My stunning grid by Andre Byers Jr. https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-09-04 14:43:07 UTC 2025-10-08 18:56:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png 1st blog post al_bj003 https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/279225456 I am currently reading Miles Morales Spiderman. I chose to read it because I like watching superhero movies, so I thought that reading a superhero book would be the equivalent. Also, it was the book that I liked the most out of the books on my table. I like how the characters in the book feel real. It feels like what happened in the book could have in real life. The author wrote the story so that the characters make mistakes and have emotion. The way the author builds the characters personality stands out to me because he did it very well. My book also has an interesting storyline. There is never a dull moment in this book. Every little segment in the book has development of at least one of the characters. This book is different, and the similar In a few ways. This book is different to the other books I have read because there is a lot of action in this book, but in other ones I have read it was for school, so they were all boring books that were set in the past, and had some special meaning that we I was supposed to get out of it.  My teachers in the past made us explain the meaning of the book, but with this class we don’t have to. It’s similar in the way that it is a coming of age book, which is what I mainly read for school in middle school. The main character has to deal with the problems of being a student and a superhero at the same time, while trying to hide it from most of the people in his life. So just like every other coming of age book he will master what he does and save the day.

]]> 2018-09-10 00:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/279225456 2nd blog post al_bj003 https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/282082290 I am currently reading When I was the greatest by Jason Reynolds. I just finished Miles Morales Spider man, which was also written by him. I think that Jason Reynolds is a very talented author, and that he spends a lot of time and thought when he writes a book. I think he is very good at character development. I have noticed that both in this book and the one that I just finished, that all of his main characters are very deep, and have a well-crafted back story. Like in “When I was the greatest”, the three main characters all have nicknames for each other that perfectly make sense to their character. And the way that Reynolds wrote how they got their nicknames was very creative, and well thought out in my opinion. I also like how visual his books are. I can’t personally relate to this book because I don’t live in New York, and I don’t go through the struggles that the main characters go through, but it is easy for me to be able to picture what’s going on in my mind because he describes the setting in this book very well. It feels like I am experiencing their story with them without even being there. This book keeps me interested because the characters are super spontaneous. Sometimes while I’m reading, I have my suspicions about what will happen next in the book, and sometimes I could be spot on, and others I’m completely off. That’s just what makes his books interesting to me.

]]> 2018-09-17 02:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/282082290 4th blog post al_bj003 https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/287422111 I just finished when I was the greatest by Jason Reynolds this past Friday. It was a great book and it was well written. It feels like the book was written to take the reader on an emotional roller coaster, but it really wasn’t that emotional for me. There were some sad parts, and some happy part, but it didn’t really move me to tears, which is ok. I don’t have a real-world connection with this book, but somewhere someone does because sadly there are plenty of young Africa American boys who are growing up with a father that is in and out like Ali’s dad, or not there at all like Needles and Noodle’s dad. And that’s just sad to me because I know some people without their fathers in their lives, and this book shines the importance of having a father with you growing up. I would recommend this book to somebody because it kept me interested the whole way through it, and the book has a very deep meaning. This book starts out good at the beginning of it, and stays good through the whole thing, but it gets especially sad during the middle of the book when one of the main characters gets beat up because of his condition. Compared to other books that I have read from my own choosing, this book was more realistic and relevant. When I do read books, they are usually fiction, and have some sort of fantasy aspect to them, but this book was more down to earth compared to those.  

]]> 2018-10-01 02:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/287422111 5th blogpost al_bj003 https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/290116556 I have recently started reading Reality boy by A.S. King. I could tell even by the first couple of pages at the beginning of the book that this was targeted for an older audience. It’s not too bad, so I am going to keep reading because it’s kind of funny, but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone that isn’t in high school. This is the first book that I have read from A.S. King, and so far, it’s kind of weird. The main character has anger issues, and used to poop on things we he was young when he got angry; which is a weird way to start a book if you ask me, but it isn’t my book, so I can’t do anything about it. I don’t really connect to the main character in any way because I have never really been an angry person. I get angry sometimes, but even when I do, i wouldn’t even think of doing half of the stuff that he does. Also, he hates almost everyone in his family, especially his sister. I don’t hate my family, or any of my sisters at all. They get on my nerves sometimes, but I never have hated them to the point that I don’t talk to them. Also, my sister wouldn’t be this main cause, or the trigger as they say in the book, to my anger issues. A.S. King has written about a big conflict between a boy, his anger issues, and his family, and I want to see how it all unfolds.

 

 

 

 

                                                      

]]> 2018-10-08 02:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/290116556 8th blog post al_bj003 https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/300307449 I have recently started reading Hit Count by Chris Lynch. It is about a boy who plays football, and he wants to do anything he can to be the best at it. That is what I have gotten so far from the book at least. When I first started to read it, I did not really think that I would like it, and continue to read it. I did not really feel like picking a new book so I stuck with it. I am glad that I kept reading it because it has grown to become more interesting as I go through it. I am only a couple chapters in, but the book changes really fast I think. The main character gets so caught up in the game that he becomes completely oblivious to the fact that it is hurting him. This book reminds me of how people in the world can get so caught up in things that they think are good, and good for the, but they are not. They get so tangled up in whatever they have going on that they shut everybody that is trying to help them out. That’s why people need friends and family to help the see wrong from right. Even if they don’t want to hear it, it might be the best thing to happen. Like people who smoke. They get addicted o it to the point where it just becomes part of their life style, and when people try to help them stop, one of two three things happen. Either they say they’ll stop and they don’t, they say they won’t stop and they don’t, or they actually stop, which doesn’t really happen that often.

]]> 2018-11-05 04:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/300307449 2nd semester, 1st blog post al_bj003 https://padlet.com/al_bj003/9mbysf2n3v1b/wish/320145821 I started reading the boy in the black suit, by Jason Reynolds right after winter break ended, and I’m not to far in the book, but I am above fifty pages. So far the book started off really weird. As soon as you start the book, you find out that the main characters mother died from cancer, and it’s all sad and whatever, but right after that, it feels like the book gets super slow. There is a lot of detail put in the book, so I feel like it just goes really slow. I am going to continue reading it because I think it has a pretty good plot from what I can tell, and I have read a couple of Jason Reynolds’ books this school year already, and they turned out to be pretty good, so hoping this one will do the same. I don’t really connect with the main character in this book at all because our families are completely different. I have both of my parents alive, and living with me, while he only has his father. I also have seven siblings living in my house, while I think he is the only one (He hasn’t mentioned any siblings yet in the part of the book I have read, so if he does have siblings I wouldn’t know). Also although he lives in New York, it feels like everybody knows everybody in their community. While I know a couple of my neighbors, and others I have no clue who they are, and probably never will.

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