Junior High is about awkward moments, new friends, more homework, and fun classes. It's about learning, being young, and creating inside jokes. It's about trying something new and slowly gaining confidence. It's about being a sevie, then stuck in the middle, then the oldest; when grades count. It's about making goals that you try hard to reach, and not freaking out about that one A-. About dances where you are shouting at your dance partner over the loud music, then pretending you heard them. It's about the colorful sharpies that you sign your name with on others' yearbooks. The heavy textbooks you haul around and occasionally lose. It's about the locker filled with pictures of the Eiffel Tower and the com. that you forget about once a week. It's about finding lonely people to sit with out lunch, and bad hair days, and ignoring drama. Trying to understand your 'interesting' teacher and studying your heart out for a test. It's about being surprised about a person you had judged before. Playing in the band, singing in Rhapsody, wearing an Officer jacket, and putting on assemblies. It's about days you wish there was A.C. and days you wish there was a heating system. About hard, fun, and new experiences that get you ready for the real world. Reading books, finishing assignments at 12 am, and trying to stay on the ball. It's about the school some people call 'ghetto', that you love. About realizing new talents, staying after school to type, and coming in early for Geometry help. Junior High is about making memories that will last.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a great book for young adults and mature teenagers. It is education, funny and insightful. It is 444 pages, but a definite page turner. I rated it 5-stars because it is such a great book. It is basically about how unfairly African-Americans were treated in the 1950s and 60s. It changes perspective about every chapter, but it's fairly easy to follow along. It is from the point of view of 3 women from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's. Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter are the narrators. I thought it was unique that it had more than one narrator and it allowed you to understand the story much better. Aibileen (my favorite character) is a black women who is "the Help" to Miss Leefolt. She is kind, wise and smart. Throughout the story she develops a strong bond between Miss Leefolt's little girl, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt is very strict and rather oblivious to Mae Mobley. She doesn't really know how to raise her, so Aibil...
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