Vanish By: Karen Spafford-Fitz

New Town, New School, New Friends
Book Review #4

   Simone just moved to a new town. She is having troubles making new friends. On the first day of her of her Kindergarten Mentor class she doesn't want to be there, she just wants to disappear. Simone is paired up with a young boy named Yuri. Aaron is paired up with Lily, who wanted to be with a girl mentor. Simone comes up with this good idea to combine with Aaron and Lily, so they work as one big group.

   Lily asks Simone to play with her at the playground after class. Simone goes and meets all of the Kindergartens parents.Simone gets many of the parents numbers, that way she can go babysit eventually. But something is different about Lily's mom Rachel. She shows no emotion and seems like she is hiding something. Later in the week Curriculum Night comes around and Simone meets Lily's dad Blake. She is not happy with him, based on what Rachel has told her. From skipping times to see Lily's to not contacting Lily in over 2 weeks, she was not pleased. Simone doesn't know the whole truth though.

   Lily and Simone become really close. They are best friends, then something tragic happens. Lily and Rachel are missing. Nobody knows where they went. Simone thinks that Blake had something to do with this whole thing The person who took her doesn't seem like the kind of person to do something like that.

Si-cology Book review 4

Si-cology

By: Si Robertson

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This book is about America’s favorite uncle, Si Robertson. In the beginning of the story Si says that his stories are 99% true threw out the story. The story mostly talks about is Si’s entire life. He talks about when he went hunting with his older brothers Phil, and Tommy. One of the strangest stories that Si told was when he was a kid and got a pet squirrel and his mom kicked it out when he burrowed inside of the new couch they just got.

He then starts to talk about his college life, and how he never wanted to go. Si mostly partied, then going to class and studying. When the college started having testing Si and his roommate decided to get soda and stay up studying. Si even tells that he and his roommate that they got drunk off all the soda that they had. When they started to do there tests, they got through most of them but at the last test Si fell asleep. He woke up and had 10 minutes to finish the test. So he then marked C for all of the answers. A few days later his older sister went to his dorm and was yelling at him, then his brothers Phil, and Tommy came in telling Si that he should have studied more. His sister then said that he had been the best in the class.

Si then decides to drop out of college, but shortly after he was drafted for the army. Si then went to the boot camp then was flown out to Vietnam. When he got off the plane he got some advice from some solders telling him not to go to battle. He and his troop had to stay in a hotel.        Si talks about how the squad got a got a new truck engine in a care package, but when Si and his buddy where on guard duty that night, they heard a noise over at the scrap yard. Si got on his radio and told the sniper tower to shoot a flare at the scrapes. They went over to check to see what that noise was, but they didn’t see anything.

They look at the lake and in the water where two Vietnamese soldiers caring the brand new truck engine threw the lake to their base across the lake. Si and his buddy just stood there watching them carry the engine across the water. Then the story talks about how Si listened to the stories of ether solders. One of the weirdest stories was from a medic. He was telling Si how he was in the jungle with two other solders and they were pinned down. Then one guy got shot and the medic put him up against a tree to patch him up. When he got done he left the guy who got shot against the tree to help the other guy defend them off. There was a screaming and when they looked over, a panther was dragging the guy who got shot. The medic and the other solder had to shoot at the panther to make him drop the solder. There is way more stories in the book, and I highly recommend it if someone wants to read a funny book and is a fan of Duck Dynasty.

Safe at Home

Comeback Kids

By: Mike Lupica

(Book 4)

Safe at Home is about a boy named Nick Crandall who thinks that he doesn't belong anywhere, with his foster parents who are both professors and in baseball. Nick needs help being a catcher, he is twelve years old and is playing varsity. His parents can’t help him because they don’t know one thing about it. His team needs a catcher but wants one that’s their own age. Nick isn't exactly a straight A student. It’s just a matter of time until his foster parents find out that he isn't the child for them. Will Nick fit in with his team, his family, and himself? 

                                            

The Giver

By: Lois Lowry

          Jonas lives in a community of sameness, perfection, control, no fear, no pain, no emotion, no feelings and worst of all, no choices. Everything is different from life in the real world. The population is consistent, as an Elder I released, a newborn enters the community. People don’t get married, they get assigned a partner.  Couple’s don’t have children, they get assigned children. Children get receive assignments when they are a Twelve (twelve years old.) After Jonas gets assigned the “Receiver of Memory” the way he sees his world, or community, is now completely different.

          As Jonas’s training begins for his new job he learns he is very unique. The old Receiver of Memory, or as he likes to be called, The Giver, gives Jonas the memories of the real world. Some memories are amazing like the love memory, colors and snow; some, aren’t so pretty like war, pain, death and loneliness. During one of Jonas’s training sessions he finally figures out what it means to be released, and it isn’t pretty. It’s actually quite disturbing.

          Jonas soon learns that the little child, Gabe, who has been staying with his family has to be released because he hasn’t “developed” yet. Gabe is also unique, he too can receive memories. Jonas. He can’t let the horrible “release” happen to Gabe so, he has to save him! The Giver and Jonas make a plan for Jonas to flee the community and leave with all the memories. This means the community has to relive the memories so they can have them once again. Jonas’ plan to flee his community is a very dangerous one, he doesn’t know what’s out there. Will he survive?   

Petey

by:Ben Mikaelsen

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          The book Petey is about a young boy who is unable to take care of himself. He was born in

 

Bozeman  Montana to a small ranch family. Once  the doctor told the mother Sarah Corbin that her

 

son was born with issues he suggested that she gave him to an institution.  When she first heard this

 

she was unwilling to give her son up. After a few years went by it was becoming more difficult to

 

take care of Petey so Sarah and her husband did the only thing they could and that was to send  him

 

to the institution.

 

 

         One of the institutes nurses came to get Petey and they traveled the long train ride to warm

 

springs Montana. Once they got there the nurse starts to take care of Petey. while he grows it

 

becomes more difficult to clean him and lift him. 

 

 

          As Petey became older he started to make sounds as communication such as ooo, and ahh,

 

Petey also made friends along the way but they never stayed long enough so Petey became friends

 

with the mice that slept in his bed.

 

 

          Does Petey ever have a friend or a loved one that will stay with him or will they all leave him?

 

Will Petey ever get to see the outside and get the chance to fell normal? How long will it take Petey

 

to fill loved?

Magic Johnson

Steven Frank

By Logan Hitz

 Earvin “Magic” Johnson made himself one of basketballs most appealing performers through hard work, fundamentals, and court sense.

Magic Johnson grew up in Lansing Michigan. Johnson always wanted to go to Sexton High School. The High School is an all-black school. He was a phenomenal player. When he found out he couldn’t go to Sexton he was upset. He tried out for the basketball team and made it. At first Magic’s teammates wouldn’t pass him the ball. They were intimidated by him.

Magic attended college at Michigan State. Even though he was a 6’ 9” basketball player many thought he was going to be a forward or a center but his coach saw something else. His coach put him as a point guard.

Magic Johnson went on to the NBA to play for the Los Angeles Lakers. He led them to win a championship in 1985 with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

This book is for Basketball lovers. I really enjoyed this book.

The Last Book in the Universe

By Rodman Philbrick #2

      Spaz is the main character. This book is in the future where no one reads. They put images in their brains called probes. The way they do this is they have an electrode needles. There’s no more book in the world except this one.

          Spaz goes to save his dying sister Bean with an old man named Ryter and a girl name Lanaya. Lanaya is a proov is a genetically improved human being. You can tell if someone is a proov they are tall, beautiful, and healthy looking. Lanaya is attractive to Spaz, after helping him on his journey to save Bean she soon becomes his friend. Ryter is the only one that can read and write now.