Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Flight 116 is down
FLIGHT #116 IS DOWN
BY Caroline B. Cooney
In flight #116 is down Patrick Farquhar is a senior in high
school and he has a special job. He is a junior EMT (emergency medical
technician). He lives in a town in Connecticut named Nearing River. His dad Mr.
Farquhar is a fire man after being an EMT. Patrick’s mother had quit driving
Ambulance Squad after 14 years of taking one 12 hour shift a week and now she
is a dispatcher for 911.
Sixteen year old Heidi Landseth lives on and estate in the
Dove house. She goes to a private school because her parents are rich. Her parents
are gone and Heidi is home with Mrs. Camp, the house keeper, and Burk, the
grounds keeper.
Daniel, 15, and tuck, 13, are brothers who had to deal with
their parents divorcing. They were on their way to their fathers wedding. Their
dad is marrying a girl name Linda who the boys hate. They are going to the
wedding but they never promised to be nice.
Teddie is a 6 year old girl who has been with her
grandparents for a while. Before she left her gramma and poppy put a quarter on
her hand and put Mickey Mouse band aides around it. She is going back to be
with her parents. Her dad is obsessed with videotaping. They are planning on videotaping
Teddie when she sees her parents.
Darienne is a rude person. She thinks she is on top of the
world. She hates little kids. On the plane she has a magazine called Sports
Illustrated. Her neighbor on the plane had a Glamour magazine. She wanted it bad. She sits by Teddie.
At exactly 5:41:30P.M., a 747 air plane crashed by the
woods by Heidi’s house. Heidi ran out and was trying to save all the people.
She called 911 but it took a while for them to get there. Patrick heard it so
he drove as fast as he could so he could be the first one there. When Patrick
arrives he is in shock with the mess. He goes and helps out with getting the
people out of the plane wreckage and was getting them into the house.
When the fire dept. and ambulance crew got there they were
in awe as they looked upon the wreckage.
Flight 116 is down is a wonderful book. If you like action
books this is for you. At first the book was boring and then at chapter 5
everything got going. I would recommend this to everyone.
The Terrorist
The Terrorist
Book report by Cory Sessions
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Freeze Tag
Freeze Tag
by: Caroline B. Cooney
Dark Fern Lane was home to Meghan
Moore. It was also home to Meghan’s best friend, Tuesday Trevor and her older
brother, West Trevor. Meghan ,like many, adored the whole Trevor family,
particularly West. But there was another Trevor admirer on the street, Lannie
Anveill.
Everyone
was afraid of Lannie, they didn't really know why. Maybe it was her thin bones and pale skin that
made her look like she belonged in a tomb. Or maybe it was her thin hair that
stuck out like hay, or maybe the way she would suddenly appear without a sound.
But there was something they hadn’t
known about her. Lannie had a power that allowed her to freeze people. And one
night Lannie froze Meghan and wouldn’t unfreeze her until West made a promise,
that he would always like Lannie best.
Now it is six years later and West
was in love, with Mehgan. But Lannie had not forgotten of West’s promise, and
she was going to make everyone pay.
Friday, January 17, 2014
The Roar by Emma
Clayton
The
Roar is an exciting book about a twin brother looking for his supposedly dead
sister. Mika hasn’t ever been outside The Wall, no one has. The Wall is 50 feet
high, 30 feet thick, covered with razor sharp electrified wire, and has laser
shooting Ghengis Borgs every couple of yards. The Wall is meant to protect the
people inside from the Animal Plague. The Animal Plague is a disease that
caused all animals to become crazy mindless killers, causing us to kill all
living things outside the wall with chemical bombs. Ever since Mika’s twin
sister Ellie was found dead Mika’s family has been torn apart. Mika refuses to
believe that Ellie is dead, and will not let his parents wash his sister’s
blankets because he thinks they still smell like her. When a woman from his
nightmares visits his school he is automatically suspicious of what she has to
say. She tells the class that they have to drink Fit Mix every day when they
get to class, that there is a new game they are going to play, and that they
are going to start a new fitness program. But Mika refuses and eventually is
expelled for seven days. During those seven days he meets with a counselor to
help him deal with the loss of Ellie. She ends up telling him that if he
cooperates with the YDF, the people that are making him drink the Fit Mix, that
he might just find his sister. So from then on he cooperates with the YDF so he
can find his sister. When he goes to the local arcade to play the game, he
finds he is a natural at it, and becomes a top player. So each day after school
he goes and practices the game. When a competition comes up he and his best
friend Audrey get past the first round of the game and win a vacation to an
island with fake trees and animals where they and their families get to stay
for a week. While they are there the remaining children have to do a set of
tests where they have to lift things with their minds and are told that they
are doing puzzles. Then for the rest of the vacation they play water games and
Mika accidently gets shot in the leg by a harpoon. They finally get to go home
for a couple of days, but then he goes to the final round and he wins it along
with five others. Since he was one of the winners he won a fancy new house for
him and his family. So he gets flown to his new house and all the winners and
their families have a party at his house. Then suddenly everybody who has a
child gets a message that their children have been taken to war by the YDF. A
mob of angry parents’ forms and everybody has to flee. Mika and Audrey have to
escape in a pod fighter over the wall and discover everything they have been
told is a lie. Finally they get back over the wall and Mika finally reunites
with his sister.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
The Face on
the Milk Carton
By:
Caroline B. Cooney
Book Review
By: Sable Lynn
Nobody in Janie’s school really
paid attention to the missing children on the milk carton. Until one simple day
at school Janie decides to look... She sees something weird. She recognizes the
face of a little pigtailed little girl. The little girl had been kidnapped
twelve years before at a mall in New Jersey. Janie also noticed the shirt the
little girl was wearing. When she was little Janie had the same little white
collared shirt. Janie thought that it couldn’t be her.
Janie starts to think who are those
people in her house? Are they really her parents? Janie has to go back and try
to piece back together her childhood. All of Janie’s friends think that she is
crazy. Janie doesn’t know what to do. She starts to remember a woman from her
past. What if that’s her real mother. When Janie goes to sleep at night that’s
all she sees. Janie can’t believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as
she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense.
Janie doesn’t want it to be true. She
didn’t want to think that she was kidnapped. She can’t seem to put the pieces
together. She’s not sure what to do. Every morning she wakes up all drenched in
sweat wondering whether it’s true or not. If it is, who are those people in her
house? Who is Janie Johnson? Who is her real mother?
Granny
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Review by: Daniel Hawley
Granny is a horror book by Horowitz. The
main character, Joe, is a rich kid, and his parents don’t really pay attention
to him. Joe himself isn't bratty, but just
like any other normal kid. He has a horrible grandmother, who basically is a
very evil woman who wants to ruin Joe’s life.
It starts with Christmas, when he asks his
grandma to get a robot. This particular one has to be assembled, but when
finished it could do a lot of things such as walk, and lift stuff and a lot of
other things, all controlled by a remote control. His grandma responds by
giving him a wind-up robot with a key in its back for seven year old kids. He is
humiliated and when he looks at his grandma, her eyes made her look as evil as
a hungry alligator.
It all goes downhill from there. As
he sees more of her, worse things happen. She makes him eat a whole bowl of
cream cheese (a disgusting version of it too). She steals the forks and knifes.
And worst of all, she blames it all on his nanny, who is his best friend.
She also killed his nanny too. Of course,
she makes it look like an accident. After the possessions were stolen, they
called the police to search their house. When the police got there, they had
two of the most vicious search dogs. They explained that they’d starved the
dogs to make them concentrate. On that note, granny ran inside. His nanny was
sitting on a bench propped up against the wall. Brow dust started to fall on
top of her. When she realized that it was gravy powder, she ran for her life as
the dogs bit at her heels. She dove into a bush and the dogs fell on top of
her. When the police finally dragged the dogs out of there, they were a lot
fatter than before, their heads drooped in shame. later on, Joe saw granny shuffling to the kitchen with a suspicious bottle And that was how evil granny is! There is a lot of other things that went
wrong too, because of granny.
The Face on the Milk Carton
Caroline B. Cooney
The
book “The Face on the Milk Carton” is about a girl named Janie Johnson that
thinks she lives her parents but soon comes to find out that she’s not and
hasn’t been for years. One day while Janie was sitting at the lunch table at
school she glanced down at her milk carton. And that was when her life changed
forever.
The milk
carton had a picture of a little girl that had been missing for years. The
little girl wore a nice polka dot dress with a white collar and her hair was in
tight pigtails. She read the details near the picture; the girl had been taken
from a mall in New Jersey years ago. Janie noticed that the little girl staring
up at her looked familiar- it was herself!!
Code Orange
Code Orange
By: Caroline B. Cooney
Everything’s fun and games for Mitty
Blake. He’s just a lazy Student who has never really amounted himself to
anything. Everything turns around for him when he has a huge project due in a
couple of weeks. He hasn’t even started working on the project. Failure means
dropping out of advanced biology, and dropping out of the class with the girl
he thinks about all day, every day.
Mitty has to come up with a report
on an infectious disease, and fast. Luckily he finds some medical books from
the early 1900’s in his weekend house in Connecticut. He soon discovers an old envelope
in one of the books. It contains two scabs. He crushes one and accidentally
inhales it. The envelope had the words Varolia
Major written on it, which is Latin for smallpox.
His encounter with the smallpox
turns into a much more dramatic matter. Not just his own life, but the life of
millions of others living in New York City are at stake.. Mitty has to find a
way to prevent it, or he could be the cause of the outbreak of the century.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
By
Caroline B. Cooney
On February, 28, 1704, in Deerfield,
Massachusetts.
Mercy Carter tucked her brothers in, packing
them in close together. They looked funny snuggled in bed with most of their
clothes on, and quilts on top. Mercy
kissed each one goodnight. It was about -10 degrees and the cold was going
through both pairs of heavy wool stockings that she wore to bed. She dreaded
getting into her own bed, because she slept alone, and body heat would be the
only thing keeping anyone warm tonight. Mercy went over to the window and
looked out to the horizon; she always looked to the hill to the south. After she was done looking out the window she
shut and blocks it with a board. Sleep
did not come easy; she jerked upright straining to comprehend the night sounds.
Voices, the sharpening of knives? It’s just ice snapping off the river, Mercy
her older brother Sam said to her softly. After talking to Sam a little she
fell back asleep. She woke up again in a cold sweat after she had a dream that
an Indian had come in their house in the middle of the night and pulled Mercy
by the hair ready to scalp her. Mercy sat in her bed trying to overcome her
fears. Downstairs, one of the soldiers was doing something with the fire. She
heard the friendly clink of iron tools against brick. Did she also hear
movement beyond the shutter, or was that just the soft breathing of her
brothers? She felt her way to the window and opened it. The cold night wind
rushed by her giving her a chill. She leaned out to see, there was little light
then a house roof was on fire. Mercy realized that they were being attacked by
hundreds of Indian’s. Find out how Mercy and her family, with others get taken
by Indian’s and fight their way through winter to Canada. what will happen to them? Will they make it, and if they make it will they stay with the Indian's that killed people they knew and loved?
Monday, January 13, 2014
THE TERRORIST
The Terrorist
CAROLINE B. COONEY
Oh mom! Thought Billy, turning away from the stroller and wrapping himself around the package.
The package exploded.
Doing a review on my Read N' Rap, I start out with the main problem in the book. Billy dies... Yes, sad but true. When this young eleven year old boy who was social, friendly, and hyper dies from a package explosion, his older sister Laura is turned into a paranoid investigator. Which basically means shes trying to figure out who the killer is throughout the whole book, and thinks EVERYONE is suspicious.
Asking some questions, you probably wonder how Billy knew how to deal with this situation, well he learned to not accept packages from strangers, and that's exactly what he accidentally did.
Laura, Billy's sister, meets some new peers throughout the book also that might have to do with his death... You'll soon figure out how Laura's new best friend has to do with it. FYI, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. This quote I think has a big meaning within this book. Just a hint ;)
The Ransom of Mercy Charter By Caroline B, Cooney
The Ransom of Mercy Charter
By Caroline B. Cooney
When I was reading this book it felt every weird and hard to
understand. There was a girl named Mercy Carter, who lives in Deerfield and
five other brothers and sisters. Mercy, brothers and parents settling in an
area, but they were kept in captivity. They can never go outside to the woods
or open fields. They could not leave the stockade cause by the soldiers and the
parents, so the kids won’t show the Indians where the kids live and the others.
The paragraph is when the Indians
attack Deerfield. The Indians were climbing up the stockade and killing the soldiers
and townsmen fought back at the Indians. It didn’t make sense to me cause it
almost felt like Mercy was dreaming. The entire book seems like Mercy was
dreaming. The Indians take Mercy and the prisoners out of the stockade, they
were taken to Canada. Will Mercy Survive the trip.
fatality
Fatality
By: Caroline B. Cooney
Rose is a “perfect” girl or at least
that is what everyone thinks. She keeps her grades up, stays out of people’s
way, and does what her parents tell her to do. She stole a police car to
protect her diary that tells all. she has her own secret to keep and other
pople want to know the secret… but maybe she is protecting the wrong secret.
Roses
parents expect so much of her so when thaey found that she had stolen a police
car, they didn’t know what to do. Roses friends didn’t know what to do either.
Rose Lymond stealing anything or doing anything against any rules was
completely unheard of. She would not even think to steal a pencil. Her brother,
Tarbor, only cared that he wasn’t getting the spotlight in the family and that
she had finally done something bad and is out running him. He just wants to be
in the spotlight. Her brother’s band
buddy, Alan, heard about it and didn’t belive one word, yet her was determined
to protect her and keep her out of trouble for Tarbor.
Throughout
the whole book, Rose uses silence in her favor. She remembered on television,
they always would say “You have the right
to remain silent. Everything you say can and will be used against you.” She
knows her rights and she knows that they have no right to steal her diary
without her permission because it is her property. She knows that she has the
right to remain silent. But this secret can have something to do with a murder.
Rose
might be trying to protect a different secret… a secret that might kill her
father. Will the police ever leave her alone?
Breaking Dawn- By: Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn is a very mysterious book. Around each and every corner, a new trial was to overcome. Breaking Dawn starts off with a normal, beautiful couple. But, little did Bella know, Edward may be dangerous.
Edward has always wanted to marry Bella. But, she is a little unsure, but she knew everything would be fine, little did she know. She has no clue about the strength and ability Edward had.
The two had wanted to get married for a long while. Then, they finally made the decision to go with it. Edward and Bella had the wedding of their dreams, so they decided to move to the next step. Children.
Since Bella is human and Edward is a vampire, what would the baby be? A monster? Could be according to to how the baby hurts Bella. Will Edward have to make Bella a vampire to be strong and make it through it all? Or will Bella suffer the issue, not knowing if she will live again?
Cinderalla cleaners By Maya Gold
This book is about a girl with brown hair and blue eyes she also has an eye for fashion. Diana is a teen age girl she works at the Cinderella cleaners for her father right after school. Diana likes a boy how is new, he is a quite young man his name is Will.
One day when Diana was running an errand for her dad to Mrs.Felter witch is a Major client for years but Diana did not know that. She bumped in to Will at the crosswalk they walked and talked till Will had to stop at an abandon coffee shop. Diana met her Favorite singer and was asked if she and a girl of her choice wanted to addition to be extras Dina said “yes”.
At the additions Diana and her friend Sara both addition and a bunch of other girls Diana is wearing a replica of the vest she was supposed to drop off she freaked and took it off before her dad could see it. Then on Friday Sara and Diana went to go to a fitting for the video they were all wearing vest like Diana and in their lockers was a guitar that matched there vest color. Diana best friend Jess was mad at her because Diana baled on the moves the she was supposed to go. At school Jess got madder when she found out that Diana was keeping a secret from her Sara told her best friend even though she was not supposed to and then her best friend Amelia and then it went all downhill from thee friend telling friend, brother telling sister. Diana and Sara were being videoed and through the glass she saw Jess Jason (Jess’s boyfriend) and Will there date to the movie was there video Diana was very happy the Jess was there and Will.
The
face on the milk cartoon
I was seven when it all began; I was in a store with my older
brother, my mother and my father. My brother was supposed to be watching me
when I through a fit throwing my body around, let go of my brothers hand, as he
says “Janie come back”. I kept running when I stopped to meet a nice lady who
took me under her wing as we ran away.
I’m 15 now, about to start drivers Ed but, my parents won’t
let me. All I think about is drivers Ed and getting my driver’s license. I tell
my parents all the kids at school have a driver’s license or at least going to
get there’s but all they say is “No, u can’t get yours” then they change to
topic before I ask why.
When I get to school I sit with my best friend and my boyfriend,
were talking about drivers Ed while eating lunch like normal. “I don’t see why
I can’t get my license my parents just won’t let me”.
“Why?” said Sarah- charlotte
“I don’t know but I will ask again later “I say on our way back to
class.
Later that day I’m sitting down to eat dinner when I ask again. My
dad snaps at me, I’m confused because my dad never higher his voice. Then my
mom says “we just don’t want you to grow up to fast”
“But mom I’m almost sixteen and everyone at school is in drivers
Ed?”
“Well good for them.” My mom says “but you’re not going to be”
says mom again. Getting frustrated with my parents I stop what I’m doing and
stomp down the hall way to my room and slam the door.
The next day at school I’m sitting with my friends again eating
lunch when everyone turns to the back of the milk cartoon (except me because I’m
lactose) to see the picture on the missing persons list today. Everyone on the
missing persons list has a picture of them when they were five years old. The
girl today on the list is wearing a blue and white dotted dress, she has red
curly hair, green eyes and is sitting up tall while looking at the camera like
there’s no care in the world. “I think to my-self “hey, that girl looks like
me, it is me, I have the same picture, that’s me’! I thought in my head. Then I
said out loud “that’s me”
“What?” asked Sarah-charlotte?
“The girl on the cartoon, that’s me.” I said
“No its not”
“Yeah, maybe it’s not “I thought
Is it her, do her friends believe her, who are her parents?” Many
confusion and many secrets but only one true answer.
Warriors The New Prophecy book 6
Warriors
Sunset
By: Erin Hunter
Warriors, sunset, is about a cat
named brambleclaw, and he has a decision to make, he can either help his
brother destroy the clans, or he can save them and get his mate back. In this
story he learns more of his father, his status in the clan rises, and he is
more eager to become important.
Will Brambleclaw become like his
father, or will he be better than the evil on his heels.
Warriors The New Prophecy is a series written by: Erin
Hunter
FLIGHT #116 IS DOWN
Flight #116
is down
By:
Caroline B. Cooney
During a Saturday
night a huge crisis arises. Patrick a junior in high school is an EMT for the
town Nearing River. He is looking for some type of action; he wants to get his
adrenalin pumping like an oil rig.
Sixteen-year-old
Heidi Landseth lives in a mansion called Dove House. Her parents aren’t home
often so she lives with her grounds keeper Burk and her housekeeper Mrs. Camp.
Saturday
night at 5:15pm Heidi hears an ear piercing noise that enters her spine,
penetrates her brain cells, and could kill her by volume alone. Then sees a
huge metal object fly through the sky. Her first thought was a UFO. Then
realized differently. The dispatch received a phone call as quickly as
possible.
Patrick and
the emergency crew arrived on the scene and helped as much as they could. But
there isn't enough time to help all of the suffering and dying victims of a
jumbo jet. The helpers followed emergency proto call and saved the people that
could make it out alive. The others had to wait until their turn to be saved.
“This was not like an ordinary plane crash.” One
of the responders said to Heidi.
Burning Up
Burning Up
By: Caroline B. Cooney
Burning up is about a girl named
Macy Clare. She lives in Connecticut with her parents and her live right around
the corner. This story takes place in 1998. Macy is fifteen years old and
realizes that her parents aren’t very exciting, her dad watches the TV and goes
to work, and her mom plays on the computer and also works all day.
When Macy decides she wants to go to
grandparents’ house more often she does. When she asks her grandpa what
happened to the old burned up barn a crossed the street he tries not to tell
her much, but one thing that he does tell her is a man lived in the barn
apartment and he was the first black person to ever be in the town. He was a
teacher and somehow his barn apartment burned down do to arson.
When Macy realizes that her
grandparent’s neighbor is a cute sixteen year old boy she is happy. When she
goes to school and finds out that she and her life skills class are going to a
town not to far away from their town and they go to the part of the town known
as the “ghetto” to paint a church that is pretty much a day care. When they are
painting, one of the workers of the day care looks out the opened doors and
sees someone smoking and she runs out to tell them to knock it off be for the
place starts on fire when the guy throws the cigarette inside the building when
it starts on fire.
They run through a hall and shut the
door from the fire. As Macy is running she feels heat and realizes that her
hair is on fire and at that same moment someone puts their shirt over her head.
Then she gets to see his face and it’s the cute boy that lives next door to her
grandparents. He tells her that his name is Austin.
After they get home she tells her
parents and grandparents what happened and now she is not allowed to go there
ever again. As she investigates more on the fire of 1959 she asks herself was
it my grandpa that started the fire of the barn because he didn’t want to talk
about the fire? Or was it someone who just didn’t like blacks at all? And could
it be the same person that started the fire at the church that I was in?
Si-cology
Si-cology
By: Si Robertson
Si-cology is about Si life and all the crazy fun times he had growing up. One of his times was when he was little he was afraid of the dark.
His brothers would always take him outside and then just run away so he was left
in the woods all alone. He tells about a similar experience. They were going to
stay the night and then wake up and go fishing. So they took the truck and
drove to the river. Phil had to drive around which would take longer and then
they would have to carry it a long ways so there just had Si row it over the
water while they drove around. Si had to row the boat over and tie it down and then go
to the camp. He made sure they would be there before dark. Once Si got over and
tied it up he found the camp there were they were going to stay. He waited
there until the sun stared to go down. Then here heard something in the bushes
and he took off. The thing started chasing him and so he put into 4th
gear. He needs to lose it so he put everything into it and put it in 5th
gear. After he did hear it he stop and he smelled burnt rubber and look down
and his shoes where smoking so he step in a puddle because it rain that night.
This is just one of the many stories is Si-cology. This is a great book that in
fun to read.
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
The Ransom
of Mercy Carter
By:
Caroline b. Conney
The ransom
of mercy carter is about an 11 year old girl captured by Indians. She lived
peacefully in the town deer field lintel late one night she looks out her
window to she Indians climbing over the barricade into the town. Killing anyone
who opposed.
Mercy carter
lives in a town called deer field. She once had witnessed Indians kidnap two
local boys, which left her in constant fear of an Indian raid. She one night
had a felling to look out the window and check the horizon for attackers. She walk’s
to the window opens it half asleep to see hundreds of Indians pouring over the
city barricade. She alerts her family to leave but is too late, there standing
on the stair case was an Indian man. He is dressed out in war paint and had
scalps hanging of his long braid. He orders them to leave the house, which she
and her brothers do. Outside there is a long line of captives all children.
After a few more minutes of battle the Indians march them away. Mercy began to
notice on Indian which takes care of her begins to like her more and more. He
cares for her and a young boy named Daniel. He also appears to be one of the
nicest Indians on the journey. Mercy later discovers his name is Tannhahorens.
Mercy, after many days is taken to an Indian village where she grows to be more
and more Indian. Her master becomes her friend and then her dad. But her father
Tannhahorens is involved in a terrible accident.
As mercy
begins to become an Indian, speaking Mohawk rather than English. She is almost
certain she will become Indian lintel a white man comes with a ransom. Will she
take it and become English once more as mercy Carter or will she become and
Indian and be Munnonock, and Indian girl. The Ransom of Mercy Cater is a good
book for everyone to read.
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