Deadline By:Chris Crutcher
        Character: Ben Wolf is the main character in this book all though I'm not very far in my book I can tell that. So far what I know is that this book they come out and tell you that he has cancer. He has an attitude that hes okay with that he feels like really there is no way to stop it. An legally the doctor can tell his parents anything because he is 18. He does not want anyone to know he wants them to treat him like they would if he didn't have cancer he does not want them to feel sorry for him at all.
      He realises over time that this could be the last time for anything. So his thought is well its now or never. So he has never played football but he decides that he all ways wanted to so hes going to play it. But I think his motto is "NOW OR NEVER!!".

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275844.Deadline
This is a goodreads blog that someone blogged about talking about the review of the book it was a good resource. It tells you a lot about the books characters.



This is a trailer of the movie  My Sisters Keeper this is kind of like my book its a girl struggling with the fact that she has canser and she does not want to be treated any way diferent than she was. Ben feels the same way but in the book no one has any clue he does not want his family to be upset like her family is in this clip.

Girl In Translation
   This blog is part of my summer reading, but this gives me the chance to expand what I wanted to say.
       Theme: The overall theme of this book by Jean Kwork is that this girl named Kimberly deals with all of these things that she has to deal with. There are so many differences in American culture and the Chinese culture that she is use to. The book over time shows how Kimberly starts off as this little girl who moved from China knows nothing about were she is moving to and none of there cultures. This shows her becoming a teenager and the stuff that she has to go though. The tough times that she had between bulling and financial problems. An how she adapts in to her new life and culture.

     "Back in Hong Kong, I would never have dared to talk to Ma like this, to openly argue with her about such grown-up topics, but I had never  had the responsibilities there that I now did."(Kwork 66)
The quote  I have cited shows clearly how Kimberly has to adapted to the American culture.

       Character:The way that my characters develops over time is that she learns how to become a responsible adult. She makes a lot of choices that would be hard for someone at her time and age to deal with. But  at the age of 17 or 18  she makes that one stupid choice that messes with her plan of the life she wanted. It shows how she deals with love heartbreaks and worries and needs. She wants to go to this privet school because she has struggled in the public schools with bulling. But she has to understand that at this time her mom and her have hardly any money. She she has to deal with that and a matures time. Kimberly is very determined person. She earns the scholarship that she need to be able to go to the privet  school that she wanted. There would be no way possible that she would every be able to go there without it because its to much money. So basically my character changes over time by being a smart, determined, responsible, and mature young adult.
   

I found this Video it is a little bit over 6 mins long. I chose this because this is very similar to my book because this girl is very pressured to be perfect.