Yovana Gonzalez - Week 5 reading journal lyrics

9/9/13 This book I'm reading is called perfect chemistry it's a very interesting book it's about this two couples who really like each Hate each other. They always fight all the time and argue. I think they have this connection going on that their going to end up liken each other a lot to the point that are going to go through a lot of things. She's an upper cla** and his gang banger which are two completely different people. By the looks of it this is going to be a very interesting book having a lot of adventures As Brittany and Alex become closer, they start to let each other into one another world. Brittany meets Alex's family and finds out that he is the provider. 9/10/13 She finds out that he is not the bad guy that everyone thinks he is. Alex finds out that Brittany's life is not perfect. If anything it is far from it. She has a mom who judges everything she wears, an absent father, and a sister who is battling cerebral palsy. Brittany does not like that Alex is in a gang, and when Brittany and Alex become official Alex wants to leave the blood, not just for Brittany but for his family. The only way you can leave a gang is to be beaten and if you live then you are free. In this book you see the struggles the two face just to be together, and the extremes one would go through to be with the one they love. 9/11/13 When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry cla** on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for—her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more. In a pa**ionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.