Blog by Aleya Williams
Period 1

before i fall
By Lauren Oliver

****
I gave this book 4 stars because as I was reading it I kept thinking about what was going to happen next. I wasn't able to put the book down for 1 minute!

Setting:
Connecticut is the state in which all four girls, Sam, Ally, Elody, and Lindsay, are from.

Main Characters:
The main characters are Samantha Kingston, Lindsay Edgecombe, Eldoy, and Ally.

About Samantha Kingston:
Sam is one of the first characters that comes first in this book. She is popular, has a crush-worthy boyfriend, and three amazing friends-Lindsay, Elody, and Ally.

About Lindsay Edgecombe:
Lindsay is Sam's best friend, who would do anything for her. She's kept all her secrets and even though she does things that she shouldn't be doing without getting caught, she is still a trust-worthy friend to Sam, Eldoy, and Ally.

About The Book:

• In the beginning of the story Sam is explaining about what she thinks about before she dies. She doesn't even think about her friends or her boyfriend. Instead, she thinks about some girl who she used to bully with her friend Lindsay. 
• Her friends come in later and Sam kind of explains each of them and what they are and how they met.
• Sam wakes up in her dreams and has the same dream again but it turns out a little differently each time.

Recommendations:

I would recommend this book to anyone who is 13+. I also recommend it for people who like high school drama and relationship disasters.

Ben Walker

Blog Requirements 

Novel Project

You need to create a blog about your second novel.  Your blog must include:

• Your name and period # Ben Walker  Period 4

• Title & Author of your novel "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

• A picture of the cover or a picture/illustration that represents your novel  
  

• A Rating a 1-5 stars and why you gave it that rating  ★★★   I have read this book before.

• (one being it was a terrible book and five being it was the best book ever)

• A description of main setting (describe the time period and location that the book takes place in)    Modern time, New York

• If there are a lot of settings, choose the main one or the one at the beginning of the book to focus on.

• Describe the main character(s)  Percy Jackson: son of Poseidon, Tyson: son of Poseidon, Annabeth: daughter of Athena

• If there are a lot of main characters, focus on three or less of them.

• Explain 3-5 plot events that place in the book that will intrigue others to want to read the book.    

• Don't explain the whole book!  Some people might want to read it for themselves.
• Don't give away the ending!  Some people might want to read it for themselves.
• Give enough information to make the plot make book make sense to someone who hasn't read it.

• Explain the main conflict of the book.

• What is the problem?  Thalia's Tree is dying
• Is it internal or external conflict?   External
• Don't give away how the problem gets solved! 

• Give a recommendation for the book

• Who would like it?   I don't know
• What genre is it?   Fiction
• What other books/movies/TV shows remind you of the book?  The Lightning Theif

•  Title your blog your name. 

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pop

Blog Jason Tester
  

Rating ****POP goes beyond being a good read for sports fans. Yes, there's a lot of football action -- the team deals with their conflicts while trying to remain undefeated for a second straight season -- but the action is nothing compared to the page-turning drama of Charlie and his secret.

Setting- Marcus, the new kid in town, wants to tryout for the undefeated high school football team in Pop, by Gordon Korman. While training by himself at a local park, he meets Charlie, a massive 50-something-year-old man with powerful football skills that he shares with Marcus. Estranged from the teammates who don’t want to accept an outsider, Marcus’s growing friendship with Charlie gives him a sense of belonging. But Marcus also begins to see that something about Charlie isn’t quite right. For an old guy, he’s a charismatic prankster who acts like a big kid, can’t remember Marcus’s name and runs away at the first sign of trouble. Then Marcus discovers that Charlie is actually a former NFL linebacker known as “The King of Pop.”When Marcus moves to a new town in the dead of summer, he doesn't know a soul. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with an older man. Charlie is a charismatic prankster—and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. He can't believe his good luck when he finds out that Charlie is actually Charlie Popovich, or "the King of Pop," as he had been nicknamed during his career as an NFL linebacker. But that's not all. There is a secret about Charlie that his family is desperate to hide.

Main Character- Marcus, is new in a town where the high school football team is legendary
Main plot events- Pop is an engaging, worthwhile, and touching read. Concussion-induced Alzheimer’s is central to the story, as main character Charlie, a fifty-four-year-old former NFL player suffers severe memory loss and confusion as a result of too many head injuries from football. The relationship between Charlie and Marcus is an unlikely and special one. Marcus takes Charlie on a trip against the wishes of Charlie’s family by lying and sneaking off, and Marcus gets in trouble with the law on several occasions. Underage drinking, a destructive and unsupervised teen party, and boy/girl drama amount to relatively normal teen behavior. It should be noted that this story ends tragically when Charlie falls to his death.

Recommendation- I would recommend this book if you like adventures and football NFL. I liked the book a lot. 

stuck in neutral

Stuck In Neutral

 

by Terry Truman

I would rate this book 3 out of 5 stars because it really didn't appeal much to me

Setting: Stuck in neutral takes place in seattle Washington, It usually varies from shawns home to the hospital.

Main Character: The main character in this book is a fourteen year old boy named Shawn McDaniel,  Shawn was born with a rare condition known as cerebral palsy, this makes it so that shawn is not allowed to control any of the muscles in his body, but his brain is fully functional

Main Plot Events: This book shows the point of view of shawn, while his brain is fully functional none of the rest of him is, and since there is no way for him to communicate, everyone thinks that shawn is braindead, but he actually is able to completely retain all memories and things that he has heard. he is even convinced that his own father is going to kill him out of love for him.

Main Conflict: the main conflict of this book is how shawn lives his life with cerebral palsy and how he copes with not being able to communicate, he is faced with many challenges that he can only think about to overcome.

I would recommend this book for anyone who likes humor, this book is very humorous with all of the thoughts going through this kids head.

Carlos Paz. Period 4

The long walk

By Stephen King 

Five stars: *****

settings:

 The setting takes place basically through the united states. walking the whole time and visiting a lot of cities.

Main Characters:

Ray is very athletic and does most school sports. Peter is very quiet and doesn't make a lot of friends other than Ray while hes walking. Stebbins is the most mysterious of them all and he tell quite a bit about his past through the book.  

main plot events: 

At the beginning of the story a boy named Ray is really stoked about joining the long walk he is the only one of his friends that had joined the long walk. the long walk is a game that is played once a year and it involves 100 teens to play. they basically walk for their lives. the last one revives a big reward. about halfway through the book ray is told a story by his new friend peter. he says that the last person to complete the long walk was cheered on once he won and he didn't make any reactions to what was around him. he just looked at the kid that he was contesting by and laid on him and started to cry. winning the long walk was not as good as he thought it would be. By then only 45 of the 100 people had died. Witch sucked for Ray because he had a lot more to walk. 

Conflicts:

 During the long walk Rays shoes started to fall apart and he becomes partially barefoot. Than he starts burning us and feels dizzy because he really wanted to.

Recommendation:

 i would recommend this book to whoever likes excitement in their story. this book kinda reminds me of the maze runner and the purge into one. Its great and really suspenseful. 

Blog By: Abby Ek
Period 4


One Last Wish
By: Lurlene McDaniel

5 star*****
I gave this book five stars because it felt like different things were always happening and i was never waiting for something interesting to happen. Things happened in this book that I could of never predicted. I really like how Lurlene give them a personality that I can understand through a book.

Setting:
It starts out in a hospital because she has cancer so she has to stay there for awhile.



Main Characters:
The main character is Sarah. 


Sarah:
She is 13 and has cancer for the second time and has to do cemo for at least a year. She has parents and a few siblings that help her through it but then eventually she figures out there not her real family. She was adopted when she was like 3 days old.



Main Plot Events: 
At the beginning of the story Sarah is in the hospital with cancer for the second time. The only thing she can do to get rid of it is to get a transplant. Then she figures out that shes adopted when she was 3 days old.



Conflicts:
The main conflict in this story is that she has cancer. There is another problem with her cancer because she needs a bone transplant but it has to be from one of her siblings. She figures out that she can't get it because that's not even her true family, she was adopted. 

Recommendations:
I recommend this book for anyone that likes sad stories. There usually not really long stories either so if you don't enjoy long books these ones would be perfect for you! 

Blog by Mary Dallum
Period 1

The Night She disappeared
by: April Henry



4 stars****
I gave this book 4 stars because it never got boring and the ending wasn't easy to predict.  



Setting:
This novel takes place at pets pizza place. Its a place in town where kids go a lot after school and lots of people go there to hang out and it gets even more packed when one of the workers get kidnapped.


Main Characters: 
The two main characters in this book are Kayla and Gabie they both work at Petes Pizza, and one day kayla asked Gabie if she wanted to traded shifts and kayla got kidnapped when she was on Gabies shift.

Kayla: Kayla is the kind of girl that is boy crazy, she is also very pretty and friendly.

Gabie: Gabie is a a very quit girl and doesn't talk much she doesn't have very many friends and she just likes to be by herself. 

Main plot events:

         At the beginning of the novel Kayla is working at Petes Pizza and she had planes for Friday so she asked Gabie if she would work for her on friday and Gabie said she would. Then the next day when kayla was working for Gabie a guy called in to get his pizza delivered to his house then kayla got the address and went to go bring the pizza and she was driving for a long time because he gave her the wrong address then she got kidnapped and was gone for a long time. A couple days later Gabie realized that the guy that kidnapped kayla was trying to get her because he thought Gabie worked that day but that traded shifts.   

Recommendations: 

I recommend this book for someone that likes mystery books and i think this is a book everyone would like to read.   

Jared Moultrie

 “I hunt killers” by Barry Lyga. 5 stars ***** for sure.

Setting Lobo’s nod Small town.

Antagonist Billy Dent(serial killer) and the Impressionist(copycat to Billy) .

Protagonist Jazz(also known as jasper and son to Billy Dent), Howie(has a medical issue called type-A hemophiliac), Connie(jazz's girlfriend), Sheriff(likes to get his work done as soon as possible), Grandma(mother to billy and grandma to jazz).

The theme for “ I Hunt Killers” by Barry Lyga is death. Billy Dent is a notorious serial killer. Billy Dent  killed thousands of people.  Billy  took his son when he was prospecting for the right person to kill. There's a website for all the people Billy  has killed and their stories. Billy Dent  was put in prison for his crimes. Billy  gets caught killing women. Billy escapes from prison. Billy kills the cop at his house that he grew up in. Tries to make his son his grandma but ends up failing but he escapes and goes into hiding. Always be kind to your neighbors and friends cause you don't know theirs or your future.

“I hunt killers” by Barry Lyga describes what life would be like if your dear old dad was a serial killer. Jazz helps the cops as much as possible. People close to Jazz end up dieing. Jazz tries to hunt his father down. Jazz will kill his dad when he finds him. It would be the first person Jazz would have killed.

“Under no circumstances are you to go near the Dent boy. Leave him alone. You are not to engage him. Jasper Dent is OFF LIMITS.”

“You won't even know you've crossed the line untils its way back in your rearview mirror.”

“He once said that I was already a Killer, I just hadn't killed anyone yet”

“Tell him that once I catch him…. I will.”

the perks of being a wallflower

Samantha Oxley-Seymour per.6



The perks of being a wallflower
 By Stephen Chbosky

4 stars ****
I would give this book 4 stars because its a really good book and never gets boring its also a really good treatment film.

setting- The setting takes place at a high school its all starts off with Charlie going to school and finding out his friend had killed himself. Charlie was having a hard time making friends until then he met "nothing,"
Main Characters-  The main Characters are Charlie, Sam, & Patrick

Charlie-  Charlie, is a 15 year old boy who just starting high school he just found out his best friend Michael had killed himself .Charlie feels left out of things and don't have any friends till he met a kid named "nothing" He directs the progression of the novel through the letters he writes to an unnamed "friend"; these letters describe Charlie's experiences in high school and at home.Charlie loves to read and often uses the framework of a classic novel to think and reflect upon his own life; he even hopes to become a writer at some point. His teacher Bill encourages him to develop these skills and repeatedly assigns Charlie extra books to read and additional writing exercises Charlie struggles with apparent mental illness throughout his letters.Charlie was sexually abused by his Aunt Helen when he was a child, but that he had internalized and concealed the abuse out of his love for her and as a result of his empathy for Aunt Helen's own problems as a child.

Sam- Sam, is a beautiful brown-haired, green-eyed girl who wins Charlie's affection from the first days of their friendship. She is the step-sister of Patrick and a close friend of Charlie's, and her conversations with Charlie both reveal information about Charlie's background and help Charlie to process and reflect upon his concerns. Sam assists Charlie in becoming more comfortable in his own skin, bringing him into her group of misfit and outcast friends, as well as encouraging him to participate more in society Charlie's fervent love for Sam, she is not interested in him at first: she believes she is too old for him, and she is also dating Craig, a young man who is beyond high school age. Yet Charlie has important insights on Sam and Craig's relationship, which falls apart when Craig is discovered cheating

Patrick- Patrick, at first introduced as "Nothing" from shop class, becomes one of Charlie's best friends. He is the flamboyant and extravagant step-brother of Sam. Patrick also helps Charlie feel more comfortable in high school and is always listening to him and giving him advice, whether regarding his family, the loss of his friend Michael Early in their relationship, Patrick and Charlie become closer friends when Patrick asks Charlie to keep a secret: Patrick is in a romantic relationship with Brad, the quarterback of the high school football team. Patrick and Brad have a violent fight at school, and Charlie comes to Patrick's defense, winning back the respect and admiration of his friends.

Main plot event-  
-Charlie has many flashbacks about his Aunt Helen and it makes his life very hard. He's labeled freak and weird, almost immediately in his freshman year. 
Charlie attends a school football. There he meets Sam and Patrick, who he at the time knew as 'Nothing'. Eventually, the three become the best of friends. Charlie also makes friends with Sam and Patrick's other friends, a group of wallflowers. A wallflower is a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance. Charlie fits right in with the group of seniors. The best part is that Charlie is finally happy and the flashbacks stop.It is around the same time that Charlie realizes he has quite the crush on the beautiful Sam. She tells Charlie that she's too old for him, and so he tries to move on and forget about his crush. Charlie eventually starts dating Mary Elizabeth, a very nice girl who helps out with a local play. Mary Elizabeth really loves Charlie, and she thinks Charlie feels the same. Though, he eventually comes to terms that he does not feel the same about her; he still has a thing for Sam.Later that month, the group is playing truth or dare. Charlie was dared to kiss the prettiest girl in the room. Everyone in the room was shocked when he kissed Sam. She tells Charlie to leave and not to come back until things cool down. Charlie loses his friends, and he loses his happiness. His flashbacks return and he starts to go downhill. Though Patrick still sort of hangs around, he misses all his friends. 

Conflicts-   The conflicts in this book are all evolved around charlie.He goes through some really typical problems any high schooler goes through and than some things not everyone experiences.He struggles to fit in at first because other kids though he was weird because his best friend committed suicide and charlie was very emotional about that, and would break down crying on a lot of occasions.when he be friends himself with seniors in the school he is forced to grow up very fast and has to deal with drugs,& sex  he is exposed to all there of those on a consistent basis and often folds into a peer pressure he faced from his senior friends.Charlie also has conflicts at home such as death of his aunt and how it affected his family as a whole

 Recommendation- I would recommend this book if you like curious, mistress,& adventure. I could say it like a treatment film but its a really good book I enjoyed reading it.  

Halo New Blood by Bradley Gwaltney

Brad Gwaltney
per 6

Halo New Blood
Matt Forbeck
















**** 4 stars

the new spartan program for the UNSC. in three to four different planets.

the main character is sergeant Buck from Halo 3 ODST.


the main conflict was the new spartan program. sure adults are






people that like sigh fie and the story of halo. it reminds me of the halo books and etc.....

Blog by Ben Brunney

Period 6

The Finest Hours.

The true story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue.

by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman

4 stars ****

I give this book four stars because It has a lot of action in it. My family is also a U.S. Military family so I think my whole family would like this book.

Blog by Keyana T.

• Keyana Tingley,period 6

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

• Rating: 1-5 I give it a 5.

• Setting: The setting of this book is in a small town and is mainly at her high school and at her home majority of what goes on is at her home.

• The main characters in this book are Violet and Jay

• Plot Events: The events in this story are something else. At first every time Violet senses a dead soul she can't help but go to them and has to do it without her friends knowing about it. Another event that happens is she has a crush on her best friend and doesn't know how deal with it and having deal souls around her all the time.

• Main conflict: The main conflict is Violet is constantly sensing dead people and doesn't want anyone to know about it and its an internal conflict.

• my Recommendation: I recommend this book to anyone thats into suspense and mystery and secrets of others.

Emily's blog

Cruise Control by Terry Trueman 

Rating

5 stars ★★★★★  

I rate this book at a five because it is a a true story about a boy with a disease that he has to fight.

Setting 

In the modern times Shawn spends time at school and home. 

Main characters

• Shawn is a 14 year old bod who has had a disability that he is fighting he is skinny and he is happy and irritated that he cant walk like a normal person or do anything like a normal person.
• Paul is the older brother who looks out for Shawn. He is very athletic plays almost all of the school sports. Paul has a very bad temper. 

Main plot events

Cruise control by terry true man tells about the struggle that Shawn is going through. 

• Shawn's dad left them when Shawn was little. 
• Shawn's mom takes care of Shawn
• Shawn's brother is very protective over him
• Paul got into a fight with someone because of Shawn's problem

 Main conflict 

The internal conflict is that Shawn id fighting his mind and body.

The external conflict is that Shawn's dad is trying to kill him.

Recommendation

I recommend this book to teenagers who like to read about real life problems.  

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Rating ✪✪✪✪ Name: Eddie Sayenko P. 6
Located: Pacific Ocean & Near Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Characters: Louis Zamperini,Russell Allen,Francis McNamara,Louise Zamperini, Frank Tinker, John Fitzgerald, Cliff, Jimmy, Miller, Blackie
Plot Events: This book is about a man who joined an army air force.
When his plane crashed in the pacific ocean him and others named Louise, Russell and Francis were on a boat trying to find land.
When they found one the were taken to a prison camp.
They met others but were tortured really bad and now they have to survive it.

Main conflict: They are being tortured by Japanese soldiers and a captain soldier.

Recommendation: Someone who likes war books.
                                     Set on:1943
                                 Unbroken: The movie

blog by aleecia beaver
period 6

Julie and Julia 
by Julie Powell 
 3⛤⛤⛤
i gave this book a 3 stare because it was not  very interesting  and it had alto of language in it.

stetting 

in  1949 the diplomat of Paul child's and his wife Julia are expatriated to France. in Paris the bored Julia decided to learn how to cook. in 2002 the frustration security of government agency Julia and her husband move into an apartment in queen. 

conflicts 

internal conflict.

Julie is at war with her own mind trying to figure over come her thoughts and fears.

external conflict.

Julia vs life and she is trying to figure out her life.

main key points 

in the book Julie and Julia by Julie Powell shows persistence and hard work. Julies husband stood by her and supported her through her whole project. Julie  made a challenge for her self, because her  job was a secretary and was getting stressful. she challenge her self to make all 525 recopies in Julia child's book. Julies mother kept discouraging her to go through with her challenge. Julie got frustrated many times during her project. Julie persevered it all and completed her challenge 
  

recommendations

i would not  recommend this book is is really hard to get into and inset vary interesting. Also very confessing going back and forth between to different people lives.

main characters

 Julia

Julia is a world all time famous cook she and this story tells about her life and how she is famous and talk about her book it is still today and top selling cook book.

Julie

Julie challenger her self to make all the  525 recipes in Julia child's cook book in 365 day she gets really frustrated but she stuck with it and followed through and completed her challenge.  

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

5 Stars ☆☆☆☆☆

Setting:
This book takes place in forks Washington 2009                             

Main Characters:                                                                          

• Bella is one of the main characters. She is just a normal girl who moves from Phoenix to Forks to live with her dad. Bella goes to a new school and she is very shy when she goes but she makes new friends.
• Edward is a vampire and is very quite and does not like a lot of people. Edward is always cold. 
• James is a very bad person. James does not like Edward an Bella because he thinks its very bad that Edward is dating Bella because she is a human. James's two friends are named Victoria Lawrence and he's been with them for as long has he's been a vampire.    

Main Plot Events:
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer shows the relationship between a girl and vampire.

• Edward saves Bella because James was trying to kill Bella. 
• Bella starts to fall in love with Edward because Edward protects her.

Conflicts:

• Internal: Bella can't decide to be with Jacob or Edward.
• External: The fight Edward and James 
• The fight between Edward and Jacob

Recommendations:
I would recommendation this book because its very good to read and it has a good story to it. If people like books where the characters are real they would like this book. It also does a good job explaining about the characters.

"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" Blog - Ryan Atterbury P6

Ryan Atterbury
P6

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

By Sherman Alexie

I give this book a ★★★½, because I think it has an interesting character and setting, and seeing poverty and oppression from the point of view of a Native American is a pretty eye opening read. But I think this book can be pretty annoying at times. The idea of the character going to a normal school instead of his reservation school is kind of hard to read knowing there is most likely some pretty hard times ahead. 

Setting:

The setting of the book is a Native American reservation, where the majority of the population is very poor. The main character Junior eventually goes to a predominantly white.

Characters: Junior, his family, Rowdy, Mr. P (So far)

Events:
1. Junior's dog is put down.
2. Junior throws a textbook at his teacher Mr. P unintentionally, and gets suspended.
3. Mr. P tells Junior to leave the reservation.
4. Junior goes to an outside school.

Explanation: 

The main character Junior, was born with many issues. He had to much fluid in his head and had to immediately have surgery to remove it, this resulted in a lot of damage like, his head and feet were much bigger than the rest of his body, and his head can be hurt very easily, The main problem this caused was constant bullying.

Conflict: 

The conflict in the book is Junior is bullied and doubted for his disabilities, and racism because he is Native American. He wants to make his way in the world so he goes to a better school where he is doubted and bullied.

Recommendation: 

I personally think this book is pretty decent, I would recommend it to maybe someone who wants to read a unique and shorter book.

Tori Anderson
 Period 4

                                Divergent by Veronica Roth      

Four Stars ****

 Rating: I gave the book a four rating because Im not the person who likes romance but in this series it fits perfectly in this whole story, its like the Hunger games the only differences between this book and hunger games is instead of killing each other the just have to pick a factor and live with it for the rest of your life.  

   The Main Setting: It takes place in Chicago of the future in a world that has been rebuilt after a society collapsed. 

Description of the main charters: 
Beatrice "tris" Prior she is a seven-teen year old girl who hates showing weakness.

Tobias "Four" Eaton he is the son of Evelyn Johnson and Marcus Eaton. He is the instructor for the transfer initiates. 

Caleb Prior he is a nine-teen year old boy, brother of Beatrice

Main characters: 

Beatrice "Tris" Prior 

Tobias "Four" Eaton 

Caleb Prior 

Marcus Eaton

Jeanine Matthews
Christina
Tori Wu
Eric
Peter Hayes
Edward


#1 Event: In the Beginning of the story all the kids turning 16 must take a test called the "Aptitude test" which determines which of the 5 factors the teen will have for life, the following factors she/he might get Dauntless, Abnegation, Amity, Candor, and Erudit

#2 Event: The choosing day is the day where all the kids choose what factor she/he must have for the rest of there life. if  she/he chooses a different factor they must never see or be with there family again.

#3 Event: In order to be a part of the faction they chose, the kids must do several initiation activities. If they fail to finish one of the exercises they will become "factorless", which means homeless.

Conflict: The main conflict in divergent with society and herself, this conflict is two things man vs man and man vs society. The conflict is a internal one.  

Recommendation: Divergent is a good book I recommend it to people who get hooked of books fast because this is a really good series.

mason baker

mason baker period 4

lock down escape from furnace.

It is modern time and takes place in a prison.

Alex is a kid who was framed for murder and his cell mate Donovan is kind of like a body guard.

It gets really intense and it will always hook you in.
There are a bunch of prison fights.
There are scary guards with masks.


Alex was framed for murder of his best friend.


People who are into intense and scary books would love this book.

Where The Red Fern Grows

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You need to create a blog about your second novel.  Your blog must include:

• Kodibear blocker 2/16/17 per4

• where the red fern grows 

• 

• i give this book a rating of 3.5 out of 4 stars
• In the country back in the day it does not give a date

• he is a coon hunter and works really hard to get the dogs he has now

• This kid sees some dogs that he has wanted for a long time but has no money to get them so he works for money saves up enough money to get them,he finally gets them and starts to train them for raccoon hunting, once he thinks there ready he enters a competition for coon hunting and wins it all.

• the conflict of the book is there is a kid out in the middle of nowhere and sees some hound dogs he wants but has no money to buy them so he works a lot for money to buy them.

Jakob Scott

Per.4

The Devil In The White City 

Erik Larson

The time was the late 1800's were the industrial era was booming and city's were becoming massive. In the rising city of Chicago, The Worlds Fair was being built and in the shadows there was a killer.

Money was on everyone's minds everyone wanted to build a building and start a banking company, H.H. Holmes who was a mysterious figure wanted money in any way possible.  

3.5 rating I give this out of 5 for the reason being that the story is very stretched making it very mundane but if you like very detailed books this is for you. 

Holmes as a young man watched many people die and all he wanted was to be rich and powerful. He realized that after failing many times that he would need to do whatever he has to do to achieve his goal. During the World Fair is where he'd pray on victims to kill to take people out of business to give him a chance to make a extra buck.  The conflict within the story is external and even internal, Holmes can't stop killing people and he doesn't want to.  I recommend this book to anyone who likes long stories or true stories.

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Blog by Andriy Nykyforets
Period 1

Safekeeping
By: Karen Hesse

3 Stars***

I gave it 3 stars because a most of the time the book is kind of confusing because you don't know whats going on, like one example is I didn't know that the main character was a girl until I read half the book, i thought that the main character was a boy.

Setting:

This story started from Vermont which was were the girls parents lived but they were gone when she got there so she started walking to Canada because that's where she agreed to go if anything ever really bad happened, and as she take her long walk she meets another girl and they become friends after she helps here when she gets sick and they walk there together and once they get to Canada they live in this abandoned schoolhouse and they have a Lady that leaves theme food and supplies almost every day behind the barn.

Main characters:

There are technically 2 main character but the second one doesn't come into the story until after 1/4th of the book. One of the main characters is Radley, and the other characters name if Cecilia.

Radley:

Radley is the character you read about from the beginning of the book and she is a really friendly girl and she really misses her parent and most of the time that she walks in the story it talks about how she would treat her parents much better and become a much better child and she wont take anything for granted. I also noticed that she likes to make friends and its very easy for her to open up.

Cecilia:

Cecilia doesn't come in to the story until after the first 1/4th of the book. one of the things that I noticed is that she doesn't really like to open up to people and shes kind of shy but at the same time tough and smart too. She has a dog names Jerry Lee and he is a very smart dog but Cecilia starts opening up more towards the second half of the book.

Main Plot Events:

In the beginning of the story it starts off with Radley (the main character) arriving at the airport near Vermont. She just arrived from Haiti, she was there with a missionary helping kids like feeding them and building them homes and things like that. When she gets to the airport she waits for her parents but they never come so she ends up taking a long walk home from the airport and when she gets home her parents were not there and the house seems as if it was abandoned and she ends up leaving for Canada because that's where her parents told her to go if something bad ever happened, and in this case the President of America was killed, So now she is walking to Canada and when she is about half way there she gets a friend by helping her when she gets sick from not eating enough. At first this girl is very rude and doesn't really talk at all, but once they got to Canada they found a schoolhouse and there they became closer to each other. They also got this Lady and they call her the "Lady of the Barn" and she leaves them food and things they would need behind the barn. But they knew that they couldn't just live there forever so they went back into the United States and started a new life.

Conflicts:

• Internal conflict:

• Radley is mad at herself about the way she treated her parents and how she was so ungrateful back then.

• External conflict:

• Radley and Cecilia are trying to stay from the police who are technically arresting a bunch of random people so they had to hide a lot.

Recommendation:

I would recommend this book to people that like to read book about surviving and kind of adventure kind of books. This book has a lot parts where the main character, Radley talks to herself in her head about what she is going to do and things like that. In my opinion I didn't really like it because it's not really the type of book that I'm interested in.

Battle For The Nether

Battle For The Nether

By Mark Sevron

5 Stars

I give this book 5 stars because it was always exciting. There was never had any boredom when i read it over and over again.

Setting

This is the second book and it takes place in minecraft. Remember! This is after the first book so it will sound veg. And it takes place in the nether (abously) and the overworld. They stay in the overworld for quite some time.

Main Characters

There are (for the most part) two main Characters in this story. There is GameKnight999. (or “GameKnight” what he is called for most of the story) and Crafter. They are working together to stop the mobs from destroying the source.

GameKnight

GameKnight is the main only character who has the ability to dream in minecraft. His nightmare is what changed him to always being afraid. He is always hesten of going out in the night, or going into a dark place. GameKnight tries to hide is fear from everyone and tries to act brave. He is also the UserThatsNotaUser.

Crafter

Crafter is a crafter but this one is Gameknights friend. And is the only villager with his hands free. He helps the UserThatsNotaUser to stop Ebus and Mica.

Main Plot Events

1 someone is taking all the villagers

2 the lost prophecy is true

3 gameknight gets scared

4 they find hunter

5 ebus retruns

6 crafter calls all the villagers

Key Quotes

Deeds do not make a hore….. How the hero overcomes the fear is what does.

The will have reason to fear the night soon enough.

I'll get you yet!!!!!!!!!!

I hate being afraid!!!!!!!!!

Theme

Being afraid won't help think off how to stop it.