Amanda's Thoughts

The Princess Diaries (920L) Cabot, M.  (2008). The Princess Diaries.  New York, NY: HarperTeen.             Meg Cabot’s novel The Princess Diaries is one of her most well known novels. They even turned it into a film series. It is about a girl who lived in New York City with her mom, but finds out at the age of fourteen, that her father is actually the prince of Genovia. She is now technically the heir to the throne of Genovia. She learns to become a princess from her grandmother. Her princess lessons are difficult for her due to her awkwardness and her clumsiness. But of course, she works through her issues and decides to stick with her training and to continue on with her family legacy of royalty.             This novel has been one of my favorite Young Adult novels for years. I have actually read the whole series and every other novel Meg Cabot has ever writ...

Amanda Farley Annotated Bibliography Non-Fiction/ Informational Texts Fever (580L) Anderson, L. H. (2000). Fever 1793 . New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.             Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Fever 1793 is an interesting take on how the world was before the age of modern medicine. This novel is based on the city of Philadelphia in the summer of 1793. Before modern medicine, fever outbreaks were fatal. The main character of the story is Mattie Cook. Her family owns a coffee shop on the other side of the city from where there is a massive mosquito outbreak. Then, the mosquitos start moving in on the city of Philadelphia.             I really found this to be an interesting novel. This was my first time reading it. I thought Mattie’s character had gone through some tough times. The themes of this novel are beating the odds, coming of a...

Annotated Bibliography Contemporary/ Classic Novels Pride and Prejudice (1190L)             Austen, J. (2002). Pride and Prejudice . New York, NY: Penguin Classics.             Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a novel that surrounds the life of Elizabeth Bennet and her family. The reader learns that Elizabeth’s mother wants all of her five daughters to find husbands who have money and could provide for them. This is one of the main topics of the book. Elizabeth’s pride gets her in trouble with one of the characters that keeps getting drawn to her, Mr. Darcy. They quarrel with one another throughout the book. Despite their differences in class and beliefs, they eventually fall in love and get married. But of course, Mr. Darcy had to propose a couple of times before she agreed to become his wife.           ...

My middle and high school years were an important era in my literacy memories. During those seven years of schooling I have read literally hundreds of books. I actually wrote a list once but I could not remember all of the books I had read during that time.  In middle school, I was on a historical fiction kick. I read books such as Catherine, Called Birdy and anything that had to do with Queen Elizabeth or King Henry the VIII .  Then I went on to all of the Harry Potter books and the Chronicles of Narnia .  By my high school years, I was reading novels almost every day. I was addicted to reading the young adult novels, of all genres. I also loved reading the classics, Pride and Prejudice  and any Shakespearean play. I would sit around and read novels by the handfuls. I am also afraid to acknowledge my past addiction to any novel written that had to do with Vampires during the Twilight era. But on the other hand, that era opened me to world of Stephen King....