caroline

My favorite book that I have ever read is The Hunger Games because it tells about how bad the world could turn if we keep society the way it is. The Hunger Games is based in the future so it shows how much the world could change. The kind of genre that I like to read is realistic fiction because I can relate to the events that happen to the character and I understand mostly what’s going on in their lives. The book I just finished reading is The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen. The book was about a 16 year old girl named Jessica who lost part of her leg in a tragic accident on the way home from a track race. Jessica struggled to have happy spirits after the accident while she was in the hospital. She found it hard to cope with only having one working leg. For a while, she had a temporary pipe leg from below her knee down. She thought she would never be able to do her favorite thing again- run. As she was considered disabled, she had to be sat in a chair next to another disabled girl who she had never paid any mind to. Her name was Rosa and she was actually a really good friend. Her track team did many fundraisers to save up money for a running prosthetic leg which was $20,000. When Jessica realized how that was only for her running prosthetic leg and not even her normal walking leg, again she had no hope. After a few long months, she got both legs and with a lot of training was able to run again. She had an idea to push her disabled friend in a wheel chair for a race to finally show that people should see the person, not their condition. When she got enough training, she pushed her disabled friend in a wheelchair for 10 miles for a race. It was a great book and a good story.

Caroline