It's hard to believe sometimes that we live in a world where wrongful prosecution befalls many different and innocent individuals all across the globe. Each day we live our secluded lives, there are more people forced into terrible situations across every expanse of continent. Gauntanamo Boy tells the tale of a 15-year-old boy, named Khalid, who is wrongfully accused of having ties to the terrorist cell Al Qaeda. Khalid is a British teenager, also of Asian descent, who travels to Pakistan during a time of grief to attend a family funeral and eventually ends up jailed within the walls of Guantanamo...

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I love children's books. I'm an adult now, but I never get tired of reading books for children. It makes me believe in hope and dreams and fantasy. 1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it was so easy to sympathize with Charlie Bucket. All of us have gone through our share of hard times. And all of us have our own dreams we want to come true. Charlie Bucket exemplifies this dream so well. It's a great book especially when you're having a not so good day, and you just want to feel better. And it's...

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At Ford's Theatre in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. What followed shortly after was one of the greatest manhunts in the history of the United States. Not many know that Booth had an excellent escape plan and that he came very close to escaping authorities. Booth was chased across Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia through swamps and rivers alike. James Swanson, expert of all things Abraham Lincoln, has written a story that describes in pure detail for those with short, and not so short, attention spans the entire account of Lincoln's assassination. This book describes, under Swanson's...

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