Jun
8
2010
YABC SPRING 2010 BOOKCLUB
Author: Librarian1. Who is Sheree writing to in the last part in the book?
2. What do you think the future of the main characters is going to be like?
3. You should have finished your three independent reading books. Write a two paragraph summary for each book.
June 13th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
1. In the last part of the book Sheree is writing a letter to her son.
2. I think Sheree will end up going back to her mom and will become a more level-headed person. Her mom will also become more supportive and neither of them will depend on men any longer. I also think Angela will eventually come around to telling her father how much she needs him and will stop seeking trouble just to hear him yell at her.
3. Low Men In Yellow Coats by Stephen King
Low Men In Yellow Coats is the first of five novellas in Stephen King’s Novel Hearts of Atlantis. The story takes place in 1960 and revolves around a young boy, Bobby Garfield. He lives in Harwich, Connecticut with his self-centered mother, Liz, a widow, and he really wants a bike. His mom claims they don’t have money for a bike, despite her constant buying of new clothes. For his eleventh birthday, Bobby’s mother gives him a birthday card containing an adult library card. During this time, Bobby doesn’t realize that his mother is having a relationship with her boss. Bobby spends his time with his two best friends, John “Sully” Sullivan and Carol Gerber. An older man named Ted Brautigan moves into an adjacent apartment on the floor above Bobby and his mother. It is obvious that she doesn’t like Ted, but Bobby does. Ted spends a lot of time discussing books with Bobby and gives him Lord of the Flies, which makes a huge impression on him. Bobby’s mother claims to be worried that Ted might be sexually abusing Bobby, but it’s just because she feels guilty about her own neglect of him. Bobby, understanding the situation but unable to articulate it, solves the problem by keeping the two apart. Ted speaks to Bobby as one would speak to another adult, a fact which makes a great impression on Bobby. Ted offers Bobby a small amount of money to read him the paper daily, claiming his eyes are not what they used to be. Bobby witnesses Ted “blanking out” several times, and realizes that he possesses psychic abilities, which he is able to pass on to others by coming into physical contact with them. Ted places his hands on Bobby’s shoulders one morning and later on that day, Bobby is able to win a three card monte game at the beach because he could read the mind of the card dealer. As Ted and Bobby grow closer, Ted confesses to Bobby that he is being stalked by “low men” or more accurately they are the Can-toi, evil workers for the Crimson King. Read the novel to find out what happens
4. Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved begins in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Sethe, a former slave, has been living with her eighteen-year-old daughter, Denver. Sethe’s mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, lived with them until her death, eight years earlier. Just before Baby Suggs’s death, Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar, ran away. Sethe believes they fled because of the presence of an abusive ghost that has haunted their house at 124 Bluestone Road for years. Denver, however likes the ghost, which everyone thinks is the spirit of her dead sister. On the day the novel begins, Paul D, whom Sethe has not seen since they worked together on Mr. Garner’s Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky approximately twenty years earlier, stops by Sethe’s house. His presence resurrects memories that have lain buried in Sethe’s mind for almost two decades. Throughout the story we are placed back and forth between the present and flashbacks of Sethe, and Paul D’s past. From memories, we find ou that Sethe, the protagonist, was born in the South to an African mother she never knew. When she is thirteen, she is sold to the Garners, who own Sweet Home and practice a comparatively benevolent kind of slavery.
5. Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Dreamcatcher is the story of four friends whose lives are altered when they save Douglas “Duddits” Cavell, a child with Down syndrome, from being bullied. The four friends grow up and live separate, but equally problematic, lives. When they meet for an annual hunting trip, they are faced with an alien invasion and near psychotic army Colonel, Abraham Kurtz. One of the four friends, Gary “Jonesy” Jones, seems to be under the control of “Mr. Gray”, an unpleasant alien who has a terrible agenda of his own. In the novel, Jonesy, an associate professor of History, was in an automobile accident similar to King’s own in 1999. The alien invasion begins when Jonesy discovers a man walking in the woods who complains of stomach problems due to berries he had eaten. Jonesy then notices a red mold-like substance on the man’s cheek, who exhibits dyspepsia and extremely bad farts. Beaver, another of the four friends, returns and they observe a large pack of animals who all have markings similar to the stranger’s. When they return, the man is in the washroom, dead. This man, the animals, and eventually a female all share similar symptoms, and learn that they are infected with a macro-virus. Army scientists originally nicknamed the virus “The Ripley.” The friends discover that ingesting the infectious ‘red mold’ causes its host to form partially grown, worm-like aliens called byrum. To find out what happens with the characters and the creatures read Dreamcatcher
June 27th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
1) In the last part of the book Sheree is writing a letter to her son.
2) I believe Sheree will go back to her mom and will become a independent woman . Her mom will also become more supportive and neither of them will depend on men any longer. I also think Ange will eventually come around to telling her father how much she needs him and will stop seeking trouble just to hear him yell at her.