Snitch

The book Snitch is written by Allison van Diepen and is based on a true story. This story I would recommend to young adults because it has to deal with peer pressure, drugs, gangs, etc. Even teens in our school are having to deal with some of these things and it makes you want to keep reading because it pertains to people our age. This book is about a young girl named Julia DiVino that is trying to stay out of gangs and do things right but its hard with all of the peer pressure and bad influences in her school. When she meets a guy she really likes, Eric Valienté, things go bad because she starts to join a gang and ends up having to move away from her love so she can change her life and better her future. I would recommed this book to anyone that is facing peer pressure and want to read a book that will keep them on the edge of their seat.

http://www.allisonvandiepen.com/

A Child Called "It"

A Child Called "It" is the most inspirational story I have ever read. I recommend this book to young adults because it gives you the courage to keep going because its hard to be a teen and growing up. This book is written by Dave Pelzer and it is based on his life story. Dave is mentally and physically abused by his alcoholic "mother" and she makes him feel like hes nothing. She takes everything out on Dave even when he hasn't done anything wrong and she says he is a "bad boy." This story makes you want to keep reading because there is so much to it and makes you wonder if Dave has enough courage to keep going. Dave to me is someone with the greatest amount of courage that I have ever seen. Dave is just trying to make it through life and survive. I would encourage people that want to be inspired to read this book.

http://www.davepelzer.com/

Madapple

Madapple by Christina Meldrum is a book about a sheltered young girl, Aslaug. I found this to be an interesting story, but a very boring read. It was hard to follow through and finish this book. There are a lot of things the story covers, such as religions that most people don't know about and all these plants. Basically if you don't know anything about either of these topics, or even if you do, it is still very confusing to read and understand.

Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice is an actual diary made by a troubled 15 year old girl in the 70s and about her journey into addiction. It is a book about an innocent and shy teenage girl introduced to the drug world. It all started when some friends slipped her some LSD in her soda and then her whole life was turned around. After that, she starts to experiment with other hard drugs and starts to lose her grip on reality. After a few months of that she's hooked and trys to find every possible way to get out. Also her family there by her side through it all and forgiving her for everytime she screwed up. Even after she trys to get out of the drug scene, she still struggles with letting go. This book really shows how much drugs can screw up your life even when your trying to get out of them. She ends up dying of a drug overdose. Alice was only one out of thousands of drug deaths that year.

Street Pharm.

Street Pharm writen by Allison Van Diepen has to be the greatest book I have ever read. Tyrone Johnson the main charactor of the book is at the top of his game. Ty is a big time drug dealer. It use to be his dads business but his dad Orlando was locked up for dealing. So now the family business is in Tys hands and business has nevr been better. But soon Ty will learn that with the family business comes more then just drugs. Tys personal life gets involved and everything starts to fall apart. He can't be with people out in public beacuse his enemies might try and hurt the people that are close to him. Throughout this book there are many different situations that Ty has to face like the cops, enemies, addiction, loved ones, girls and death.

Angry Management

Angry Management was a very good book by Chris Crutcher. This is the perfect book for all of Crutcher's fans; unfortunately I can't say I have read many of his past books, but this book was still great nonetheless. The reason fans would enjoy this book is because the characters are all from previous books, which I think is very interesting to do in a book. And everyone of these characters are all teenagers with issues. That is why they get put into Mr. Nak's Angry Management group. Everyone in Mr. Nak's group has their own stories that begin to come out with each chapter. I love how this book works even if you haven't read many of the others and know the character's stories. It still works out and you learn about the characters through this story. I really enjoyed this book and am planning on reading more of Crutcher's books so I can become more in tune with his amazing characters.

Sucker Punch

In the book Sucker Punch By David Hernandez, Marcus or known as Nub to his friends is a teenager who has a younger brother who's name is Enrique. Marcus is 17 and on his last year of high school. Their father left them a year earlier; telling them to never contact them again. As soon as Enrique and Marcus thought things were going well in their family, their mother tells them that he might move back in the house. They're both furious about this idea; in the earlier years when they were younger their dad used to brutally hit Enrique for the slightest things. The reason for Marcus' nickname is for because a few years before their dad left; he was skateboarding, he fell and his finger hit a wall outside their house. His mom and Enrique quickly took him to the emergency room; not knowing where his finger was. Marcus' friends soon started calling him Nub, and as you can tell it stuck with them. Ashley, Enrique's girlfriend but Marcus' secret crush. Oliver, Enrique, Ashley, and Marcus decide their going to go on a road trip; Ashley soon finds out the plan that they had, she quickly gets angry with Enrique. Oliver has a starter pistol, Marcus and Enrique decide to give their dad a little visit, but not the type of visit you'd normally expect; with all the anger Enrique has built up over the years from his dads abuse, makes things easier to follow through with the plan, not only that Enrique hasn't taken his pills in the last few days making things even less difficult. Their standing at their dads front door step, walking into his tiny, crammed apartment; sitting down on his couch Marcus quickly realizes that his dad has changed. Enrique doesn't want to face the facts that he truly has; going through counseling and getting help with his anger issues. Enrique grabs the starter pistol, which his dad thinks is a real one until Marcus tells him; the frightened look on their father's face eases up some. He stands their with the pistol in his hands, yelling at his dad to say he was sorry; Enrique giving many similar qualities his dad gave the previous year. I give this book a 4.5 out of 5 because even though I didn't find the cover of the book that interesting; the book its self always kept my attention and made me want to keep on ready.