When my parents found out I was in a humors class they were so happy. When I was getting all A’s in that class they were really proud of me. They always expected me to do well in all my classes. Now that I’m going really well in an honors class they know I’ll do well in the classes in high school. Being in an honors class really bossed my self-esteem in thinking I can really do well in school and go to college.

All year I have worked hard in all my classes to do well. To get all good grades in every class. Getting good grades is really important to me now. Knowing that having good grades and a good education is the only way to get to college. And also to get the job and life I want after school is done with.

Being in an honors class now will also help me get in more honors and challenging classes in high school. Being in more challenging classes lets be more ahead and challenged to succeed in school. It also makes more likely to get accepted into a good college.

That’s really why being in an honors class is such a proud moment for me. I really know that being in that class will help me get into a good school and that life I want when I’m older.

This book is about when the world is taken over by aliens called souls that take over a human body and use it as their host to survive. Living their lives like nothing happened in the host body. When one of the last humans, Melanie, is captured and by the seekers, souls put in a host and their job is to capture the remaining humans. A soul is put into her body losing all control of her body and she worries also her mind. Wanderer the soul put into Melanie’s body was told about the difficulty of living in a human host. The overwhelming emotions and the graphic memories.

Wanderer goes through Melanie’s mind hoping to find the location of the remaining hiding humans but Melanie fills her mind of the man she loves Jared, a human still in hiding. Unable to separate her from her bodies desires, she wants to fine Jared as much as Melanie. So they set out on a dangerous journey to find the one they both desire to be with so much.

Melanie is like any other human. She wants best for her and the ones she loves, she wants to act out in violence to get back at people who did wrong, and always wants things to work out her way and if it doesn’t she thinks it’s unfair. Wanderer is the opposite she what is best for others and puts her well being second of everyone else. She hates violence and would never hit anyone not even in an act of self defense and she wants everyone to be happy. The setting for most of the book is in underground tunnels in the middle of the desert not that far from Seattle.

I absolutely loved this book I have read it many many times and intend to read it more. I would recommend it to all my friends. It just shows more of the talent that Stephanie possesses.

it’s not the same thing
but it’s the best i can
do

if i can’t have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i’ve got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

since i can’t go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn’t lateral

when i can’t express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
i know
but that’s why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry

I think she is trying to say that that she is going to try to make the best choices that she can to.  She is also trying her best to do what she can. When she says “When I can’t express what i really feel i practice feeling what i can express and none of it is equal,” she is trying to say that sometimes you cant express how you feel some times so you just express it by doing what ypu know you can do, like laughing or crying, ect.

Walking in the rain

Washing away my sorrow

Getting a new start

Limerick

As the sun rises my skin burns

Hiding in the darkness hoping no one no one learns

Letting no one get close to me

Making sure no one can see

These are my only concerns

Cinquain

Darkness

Silent and cold

Lurking around every corner

Lasting forever never leavening

Nightfall

Free

Stand in the rain

Let it wash away your pain.

Let it hide your tears,

That you held for years.

Tears you refused to be shown.

For reasons only you have known.

One tear for all the things you have lost.

One tear for all the pain you came acrossed.

One tear for every hit you indored.

One tear for all the blood you poured.

But every storm comes to a end.

Then the skies clear and then there is a rainbow

And that’s all you need to know

Every storm has a beautiful end.

Free

I lay here all alone.

Feeling my heart turn to stone.

As I fall asleep.

I think of things I want to keep.

I want to keep the part of me

That loves to sing and run free.

I want time to go back to fix the wrong I have done.

But I can only run.

I want my dad to care.

And my mom to just be there.

I want to keep my friends

And this list never ends.

But all the things I want most and choose

Are the things I slowly loose.

So I slip back into my dreams

Knowing nothing is what it seems.

But that’s where everything I want is,  living happily ever after.

Filled with happiness and laughter.

Living happy in my castle over a lake.

But I know it will all go when I awake

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory!

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!