Title of Book: The Deepest Roots
Author: Miranda Asebedo
# of Pages: 320
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 
 Why This Book has Value: The Deepest Roots does not give a year of when the story happens, but because of how modern and present the book is and is very close to the present day, I would say 2018 since that is when the book was published. It captures a time with modern-day issues and technology. The main location is in Cottonwood Hollow, Kansas during the late spring. An important topic overseen in the book would be the true struggle of poverty. The main character constantly deals with the struggle of her and her mom having barely any money to get by, and although the story goes along well with the issue, I think the book also shows how real and sad poverty can get and how people will give up literally anything so they have a place to live.
The book connects to the issues that almost everyone or most people can relate to. Each character has a different issue and the main issue of friendship and solving relationships and using that connection with your friends when times get super tough.  
I believe the author related to the text in some way, either to all the characters as a whole, related to one of the characters, or knew of friends or family who dealt with one or more of the issues. Although the author hasn’t really presented that they deeply connected to a plot or theme of the story, Miranda was raised in a small town in Kansas just like the characters in her book, which makes her connect somewhat to those characters and use their stories in a similar place to maybe relate to in real-life problems.
The characters learn to face their problems and use their close bond along the way to help each other and solve and overcome the issues they each have to face. They fall to their lows, but their friendship helps them bond even closer and find a way to grow from their situations and past.
Friendships can be the key to solving problems. The theme of friendship and how it got the characters through their struggles in their own lives and with their bond was a major theme.
The way the plot rises, the climax of the friendship and their struggles with each other and their own lives, and the spiraling but eventual solution of the falling actions were structured well to tell a magical and deep story.
In the book, the universal human experiences displayed are poverty, abuse (domestic and sexual), friendships, and responsibilities. Each character either has one or a couple of these issues and being able to see more about those issues in their lives helps the reader to understand how some of these issues can have a certain and major impact on an individual and how those in the real world deal with the situations too.
This book is its own story, the author has another book but has a completely different plot and set of characters. 
The book closely relates to older teenagers, between the ages 14 through 18 would probably fit the best. I think anyone older could read the book as well, but the main characters are teenagers and are getting close to adulthood, making the reading audience relate better to and strike older teenagers more.

Title of Book: Eye of Minds Author: James Dashner # of Pages: 380 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Why This Book has Value:
Eye of Minds is a gripping novel. It showcases throughout the 3 books what dangers advanced VR has. 

The series follows Micheal, a 16 year old male, with his 2 friends, Sarah and Bryson.
The rather peaceful world of the VR world is shattered when the 3 friends are recruited to stop the evil villain.
The trip would show to be a rather hard trip as it turns to a trauma inducing ride.

Setting

Throughout the trip to this mysterious Path, they have the opportunity to visit different places such as the old person town (that is legit its name).
The town itself connects to the old days when the old wooden towns were a thing. The town has no power and lives just normally.
This I feel like is a reference of how much better life is now than it was decades ago.
“Where less mainstream affairs like digital tattoo parlors and pawn shops lined a cobblestone road,” (Dashner, 65).

Development of Characters

Dashner does a good job of developing his characters.
The characters are told in vivid detail that allows for pictures to be thought of what they look like.
Through the 3 books, the characters grow a lot. The first book is where most character development had taken place.
As the friends are all stuck, the VR world suddenly turns into a death game where the friends need to adapt to the sudden change.
“Things don’t have to be real to be real,” (Dashner, 28).

Importance of the author and his/her development as a writer

James Dashner is an important author to me. As the creator of the Maze Runner series, Dashner finished that series and wanted to make something totally different.
As he had interest in VR, he decided to make a story about VR. Dashner’s development throughout the book as a writer is quite similar to his Maze Runner series.
He can’t let go of having one of the main characters die in a horrible way. If you have read what happens in the Maze Runner series, then transfer
some of that writing style to the Eye of Minds series. His style changed when he wrote this series.

Theme

There are a few select themes for this one but I personally feel like it has to do with don’t take for granted what you are given.
I say this because some of the people thought that it was just a game. People took their own lives, thinking that they would be lifted back to the real world.

“Michael thought Tanya’s suicide had been bad, but this time he was barely able to pull himself out of the Coffin.”

People like Tanya just don’t know that if you remove the barrier, you die in real life as well. They take all of the VR for granted like a gift that they own.
When something bad happens, everyone freaks out. The author is trying to convey though this that people just panic whenever something bad happens.

Title of Book: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Author: Truman Capote
# of Pages: 88
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆

Why This Book has Value:

Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's takes us to the Upper East Side of New York City around 1938 to follow the life of a teenage escort, Miss Holiday Golightly. At age 14, a young girl became orphaned because of her parent's death from Tuberculosis. Lulame Barnes and her brother Fred had to run away from their wretched caretakers, arriving at Doc Golightly's farm in December 1938. After a series of events, Lulame abandoned her brother and supposed family in Tulip, Texas to find her own way in a place she'd always dreamed, New York City.

The book takes place somewhere between the years 1938-43, narrated by Paul who Holiday called Fred. He is a neighbor living in the Big Brownstone on the East Seventies on the Upper East Side. We follow Miss Holiday Golightly and her fabulous adventures surviving in the Big Apple. From Brothel settings and lavish parties to quick male visitors either in her apartment or powder room, of course, shopping sprees at Tiffany's are needed. Fred; a neighbor, writer, and friend of Holiday's tells the tales of this 19-year-old young lady and cannot help but be addicted to her misshaped lifestyle. From Hillbilly Oakey to upscale New York Escort with many messages to be carried in between, Holiday breezes through life aloof to make her way.

In the end, Miss Holiday finds herself caught up in a mobster mystery with characters such as Sally Tomato and Mr. O-Shaughnessy which could have her pinned in the middle of something that could impact her life forever. Her ability and quick witt to get herself out of this jam will seem impossible, but Miss Golightly has always looked out for herself, and always will.

Capote enjoyed traveling and writing. A lot of his favorite time is spent associating and partying with famous New York aristocrats. The book Breakfast at Tiffany's is a great representation of him and the lifestyle he chose.

The busy reader should make time for this book because just like Fred, you cannot help but become mesmerized when you lay eyes on their world. Whether it is a disaster or not, you cannot help but keep reading.

"They Both Die at The End" Review

Title of Book: They Both Die at The End
 Author: Adam Silvera
 # of Pages: 368
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
 Why This Book has Value:

Adam Silvera's They Both Die at The End allows readers to look into the life of 18 year old Mateo. He gets a call in the middle of the night from Death-Cast, telling him that he is going to meet and untimely death in the next 24 hours. After getting this news, hes in shock, worried and confused about what to do with his last bit of life. He's devastated at the thought of leaving his hospitalized father and best friend who just had a baby behind. Rufus is bust beating up phis ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend when he gets his Death-Cast call. Having lost his entire family, He is no stranger to Death-Cast and how it works.


Universal Human Experiences 
This book allows readers to understand the process of death, coping with it, and most importantly, the fear of it and coming to terms with it. Adam Silvera wrote the book based on his own fear of death and his anxiety around it. I feel like this is something that a lot of people can relate to. The loss of loved ones or perhaps being the lost loved one is a very large pill to swallow for many people. This book allows people to really get inside not only Rufus and Mateo's minds, but their own.

Effectively Targets Specific Audience
Adam Silvera uses his writing to reach teenagers across the globe that can truly relate to what he says and what his views of the world are. He allows his reading to get to some degree of philisophical,but  he also allows for some aspects that teenagers just can't get enough of. Other Young Adult books prove this; Such as Fault in Our Stars.

Development of Characters
The characters learned a lot about not only each other, but themselves during the story. Mateo started out scared and upset about his impending fate, while later in the story he finds ways to accept it. He allows himself to realize that while it is unfortunate, there's nothing he can do about what's going to happen to him. Rufus seems to feel the same way, but he doesn't express it the same way as Mateo. Rufus puts on a front that he is invincible and that nothing can phase him, but he too, seems scared of death and what happens after it.

Importance of Author and The Progress They Make in Their Writing
Adam Silvera is a young writer and has published more books than just They Both Die at The End. He really shines in this book, however, because he really shows his feelings and expresses his thought on death. His writing truly improves in this book because again, he really turns his fear of death into a writing piece/ story.

Projekt 1065 by Alan Grantz

TiBook Review 

“Projekt 1065” by Alan Grantz

309 pages, 5star rating

I have read many World War II books, and this one turned out to be a good one.  It's the story of a 13 year old boy from Ireland, living in  Natzi Germany.  He joins the Natzi youth not to be one of them, but to be a spy for the allies.  His name is Michael O’Shauessey.  His parents are spies also.

Michael befriends another 13 year old boy named Fritz.  Both boys are in “training” to move up the ranks in the Natzi youth.  While Michael’s personality stays the same, Fritz changes from the training.  That was interesting to me to see how the evil training changed his character.  Fritz went from a sky, quiet, small boy to a boy who was tough and very cold.

The story gets exciting when the group of Hitler youth set out to find a British pilot whose plane had been shot down.  Michael finds him first and hides him in the family’s barn.  This pilot becomes very important to the story.

Another interesting part of this story is what Michael is trying to find to help the allies.  He finds “Projekt 1065” which ends up being in Fritz’s father’s study.  I don't want to spoil the story for you, so I won’t say what “Projekt 1065” is, how the British pilot ‘s role fits in the story, and the fate of Michael and his parents.  Read the book to find out!

This book engages the reader by using very descriptive words when talking about how brutal that period in history was.  The author talks about hating the Jews, book burning, the gestapo, and concentration camps.

The author also uses some German words, which i had heard before when studying WWII in history.

All in all, if you like history and World War II, you might enjoy this book.

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