Kite Runner

Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini

In a powerful and exhilarating novel Khaled Hosseini tells the story of a young boy’s journey to find himself through the struggles of growing up in Afghanistan. Torn between the best friend he loves and the father he can’t impress Amir must chose, and the decision will change his entire life. Stricken with guilt and in danger of the invading Russian forces, Amir and his father flee to America where Amir grows into a man. As he tries to be happy in his new life he is constantly haunted by the memories of his childhood and the very minutes that changed his life forever. What Amir doesn’t know is that he will soon be thrown back into a very much changed Afghanistan on a mission that begins as saving a life but turns into a new struggle to redeem his boyhood mistakes and find a way to be good again.

Kathryn V., Freshman

How It’s Done

How Its Done
By Christine Kole Maclean

How its done is about this girl, Grace is eighteen, who wants to be like every teenage girl, she wants to be able to break free from home and her parents, to become independent from her overbearing, strict father, and coy mother. She feels imprisoned in her suburban home that looks like every other house in her neighborhood and each house is laid out the same. She has a best friend, Liv, who decides to check out Corbin College.

She meets a charming college professor Michael. He is the one giving the lecture at Corbin College. He’s not much older than she is. He uses a very broad and bold vocabulary and he’s so much more mature that high school boys. Grace gets all caught up in her love for him.

What she had anticipated to be an exciting ride, quickly turned into complication, and twisted lies to her father. She doesn’t want to stay home anymore, she wants to be free, but she’s having problems with Michael. Blinded by her love for him, she’s not sure what to do. Will she choose to leave her fathers side or leave Michael?

My Sister’s Keeper

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult is about a thirteen-year-old girl named Anna. Anna was born to keep her older sister, Kate, alive after being diagnosed with leukemia at age two. By the age of thirteen, Anna has gone through several transfusions, surgeries, and shots to help her sister survive. Anna becomes tired of living in the shadows of Kate, so she hires a lawyer to be emancipated medically from her parents. Anna being emancipated medically from her parents could result in fatal consequences for her sister. (Anna would have to give one of her kidneys to Kate in-order for her to live.) Will the judge decide to let Anna be emancipated medically from her parents? Will Anna lose the case and have to give one of her kidneys to Kate? If Anna does win the case, will she still go through the operations? If she does not go through the surgery, will she be guilty about not giving up her kidney to save Kate’s life? Anna is faced with decisions that will affect not only her, but her whole family’s life.