One For the Murphys

This week I read One for The Murphys by Linda Mullaly Hunt. This book was AMAZING. I love reading and all of that stuff, but I don't normally care about the characters or stuff like that, and get connected to the characters as much as I did for this book, but it was AMAZING. This book is about a twelve year old girl named Carley Connors, who after getting abused by her mom and stepdad, gets put into foster care and into a house that almost seem too perfect. Carley makes new friends at school, and even starts to fit into the family, and enjoy it. But then she hear from her mother, and her life is basically torn apart. She has to choose; if she even has a choice; between her new adoptive family, the Murphy's, and her mom.
This was the best book EVER!!!I seriously connected to it, and it also was one of the SADDEST books that I read ever. You all really should read it, especially if you're a girl, because you'll connect to it more, but if you're a guy too. This was one of, if not the best, books I've ever read, and definitely the best one I've read all year. The last scene is so SAD!!!
Yeah, y'all should read it.

The Grandmaster

This week I read Grandmaster by David Klass. This book was about a freshman in high school, named Daniel Pratzer, who decides to join the chess team, although he's not great at it at all. Daniel is about the most normal kid in the world, he's basically ignored at school, his parents are the most boring people ever, and his sister is just being a normal girl in middle school. When two of the most popular and good chess players at his school ask him to come to a father/son competition, he wonders why, considering he's so unpopular, such a bad player, and as far as he knows his dad has never picked up a chess piece in his life. He then finds out that his dad used to be a Grandmaster, the highest ranking a player can be. Throughout the tournament, Daniel tries to figure out why his father quit chess, why he hid it from his family, and learns more about himself too. This was a really good book. I SUCK at chess, and I still really enjoyed it; I might have gotten some of the references more if I did like chess, but you don't have to know a lot about it in order to read this book. Overall, it was really good and not a hard read, it took me less than a day to read the whole thing, partly because I like it so much. Overall, I would recommend this book to a lot of people; it was great.