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Cover of The Big Wave The Big Wave  is a fictional book by Pearl S. Buck, an American novelist. Before we dive into the story, a bit about the author. Ms. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. She was also awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1932 for her book  The Good Earth . I’ll quickly explain the setup and the main conflict of the novel. It is about a boy named Kino, who lives on an island in Japan, which is between a volcano and the ocean. His parents are farmers, and they own land on a hill. Kino has no worries in life, as he wakes up to a beautiful view of the ocean, and goes to play for most of the day.  He loves to run on the beach and swim near the ocean. One day he meets a boy named Jiya. Jiya’s father is a fisherman, and he says that the ocean is an enemy. Kino is flabbergasted by this, as he finds the ocean beautiful, and odd that of all people saying the ocean is their enemy, it is a fisherman. Kino and Jiya become friends, and spend m

  Passenger by Alexandra Bracken Book Review   Passenger follows Etta, from the 20th century, and Nicholas, from the 18th century, on a journey to retrieve a hidden object that has the potential to change the world as it is. Etta ,under the threat of losing her mother, and Nicholas, under a deal with one of the war waging families. These two travel together throughout different time periods and solve the riddles and clues left behind to reach their objective.     My first thought of this book was that it involved time travel, so it would surely be an interesting read. It for sure was cool to see the characters travel through historical time periods and interact with their environment. One of their destinations I especially enjoyed reading about was the medieval Damascus. The author introduces the culture a bit within this time period and place such as dressing the characters with cultural attire. It was an interesting way of fusing something the reader might recognize  with the charact