The document contains summaries of 8 books from different genres including romance, realistic fiction, and children's literature. The books deal with topics like cancer, family struggles, friendship, imagination, and love. Several summaries highlight coming-of-age stories and relationships between parents and children.
The document contains summaries of 8 books from different genres including romance, realistic fiction, and children's literature. The books deal with topics like cancer, family struggles, friendship, imagination, and love. Several summaries highlight coming-of-age stories and relationships between parents and children.
The document contains summaries of 8 books from different genres including romance, realistic fiction, and children's literature. The books deal with topics like cancer, family struggles, friendship, imagination, and love. Several summaries highlight coming-of-age stories and relationships between parents and children.
The document contains summaries of 8 books from different genres including romance, realistic fiction, and children's literature. The books deal with topics like cancer, family struggles, friendship, imagination, and love. Several summaries highlight coming-of-age stories and relationships between parents and children.
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Anthology
MATTER: LITERATURE AND HUMANITIES
STUDENT: PAOLA SAENZ
GROUP: 401 Romantic Literature
PÁGINA 1 PÁGINA 2 Author: John Green
Publisher: Ink Cloud
Age range: young / adult
Hazel's life will change when she meets Gus, a boy who, like her, struggles to overcome cancer.
Hazel just turned 16 years old. And he has cancer. Although a
treatment has managed to reduce her tumor almost miraculously, she is terminally ill.
Doctors cannot tell you how much time you have left; he only knows that he must live close to an oxygen tank and subjected to continuous treatments. For a few weeks, Hazel is part of a support group where other guys like her share their experiences. Actually, she comes more by obligation than by will; What's the point of talking to other people about what nobody can change? But his life takes a real turn when he meets Gus Waters ... You wonder: who is Gus? And how can one person change the story of another?
PÁGINA 3 PÁGINA 4 Author: Estelle Maskame
Editorial: Destination
Age range: young / adult
A running girl from Oregon.
A trip to Los Angeles to meet his father's new family.
A problematic and very attractive stepbrother.
Many tension and a desperately irrational love.
Tyler is a cocoon, of that there is no doubt; he is a cocoon with
serious problems of anger and behavior; he is just a cocoon because he wants to be a cocoon, because he definitely hides something; his favorite hobbies include getting drunk and getting on; He has spectacular abs and I like the color of his eyes; sometimes it can be very sweet, like when he jokes with his brothers; from time to time it can make me mad, but nothing happens, because he kisses wonderfully. And finally, it attracts me much more than I'm willing to admit.
PÁGINA 5 PÁGINA 6 Author: Elizabeth Scott
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Age range: young / adult
Kate Brown's life has gone downhill quickly. Her father has quit his job to sell vitamins at the mall, and Kate is forced to work with him. Her best friend has become popular, and acts like Kate is invisible. And then there's Will. The magnificent, unattainable Will, whom Kate pretends she can not stand even when she can not stop thinking about him. And when Will begins to act interested, Kate hates herself for wanting him even when she knows that she is only his last conquest.
Kate imagines that the only way things stop hurting is if she continues and stops worrying about everyone and everything. What she does not understand is that life can not always be perfect, good things can happen ... but only if she leaves them.
PÁGINA 7 PÁGINA 8 Author: Alejandra María De Bassi
Publisher: Argentinian authors
Age range: young / adult
Valeriana is a young woman educated by chauvinist parents who
ironically tells bad moments of her life. Rebel, melomaniac and dreamer by nature, in her adult stage refuses to accept living with these parameters. It is a novel where it is debated whether love at first sight is only a physical attraction or is the one that will last for a lifetime.
A work full of passion, madness, mixed emotions and drama.
PÁGINA 9 PÁGINA 10 Author: Joanna Philbin
Publisher: Atom
Genre: Contemporary Youth
When seventeen-year-old Rory McShane steps off the bus in East
Hampton, it’s as if she’s entered another universe, one populated by impossibly beautiful people wearing pressed khakis and driving expensive cars. She’s signed on to be a summer errand girl for the Rules—a wealthy family with an enormous beachfront mansion. Upon arrival, she’s warned by other staff members to avoid socializing with the family, but Rory soon learns that may be easier said than done.
Stifled by her friends and her family’s country club scene, seventeen- year-old Isabel Rule, the youngest of the family, embarks on a breathless romance with a guy whom her parents would never approve of. It’s the summer for taking chances, and Isabel is bringing Rory along for the ride.
But will Rory’s own summer romance jeopardize her friendship with Isabel? And, after long-hidden family secrets surface, will the Rules’ picture-perfect world ever be the same?
PÁGINA 11 Realistic Literature
PÁGINA 12 PÁGINA 13 Author: Elizabeth Hay
Publisher: Rakuten
Age range: young / adult
Transports readers to an emotionally rich landscape populated by
unforgettable characters, yet overshadowed by a sense of loss.
At the outset, ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and
American father are on a journey from New York City to a beautiful lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. Over the next few pivotal years of Jim's youth, the novel moves from city to country, summer to winter, well-being to illness, as it charts the deepening bond between mother and son, even as their small family starts to fall to pieces.
Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec was on the verge of seceding
from Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming-of- age story that draws readers in with its warmth, wisdom, its vivid sense of place, its searching honesty, and nuanced portrait of the lives of a family and those closest to it.
PÁGINA 14 PÁGINA 15 Author: Jale Yolen
Publisher: Scholastic
Age range: children and adolescents
His timeless and beautiful classic--the winner of the 1988 Caldecott
Medal--celebrates its 20th anniversary with this edition featuring letters from Yolen and Schoenherr and a stunning silvery cover. Full color. Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo- whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird. But there is no answer. Wordlessly the two companions walk along, or when you go owling you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn't an owl, but sometimes there is. Distinguished author Jane Yolen has created a gentle, poetic story that lovingly depicts the special companionship of a young child and her father as well as humankind's close relationship to the natural world. Wonderfully complemented by award-winning John Schoenherr's soft, exquisite watercolor illustrations, this is a verbal and visual treasure, perfect for reading aloud and sharing at bedtime.
PÁGINA 16 PÁGINA 17 Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Penguin books
Age range: children and adolescents
On a piece of paper, Greg, an 11-year-old boy, tells us how he wants
to become the most popular boy in school. For him, the school is the most ridiculous and absurd invention, he detests it. Therefore, it organizes a series of plans to spend it in a more enjoyable way and survive this traumatic experience. Will he be the most famous child, or will he be a weak and cowardly boy?
PÁGINA 18 PÁGINA 19 Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Age range: children and adolescents
After the death of his parents, little James is forced to live with his two cruel and repulsive aunts. The visit of a strange character, a spider that saves, provides a means to escape: a giant peach that begins to grow disproportionately in your garden. When he enters inside of him he will meet other colorful characters.
PÁGINA 20 PÁGINA 21 Author: Katherine Paterson
Publisher: Scholastic
Age range: children and adolescents
The life of a teenager named Jesse changes when he becomes friends
with Leslie. The children create an imaginary world that they baptize with the name of Terabithia, in which all kinds of magical creatures live. Although their lives are complicated and routine, Jesse and Leslie are the king the queen of Terabithia. Very soon, one of the friends must face a tragedy in his imaginary realm.
PÁGINA 22 PÁGINA 23 Author: Erin Morgenstern
Publisher: Anchor Books
Age range: Teenagers and adults
The circus arrives without warning.
It is not preceded by any announcement, no poster is hung on the
poles or billboards of the center nor appear notes or mentions in local newspapers. It is simply there, in a place where yesterday there was nothing. It opens only at night and it is not a circus ...
Le Cirque des Rêves, as that is his name, is actually the scene of a
fierce competition: a terrible duel between two young wizards, Celia and Marco, trained since childhood for this purpose; a challenge that his coaches have been preparing for years. What they do not know, and will soon discover, is that this is a deadly game in which there can only be one victor. A very high price for two young people who have just discovered love, a magical and profound love that illuminates everything they touch.
But the game must continue, and Marco and Celia can only trust destiny
