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Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an excellent book for mid-level readers with an active imagination. Similar to shows such as Lost, it includes high tension action scenes, brutal murders, and survival situations. However, it is also for thoughtful readers who are interested in the dynamics between social groups, methods of leadership, and the individual's struggle to overcome their own evil instincts.
The book opens when a group of boys are stranded on an island. They initially start out by electing Ralph as their leader. Level headed and prone to fairness, Ralph seems like a logical choice; however, Jack also wants to be leader. By asserting his animal like nature, Jack emerges as a ruthless and violent individual, who the boys turn to because he is both more fun and more dangerous than Ralph. A conflict arises between Ralph and Jack as both fight for the loyalty of the other boys.
Spoiler Alert: (Since we are all going to be reading this book together, I am not going to include a spoiler)
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-Ohana
Killers of the Dawn by, Darren Shan is a fast paced fantasy book about Darren Shans quest to kill the vampaneze lord. Horror fan will love this book terrifying book. This book will also appeal to fans of any other of Darren Shans series. This book is best suited for teen readers who love fast paced action and horror books.
ReplyDeleteDarren Shan is a teenage boy turned half vampire. During his quest he has to kill the Vampaneze Lord he encounters many challenges. One of these being mistaken as killers by the police. He then has the added challenge of having to evade the vampaneze army and the police. After evading the police he enters the underworld were he and his companions face the fight of their lives battling the vampaneze army.
Spoiler Alert: Mr. Crepsly dies during the battle. It is revealed that Steve is the Vampaneze Lord and he escaped during the battle.
Chance Tiner
Revenge of the Shadow King by Derek Benz, J.S. Lewis is a Fantasy/Science fiction book with many twists and unexpected turns. This book contains, Wars, Friendship, Magical creatures, and much more. The people who would love to read this book would most likely be from the ages 13-21. This book has a somewhat high reading level, there are many words that will challenge your reading skills.
ReplyDeleteIn Revenge of the Shadow King the character, Max, must face a choice of war between worlds or staying a normal kid. The magical creatures from a magical book help him and his friends fight the evil Shadow King. The game Round Table is what starts it all. In the end the war is dealt with and the four friends go back to being normal, for now.
At First Sight by : Nicholas Sparks
ReplyDeletethe most interesting and compelling part of the book is when Jeremy and Lexie finally get past all there fears and lies and really truly love and trust each other. they go through so many lies and back stabbing of friends and suspicion of people around them that once they finally get past all that its sort of a relief.
the basic plot of this story is Lexie finds out she is pregnant with Jeremy's child. they have only been seeing each other for a year but since Lexie is a religious woman who comes from a small town she feels she needs to get married and move in with Jeremy in her hometown so she has not committed any sins and Jeremy respects her ways so he goes forth and gets a house with her. during the beginning part of there engagement they both experiences suspicion about each other like for example Jeremy was getting suspicious emails saying : ARE YOU SURE THE BABY IS YOURS. and he knows he is sterile so he grows to think Lexie is having an affair. him and Lexie get into a series of arguments but then finally come across to let it all go and they finally break out and tell the truth Lexie tells him "its your baby, i would like to look at you and know that i love you and this is your baby i have never cheated on you" Jeremy responds "i know".
spoiler: the ending of this story is Lexie dies due from child birth and the baby is named Clair after Lexie's mother. Jeremy raises the baby on his own and stays being a writer for a new york city column called The Scientific American.
-LORELEI CROSTHWAITE A3
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales is by Edgar Allan Poe. This Book is a book for a reader who likes stories that are both Thrilling and Horrifying at the same time. Edgar Allan Poe's stories are stories that will leave having nightmares for nights and nights. One of his famous stories is "The Tell Tale Heart". In this story, A troubled Young man living in a house owned by and elderly man gets really
ReplyDeleteparanoid with this old man. He explains that at nights he can hear the beating hear of the elderly man as he sleeps. when he gets to the point where he can't take it any longer, he decides to kill the elderly man in his sleep to end the disturbing noise. A while after he disposes of the body under the floorboards of the house, officers come to the house to ask him a few questions. He feels nervous and as he is talking to the other men, he begins to hear the sound of the dead mans beating heart. It gets louder and louder and LOUDER!
SPOILER: Finally, The man confesses to the officers that the noise is unbearable, and that the old man is underneath the floorboard Dead.
-Jose Picazo
The book "That Summer" by Sarah Dessen is a great book for teenagers to read. It is more of a book that teenage girls would gravitate towards. I found it to be an easy read. Other Sarah Dessen books are similar to this because they are about teenagers and there struggles. It is about a teenage girl named Haven. This book shows some of the struggles she is going through like how her mom and dad split up, and he is getting remarried soon. She is keeping in all her emotions about everything going on to herself and not properly dealing with them. Spoiler alert in the end she runs away for the day because she didn't know how to handle the problems going on.
ReplyDelete-Samantha DeCoster
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
ReplyDeleteBY TIM O'BRIEN
The Things They Carried was a great book by Tim O'Brien. It was about love, good laughs, friendship, and most importantly the war in Vietnam. If those sound good to you then I one-hundred percent recommend this book. In this book, there is a man named Lieutenant Jimmy Cross who is very much in love with this young girl from the United States. He is a younger man, about the age of 21, and he has great leadership skills. His main problem is that he cannot get the girl of his dreams, Martha, out of his head. He blames himself for the death of a man named Ted Lavender, because while he was being shot by a sniper, all Jimmy could think about was Martha. He later forgave himself but he still regrets how he thought of Martha during the entire war. The ending is pretty dramatic because it ends with the narrator dreaming about his times in Vietnam and explaining how he is 43 years old, healthy, and has a family and how lucky he is that he did not die during the war and how happy he is that he made every decision he did. He also is remembering how much he cared and still cares about the men he served with in Vietnam and built life-long friendships.
By Jerry Walker
In the book, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret", written by Brian Selznick, Hugo, the main character is a mysterious family-less boy who lives in the dark walls of a train station. This book is perfect for those of you who like mystery-adventure books. It is filled with strange stories and mysteries of a non-fictional man named Georges Meleis. It takes place in Paris in 1931 inside a busy train station in which Hugo lives in. This book is a somewhat easy read for people who often read. The book begins in the train station with Hugo. He is the timekeeper of the station, meaning he takes care of and winds all the clocks every day. Nobody knows that he is not accompanied by an adult, so he is doing his best not to get caught. The toy booth keeper, Georges Meleis, is a grouchy old man who is accompanied by his goddaughter most of the time in the station, and together they discover Hugo and his secrets. They find that the mechanical man that Hugo's father found in the museum he used to work in before he died that Hugo has dedicated his life to fix, was created by Georges Meleis. And when this is discovered, all secrets are let loose and change Hugo's life forever. Georges' secret past was uncovered to be a magician, and that's when he made the mechanical man. After he was a magician, he used his skill with small mechanisms and parts to make a movie camera, and started making movies that nobody has ever seen before. His movies are scenes you would only see in a dream. After Hugo was discovered, he was taken in by Georges and his wife, then later became a magician himself.
ReplyDeleteAustin Koenig
EFREN CASTILLO
ReplyDeleteThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a very good book because it is about a teenager that is a greaser that is also a good boy. the message of this book is to not judge a person by their looks. that is the message because he is a greaser but a good person in the inside.there is a movie for this book and is is exactly the same as the book it isnt a movie that get changed. ponyboy and his friend johnny get in volved with soc's and one night they kill one of the soc's. they resolve this problem by running away. SPOILER: johnny and ponyboy see the church where they were hiding and it is on fire so they go see what happened and hear little kids in there screaming so they go in and help them and johnny get burned and they go to the hospital.
Wide Open by Jermey Mcgrath is a very good book any kind of reader with the skill to read long chapters. this book shows a lot of action and his whole life and what he had to go through.
ReplyDeleteThis book is great for kids that like motorcycles and like to hear about a famous riders life as a kid and when he was turning pro. Jermey Mcgrath is the first to ever be the champion as a rookie. He also is the only one to turn pro as a privater.
In the middle of the book he starts to get a little help by Mitch Payton for pro circuit suspension. Mitch Payton was in a wheel chair when he was young by getting in very bad crash. Jermey Mcgrath was getting used bikes for fifty bucks because he did not have any money.
Spoiler Alert(Jermey Mcgrath finally got a factory ride and started to win a lot and he rode for peak Honda racing.)
the great sky river by Gregory Benford; is a action packed sci-fi fantasy, that is great for people that are also fans of enders game. the main character kileen is traveling in a "family" of survivors that a in suits that help them run away from the mechs. Mechs are mechanical things that also use organic human parts. the mechs have the goal of turning the planet snowglade into a barren cold waste land where mechs thrive. kileen must find a way to save the family and other humans they incounter. there are mechs that help the humans, one of them is the mantis, which harvest humans and makes them into a bizarre form of art, and thinks it will keep the human race alive.
ReplyDeletespoiler alert: in the end kileen and some of the family find the original ship that brought the humans to snowglade. they repair the ship and fly away from the planet.
-Joe dyer
-A3
"Stolen" by Lucy Christopher is a book pretty much based on a letter that Gemma write to Ty. The letter is about all the time that Gemma spend with Ty when she "stole" her away from the world, her life and took her to the middle of and Australian dessert.And how she felt about him.This book is very good for people that like mystery and lot of suspense. Also for the people that would like to find out how it feels to be kidnapped and taken to the middle of no where. The story started of as how Gemma is at the airport with her parent and she meets a very handsome young men, Ty, and how he buys her a cup of coffee and drugs it an takes her to a unknown place in the middle of a dessert.
ReplyDelete*spoiler* Like 4 months pass and Gemma is outside and get bitten by a snake and Ty know that he has to take her to a hospital or Gemma would die. Taking Gemma to the hospital means giving her up and never seeing her again. So he takes her to the hospital and gives his self in at the police. -Sidny Escobar
The book "Breathless" by Jessica Warman is a beautiful and compelling book written for young adults. Breathless includes topics that so many teens can relate too; well... maybe not the fact that the main character gets sent away to a boarding school because her brother is trying to kill her, but other than that, it is a very relevant book for teens. As you turn through the pages, you soak up the feelings and emotions the characters are expressing. By the second chapter I already felt like I was a student at Woodsdale Private High School. The book explores new levels of how a mental illness can affect a family.
ReplyDeleteThe book opens in a very dramatic scene: Katie Kitrell, a 15 year-old girl who lives in a small town in Illinois with her mom, dad and occasionally her brother, is being pushed aside by paramedics while they are trying to reach her brother who is sitting on the swing set in their neighbors back yard. Will, Katie's older brother, had self-inflicted cuts all over his arms and was covered in blood. Katie's parents were crying, and the neighbors where shrieking at the sight and rushing their children back inside. Katie on the other hand, had no idea how to react. The ambulance took off before Katie had the chance to say goodbye to her brother; she really thought she would never see him again. Everything changed after that night. Katie's brother survives that night but is sent to a home for Schizophrenic boys. Katie's parents send her to a boarding school where she will be away from the trauma of her brother and this way she can focus more on her passion: swimming. Katie's new life is far from what she is used too. Wanting to leave her past behind, Katie tells everyone that her brother died that night in her neighbors backyard.
In "breathless", Jessica Warman describes how lying about your past can affect your future.
Spoiler Alert: Katie makes many friends at Woodsdale and actually becomes popular. At the end of her senior year she is looking back and is actually proud of the fact that she has managed to keep a secret this whole time, but then, out of no where, one of her "friends" Estella, tells everybody about how her brother is actually alive. She also explains how not only is he alive and crazy, but in a jail because he killed his doctor.
- Juliana Bontrager A3
Ranger's Apprentice
ReplyDeleteBy: John Flanagan
If you like action and adventure this is the book for you. This book is filled with the secrets of the rangers. Also with deadly mythical creatures.
This book is about a smaller boy named Will. He had always wanted to be a warrior. But he was chosen to be an rangers apperentice. this is about his adventures
by kevin fields
Jorge e o Dragao Dourado, by Marcelo Ribeiro Dos Santos, is a book you will probably never read since its a advanced science fiction Portuguese book. The book talks about the corruption in some of Brazil's systems and the illegal wood cutting in the forests of Brazil. It tells the story through the eye of Jorge, a biologist who recently graduated college, and he injects wolf DNA in him which gives him some wolf characteristics which helps him get out of troubling and violent situations which could have gotten him killed.
ReplyDelete(Spoiler - A lot of people become werewolves and cities are segregated from the outside world were werewolves lurk.)
CITY OF EMBER BY JEANNE DUPRAU is an intense, but pleasure book for all ages. This book includes suspenseful moments while bringing you into the book itself. The attention-grabbing scenes make you want to read more. Some hardships for the characters in the book include the need of finding a new home, solving riddles and expelling their leader. Lina Mayfleet, the main character of the book experiences the death of her mom, dad and grandma. She also discovers instructions for how to find a new city. The instructions lead her to new questions and reveal dark secrets. Solving the riddle was hard enough, but having the courage to follow them was a different challenge for Lina.
ReplyDeleteSPOILER- Lina discovers the new city with the help of her friend Doon and her younger sister Poppy.
Jade Barde
ENCHANTRESS FROM THE STARS by:Sylvia Engdahl
ReplyDeleteThis book is about an Enchantress (Elana) who sneaks on a majestic spaceship to the unknown land of Adrecia. Adrecia is crawling with andrecians, beauty and hope. Elana has to learn the ways of adrecia before the evil dragon destroys every thing in its path. While doing this, Elana meets a handsome young man that she is to help him help her with her quest. She spends much time with him in order to help say the planet of Adrecia. Elana isnt from Adrecia, she just snuck on her fathers spaceship to have a little adventure; but what she didn't know was how hard life on Adrecia is. Spoiler alert: They fall in love.
Melissa Thomas
A4
The Truth About Forever: By Sarah Dessen
ReplyDeleteThe Truth About Forever, is a story about girl named Macy. She has to face the real world when her father dies of a heart attack when she is 12. Now a teen, she is faced with the horrible nightmares and thoughts of her fathers death. She puts up a complete wall to the outside world, and wants everyone to think nothings wrong with the girl who's father died. She doesn't want to be known as "that girl" and the sorry's from so many people.
Macy doesn't understand life, and why its so cruel. After her boyfriend Jason dumps her over e-mail she doesn't know what to do, until she meets Wes. An artist who has had similar fights in life with loosing someone he loves. Hes the total opposite of what she is looking for in a guy. Hes not on the Honor roll, hes been arrested, hes an artist, and he works as a caterer. but she sees something in him that makes her smile, and get butterflies. She tries to fight it but she keeps coming back to the same thought. Wes.
SPOILER!! : When Macy is faced with choosing between her busy, never has time, mother or The artist called Wes, her choice is not as easy as she thought it would be.
Perfect Chemistry By:Simone Elkeles
ReplyDeleteThe most compelling part of this book is how people judge some one just by looking at their appearance,the way they talk, and look at you.Someone that would read this is someone that likes romance and some adventure.
In this book a Norteño named Alex is forced to be lab partners with the beautiful and perfect Brittany. At first they had different aspects of how each others lives were. Alex thought Brittany was perfect in every way, but in reality she has a hard life and had to live up to every ones expectations. Brittany thinks Alex is just a Gangster that does drugs and kills rival gang members, but what she doesn't know is that he is in that Gang to protect his family and be the man of the house. All in all they end up getting to know each other and fall in love. (Spoiler) The book ends by Alex and Brittany have a child 16 years later. His name is Paco he has blue eyes like his mom,and jet black hair like his dad.
-Grecia M((:
Eat me by Linda Jaivin
ReplyDeleteEat me is a story about 4 best friends that meet up to hang out, sip wine, and talk about their most dirtiest secrets. Little do the girls know is that one of the friends, Philippa, is taking in all the stories and writing a story of her own in her new book she is trying to publish. Through out the book theirs everything from world travel, love triangles, and real life problems. You also get incite on how women really talk and think about men.
Through out the book, Philippa is re-writing her book, editing it, and sending it to multiply publishes just trying to get it published. As that stress is happening, she is also trying to figure out how she feels about her love triangle with a man, and doesn't know where he relationship stands with her other mistress. she also has to hear her friends problems/positive things in their life while trying to hide a secret from one of them. Chantel is a fashion magazine editor who isn't afraid to speak the truth, but she has a big heart and cares deeply about he friends. Spoiler Alert: In the end, Philippa gets her book published, ends her love triangle, keeps the secret from her friend, and is devoted to her mistress.
Carmen Wolf
Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins, is a great book for any age that has read the hunger games or enjoys dystopian societal stories. This book is full of high action death scenes, romance, and emotional hardships. I would also recommend this to adults, even though it is a young adult book, because it brings up subjects that most young people can't quite comprehend.
ReplyDeleteThe main character, Katniss Everdeen, is the face of the rebellion, and although she is against the capital and the capital's leader (President Snow), she finds out that she is also against the rebel leader (President Coin). This book makes for a great read, as well as being read many times!
SPOILER ALERT: Katniss kills President Coin, her sister dies, and she ends up with Peeta Mellark.
-Abby Olmstead
SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson
ReplyDeleteThis book is about a girl going into freshman year of high school. Something happened over the summer and she lost all her friends. Her parents don't really know about it. This book shows her struggling to become friends again with her old ones and being a teenage outcast.
Anyone who likes to read about an outcast in high school can read this. The reading level is average. There is a movie based on the book starring Kristen Stewart.
The main character Melinda goes into high school as an outcast and no one likes her. Only one person takes the time to get to know her but she is a new student. Her parents are fighting and don't know anything about Melinda's problem but are upset at her failing classes.
SPOILER ALERT:
Melinda went to a summer party and called the cops because she had been raped by her best friends boyfriend. No one knew she was being raped only that she called the cops. That's why everyone hates her.
Olivia A. A4
Dharma Punx by Noah Levine is the book of a young man who is desperately trying to find who he is through his addiction to drugs. This book is excellent for readers who love true stories and the hardships of a teen growing up and breaking an addiction.
ReplyDeleteThe book starts of in the city of Santa Cruz, California. Noah is a young boy who starts doing drugs with a friend who would become his best friend, Toby. throughout the book Noah gets into all sorts of problems with the law due to his addiction, he struggles to break it after realizing drugs are no help. Noah sets off on a journey that will eventually lead him to become a spiritual teacher.
Spoiler alert: Noah's best childhood friend Toby dies of a drug overdose, he had a child no older than three. Noah goes off to become a famous spiritual teacher.
-Elohim Gonzalez A4
It Begins
ReplyDeleteThis book is filled with suspenseful scenes. It'll have shivers going up your spine, wondering what's going to happen next. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good thriller, that keeps you on your toes. This book is not at a hard level.
When you read the first chapter of this book you'll be drawn in immediately, it starts out during a storm in the middle of the night where Lucy ends up. Lucy just moved in with her aunt and cousin after her mother passed away. She wonders into this cemetery and notices something weird on a grave. Its a girl who's not dead, Lucy freaks out and tell her she'll be back with help, but the girl refuses and tells her to promise not to and grabs her wrist, Lucy feels a burning sensation going through her. Later on Lucy finds out this girl has a brother thats in her class named Byron, they set out to really happen what happend to his sister and why Lucy has the feeling that she is always being watched, follwed, and having visions. This a 4-part story so you'll have to read all 4.
SPOILER: In the end on part 1 Lucy, and Bryon are in a horrible accident and Byron dies.
-Karen Ariceaga
Reading check 4,by Oliver/October 5th 2011
ReplyDeleteI finished two books during the independent reading phase:"Op-center, War of Eagles" and "The Hunt for Red October". Both are from the same author,Tom Clancy.These books are excellent for high-level readers who likes political thrillers and stories about the cold war.There are many similar books from the same author.Most of them plays during the cold war and include both points of view from the nations who "fight" this war: the United States and the USSR.The main topic of the first book is to prevent a military putsch from a high ranked officer of the Chinese military.His main goal is to start a war to expand the territory of China by attacking Taiwan and other neighbors,and make China to the most powerful country in the world.The main character is Paul Hood,an political bureaucrat.In this story he turn into a field agent and prevent the plan of General Tam Li.
Kiss and Blog by Alyson Noel is a quick read book for mid-level readers. It captures you in a way that you lose track of time, and get deep into the book. It's written in a way that you can clearly picture the situations that are being explained.
ReplyDeleteThe book starts off introducing the main character Winter, and explaining the relationship with her best friend Sloane. They have a goal to become popular for their sophomore, and whoever reaches this status first would bring the other along. But throughout the process, Sloane forgets all about Winter and begins to ignore her existence. Winter begins to have a melt-down, both at home and in school, and later starts an anonymous blog revealing all of her ex-best friends secrets, while at the same time she begins to run with a new crowd, although her anger towards Sloane still remained.
Spoiler*: At a final party her "new & improved" throws, Sloane confronts Winter about the blog, and Winter ends up with Rey, the boy she has denied to like, but really did.
The End (:
-Vanessa Santos
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishoguro is a very mysterious and interesting book. It goes very deep, and many different incidents that all add up in to make sense in the end. It definitely is one of those books that you may need to read twice to fully understand what is going on. You are left with so many questions in the begging that get answered in the end. The length of the book is perfect for someone who wants a little entertainment, but not a full blown storyline.
ReplyDeleteNever Let Me Go is about three main characters, Kathy, Tommy, and their life as students from Hailsham. Hailsham is a very mysterious school. Many questions that they had as children were not answered. They search for the answers when they are older and find out some shocking news.
Spoiler: Kathy becomes a carer, and cares for Tommy and Ruth. Ruth eventually dies, and so does Tommy. Kathy one of the few people from hailsham that is still alive, shares her experiences with other donors
Reading Check 4
ReplyDeleteI finished 2 books during the independent reading section.The first one was "Op-Center:War of Eagles" and the second one was "The hunt for red October". Both are from Tom Clancy.These books are perfect for high level readers who like books about the cold war or political thriller.The book "The hunt for red October" is a famous movie with Sean Connery as Captain Ramius,too.
"Op-Center:War of Eagles" is about a political bureaucrat from Washington who prevents a putsch in China from a Chinese General named Tam Li.This man plan to expand China to make it to the biggest,richest,most advanced and most powerful country on the earth.But Paul Hood,the bureaucrat from Washington prevents the plan from Tam Li and save the world for dictatur and war.
"The hunt for red October" is about a Soviet missile sub who wants to deflect to the US.It plays during the cold war between America and The USSR in its last ten years.Maybe1982.The Russians send their fleet to sank red October and his crew.But Washington send their own fleet to protect red October and his deflect willing Officers.They used a trick to bring red October save to Norfolk.But before the sub were save they had to fight against an enemy agent,sabotage,their home country fleet and another Soviet sub.Red October defeat all these enemies and dive save to Norfolk.
The book "The Sea Of Monsters" by Rick Riordan is an amazing book for people that love fantasy and mythology. Its actually a quite easy book to read and understand. The main characters go through many challenges and many hard decisions. So the book starts off with Percy getting a message from Grover, his sayter friend who sends him a distress call saying that he is in trouble. Knowing this Percy went to school with his friend tyson, and was attacked. After the attack his friend Annabeth came, and together they traveled to camp halfblood where they found the camp under attack by gigantic bronze fire breathing elephants made by Hephaestus himself. Then he finds out that the only reason that the elephants were able to attack the camp was because Thalias tree (the camps protection) was poisoned by a halfblood named Luke. After that, he ran away from camp with Annabeth and Tyson to go save his friend Grover, and to get the golden fleece, the only object that would be able to heal the Thalia's tree and save camp. Spoiler alert: they get the fleece, save the camp and Thalia comes back.
ReplyDeleteJoEy ErEcE
A3
The novel Mocking jay by Suzanne Collins is the last book in the hunger games trilogy, and it is a great book for mid level readers. this book is full of excitement, action, and twists and turns at some points in the book i couldn't even believe what i was reading. if you like the previous books you should enjoy this one, its a bit more political then the last ones, but still a good read. this book is about katniss a teenage girl who was in the hunger games, which a tournament that the capitol holds for the districts. it basically chooses one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death.now katniss is in district 13 with her mom, sister and gale and the capitol has peeta captured. district 12 has been bombed and the survivors moved to district 13 which is a underground city. katniss is depressed from all of the war and loss she has experienced but finally agrees to be the mocking jay which is the face of the rebel army. they eventualy get peeta back only to discover that he has been hijacked. they put tracker jacker venom in him while bringing up memories of katniss so now peeta hates her. katniss and gale have a relationship going but its weird because gale loves katniss but katniss isn't sure since gale is making all of these harsh war decisions that she isn't very fond of. near the end of the war peeta, katniss, gale and finnick are in a group when they are suddenly forced to runaway from an attack of pods that the capital sent for them.
ReplyDelete*SPOILER ALERT*
eventually after finnicks death we find our heroes hiding in the capitol trying to kill president snow, when a bomb goes off killing a bunch of children including primm (Katniss,s sister)
every one is so up in arms about this that they sent president snow to be executed. katniss was snows executioner. when she was about to kill snow he said he didn't set those bombs but katniss killed him out of anger anyway then she realizes that the bombs were in a tactical order that coin was practicing and she realized that coin killed the kids to the the civilians of his side
after realizing this katniss kills coin and gets sent to jail. she finally goes back to district 12 along with haymitch and peeta (who is better now) and katniss and peeta get married and have kids THE END! -Tyrus Borkowski
"The Host" By Stephanie Meyer is an science fiction/Romance kind of book. This is a really good book for people who enjoy science fiction romance and even a bit of drama. Its a book for the average reader and fairly easy to understand. The main characters in this novel are Melanie (the host) and Wanda, they both are the same character that's the main part in this book. Wanda is an intruder in Melanie's body she and other creatures have taken over humans bodies in order to start a new life on earth. But when Wanda is first inserted into Melanie's body things go wrong! Melanie is still part of her body now both Wanda and Melanie share their thoughts and feelings. Wanda fearing this stays quite and doesn't tell the others since they would want to get rid of her. As time goes by Wanda gets to now Melanie and the struggles she's been through to stay alive for so long. Finally Wanda wants to help Melanie find her brother and boy fiend which she's lost in this period of time. Soon they are in search of them and find a group of humans who now at sight that the person they see is an intruder into their earth and keep Wanda hostage,Melanie speaking only through thoughts loses all hope in finding her brother and love of her life. But Wanda then befriends the humans and stays with them in their secret cavern there she finds Jared Melanie's boyfriend whom she also loves by the thoughts Melanie has shared with her she fell in love with a stranger now both in love with the same boy. Jared when see's Wanda wants to destroy her without knowing Melanie still lives in her. Jared accepts her later knowing Mel is in there with Wanda, Ian comes in the picture as Wanda's enemy whom she befriends and ends up falling in love with. *SPOILER* Wanda sacrifices herself so Melanie and Jared be happy.Doc a well known doctor who takes Wanda out of Melanie's body and puts Wanda in a special sealed box so she stays alive. Melanie then finds a body for Wanda to be in a ends up happily with Ian. THE END. Diana Garcia Luna A4
ReplyDeleteIn the book The Traitor Game B.R Collins writes about two exciting worlds. If you like action then this is the book for you. It talks about everyday problems such as homosexuality, distrust, revenge, bullying, and so much more. The story takes place in two worlds. Ours, and Evgard. Evgard being the made up world that Michael, a wimpy scared bullied kid made up. After his mom introduces him to Fracis, a cool guy they begin to get along. Eventually Francis finds out about Evgard and plays along. He and Michael both contribute to making it better by drawing maps, making up new things and so on. Eventually once they are in high school Michael finds a mysterious note in his locker that reveals Evgard. Michael quickly assumes Francis had something to do with it. Does he confront Francis? No, instead he goes straight to the school bully shipley and tells him that Francis is gay. Now why would he do this is he already knows what bullying feels like? He instead acted on impulse and betrayed his best friend. Meanwhile in the other world Evgard, a similar problem is going on. Michael's equivalent, Argent a merish boy makes friends with one of his captors. Now he is faced with a decision to make, betray his friend and help his people.
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Impact zone by Todd Strasser is a great book for teens or anyone really to read. It is an inspiring book and contains a sport which is surfing. And it is for people who enjoy book in which a teens can make a change in there communities and how they can end some bulling. The level of reading for this book is about medium level reading.
ReplyDeleteThe plot of my book is that Lucas and his friends aren't letting anyone ride in there favorite surf spot. Kai challenged Lucas and his friends to a surf off. If Kai wins Lucas has to let anyone surf in there spot but, if Lucas wins Kai can no longer surf. Kai has another problem too because he works with his dad and can't practice so that also conflicts with the main plot.
SPOILER
Kai ends up beating lucas in surf off.
-Angelica Perez A4
Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty is a fascinating book for mid-level readers who enjoy adolescent fiction. This book describes perfectly the confusion and bitter sweet hope of being a teenager. It is written all in letter formation which gives you an actual feeling of being in the book with the rest of the characters. This book begins by describing a sophmore in high school named Elizabeth. Her life is pretty complicated; her best friend Celia keeps dissapering, her father who is always gone has recetly reappered, and the only way she speaks to her mother is through weird notes written on the fridge. Elizabeth's english teacher has assigned her a "pen-pal" and now a complete stranger knows more about Elizabeth than anyone else. Later in the book Elizabeth falls for a boy named Saxton but Celia, her bestfriend is to blind to realize it and swoops him away. Elizabeth looses both her crush and bestfriend.
ReplyDeleteSPOILER: Elizabeth finds out her step-brother is actually her biological brother, she falls in love with a boy who takes the same bus as her (Jared), her relationship with her mother gets better, and her new bestfriend becomes Christina (her pen pal).
--Vanessa Montesinos A4 :]
The Help by Katheryn Stockett is an inspirational yet informative novel that touches on the civil rights issues in Jackson Mississippi during the 1960's. Stockett paints a realistic picture of the situation that took place and makes a fiction book seem frighteningly real. Any one who wants to read a page-turner that can educate you on the situation of black maids during the 1960's should definitely read this book.
ReplyDeleteThe Help starts off by introducing 1 of the 3 main characters, Aibileen. Aibileen is a black maid who works for a white socialite and raises her daughter for her. The book then goes on to introduce the next main character, Minnie, who is a black maid that works for the most popular and most racist white woman in town. The third main character introduced is Miss Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan who is an educated and motivated young woman that wants to be an author that makes a difference. Throughout the book Aibileen, Skeeter, and Minnie work together to secretly go against the strict Jim Crow laws and write a tell all book about being working for white people in Jackson .
SPOILER ALERT:
In the end of the story Minnie, Aibileen, and Skeeter are successful in writing and publishing their book and don't get arrested, assaulted, or in any trouble at all. Even though most things go well for the characters in the end, the ending is not a perfect fairy tale ending which makes The Help seem all the more real.
BY MADDY MCDOUGALL
In the book the Outsiders by: S.E. HINTON it's good because it is a book about teenagers that is greaser and is also a good boy. The message of this book is to not judge a person by their looks. That is the message because he is a greaser but a good person in the inside. There is a movie for this book and is exactly the same as the book it isnt a movie that get changed. ponyboy and his friend johnny get in Volved with Soc's and one night they kill one of the Soc's. they resolve this problem by running away. SPOILER: johnny and Ponyboy see the church where they were hiding and it is on fire so they go see what happened and hear little kids in there screaming so they go in and help them and johnny get burned and they go to the hospital.
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The kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery NIxon is a great book for middle level readers also for those who like to read mystery and crime books. This book leaves you wondering after every chapter you read. Christina is a girl who goes to an all girls school named Madame Dejons. Christina wants to go to france with her class but her dad doesnt let her. She asks her grandmother for money because she is rich. The exciting part of the book starts when Christina goes over to Lornas house for a while. After she drives over to her house and as she gets out her car she gets kidnapped. Christina now doesn't know where she is, the time or what day it is. After a while days past, Christina hears the guy kidnapper that he has the money. The kidnapers made christina touch things around the house and shower. The girl kidnapper makes christina sit down in a couch
ReplyDeleteand watch tv. A couple minutes later the police comes and the lady kidnaper throws the gun to chrisitna. The police sees the gun in
chrisitnas lap and now they think christina is part of the plan to take her grandmothers money. hey take everbody to the police station but christinas grandmother doesnt press any charges so the investigation is over. Christina feels so sad that nobody believes that she was actually kidnapped and that she wasnt part of the robbery. A a guy named kelly visits her nd says he belives her. They want to make justice and prove everybody wrong so they try to make justice together.
SPOILER: havent finished the book.
-Jenny urbina
The book that i choose to read was The Afterlife by Gary Soto. Its about a 16 year old teenage boy named Jesus aka "Chuy". Chuy was killed in a club for teens inside a restroom. He was looking at his hair making sure he look good. While he was done fixing his hair. He saw a guy next to him. The boy next to him was wearing Yellow Shoes. Chuy complemented the guys shoes because they were Bright Yellow shoes . The guy tried to stabbed Chuy on the heart but the he missed, but then he aimed for lower side of the belly button and maniged to kill Jesus. The man that killed him was a teenage boy. The guy killed him for no reason! He just stabbed Jesus because he commented on his shoes. Chuy faces interesting things while he's a ghost. He see's his family face the consequence of his action and Chuy finds in himself compassion and bravery.
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