Ruined By:Paula Morris

I am on page 23. Rebecca lived in New York with her fahter who sometimes traveled for work. This time he was going to be gone for 6 months in china and she couldnt stay at home by herself so he told her she had to move with her aunt and younger cousin in New Orleans. Her aunt only has one rule, Stay away from Lafayette Cemetery.

The Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge

It was a great short story. You think he will get to go home to his family and see his children. you read how he walks and walks through everything only to find out that he's dead. It literally crushed me.

Updated review #2

Kat and Nall went to the islands Nall came from his old clan the "seals" so Nall could listen at the gate, they were hunted and their love was constantly being doubted. They see new and old faces. Kat thinks she might be pregnant and she has not told Nall. When they finally get past all of the obstacles they go back home, to down shore. Everything has changed. Nalls tribe , the place he came from called themselves the seals they killed seals and wore there skin to be "one" with the animal. If they took your skin, you were dead.                            

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1. I LOVE to read.
2. I was born in LA i lived there for most of my life.
3. I like horses.
4. I'm Planning to join the U.S Coast Guard.
5.On Sundays my family has Philly Cheese Steak's and fries.
6. I also lived in San Francisco.
7. I like the cold weather.
8. My favorite football team is the Pittsburgh Steelers!
9. My favorite baseball team is the San Francisco Giants!
10.My favorite basketball team is the Lakers!

Updated Review #1

Before the green sea struck the black rocks,
I was.
Before the blue earth rang like a bell,
I was.
I breathed before breath.
I am beneath and above
and through you,
the sound of a soundless gong.
I was, I will be
I am nothing at all.
Nothing. At all.
I am nothing, and the shore on which i break
is all.
~Old Chant. The Rigi
So far in thte book Kat has been living with her mother's people in the mountains. She learned to do what they do and be her own person. 2 years have gone by and she has never once stopped thiking about Nall.

When she is finally a woman in the eyes of her people she tells her aunt she is going back to downshore to see her brother and Nall. Will he still be there? What has become of him and her brother? Has Downshore changed as much as the people says it has? what happend to that horrible man she was going to be forced to marry? all these questions are ringing through her head as she races home, to the sea, to Nall.

Listening at the Gate By: Betsy James

    In the village that she lives in Kat, has been scorned for her fiery red hair, legacy of her fathers shameful marrige to a native woman. While her father is out she finds a young man that has been washed up on the beach just outside her house. She takes him in and trys to care for him, and falls in love.  When her father goes as far as trying to make her marry a man she does not love. She goes to Nall hoping he'll take her, but he doesn't. She goes to her mother's people in the mountains. Kat is an outsider, someone her aunt and cousins love desperately but cannot understand. her only true home she feels is with nall. But Nall is an outsider too cast out by his tribe. In the face of chaos that is destroying everything they know, Kat and Nall embark on a dangerous quest a journey that will take them beyond themselves and beyond the last boundryof all, to the gate where the world was born.