The book  that I read is called ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. The book is a comedy that takes place in New York.  The book is about a boy called Holden who goes to school with his friends and shares a room with his friend called Stradlater. On one of the days before his holidays his friend Stradlater asked him to do his homework.  Stradlater asked him to write a descriptive paragraph.  He wrote a paragraph about  his brother's baseball glove with poems on it.  Stradlater was fighting with him because he asked him to write it about a house.  Stradlater hit him and his nose was bleeding.  They had a falling out and he went to New York on his own and his journey begins....

The main characters are Holden, Ackley and Stradlater.  The strengths are the humour  in the story because  Holden is funny at some parts of the book.  The story is sad when Holden said that his brother Allie died of leukemia when he was young.  Holden said that there were poems on his brother's baseball glove and he said that he was smart.  The relationships were believable.  The book was interesting and there were some elements of suspense.  The language was friendly and the descriptions were believable because they could form pictures for some people that helped you to understand the story.

I would give the book to teenager because it is funny and some teenagers can relate to some of the characters because they are in the same age group with some life experiences. 

 Megan Douglas