Author Archives: duncanwijnberg

Sold is a book by Patricia McCormick about a girl from India named Lakshmi who is sold in child prostitution. She has to pay off a “debt” to her “boss” through prostitution. One night, when their TV doesn’t work the younger girls ask Monica and Shilpa to tell them stories of movies. After the storiesContinue reading “Taken for Granted”

Christopher got home early from school, so he decided to watch Blue Planet and he left his notebook with all of the detective work in it on the counter. His dad got home and found the notebook and Christopher realized what was about to happen. Christopher’s dad was very mad, and he started yelling. ThisContinue reading “Detective Christopher”

Christopher finds out his mom isn’t really dead, but she left to live in London because she didn’t feel needed anymore. He finds this out by finding letters his mom wrote to him that his dad had kept hidden from him. When Christopher’s dad finds him with the letters he decides that he will noContinue reading “Trust Issues”

Christopher is quite random at times, and this is one of those times. There is really no context for this chapter of the book. Before this, however, he was told he wasn’t allowed to do any more detective work by his father so I am assuming he has just gone off into one of theContinue reading “Grit of an Astronaut”

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is by Mark Haddon. The book takes place in a little town in England. In that town, there is a kid with special needs named Christopher. Christopher used to live with his father and mother, but his mother died a few years ago. He loves toContinue reading “Stranger Danger”

I started reading in first grade because I skipped kindergarten, so I was a little bit behind in my reading in the beginning. I learned to read in an ordinary way just a little later than most. I remember coming into my first day of first grade and sitting next to a girl who wasContinue reading “My Identity as a Reader”

Trevor is pulled over while driving one of his stepdad’s junk cars which doesn’t have an ownership title and without an ownership title he has no way to prove the car is his and the police cannot verify who’s car it is. The police believe the car is stolen especially with all of the carjackingsContinue reading “Intimidation”

Trevor is in high school now and he is looking for a source of income. He realizes that he is one of the fastest kids in the school and the cafeteria only has a certain amount of good food and people don’t want to wait in line and waste their lunchtime. He decides to chargeContinue reading “Entreprenuerial”

Trevor is thinking about asking someone to be his valentine for the first time. At Catholic School they didn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, so all he knew about it was that Cupid shoots you with an arrow to make you fall in love. At H.A Jack Valentine’s Day was an important day for the school, soContinue reading “Valentine’s Day”

Trevor Noah is a half-white half-black boy born in South Africa during a time known as apartheid. Apartheid was the extreme segregation of black African people in South Africa by the white African people of South Africa known as the Afrikaaners. Trevor’s mom wanted to have a child with a white man however, even thoughContinue reading “Blending In”