Molly Shares Three Summaries

he Invisible Thread is an autobiography book, by Yoshiko Uchida.

Yoshiko and her older sister Kay, and her mother and father are Japanese-American and live together in the 1940s California.The U.S. Government takes them away to a camp because they “looked like the enemy,” and at this time the U.S. and Japan were at war.

         When you were reading the book, you would not think it as an autobiography, but autobiography and historical are really both combined.

        I noticed that Yoshiko often shared her feelings to the reader, which made the book feel more real.

             Often the writer would just keep going on with the story, and then stop to explain why the thing had happen to lead to the person’s feelings. For example, “ I believe they both had a generosity of spirt that caused them to care deeply about the struggles of their fellow men. It was October 1916. My Mother Iku Umegaki aged twenty-four stood shivering on the deck of a small ship, watching the dim outlines of Japan fade into the distance.” ( page 23\24 )

          I enjoyed reading this book because, it was a really detailed book, I found it easy to connect to Yoshiko, in some parts of the book. And it was a great experience reading it.  

On the Banks of Plum Creek, is  a History, and Adventure book, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Laura, who is the main character, has an older sister called Mary, and a younger sister called Carrie. After living a while in the Prairie, they decided to settle by Plum Creek.

The story is set in the late nineteenth century, and is mostly told from Laura’s side.

Everybody always helped each other. Laura and Mary started doing chores from when they were very little. The writer wrote in a descriptive way, but not too descriptive so you still had an idea of the scene. For example, “Laura had never before seen such a tree. Where leaves would be in summer, there were clusters and streamers of thick green paper. Thick among them hung little sacks of pick mosquito - bar.” (page164)

The writer often goes step by step, and really takes you through her life so the book always seems clear.

I enjoyed this book because often throughout the book they would often play games involving songs and people singing songs. But the nice thing was that the writer always wrote them down, so you would know what they were actually singing.

Black Star Bright Dawn, is an History and suspense book, by Scott O’ Dell.

Bright Dawn, an Eskimo girl, is the main character and she lives with her mother, and her father in Alaska. After the father has an accident on the ice, they have to travel to Ikuma, to live there awhile.Then Bright Dawn finds herself entering the Iditarod race, and that is where she finds herself in the greatest adventure.

The book is written in the first person, so it makes you feel you are almost the person in the story. 

It is the sort of book, so you never know what is going to happen next ; it was full of suspense.

It focuses a lot on her surroundings such as the weather, the sky, the water, and descriptions of the places. For example, “ He threw back his head and closed his eyes. A chill sound came from his throat. It was not one sound but many. It was the sound of the ice breaking up on the big river. It was the sound the sea makes in an angry storm. It was like the sound the little snow owl makes on a wintery night.”

I enjoyed this novel because it was a very descriptive book in that it told you facts about what Bright Dawn, and what she used for the Iditarod races.