Since it was almost time for the war, the Taliban came to Najmah’s household and took her father and brother for war. ‘“I have no guns,” Baba-jan says, looking at the man directly. The Pashtun Talib mutters something, and the men shove and drag Baba-jan and my brother toward to Datsun pickup trucks.’ (Page 18) After they are taken away, Najmah and what was left of her family was unbearably sad. Who wants their loved ones to fight in a war when there’s a chance of them getting killed? After Najmah’s mother and baby brother are killed in a bombing accident, one of her parents’ friend’s brother takes her with his family on a road trip to Torkhum.
In 1990, after fifteen years of marriage, Jesperson got divorced and saw his dream to become a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. He was unable to follow his dreams due to an injury during training. That same year he returned to truck driving and began to kill. Jesperson is known to have killed eight women over the course of five years. Strangulation was his preferred method, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child.
Sixty years later, Sarah’s tragic story intertwines with that of middle aged reporter, Julia. Sarah’s Key follows Julia’s investigation into the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup where Jewish families where arrested and taken to a bicycle stadium and then shipped to Auschwitz. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of hidden secrets, secrets that will change the life of her and many others that link to Sarah Starzynski. During the middle of the night on July 16th, Sarah who refused let the French police harm her little brother Michel, locks him in their hiding place, a secret cabinet in their room. She tells him she would come back for him and is then taken away with her parents in local street cars to an old bicycle stadium.
Starters by Lissa Price English Mrs. Clark Book Report 336 pages; genre: science fiction Expect the Unexpected Imagine having to choose between two terrifying choices: Let your seven year old brother die of sickness or get paid to be someone else? Callie, the protagonist, lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother who is severely sick, Tyler, were the only ones left in their family. On the run, living as trespassers with their friend Michael and fighting off rebels who would kill them for the stupidest things. The only way Callie can be safe and stay alive is by going to Prime Destinations, in Beverly Hills run by someone known as the
Daniel and his sister are left in the fate of their poverty stricken grandmother, who apprentices Daniel to the local blacksmith. A harsh man, he beats Daniel and the other boys who serve him. Daniel finally runs away. On the edge of dying of exposure on the hills outside his hometown, Daniel is rescued by Rosh, the leader of a shabby band of zealots. This act of kindness earns Rosh Daniel’s undying loyalty.
They took he father captive and told her mom that Hanan had to marry an Isis Police officer to be able to release her father. Her mom described the man with a long beard and very musty. She speaks haltingly of their first night together when she says he forced himself on her. She initially tried to struggle, she says, but then submitted to her fate. "There was no emotion.
Chapter One: "Nightmare" The Autobiography of Malcolm X begins with Malcolm Little telling about his years as a trouble-making but clever child in the 1930s. His father, Earl Little, is a Baptist preacher who advocates the "back-to-Africa'' philosophy of black activist Marcus Garvey. Once, their house is burned down, and another time it is damaged—both times by groups of white men. His mother, Louise, is made a widow when Earl is murdered; then the state welfare agency tries to break up the family. Eventually, fighting against the state and struggling to keep her children fed becomes too much for Louise, and she is committed to a mental asylum.
Plot Summary Fourteen year old Celie has led a very rough life. Her mother is very sick, and when she goes to visit the doctor Celie is left alone with her father, Fonso. While the mother is gone, Fonso rapes Celie. Celie's mother dies soon after and now Fonso rapes Celie more and more often, saying "You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't" (p. 1). Celie has two children by her father, both of which he takes away right after they are born.
Kandahar, Afghanistan 7 February 2011, a group of America’s best and brightest soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are ambushed by Taliban forces 9 thousand feet into the Hindu Kush Mountains. They’ve been fighting for 6 months; they’re exhausted physically and mentally. A squad leader calls out for a medic to tend to 3 of his wounded. Stern and solemn grizzled faces pull security while three men linger on the edge of death. The medic screams to the radio operator to call for medevac helicopters.
Oral Presentation (Persuasive speech) Visualize that you are a 5 year old child born in Afghanistan. The Taliban have invaded your village, and they executed all your family excluding your aunty and one of your older sisters. You hide for years in Pakistan and your sister marries an older man. Mind the fact that she does not love him, but she needs the safety and security he provides her with. She sells all her possessions to support you, until you eventually have an abundant quantity of money for a boat trip to Australia.