chains

Chains
by Laurie Halse Anderson

This book focuses on a 13 year old girl named Isabelle  that is a slave. She has been through multiple homes and sold multiple times. One day she lands herself in a new place and makes a new friend, but her "owner" is very abusive. As she fights for her freedom, she inspires other to do the same and in the end has she done enough? Can she earn her freedom?

Perfect

Perfect
by Ellen Hopkins
(week one)

Everyone has an idea of perfect, whether it is to be the best at a sport, have the perfect family and friends, or have the perfect body. This book focuses on four high school students who are all striving to be their version of perfect and they will do whatever it takes to get there even if it means starving themselves to death, doing drugs, or lying and deceiving the people around them. But how long can they keep up before they realize that they have set an impossible goal.

I really like this book so far, even though it is written in a different format. It does have a lot of mature language and content and is a really dense book but so far it is good!

The White Rose

The White Rose
By Amy Ewing

(This is the second booking the series of The Jewel which I didn't know until after I read the book)

Violet has been trying to escape the jewel for a long lime now but after things gate bad and the duchess starts murder he friends in front of her and threatens to do the same to her after thinking that one of her manny partners raped her. But Violet is in deep love with him and saves him from the dungeon along with saving her best friend. Now the three of them are running around trying to escape the evil talons of the duchess.  

Princess to hire

Princess for Hire
Dezi hates her job, and doesn't believe in magic. Her best friend hates her after her dada landed her dad in jail. One day she gets the opportunity to give up her horrible life and be a princess or a substitute princes anyway. will she take it?

Alienated

Cara Sweeney is a valedictorian, debate champ, and has everything she wanted, but it comes with a price. If she wants her scholarship, she must participate in an exchange program... with another planet. The first time she saw Aehlex, it was a bit of a shocker. He's incredibly attractive, super smart, and an alien meaning that he really doesn't feel emotions at all. Everyone at school starts up clubs, meetings and plans to completely block out cara and Aehlex, her boyfriend dumps her, her best friend turns against her and she starts to get death threat notes. Suddenly they find themselves deeply in love and as things heat up, the rest of the world fights, hard. A tragedy involving one of the other L`iehr`s
(alien exchange students) happens, They are forced to make a decision, escape, leaving everyone else to die, or stay and face the consequences.

Stargirl

Leo is living a normal 16 year olds life, in a bleak high school but one day a girl shows up. She is not normal, she calls herself star girl, she dances in the rain, she cheers for the other team, she sings happy birthday at lunch oh and she's in love with Leo. Soon she becomes one of the most popular girls at school but after an incident at a basketball game, everyone hates her, HATES her. and around that tame she becomes Leo`s girlfriend. He doesn't know what to do when the shunning and hate spreads to him to but he loves her, and now he has to choose.

Where the mountain meets the moon

Minli lives in a very poor village where she, her mother, and her father are crowded in to a tiny house. She hears of a man in the moon that can grant any wish and And Minli decides that she must find him and ask him to grant her family wealth. Along her journey, she encounters first a dragon who is both a friend and an enemy but who also companies her. Next she meets the green tiger, a creature of horror that is most definitely an enemy. When Minli and the dragon finally reach the man of the moon, she must make a very hard decision, to grant the dragon the power to fly or to grant her family with wealth

I really like this book and it was interesting that it was completely based off of Chinese legends.