By:Anne Schraff

 The book is about these girl name Darcy and how she got some problems that she has to deal with.  Darcy is in Bluford High School and she doesn’t have many friends there. She has this girl that she talks to named Brisana. They are best friends and her only true friends.

When she is in class she has to work on a project and she wants to work on one that’s about tidal pool and she has to work with a partner. She has to have a partner but the only partner she wants to work with is her crush Hakeem or her friend Brisansa. The only thing that’s wrong with that is that the teacher is picking their partners. When she calls on Darcy she chooses a girl name Tarah and she is big. So Darcy gets mad because she doesn’t want to work with her but she got no other choose. So she goes over there to talk about the project. When she gets over there they start talking about the project and Tarah says her boyfriend can take them to a place to learn more about the Tidal pools. Her boyfriend name is Cooper and then he says do you want to ride or not and Darcy says sure. Then Tarah realizes that Darcy doesn’t like being there because of how Darcy is acting. Then Tarah tells Darcy how every body talks about her behind her back and she doesn’t know. Then when the bell wrong to let out them Darcy ran out because she wanted to start crying because of the things people was saying about her behind her back. She ran down the road towards her house and thought about how people were talking about her and how she felt.

This book is very good it will have you off of the edge of your seat when reading this book. The book is about a lot of things it’s talks about how the her family is getting torn apart, how their dad left them, and how she gets into a argument with her sister and how her mother works all them hours at the hospital. Read the fantastic book to learn more.

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Book Review

Locomotion

by:Jacqueline Woodson

 This book is a poetry book and it has a lot of poems. There are some good poems and some not so good people. The two poems that I like are called “Parents poem” and “Describe somebody”. The parents poem is about how she lost her parents and how they died. And how people ask how her parents died and she would always say “The fire took them”.  The poem Describe Somebody is about how she begins talking about her favorite teacher and how her hair was long and brown and her face was brown and she stopped because she didn’t want to write about that anymore. Then she started writing about this boy in her class that was really shy and he could really sing. But nobody knew that he could sing since he was so shy, she only found out that he was shy by going to another church than usual with her teacher. And when she got there she saw him up there in the robe with the choir. And she saw him sing up there by his self and he did well. Then she decided to start all over because she didn’t want to bring him out and tell the whole class about his personal business.