Review #5

Shadow Horse

By: Alison Hart

          Thirteen-year-old Jas Schuler is sitting in the hallway of a court room. She has just gotten out of juvenile detention. She knows she is going to lose. No one wins anything when they are up against Hugh Robicheaux. She tells everyone what she did was out of anger and distress, but she knows the truth. Not only why she hit Hugh with the hoof pick, but he was the one who poisoned her horse, Whirlwind.

          When Jas is tried and sentenced to parole. She is put in foster care for 43 days too. After she finds her prize winning horse in its stall dead, her grandpa, who also happens to be her only relative alive, has a stroke and is put in a nursing home. Hugh threatens Jas before she leaves. He tells her “If you breathe a word of your suspicions, I will make sure your grandpa pays for it.” She tells the judge and her lawyer that she was so distraught during all of the things going on so she struck Hugh with a hoof pick out of anger.  

             Jas’s Foster agent tells Jas she is being sent to a farm with horses. The name of the farm is Second Chance Farm. She soon finds out how it got its name. The day she arrives she meets a boy named Chase. One day her foster mother, named Diane, tells her Chase can’t come to the auction and invites Jas. Jas reluctantly agrees and the next day they leave to the auction. While at the auction Jas sees a horse that seems sick. She knows what might be wrong with him so she follows the guy leading the horse to get a better look at it. She convinces Diane to buy the horse so she can help it.

          When the horse is let out into the pasture, he decides to jump a five foot fence and chase around cows. Jas starts to get suspicious about the horse. She does a little digging and finds out something that changes her whole view on what happened to Whirlwind.    

The Hobbit.

The Hobbit

(An Unexpected Journey)

By: J.R Token

            Young Bilbo sat on his porch one morning just after breakfast. He was a hobbit from the shire. He, like other hobbits, did nothing out of the ordinary. He was sitting on his bench, when a tall man in a dark grey cloak and a tall, blue pointed hat came up the road. This moment, marks the beginning of the transformation from a ordinary hobbit, To an adventuress, brave one instead.

            The hobbit is a very exiting book that suits all readers. It consists of many characters from Radigast the brown, a crazy wizard, to Bearon, A huge man with the ability to turn into a 13 foot tall bear. Bilbo embarks on a journey with a company of 13 dwarfs and Gandalf. Their quest is to take back the lost dwarven kingdom of Elibor, and that’s were Bilbo comes in to play. The dwarves can’t take back the kingdom without a priceless gem, the Arkenstone. The Arkenstone lies under the force that took the mountain, Smaug the dragon. Bilbo must steal the stone back using his stealthy hobbit skills. Will they restore Elibor to its former glory? Or burn in the flames of Smaug.

            The Hobbit is a very good book that will suit all readers that read it. It gives vital information on why the next book series, lord of the rings is the way it is. If your board and need a good intriguing book this is a good one for you. It is constantly filled with action and is very fast paced.      

magic johnson

Magic Johnson

Steven Frank

#5

Magic Johnson (Earvin Johnson) grow up in Lansing, Michigan. As a child he was taller then everybody in his grade and could handle the ball better. When he played basketball he could just go done the court and score but the parents got made that they children weren’t getting the ball. So he started passing which help him become a better pass which later he would be known for. As a freshman he went to a school that was mostly white and had trouble getting along the first part. Then his teammates started to like him more. He was 6 feet 5 inches as he went into high school. Usually he would be a big man but he handled the ball just as good as the guards and his coach saw that so he played him as a guard. He later led his high school to a state championship and Michigan State University to a national collegiate title. Then went to the draft as the number one pick to the Los
Angeles Lakers in 1979. At the Lakers he won five NBA Championships and was a part of the original Dream Team.

 

Rangers Apprentice: Lost Stories

Rangers Apprentice: Lost Stories

By John Flanagan

           

          The Rangers Apprentice: Lost Stories is about the stories that were not told in the actual story series 1-10 books. It tells how Halt and Crowley met, how Wills dad and Halt met in battle and other stories in just one book. Each story lasting only a few chapters each, then moving into the next story.

            

          This book tells lots more about other people’s lives like Gilan, Jenny the famous cook, and how Halt and Will foil bandit attempts and evil plots. Some of the stories have some funny parts and some have some sadness in them. One of the best stories is the one near the end and I’m not telling you.                                                                     

A Series of Unfortunate Events  #3

                        by: Lemony Snicket

          Violet loves to invent. You could tell that she is thinking of an invention when her long dark hair is tied back with a ribbon. Klaus loves reading. He spends almost all of his time in his family library. He has read hundreds and hundreds of books about all sorts of subjects. He could tell about which monkey preferred grapes over apples, or what George Washington's favorite color was, or about the most poisonous plant in the country in Ladonia. And Sunny, the baby sister, she loved to bite. She bites rocks, socks, bird, sticks and anything she can get her hands on really.

              But there is something wrong with all of them. Death, misery, and misfortune seem to follow them everywhere they go. 

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried

By: Tim O’ Brien

            The book is a really good book it is about a platoon in the Vietnam War, one man carries letters from a girl in San Francisco; she is not his girlfriend he wishes she was. She is just a friend and one day when he is reading a letter from her he just gets frustrated that she is not going to be his girlfriend and he burns the letters.

            She had also sent him a rock that she had picked up on the ocean shore line, and sent it to him he puts the rock in his mouth and sucks on it. And the same day when he is frustrated and burns the letters he also takes the rock and throws it as hard as he can. Read the story to find out the end… 

FaceSpace By: Adrian Chamberlain

FaceSpace
Book Review #5

   Danny is not a popular guy. He doesn't have many friends, and is not liked around school. He is a geek. Every Saturday night he stays home and plays Parcheesi with his mom. He doesn't tell anyone because if they knew he would be less cool. Danny had this thing with his FaceSpace; he only has it to talk to his one and only friend, which makes him feel unwanted.

   Danny decides to make him cooler he needs to sound cool. He creates a fake profile on FaceSpace and adds all of these "cool" people as friends. The fictional character he creates is a British Rocker names James. He gets all full of himself, and starts talking to the people saying he is a person he really isn't. He was hoping his friends would believe him and help him become cooler. 

   After a while he tells all of his friends that he is going on tour to the place they live. His friends want to meet him and Danny doesn't know what he is going to do. He is worried that if they find out that he will be hated at school, and nobody, not even his best friend would talk to him. Danny's plan starts to unravel.

8 mile
book review 5

A story of a young man named Jimmy who is trying to find happiness in his life, moving back in with his mother, trying to put pieces together. Weeks later he and his friends join a rap club, thinking he could make a difference as an odd twist happens. One night at the club he’s standing on stage in front of a large crowd interfering with he’s feelings he gets wrapped up in his own thoughts. After about a minute of standing on stage without a word to come out of his mouth he’s kicked off stage, not standing down he successfully finds his thoughts and leaves them behind.  Finding a better, happier feeling as he’s career takes off the stage he finds different changes in his life, but “it’s all worth it.”

Ranger’s Apprentice book: 10 Book review 5

Ranger’s Apprentice book: 10

 Book review 5

                In “Ranger’s Apprentice the Emperor of Nhon-ja ”   Will and the rest of the gang, including Alyss, Head across the constant sea to a place that is similar to china call, Nhon-ja, the reason they are headed over there is to help the emperor escape a traitor that is trying to kill him. After they are taken by a force of  kilakory ,timber workers, and taken to the emperor and Horace in the mysterious fortress of Ran-koshi. There they train the kilakory to fight as one unit and eventually spring come and the force of kilakory are to face the traitors army of trained fighters will they prevail or will they all die there on a foreign country.

What About me? (Book Review 5)

What About Me? (Book Review 5)

By: Colby F Rodowsky

            “What About Me”, is an old 1976 book about old fashioned family problems. The amount of family problems varies depending on how far someone is in the book from time, to time again. It’s an alright book, but gives off the wrong vibe towards the younger brother and main character. I didn’t really like the book, but it had the concept of another great, book I read in the past.

The book starts off with a fifteen-year-old girl named Dorrie, but she has a problem. She wants to go to this “once in a life-time” party at her friend’s house. So, she makes plans, and gets ready, but at the last minute, her mother says no, and tells her to babysit her brother for the night. She explains herself in fashionable manor, but her mother says, “If I can’t stay to watch Fredlet,” the younger brother, “you have to.”

            She does as her mother says, and babysits Fredlet. However that’s only the beginning of it. Later on, Fredlet starts “ruining” her school career and her social life in strange ways. She tries to avoid him best she can, but usually fails. Now she’s looking for easy ways she can cope with Fredlet, or ways to avoid her family all together.

            There’s not too much to this book, considering there’s only 136 pages, but some pages are somewhat enjoyable. I would not recommend this book to anyone who doesn’t like, family matters, talks, and compromise issues.

Book Review #5: When Happily Ever After Ends

When Happily Ever After Ends

By: Lurlene McDaniel

       

         Shannon always thought that happily ever after was forever but not anymore. Ever since her dad served in the Vietnam War he has been depressed, he would be fine and then all the sudden he would be depressed like he was still in Vietnam. Shannon and her mom knew that his depression spells always blew over, but not this time.                                                                 Shannon and her family live on a horse ranch in the mountains, where her mom and dad train kids every summer for horse shows. This summer is different though. Shannon and her mom head to Tennessee for a big horse show, the first time they went without her dad. When Shannon and her mom get back they find out that her father was dead, in the study with a pool of blood on the shiny wooden floor.                                                                                      Shannon wakes to find herself in the hospital, because she passed out. Shannon has never felt so alone in her life. With her father gone and her mother sleeping until four every day, she feels she is facing his death on her own. This book is filled with romance and sadness. Will Shannon be able to get back on her horse or will she never ride again?