I read the book called Blindsided. It is about a four-teen year girl named Natalie who is having to face a big obstacle in her life. When she was little was diagnosed with glaucoma. As she gets older her condition is only getting worse, so her parents send her to a school for the blind. She is not completely blind yet, but the sooner she learns these skills the more prepared she will be when that day comes. Natalie does not want to go to this school. She kinda believes in all the stereotypical of the blind, and she does not want to be seen like that and she refuses to go. Once she gets there and spends her first week she starts to like the place, and gets used to everything, and starts to fit in a little more.
    Her family live son a goat farm, and her favorite goat is Nuisance. She raised Nuisance from birth, and if you want to know why you need to read the book. Natalie does get to go home every weekend to see her family and friends. Her best friend is Meredith. They have been friends since second grade. She has stood with Natalie every step of the way. It you want to know what happens to Natalie and her ever changing lifef read, Blindsided by Priscilla Cummings.

Confetti Girl

             Confetti Girl, by Diana Lopez is about a teenage girl name Lina. She live with her dad who love to read. In fact, he reads so much Lina is stuck with no T.V. Lina's best friend is Vanessa. A few years a go Vanessa's dad  got up and left her. Now she lives with her mom. She still gets to she here dad just not very often. The two girls cope with playing volley ball, doing homework together, and talking about cute boys. Like any teenage girl book they both have a crush. Lina tries to be a very independent person. She hates having her dad getting in the middle if her business. You get to follow a typical teenage girl life with all the ups and downs, lefts and rights. The best part about the book is the title. Vanessa's mom loves to make casscarones. Casscarones are confetti find eggs that you crack on your friends and family's heads. If you want to find out how it all rolls out read Confetti Girl, by Diana Lopez.

Insurgent

Insurgent
by Nathan

The book I read was Insurgent by Veronica Roth.  She’s also published Divergent and is working on a third book. The third book is projected to come out in 2013. The movie “Divergent” will come out on March 21, 2014 (IMDb).

The main characters are Beatrice "Tris" Prior and Caleb Prior who are both 16 years old and are brother and sister.  Other characters in this story are Tobias Eaton/ Four and Eric who are 18 years old and Christina, Peter,  Marcus Eaton, Jeanie, Uriah, and Tori who are all 16 years old. There are five factions in this story.  A faction is a city devoted to a certain character trait. These factions are: Candor, the honest,  Erudite, the intelligent, Amity, the peaceful, Dauntless, the brave, and Abnegation, the selfless.  The faction, Abnegation, was destroyed by the Erudite in “Divergent” and now the Dauntless are split into half good and half bad. The good are at the Candor headquarters and the bad are located at the Erudite headquarters. The bad Dauntless attacked Candor with the mind control serums. After that, the good Dauntless returned to their own headquarters.

In this action/romance novel there is violence, technology, deceit plus the action and romance. This book has action because the good Dauntless fight the bad Dauntless throughout the book. In this story there is romance because there is kissing between Tris and Tobias. Also Uriah and Marlene love each other but Marlene dies while being controlled by the mind controlling serum. Examples of technology in this story would be the serum, the serum injecting gun, the solar panels, and the surveillance.

The dialect in this book is not old fashioned nor futuristic, but the dialect is the same dialect as you and I speak. I could say the vocabulary was just names but that would be false because these are common names. Though Jeanie is an uncommon name, the rest of the names in this story are not. The unusual vocabulary in the story was the names of the factions such as Candor, Erudite, Amity, Dauntless, and Abnegation because those are odd names.

There are flashbacks and plot twists in this book. An example of a flashback was when Tris would not shoot a gun because she was still mourning over Will, her boyfriend. An example of plot twists was when the good Dauntless moved to the Dauntless Headquarters, the Erudite activated the mind control serum, and attempted to kill three of the good Dauntless.

I would really recommend this book to you if you like action, romance, and deceit. The plot twists were spaced evenly throughout the book which made the book more interesting because it kept me wanting to read more. Insurgent had plenty of action to keep the book suspenseful. This book added the Factionless, who are people who were forced out of a Faction, as a component in the battle between the the good and the bad Dauntless.

Divergent

Divergent
by Nathan 

                                                             
The book I read was “Divergent” by Veronica Roth.  She has also published Insurgent and is working on a third book. The third book is projected to come out in 2013. The movie on Divergent will come out on 21 March 2014 (IMDb).

The main characters are Beatrice "Tris" Prior(16), Caleb Prior(16)( Beatrice and Caleb are brother and sister), Tobias Eaton/ Four(18), Christina(16), Peter(16), Will(16), Marcus Eaton, Al(16), Jeanie, Eric(18), and Tori. The story is where Beatrice Prior grows up in the faction, Abnegation, with Caleb Prior.  At the age of 16, kids choose which faction they will stay in the rest of their life. There are five factions ( a city devoted to a certain character trait) which are Candor (the honest),  Erudite (the intelligent), Amity (the peaceful), Dauntless (the brave), and Abnegation (the selfless). Caleb chooses Erudite and Beatrice chooses Dauntless where she changes her name to “Tris”. Tris got Divergent on a simulation test (the test was right before the choosing ceremony) which means she has an aptitude for more than one faction. This is bad because some evil leaders in Dauntless are executing Divergent in secrecy.

In this action/romance novel there is action, romance, violence, technology, and deceit. This book has action because while Tris is in Dauntless, she has to go through violence ( For example, there was a ton of shooting) and deceit. This book has some romance because there is kissing between Tris and Tobias, her teacher. Also Christina and Will are in love but unfortunately that relationship doesn’t last until the end of the book because Will dies.

The dialect in this book is not old fashioned nor futuristic, but the dialect is the same dialect as you and I speak. I could say the vocabulary was just names but that would be false because these are common names. Though Jeanie  is an uncommon name the rest are not. The main vocabulary is just the Candor,  Erudite, Amity, Dauntless, and Abnegation because those are odd words.

There are flashbacks, foreshadowing, and plot twists in this book. An example of flashbacks was when, at the end, Tris mourns over her parents who died during the  Erudite raid of  Abnegation. An example of foreshadowing was when the Dauntless were playing paintball capture the flag. Tris strategies and wins because she anticipated what the other team would do(she knew most Dauntless would charge so she avoided them and stole their flag). An example of plot twists was on the initiation ceremony day Eric, a leader, gave everyone these shots that control your brain and that night, disaster struck( the shots included these mind controlling devices but he said they were only trackers).

I would really recommend this book to you if you like action, romance, and deceit. I was disappointed because the cover suggests magic but the there is no magic at all. The plot twists were spaced evenly through the book and it made the book more interesting because it kept me wanting to read more. Divergent had more than enough action to keep the book suspenseful.