Hunger Games

CHAPTER ONE: My Life Story...

My name: Peyton Strong. My life: Different. My wish: To have someone else do my job. Why?: Cause I was destined to do THIS. Why?: A civilization called The Light, called me in and recruted me as one of there "HELPERS" when really...I'm on a fight for my life to save the world from un explicable things. Demons, thefts, آپ name it! Right now: I'm on سب, سب سے اوپر of a building, wathcing down far below. چھری in hand. Gun in it's holster. And searching. Searching what آپ ask?: For members of The Shades. Who?: They are just like The Lights, but they are competly different....

Preface

“Okay honey, it’s your first time on a plane!” my mother cooed me. I was five then so I didn’t hate it entirely. “I’m ready Mommy!” I said. We sat in section… 1A and 1B.
My mother was overly excited for the both of us because it was also her first time on a plane.
After takeoff, my mother spotted San Diego, which was the wrong direction. We were going to visit my grandparents in Michigan. It felt like the plane was dropping all of a sudden.
“Mommy, are we going to land now?” I asked. “I’m going to go talk to the pilot honey. I’ll be right back.” My mother...

We hear a lot about sexism against females, and some people think this extends to books, which it probably does. A lot of کتابیں have no females in them, یا only have weak female characters, like damsels in distress which are just there to be saved سے طرف کی males. But recently, there has been a lot of strong, resourceful new female book characters. Here are my favourite strong heroines- and two of them are from کتابیں written سے طرف کی male authors, so well done men for realising that females can be string too.

1) Kestrel Hath, from The Wind on آگ کے, آگ series سے طرف کی William Nicholson.
Most of آپ probably haven't...

"War is not women's history," Virginia Woolf observed. But when confronted with it, members of that sex have summoned levels of courage and resourcefulness to rival those of any military commander. In A Train In Winter, Caroline Moorehead focuses on a group of women worthy of particular awe, both for the bravery they demonstrated and the brutality they endured.
The عنوان refers to a vehicle that in January 1943 transported 230 women — all members of the French Resistance battling the German occupation of their country — to Nazi death camps. They ranged in age from 15 to 68, in occupation...