Quarter 4, Blog # 1

The book I am reading for quarter 4 outside reading is The Secret Life of Bee's, by Sue Monk Kidd. So far I have read to page 100. The book so far is about a girl who is 13 years old named Lily Owens who is growing up on a farm in South Carolina without a mother. Her mother died when she was very young, so she is living with her father, T. Ray and Rosaleen thier maid. Lily really does not like her father, beacuse he is mean to her and makes her do lots of chores. Lily also has problems making and keeping friends so she does not like the social aspect of school but she loves learning at school, she especially like reading and writing. Where I am in the book Lily and Rosaleen have 'ran' away from their farm in Sylvan, South Carolina. I think that Lily and Rosaleen did the right thing by leaving that farm because T. Ray did not treat them with respect, and Rosaleen is an african american, who also did not recieve respect from people in the town. Right before they left for Tiburn, Lily broke Rosaleen out of jail. But so far I think that Lily did something that was risky but I can see where she is coming from.