I read a lot

All I ever do is read. I don't have anything else to do. So these are some of the books I have recently read: Hip-hop High School, An Island Like You, Jude, and My Girl.
So...Hip-hop high school by Alan Lawrence Sitomer is about a girl somewhere around L.A. She's black and at her school there's no white people. There's african-american, latino, and some asian. Anyway, so everyone loves hip hop, thats why its called that. :) So the story goes that she has this great older brother thats like the town hero so she has to live up to the expectations of the teachers, and then her best friend becomes a cheer leader and gets pregnant and drops out. So she starts hanging out with this dude Devon who's cool, nice, and the smartest kid in school. Quoting the back of the book, "Together, Devon and Theresa set off on a quest to beat the SAT, prove they are not merely another "urban statistic" and earn their way into top colleges". But then Devon gets shot in the neck in a drive by shooting the day before college applications are due. They aren't sure he's going to live, and Theresa decides to finish his essays for him, and send in his applications to harvard, yale, usc, and a couple other i can't remember. So it's got a nice twist ending, and it's great!
Next: An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio by Judith Ortiz Cofer is a bunch of short stories all kind of connected about Puerto Rican teenagers growing up in a barrio in new jersey. It's great, and has a lot of things about the culture that was fun to read about. Actually...mom stole it, she just picked it up and started to read it. So obviously it's good :).
Jude by Kate Morgenroth: So, he's fifteen and lives with his dad, the drug dealer. one day his dad gets shot, and the killer says that if jude tells who did it, that he'll kill him. Then he finds out the DA is his long lost mother. So he lives with her for a while, but then a kid at his fancy new school, asks him to take him to his old neighborhood to buy drugs. So he does, and when the guy dies, he gets sent to jail. The twist is that his mom's boyfriend, who said he was going to get him out after his mom's politcal election, ends up being a backstabber that did a whole lot of bad things to jude and jude's dad. Anyway, it's a really good one. Action packed!
And of course My Girl. I finished it today. I cried. It was great. :D