it is really easy to follow.

More info:
http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/068985532X.asp
http://www.mariahfredericks.com/books/head_games.php
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-068985532x-0