The book draws readers engaged into the entire story. >From the first chapter to the last words of the book, the reader will remember the book for years.

The story is about a man named Matteo Alacran who makes a clone of himself by using skin cells and placing the embryo inside a cow. The embryo grows into a baby and is named Matt (which is the shorter version for Matteo Alacran). The child grows up facing a different kind of racism. He is disliked between the family all because he is a clone. One girl named Maria, however, actually has a sense of infatuation toward Matt at the age of only six.

As Matt grows on, he learns that he is to take over the place of the original Matteo Alacran. However, his bodyguard says that Matt has a choice to make. He can be a hero and destroy everything the drug lord created or be the organ donor to Matteo Alacran so he can continue to live on. Matteo Alacran dies at the age of 148 years old.

While Matt grows into adulthood, he finds himself with Maria and her mother to find a way to destroy everything Matteo created. In the end, friendship is what saves the young man. He realizes that even if he was a clone, he is still a human no matter what others say. Maria develops her relationship with Matt where they both confess to each other that they are in love with each other.

Matt does meet challenges along the way and develops a sense of care and eventually realizes that he does in fact have a soul within him. This story brings readers to realize anything is possible. This is an unforgettable book as it inspires everyone else to reach their fullest potential and go beyond.

By Jesse Soto

Palmer is nine years old. He then falls in love with Dorothy. He finds out that Dorothy likes pigeons liked the same pigeon. Then he had a party and he invited some kids that he wanted to hang around for the longest time.

The conflict of the book is that Palmer does not want to become a real wringer like all of his other friends. The reason that he does not want to become a real wringer is because one day a pigeon came to his window. Palmer let the pigeon in and he fed him. The pigeon then left to Dorothy’s window. Palmer did not know that the pigeon had left to Dorothy’s house. Then one day that Palmer’s friends came to his house to pick him up to go to the park and they were going to go and show Palmer how to become a real wringer. They gave him a bird and he did not want to put the bird out of his misery. Then one day Dorothy came to palmer’s house and she saw the bird. Palmer didn’t want her to tell anyone about the bird because he would be embarrassed because his dad was the king of wringers.

What I think about the story is that Palmer did the right thing because you should not kill any animal that has not harmed you. The tone of the story is that the story is fiction because as we people now that you should not kill an animal unless you really need to. I really recommend this book to people because it’s a really good book and you will learn that you should not kill any animals.

By Jorge Zavala

By Saray Mendoza

Through out the book is intense able of what’s going on, and what will happen. The style is based on a true story. Then this book would be good to show what immigrants come to do in the U.S, which its to achieve their goals and overcome obstacles.

By Armando Davalos

They are interesting because they all have unique talents, or are either developing their own talent. All except for a young girl by the name of E.D. she is very organized and always seems to rub Jake the wrong way. At the end it doesn’t matter because the whole family gets involved in the father’s musical production “The Sound of Music” staring Jake.Everyone puts their talents together in this production and because of E.D.s neatness it all comes out great for the whole world to enjoy.

I thought that that this was a great book because I show how a young ruthless boy changes over a matter of time into a respectful young man. I also liked it because it talks about how a family who put their heads together and accomplished so much more than they can imagine.

By Chris Jarero

Sometimes when people join a gang they never think about their family member. All they care is just having fun and not caring about anything else or anybody. Life could change in a second! It’s also like a rollercoaster, we all have our ups and downs even though we think nothing like that will ever happen to us. We just have to get used to it people live and die every day so I don’t know why we get so scared when that happens. We have to express our feelings toward our family members because we never know when we live or die. I will recommend this book because it shows people be to value there live and there family member. It explains what happens when join a gang.

By Eder Ambriz

Sam who is senior in a high school is now taking care of his son Max. Max was not his plan but, now is part of his life. Attending an alternative high school he is giving fatherhood his best shot. His love toward Max is not all questionable. Suddenly a situation comes when Sam realizes that he is not able to give Max the time and attention as he should be giving. This led him to make the most tough decision of his life. This decision will change the deal between him and his father.

Though it is a fictional story it reveals the truth of teenaged parent’s love toward their kids and how sometimes they have to make tough choice’s for the betterness. Full of sadness and confidence this book will make one feel the way Sam felt for himself and his son Max. This sadness and confidence will allow one to turn the pages until Max is eighteen year’s old.

By Baljit Bedi

This novel is amazingly shocking, reveling and dramatic. It has twists and turns that will have you in a daze, I sure was. I would recommend this to all high school students. Especially those of you who are outcast there’s one in everybody.

By Maricela McKean

Naomi is a very shy girl that when they make fun of her brother she doesn’t do anything because she is to shy to speck in front of others. Her little brother is a little deformed, because one leg is bigger than the other one and he carries tapes with him were ever they go. Everything seemed to be going great until there mom showed up.

But there was something wrong she only wanted to keep Naomi and not Owen and there grandmother wasn’t going let that happened

By Guadalupe Castaneda

This book is about a kid name Darren; he lived a happy life with him and his family. Till one day something strange happened to him he and his friend named Steve where in school when they found a paper that said “Cirque Du Freak” .They saw that they had a show of unbelievable animals that were inhuman. They went to buy the tickets they went to see the show but after a while when the show was over they stayed for a little while and they caught that a guy that was a vampire.
They never thought they were going to get into to this big deal just because they went to a show of weird things. Darren and Steve were nothing alike they been friends since they were small but Steve always have been different from Darren. Steve has the more troublemaker type of guy, the one who punks on the other kids. When they got home Darren had the spider that they had in the show, he had practically stole the spider. Days passed Steve and Darren were playing with the poisonous spider they never thought the risk they were taking when they were playing with the spider. The spider almost killed Steve, Steve went to the hospital and nobody knew how to cure the poisonous bite. Darren went to find the owner of the spider witch was the Vampire he was called Crepsley. He went looking for him telling him hell do everything he can to save his friend, if and only he gives him a cure for the poisonous bite. Months passed and he became the vampire’s assistant he worked in the “Cirque Du freak” then he and the vampire went to the vampire mountain where there he had to pass some trial to become a respected half-vampire.
Darren passed all of the trails that the other vampires but him threw. The were amazed because only the vampire generals could pass the trails and they took them years to pass it or failed it. But Darren was a brave kid because he had passed the trials. But he never expected that one of the vampires was going to betray them for the vampaneeze the vampaneeze were like vampires but they were the ones who killed. Darren was going for another journey he wanted to get revenge because, it wasn’t going to stay like this. I really liked this book or the whole section of Cirque Du Freak. I really recommend you to read this book it’s going to live you for more you’re going to want to read more and more.

By Betsy Peralta