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Aesop's Fables
When I was a small child my mother bought me a bunch of children's story books, but the one I would always read by myself before bed was the Aesop's Fable book, I was drawn to the realistic drawings and the moral stories behind them. My favorites were The Lion and the Mouse and the Fox & the grapes. -
Rainbow Magic Fairy Books
I remember when I first started to read longer books, I remember I had a collection of the Rainbow Magic Fairy Books, I'd see them a lot a different thrift stores. And one day I finally found one with my name at Goodwill. -
Tuck Everlasting
One of the only books I truly liked while in elementary school was tuck everlasting. I remember my fourth grade teacher reading two chapters every class. I still really like this story and it makes you not fear death as much. -
The invention of Hugo Cabaret
This was the first long book that I read. It was in my elementary school's public library and we had to take a book every time. Everyone chose this book because it was mostly was black and white pictures, but I was one of the few people who actually read it. I loved it so much and it was my favorite book for a while. And one day I was looking through our DVDs and my mom had a copy of the movie for years before I even read the book. I liked the movie as well. -
All Quiet On The Western Front
This was the first book I had read that moved me so emotionally. I read this book in class during my freshman year at WHHS. The book was well written and for the first time in a long while, I had fixed the disconnect I had felt towards reading in general, due to the overall lack of that I experienced at my old middle school. This was also the first book that made me cry while reading it. The movie was brilliant as well -
Reading Acomplishment
Due to a change in school and an overall lack of proper education and focus on reading, I fell really behind in my reading skills, My 8th grade English teacher moved jobs and they couldn't find a replacement, so we had a sub who wasn't even a real teacher let alone an English one. However since we were a poorer school we would be tested often. The Lexile test scored reading abilities, We had an award ceremony and I had gotten the highest reading score out of my entire 8th grade (200 kids) -
Animal Farm
This was a book that wasn't really popular amongst my peers during freshman year, but I felt like I truly understood the book for what it was, I didn't' find it boring at all and I felt like I understood how to connect outside meanings to things that are beyond the text, which was something I thought that I had lost. And this was an essay that I did the best on (I got a 98)