The Other Side Of The Island

 

                                                            Written by Allegra Goodman

       Reviewed by Ophelie C

       Have you ever felt like you were in a place where you couldn’t escape from it? Or that your life is being completely controlled? Well that’s what life is like in The Other Side Of The Island written by Allegra Goodman. Honor lives with her normal family. But one day Honor learns shocking news, that her mother is going to have a new child. Where they live, all the parents only have one kid, not two. Then after that her parents become more unique and they don’t do what you are “supposed” to do. So they get taken away. Honor and her baby brother Quintilian get put into the orphanage. They find one of their friends there, Helix. One day on a field trip Honor spots her mother working as an orderly. How will Honor and Helix get back to their families?

      The Other Side Of The Island  reminds me of being in jail. Not the reading feeling like that but the characters in the book because there lives are controlled and they are in a place where they can’t leave. The Other Side Of The Island also reminds me of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry because they too live in a place where you can’t escape and your life is controlled.

   

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3. Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy

4. Life Of Pi by Yann Martel