miércoles, 14 de agosto de 2013

A brief synopsis about the titles…

SEND…
To keep his secrets, all he has to do is listen to the voice in his head and just walk away...
On his first day at his new high school, Dan stops a bully from beating up a kid half his size. He didn't want to get involved. All he wants out of his senior year is to fly under the radar. But Dan knows what it's like to be terrorized by a bully-he used to be one. Now the whole school thinks he's some kind of hero, except Julie Murphy, the prettiest girl on campus. She looks at him like she knows he has a secret. Like she knows his name isn't really Daniel. (From Goodreads)

STRAGE CASE OF DR JECKYLL AND MR HYDE…
Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men, a good and an evil one.  He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated.  He succeeds in his experiment with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes.  When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late…written by Mark J. Popp

PEAK…
Tells the story of a boy becoming a man, It begins in New York where Peak Marcello is caught by the police while climbing a skyscraper.  He must live with his father who has flown in for the trial, this doesn’t seem so terrible, bus his father is a professional rock/mountain climber and is currently climbing Mt. Everest. Through his struggles with the mountain and his father, he tries to complete his goal, which has never been achieved before, a 14 year old on Everest.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
The diary of a young girl, is a book of the writings form Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was hiding for two years with her family during Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Wikipedia


lunes, 22 de julio de 2013