The first book that's on my reading list is The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler. I've read a few books by that author and I haven't found one that I didn't enjoy! The book is about a girl named Kate whose sister drowned 12 years ago in her old home. Now Kate is returning to that home to tutor a boy named Patrick. Throughout her stay Patrick is doing dangerous and life threatening things because "Ashley dared him to." Also, the boy who Kate loves admits a dark secret that connects him to Ashley. Kate must push aside her fears of her sister in order to save everyone from her the evil that is supposedly her "sister."
Another book I would like to read is The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman. This story is a true story about the author and his surviving the Holocaust thanks to a Nazi. He was a famous Jewish pianist before him and his family were sent to a death camp. When they were getting into the train that would take them off to their dath a friend of his who was a Jewish police officer pulled him out of the crowd and told him to run. For the next few years of the Holocaust he has people hide him in various homes, but he is caught by a Nazi; however, the officer hears him playing the piano and decides to help Szpilman survive. Without the officers realization that he's just a man trying to live, he wouldn't have survived through the holocaust. The Holocaust is the one thing in history that I am fascinated with. What the Jews went through was terrible and I find it amazing that some had the will and strength to survive.
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You are right. It is amazing that he had the will and the means to survive. Also, I think that once people open their eyes and get to know a persn they will find the person they did not judge is just like them. Believe me, that can sometimes be so hard not to judge someone, even when you try.
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