Annotations

8th Grade ELA Leslie Finnie Annotated Bibliography

Ziegesar, Cecily. All I Want is everything. New York, NY: Little, Brown, and Company, 2003

Genre: Realistic Fiction/ Drama

All I Want is Everything is a story about a girl named Blair who is in an on and off relationships with a boy who she calls her “True Love”. The story takes place in Upper east side were wild teens host major events in their extravagant penthouses. Nate, Blair’s “True Love” is cheating on her with Short girl named Jennifer. She has short brown curly hair and an incredible D-cup that does not suit her body, but it seems to turn all the guys eyes on her. While Christmas shopping Blair finds Nate and Jennifer buying each other gifts getting ready to leave the store, but with Blair’s superior confidence that over shadows Jennifer, she dragged Nate back into the store and starts flirting with him by making him try on cologne. This draws huge tension between Jennifer and Blair and having the billion-dollar question occur: Whom will Nate choose?

This book teaches you the values of life and helps you to realize that fame, fortune, and making love is fun, but it will never bring as much happiness as what you already have. If it does though you must have nothing. I really don’t recommend this book to anybody, besides the fact that it’s a gossip girl book, everyone loves gossip girl, and I love the show so the book must be good as well, well it’s not in my opinion. I actually recommend this to people who are depressed and actually need this message in their lives. Leslie Finnie

Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting. Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 1985

Genre: Fantasy

Tuck Everlasting is a story about a young girl named Winnie. Her mom, nana, and her moved to a new place that is close to the wood (forest) were Winnie wanders off into her own adventure and meets up with a boy named Miles who was drinking out of this peculiar spring. Winnie was dehydrated and was about to drink some then Miles stopped her and immediately took her to his house and let his whole family explain the reason she can’t drink it is it makes your life everlasting which explained to Winnie why the family looks close to each others age. Winnie was curios why that were so bad to have everlasting until people barged into the door to see the freak until the family shot them. Late in the story Miles gains Winnie trust and tells her drink the spring stay with us. She loved Miller but she stayed home and died after a massive amount of years.

This book is a unique breaks though about love and how that everlasting life is not that bad when you imagine it, but if you’re living it, it’s not all that great. If you think about it this way what the point of living forever when you are hiding most of the time. __ Annotated Bio Leslie Finnie 825 11-25-08

Brown, Teri. __Read my Lips__. New York,NY: Simon & Schuster, 2008

Genre: Realistic Fiction__

Read my lips__is a story about a Deaf 16 year-old girl namesd Serena that has developed a skill of reading lips, by proacticing when she can't hear someone that well. Her family all moved out to this private property comminity, where her mom's new job and hernew school that her parents encourage her tto fit into the best she can (since that is her main problem about moving). At her new school she encounters these group of girls(mean girls) that are popular that reconize her talent and invite her into the group, the parties, and the popularity in exchange for her"eye for gossip". Serena's step cousin Miller hates those girls and made a fool out of him last year, but since Serena is caught up in all the popularity, she ditches the truest friend that was at that school. In the end Serena relizes what a true friend is and dumps those backstabbers.

I recommend this book for people who can't find a true friend and are having trouble with the one they lost, Because this book teaches you about fitting in, finding friends that like YOU, and also someone there for you and if you don't keep them close and special, you lost the best damn friend even if they ain't popular or all that.__