Buddy book#4

            Buddy   by: M. H. Herlong   #4

     Li'l T always wanted a dog. But his dad always had an excuse to not get one. But one day while driving to church in their tiny car, they hit something. They jumped out of the car and ran to see what it was. Li'l T couldn't believe his eyes when he say a dog laying on the hot concrete, motionless. His eyes moved to the white bone protruding from the skin on the dog's leg.
        Li'l T had found his best friend. He was only aloud to keep Buddy If he could take care of him. So Li'l T sold his Game Boy and mowed lawns every day to buy food for Buddy. He finally convinced his dad to let him keep the Three legged dog. 
           But teaching Buddy how to walk again was the least of his problems. When New Orleans heard that a hurricane was coming, Li'l T and his family had to leave the state. But there was no room for Buddy. Can Hurricane Katrina tear apart a boy and his best friend? Can a family repair their lives after a disastrous storm? 

The Face on the milk carton

Caroline B. Cooney

Book 5

No one ever paid attention to the missing children on the milk carton. But one day Janie Johnson happened to glance at her friend’s milk carton. On that milk carton there was an ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar- a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey. But there was something about that little girl that was familiar

 

The Memory Keepers Daughter

Kim Edwards

Book 4

One winter night in 1964 a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. The son, born first, is perfectly healthy but next, the daughter he immediately recognizes has Down’s syndrome. David makes a split-second decision that ends up haunting their lives forever. He asks Caroline, the nurse, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead of taking the baby to an institution she ends up running away into another city to raise the child as her own.

Messenger

By: Louis Lowery

          Village is a community where everyone is welcome no matter what. If they are a cripple they are welcome, if they are “worthless” they are welcome, if they are just trying to start over again, they are welcome. Matty was a young boy when he came to Village. He was a thief, a crook and a little uneducated. With the help of Village and Seer, Christopher the man he lives with, he became an amazing, brave young man.

          In Village, people are given jobs based on their talents. Matty wants to have the job, Messenger, because he makes dangerous trips through Forest to deliver messages to other communities. Forest, is of course a forest but it has the abilities to choose which people can pass through it. If Forest doesn’t want someone to pass through, he tortures them and eventually kills them. Matty has a connection with Forest, or so he thinks. He’s traveled through it many times without being harmed. While traveling through the Forest, Matty feels the Forest getting stronger, and more deadly.

          Back at Village, the counsel there is not accepting any more people to come into their community. The people at Village are changing, they are becoming inconsiderate about other people, and they only care about themselves. Because Village is closing and will not allow anyone else to live there, Seer, will not be able to ever see his daughter again because she lives in another community. Matty is given the dangerous task to travel through the Forest and go get her before it’s too late. Will Matty be able to bring her back, or will he die trying?

Book #6

Whirlwind

By: Alison Hart

          Jas knows Hugh’s secret. She knows about everything he lied about and now she is going to get him back for it all. How will she beat someone who has never been beaten? She has no clue, but since she has a lot of people on her side she has a chance. She starts getting leads and is so close to finishing it all when everything goes wrong. The one person who can help her was killed. Now she has to figure out what to do when everything runs cold. 

Pretty-shield by Frank B. Linderman (book review #6)

Pretty-shield

                                                            Medicine woman of the crows

By Frank B. Linderman

book review 6

Pretty-shield was a woman of the Crows with many grandchildren. Frank B. Linderman, but known as Sign-talker by the Crows. Had taken an interest in the Crow ways and asked Pretty-shield if she would answer some of his question about her life as a Crow woman. He had already made a book of the Crow chief’s live and wanted to write one about Crow women. Pretty-shield was the only one to agree to talk about her life from the other Crow women he had asked. Crow people were very to-them-self’s. Pretty-shield tells that when she was young it was a very peaceful time; everyone had fat meat to eat, and the Crow’s had made peace treaties with their enemies. She mainly talked about events before her time. One of the stories that she tells happened when she was young. Pretty-shield and some other girls were playing; some boy’s came and played with them too. They were dancing around and singing portending to have and feast. One of the boys found and black powered gun in a bush, he started to dance and sing. “I am a worrier come at me” he said. One of his friends said “I will take you”. He took off his clothes and run at his friend yelling. The boy that had the gun pointed it at his running friend and shot. The gun fired, the naked boy fell. His friend who held the gun ran to him. “I am sorry my friend, I did not mean to shot you” he said. The boy on the ground said “I know” and died there.  

Book Review 6 ( Tucket's Home)

Tucket’s Home

By: Gary Paulson

            Tucket’s home is a really good book it is about Tucket when he goes to find his family and he is on the wagon train alone with Lottie and Billy. In this adventure they stumble upon a Indian village in the mountains and when they are watching the camp Tucket gets bite by a rattlesnake that sneaks up on him.

            Tucket was in coma for two weeks and he woke up in a nice warm bed in the Indian village. He gets soup and after a week since he woke up they set out for the Oregon trail to find home.