"The Skinny on Willpower" is a motivating book that teaches you the key to success is not how good or bad you are at what you're trying to achieve, but how when you channel the willpower and energy within you you can turn it into success. This book is deeply researched, and as I read I felt in good hands. It takes on all different approaches to teaching you the ways to success, showing others who are successful and the roads that they took. All of these roads had something to do with willpower.
"What Momma Left Me" by Renee Watson is about a girl named Serenity and her brother Danny, who witnessed the death of their mother. In their father's sure absence after the incident, the kids go to live with their grandparents that orbit around the church and cooking. Serenity's grandma loves to cook, just like her momma. She avoids the kitchen in hopes of avoiding not only the memories, but the could have beens. Despite all the new found love in her life, Serenity finds herself still emotionally disturbed because she still feels she must keep her mother's secrets.
The book "Cycler" is about a teenage girl named Jill. At the end of each month for a period of four days Jill morphs into a boy named Jack. His body replaces hers, and yet at the end of the period of four days her body transforms back to normal. Doctors have no cure or explanation for the oddities of Jill's body. Despite all of these complications Jill tries her hardest to lead a normal teenage life, whatever that may be.
When her stepfather dies, Emily Gray returns from the big city of Manhattan to the small town in Maine where she grew up. Her mother has decided to sell the cottage that she raised Emily in, and Emily volunteers to get the cottage ready for sale. But when she returns to the town after never looking back for over a dozen years, things start to fall into place and happy memories arise. Unfortunately, along with the warming memories also come the grueling thoughts of her stepfather; who she'd tried to block from her mind all this time.
"Timelock" by David Klass, is a book that fuses both the future and the past together. A boy named Jack is the Prince of Dann in a future world. His parents sent him back in time to our present day with a set of legal guardians, in hope that he could save the futuristic world. There are many sacrifices that the royal family made to save the grim future. But will they be enough? "Timelock" is the third book of the series. If you ask me it was fairly easy to follow, but they did refer to the previous written books on numerous occasions.
Twice Toward Justice is a true story about a teenage girl named Claudette Colvin. It's a moving story of a teenage girl who not only dreams of justice but does everything in her power to make it happen for not only herself, but for others. Claudette was a strong willed teenage girl who knows right from wrong. Ever since she was little she'd hear adults, including her parents, complain about all the injustices that people of color suffer. A main part of the injustices were on the buses.
