2nd Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

America by E.R. Frank. Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, 2003 Genre: Fiction

This boy named America had a bad childhood. Mother not wanting him or anybody else except one person. One night visiting him mother he never came back, he was stuck there. The only way to fit in with his brothers was to be bad and meaner than them. As he gets older he leaves off to many places that keep him for a while and tries to help. There are therapist and medication. By the end he is able to be on his own but realizes he doesn’t want to leave and thinks about the lady who was the only one to keep him when he was young. And after a long time he goes to visit. But soon after she had died but he gets one thing from her he keeps it around his neck now always.

“ America is a jagged, beautiful story of triumph, love, and understanding in the face of neglect and depression.” -Teenreads.com

This book is really great, not like some books I have read. This one has a lot of feeling in it and you can feel it in yourself. With all the stuff that happen to America it’s very strong feeling. There is a lot of meaning to what E.R. Frank has written. This book can go beyond the pages. It tells of how things can change and life will go on if you let it also it can get better no matter what.

I have not read any other books by E.R. Frank. This one was really good and I expect other would be too. The way it’s written in with meaning and truth along with a lot of feeling in his perspective. And you get put in his shoes also not sure what will happen next in certain parts.

“ We’re angles, Me and Brooklyn, and Ty, and Liza, and Lyle, and Clark Poignant, and Dr. B., and Fish, and Wick, and Marshall, and Ernie, and Tom, and we’re all different. Some of us are the color of leaves, and some of us have blue edges around our wings, and some of us are sliver, and we can fly.”(24)

This was a great book and I liked it a lot. It showed me how people can care and put up with so much for a person. It showed me that this could happen in some cases very similar. What some people have to go through and how some people are troubled. It was sad to read how no one wanted him but he found his way through all the pain and realized the truth about some stuff he was not sure of. The only think that makes me question is the end. What happened to him and all the others?