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Hello, reader! My name is Arya and this is my review of I Am Malala . In 2012, the Swat Valley was taken over by the Taliban. Malala refused to be silenced as a women and fought for her rights. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.  I Am Malala  was written by Malala Yousafzai in 2013. The book is an autobiography about her life and how she stood up for her rights and the rights of other women.  The book opens by talking about her family and how she was represented (as a women) in her society. When she was born, there was no celebration for her birth. With a boy, there would be much pompous and rifles fired. In her society, a woman's only role was to make food and give birth to children. Unlike the views of the rest of her society, her father sees a daughter as a gift. In this example, it shows how her family is much different from the culture that they embrace. In a way, her family is one of the contributors that inspired her to fight back. She saw that ...

The Beginning of Everything review by Lili Tiouririne  Recently I have been reading The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider published in 2013 , however I have not finished it yet. So far the book has been slow and trugging on. It starts off with the main character Ezra recalling a memory from middle school with his at the time best friend Toby. Erza is the kind of kid that believes everyone has a tragedy in their life at some point just waiting to happen. His came his senior year in highschool. One night a reckless driver crashed into his car and shattered his knee. Now he has to face his new life after his own personal tragedy. Erza is the type of kid who gets great grades, is always the class president, and knows everyone; but in the wake of his tragedy he has been very lost. He now can’t play tennis anymore and has lost the school’s attention. On top of it all, he just split with his girlfriend. However, in the light of things Toby and Erza’s friendship is slowly start...

Hello reader, I am Nick and this is my review of The Lord of The Flies by William Golding. The Lord of The Flies  was first published in 1954 and is a realistic fiction novel about a group of boys who wake up from a plane crash alone on a deserted island. They attempt to create order and a simple government so that they can stay alive and find people for help, but very few of the boys actually want to work. Most just end up laying around and playing in the lush forested island instead of working. The main plot of the book is the popularity fight for control of the leading position. The way that members of the group try and get on top somewhat resembles an extremely simplified version of modern politics with leadership being controlled by popularity. I had doubts about the book when I first heard about it due to its popular theme. On the other hand, I was also interested to see what made it different from the other books about people stranded on islands. After reading it I c...

Recently, I read the book The Hired Girl, which is a novel written from the point of view of a 14-year-old girl named Joan during the year 1911. The book is formatted as Joan’s personal journal, and it chronicles the story of her life as she leaves her family farm and her overbearing, abusive father and travels to Baltimore to work as a servant for a wealthy family. The book opens on the family farm, just after Joan’s father has made her stop attending school so she can spend more time working on the farm, where she takes cooks, cleans, and gardens for her father and three brothers. Joan loves books, and is frustrated with the dullness of her life compared to those in the stories she reads, as well as with her lack of independence and the loss of her education. Tensions grow between Joan and her father, and a series of events, including her father losing his temper when her favorite teacher brings Joan a book, Joan being kicked by a cow and receiving little treatment or care for the in...