https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq I like Space. en-us 2019-01-14 14:31:34 UTC 2025-12-22 17:14:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320306250  Holden wants to be the “catcher in the rye”—someone who saves children from falling off a cliff, which can be understood as a metaphor for entering adulthood.
Published: 1951
Page Length: 277
My friends kept going on about how great this book is and I thought I would give it a try, especially since she doesn't like to read so it must be good.

]]> 2019-01-14 14:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320306250 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320316001 This coming-of age story has become a cult-classic because of its honest look at the lives of “everyday” teenagers. Through the eyes of 15-year-old narrator Charlie, the novel details the daily trials and tribulations that many teenagers face, but it also tackles hefty and controversial topics like drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and suicide.
Published: 1999
Page Length: 256 
My sister got this movie when it first came out and I liked it so I thought I would try it out.]]> 2019-01-14 14:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320316001 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320318587 Meg Murry, a high-school-aged girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet.
Published: 1962
Page Length: 260
The movie came out last year and I haven't seen it and people say that the book is always better anyways.

]]> 2019-01-14 14:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320318587 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320321535 Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Ponyboy and his two brothers — Darrel (Darry), who is 20, and Sodapop, who is 16 — have recently lost their parents in an automobile accident.
Published: 1967
Page Length: 194
When I read the summary it caught my interest and I wanted to try something different.]]> 2019-01-14 15:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320321535 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320767336 When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow that needs a brain, a Tin Man missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who wants courage.
Published: 1900
Page Length: 253
This was mine and my sister's favorite movie when we were kids and I have never gotten the chance to actually read the book.

]]> 2019-01-15 14:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320767336 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320770885 Alice is sitting with her sister outdoors when she spies a White Rabbit with a pocket watch. Fascinated by the sight, she follows the rabbit down the hole. She falls for a long time, and finds herself in a long hallway full of doors.
Published: 1865
Page Length: 143
I loved the cartoon version and the Tim Burton version of this book and I have always wanted to read the book.]]> 2019-01-15 14:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320770885 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320774534 A monster helps a boy cope with his mother's terminal cancer.
Published: 2011
Page Length: 214
I've heard about this book before but never really understood what it was about.]]> 2019-01-15 14:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320774534 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320777858 The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody "Bod" Owens who is adopted and raised by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered.
Published: 2008
Page Length: 312
I really like the idea of the supernatural and that there might be something else besides just us.]]> 2019-01-15 14:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320777858 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320783275 The greatest, most scathing dissection of the hollowness at the heart of the American dream. Hypnotic, tragic, both of its time and completely relevant.
Published: 1925
Page Length: 148
I really enjoyed learning about this time in history and I saw only parts of the movie and I wanted to read the book.]]> 2019-01-15 14:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320783275 harnie27 https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320786088  The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
Published: 1927
Page Length: 180
One of my friends that struggles with depression calls me her lighthouse and I saw this book and thought that maybe the reason she calls me that has to do with the book.]]> 2019-01-15 14:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/harnie27/wg6y31f25bpq/wish/320786088