Q&A by Vikas Swarup

The inspiation for the acadamy award winning movie slumdog millionaire, this book is about a orphan boy named Ram Mohammed who lives up in the slums of poor india and as an eighteen year old goes on the show who wants to be a billionaire, and wins. Because at the time he is a waiter in a low class restaurant, people suspect him of cheating somehow and arrest him. In his defense, a lawyer is given to him and a story goes behind every question. From living under a priest, to a famous actress and a killer. Also he has experences such as almost being killed on a train and a bus, and loosing all his earnings on a train, to bartending and hearing some crazy stories. All in all, every question has a story in which it is an explanation for the correct answer. Along the way, he becomes best friends with a boy named Salim, and falls in love. Overall, I would certainly recommend this to anyone. It can relate to everyone in some way even though you and him live different lives. Thus, Q&A is a great story and inspiration to all.

A boy named "It"

This novel accounts the childhood and rare story of a young child named David Pelzer whose childhood is like none other. Being treated the same as his other brothers as a young boy, as he goes through elementary school his mom begins to torture him more and more. He gets no food, he must stay in the basement and sleep there, do all the chores in the house, and get beat up by his mom for doing nothing wrong. For a child just wanting tp survive, his mom things he is a waste of space and a waste of a person and wants to kill him. He is treated like an "it" and is a misfit. Even worse, his dad doesn't do anything about it and lets it happen. He gets his head plunged under the bath tub and it is forced to stay, he is trapped in a bathroom with ammonia in it, and he has to eat his own throw up. The reader starts to really feel horrible for the child and just wish she treats him like the rest of her sons. It becomes known to the school in the 5th grade that he is getting beaten and not fed, and eventually he is taken away from his mother and sent to a facility. I would not reccomend this book to people who are easily scared and cannot take injustice, but i do reccoumend this book to others who can because it is a great story and memoir of a rough life.