In The Familiars, Aldwyn, an ordinary alley cat, was getting chased by a bounty hunter. He jumps into a shop’s window, and finds the most extraordinary creatures. Jumping into an empty cage because he heard people coming, he found himself in a shop with magical creatures. When the people enter, it was a young boy, an older bald man, and another old man. The kid starts to look around, to find his companion, other wise known as a familiar. Then finally, he come across  Aldwyn’s cage, and picked him. Once they get to the kid’s, Jack’s, house, he finds a blue jay named Skylar, and a tree frog named Gilbert. Both of them have powers, and Aldwyn has none. He wonders how he’ll fit in, and he tries to act like he knows everything they’re talking about, but has no clue what any of that stuff means. When still trying to fit in, Jack, Skylar and Gilbert’s loyals, Marianne and Dalton, get taken away from them, by the queen. And not only do they have to solve why the queen did that, but they also have to find out a way to get there loyals back.

The Familiars has changed me by making me realize that you can be any size to do something big, like Aldwyn, Skylar, and Gilbert did. It also taught me how important it is to have friends you can rely on, because if Aldwyn didn’t have Skylar or Gilbert with him, he couldn’t have completed his quest alone, neither could Skylar or Gilbert complete the quest alone, because they each knew different things to help each other overcome each obstacle that was blocking their path to get to there loyals. And, for the loyals, since they had reliable familiars, they could count on them to rescue them. This is how The Familiars have changed me as a human.   

Harry´s parents were killed when he was one years old. Having to go live with the Dursleys, his only living relatives, he had to live in a closet under the stairs for most of his life. His parents were supposedly killed in a car crash where Harry got his lightning shaped scar. Everything changes when, after several attempts, he finds out he’s a wizard, and he gets to go to Hogwarts, a school for witches and wizards, which will change his life forever.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has taught me that having good friends that you can trust can be more important than being smart and acing every class you take. Without Ron and Hermione, I don’t think Harry would´ve lived or even been on any of his adventures. Also, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone  has taught me not to take my family for granted, because Harry’s parents had died when he was one years old when he couldn’t even remember them, and since I still have both of my parents, I should be grateful that they’re still living.

         In Mockingbird, Caitlin, who is an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, loses her older brother, Devon. He had always helped her push through challenges. For example, he helped her figure out all the words and emotions that were confusing to her. Now, with Devon gone, she has to figure out the world alone, since her Dad isn’t really helping her. When she reads the definition of closure in her dictionary, she wants to find out how to get to closure. On her journey to get to closure, Caitlin learns things that will change the way she sees her life forever.

          Meeting Caitlin made me realize that there really is no such thing as being “weird” or “normal”, it’s just how people’s perspective affect them to see the world in different ways. I feel that there is no such thing as being normal because, if we were all normal, we wouldn’t have created what we have in the world today, because we would all think the same, and have no way of creating other things. I have also learned that there is also no such thing as being weird, because even though we’re different and we think and act differently from each other, we are each our own person, and we all do different things from each other. These are some of the ways Mockingbird has changed me as a human.