The Breadwinner
This book is about an eleven year old girl named Parvana. She has two siblings and a mother and father. They live under Taliban rules which are very strict. The family moves to a smaller house every time that a bomb destroys their old house. So by now they live in a very small house. Women are only allowed to go outside with black burquas and with permission by their husband or father. In the book the father gets kidnapped and Parvana and her mother try to find him. On the way the get beaten up a lot. They only have one possibility left. Parvana needs to dress as a boy to sell stuff and look for her father without getting beaten the whole time. I highly recommend this book to every age group! I love the book because it is very realistic and I think everybody should know that there are still countries were women get beaten up and don’t have equal rights as men!
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games take place in the capitol every year because president snow wants to show his power and wants to destroy their faith. From all the 12 districts a boy and a girl between the ages of 12-18 get chosen to fight for their life and honor their district. The Hunger Games take place in the arena which is made by the game makers. Usually district one and two win because they sent their kids on a training camp where they learn to kill and to survive under different conditions.
Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the book. She lives in district 12 with her mother and her little sister Prim. Since her father’s death she has to take care of her family. She goes out in too the woods with her best friend Gale to hunt illegally and then she sells her pray. Gale secretly loves Katniss.
This year 74th Hunger Games take place and Katniss sister Prim is old enough to participate. All of a sudden Prim gets chosen to fight in the Hunger Games. Katniss knows that her sister would never survive and she volunteers to fight instead of her sister. The boy that gets chosen is Peeta Melak. Peeta and Katniss know each other. Once when Katniss was near starving to death Peeta gave Katniss a piece of burned bread. So he saved her. So she thinks she owes him something. She promised her sister to win but on the other hand she wants to save Peeta. What will she do?
Kalkidan and Hannah
The Elite
Book: The book „The Elite” is about a girl named America. Thirty-five girls come to the palace to compete in a selection. Now America is one of the six finalists. The problem is that only one girl is going to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of llléa. At first, America´s parents force here to take part in the selection because if she wins she will automatically be rich. But meanwhile she kind of likes Prince Maxon. But when she is with Aspen her secret first love she feels like she can trust him and she tells him absolutely everything. At the point when America is sure that she has made up her mind, a devastating loss makes her question everything again. And while she is struggling to imagine her future, the monarchy is growing stronger and it plans to destroy America´s chance of any kind of happy ending.
Author: Kiera Cass
Publisher: Harper Teens
Pages: 323
Rating: We give this book 7/10 stars. At the begining the book was a bit boring but if you stick with it and keep on reading, it becomes really interessting We think this book is way more interesting for girls than it is for boys. We really liked the book because it is realistic but at the same time there is a lot of fantasy.
