The Other Side of The Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon is a book I read last year. The main character of the book was Stacy McAdam. Stacy went into an coma for 4 years after getting shot by a robbery, leaving her in an coma and her mother killed though she ain't realize her mother was died till after she wakes up from the coma. After slowly waking up from a 4 years coma she wants to find the murder and make him pay for what he done and what her family had to go through. Since she was in a coma the memories of the crime scene has slowly been coming back to her only she can find out who was the murder because she was the only witness. Through out the book Stacy tries the best of her ability to remember the crime scene and the murder, Stacy gets flash back of the crime scenes little by little and the murder soon appeared in her dream as a friend she knew long ago. Stacy starts to remember more and more after each flash backs, soon she remembered the murder eyes and knew that she had seen them some where in her life. Soon after that flash back, during an invite to her friend Jarrod's party she saw the eyes of the murder who was Jarrod himself that had left her in an coma for 4 years and a life without a mother. Even after she find out who the murder is the cases isn't close yet, she was being watch by someone else who protect her even thought she was near the murder.

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Another book I read last year would be Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. About a young girl named Melinda Sordino who was raped in the summer party thought she call the cops and everyone blame her for that with out knowing the truth. She now find herself being test weather or not to do the right thing, because the person who raped her is dating one of her best friend before the incident. Melinda is all only to deal with this problem and is force to suffer because no one else has seen what that guy is cable of, but she find her true self in the end with the help of her art teacher who aspired her to continue art. Her emotion is set free throughout art and shown, she is like a seed being to grow and find her new self. Her parents don't even know what happening even thought she wants to tell someone. This what test her to grow weather or not to tell someone and help her best friend before something like this ever happen again.

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