Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure

Info about the book
Author: Franklin W.Dixon
Publisher:Grosset & Dunlap
Place and year of publication: New York 1959
Number of pages: 180
Where book was found: C.H.S Library
Genre: Fiction/Mystery

Story Review

The main characters are Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Mr. Hardy, Smuff, Chet, Jackley, Mr. & Mrs. Applegate, Mr. Robinson, Jerry, Biff, and Phil. Mr. Robinson was blamed for the crime of stealing the tower treasure which he didn’t commit. Mr Hardy was on the case. He believed that Jackley was the thief and that he needs to fly to where he is and ask him a few questions about the treasure. Smuff was out to ruin Mr. Hardy case. But Joe and Frank wouldn’t let that happen. After school Frank and Joe went outside to think of something, so they called there buds to come help them think of a way of making sure Smuff would miss his flight. They wanted to stall Smuff so he misses his 6 O’clock flight, and has to go on the 7 O’clock flight. So the Hardy’s and there buds went to Rocco’s Fruit and Veggie shop to take over for him while he rested. Smuff is neighbours with Rocco’s shop. So they thought of a plan to stall him for at least 30 minutes. They lit a barrel
full of garbage on fire so Smuff would come and try to be a hero and waste at least 20 minutes of his time witch was good enough. So his flight left without him.

The Hardy’s went to the old tower after Jackley confessed and told their father the info of where to go. Mr. & Mrs. Applegate wanted to know why they were here. The Hardy’s explained the whole story to them so they let them investigate the old & new tower because Jackley didn’t tell them which tower. They searched and searched they went up and down, but didn’t find anything. The second time they searched Mr. Hardy was with them and this time they searched very carefully. They didn’t find anything. But the next day Joe and Frank went to the old tower to look for the treasure. This time when they went to look up stairs the door
was stuck, so they pushed and pushed till the door flew open. There was the treasure, but hobo Johnny said it was his room, so he locked them in the room so they panicked. They tried to what 15 minutes so Hobo Johnny would leave. After 15 minutes they tried there hardest to get out the trap door but it was stuck. So they looked around for another exit. Frank found one spot on the roof were it was dry and looked easy to break through. So he picked up a crowbar and got a boost by Joe and he started smashing the spot till it was big enough to go through. He went up while Joe threw the treasure over to him and climbs up with his brother and go to their motorcycles and ride of to Bayport (which is where they live.) They reported this to the police and they set Mr. Robinson free. Mr. Applegate let them keep some of the treasure. So the Joe and Frank bought a crime lab on the second floor of their barn.

Christian Perspective

This book is not Christian or non Christian. It doesn’t have violence but it doesn’t contain any information on Christ. I believe that this book isn’t Christian, but does not show anything strictly against Christianity. I think there is nothing wrong with the way they responded to what happened. Like when they told the police on the thief, one of the Ten Commandments says you shall not steal. The man who stole also lied, you shall not
lie. I’m not exactly sure if this is a way Jesus would do it. All I know is it’s not exactly the opposite.

My Perspective

I enjoyed the book very much. I recommend the Hardy Boys series to boys who enjoy mystery books as much as I do. I hope whoever has read this book agrees with me.

Indian Captive

Indian Captive
The true story of Mary Jemison.
Retold by Lois Lenski
This book was published in 1941 by the harpercollins printing company in New York. It has 147 pages. I found this book in my scool library.

Mary Jemison lives with her father, mother, 2 brothers, and 3 sisters on their farm in Pennsylvania. It is the year 1758 and they farm corn for a living. Marys father calls her corn tassel because her hair is the colour of corn. He jokes that she doesnt have to worry about Indians because if they saw her they would think she was a stalk of corn and pass her by.

Then one day her house is attacked by Indian warriors. They take her and her younger brother separate from the rest of her family as they travel. When they arrive at the indian camp, she and her brother are separated. She learns to work in the corn and make pots out of river clay. The indians call her corn tassel, reminding her of her father. She learns to work, play, and llive like an indian.

One day a man comes to the camp. He is an englishmen. Her ' sisters' tell her to go hide in the corn field from the drunk native man who wants to sell her to him so he can buy more 'fire water' But when the choice comes to her to either go with th englishmen or stay with her new family, which will she choose?

Christian Perspective

I think that this book could have been written in a more christian perspective but it did have christianity in it. Mary would sometimes pray and recite the lords prayer but she didnt really ask God to help her very much. If she had of handled her problems in a more christian way and prayed more I probably would have liked it more.

My thoughts

I liked this book because it tells about how the senecas live their everyday life and it tells about their culture and ways of life. I reccomend this book to people who like hearing about other cultures and like biographies.

Elena's Book Review October 27

Information

Title: Wendy

Author: Karen Wallace

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

When and where it was published: Great Britain in 2003

Number of pages: 287

Where you found it: In my older sisters book shelf

Story Review

Just like many other children, Wendy Darling, just can't seem to understand grownups. It's all too confusing for a nine year old to comprehend, but soon Wendy must learn to hold on to what she believes even when you get confused by what you see. One night, Wendy, and her younger brother John decide to sneak downstairs and peek through the banister. What they imagined to see, women dancing and music playing, was not close to what they saw. Wendy simply can't erase the images that she has of that night Questions flood into her mind: does my father love someone else? did my mother do something wrong? do I have another brother? Wendy and her two younger brothers Michael, and John, are dragged through a roller coaster of life changing events, and once they finally accept that their family will never have joy or laughter in it ever again, they realize that they had got it all wrong. Yes their parents had had some secrets, but they still loved their children and they still loved each other. Wendy now understands that somethings are too complicated for her to understand but the faith of a child is stronger than any measure of understanding.

Christian Perspective

I Know that this book was not written from a Christian perspective, but I do understand that what wendy goes through in this story is to much for her to handle by her self . That's why we need God in our life. Yes the world can be ugly, but we can't expect it to be perfect because we made it this way. This is not where we will be forever and if Earth was so beautiful, we wouldn't want to leave. This story also shows me that while children grow up they tend to loose that faith that they have for their parents and become more independent. Just like that child, we need to rely fully on Jesus our heavenly father, and trust that he will get us through our struggles.

My Thoughts

I really enjoyed this book and sadly all books must have an end. It was a little bit hard to get into it but once you start reading, you can't put it down. The characters become your family members and you simply forget what problems and struggles you have in your life. You become Wendy and you are far away in the busy, bustling city of London. I would recommend this book to any one ready to go through the struggles wendy has. Someone with a pocketful of imagination, Someone eager for adventure.

Elena Klippenstein

Title: It only looks easy
Author: Pamela Curtis Swallow
Place and year of publication: 2003,New York
Number of pages: 166pg
Where you find the book: Christian Heritage School library.

Kat Randall is a seventh Grader. Her first day of seventh grade is ruined, because her loving pet Cheddar the dog is run over by a woman with Alzheimer’s disease. Kat reacts erratically. During the school hour she "borrows" the bike to check Cheddar. While she's in the Veterinary hospital she gets her "borrowed “bike stolen...
At school most of kids treat her differently than before. Before she felt kids would depend on her and now things have changed. She tried to pay the money back from babysitting and taking care of the woman with Alzheimer's disease who run over Cheddar....
Kat finds out her “friend" Dennis Boyle tries to put her into his crime and make her into bike stealer....
After everybody finds out the truth everybody went back to its place and happily ever after….

Christian Perspective
This book was not written in a Christian perspective. Because if this story was a Christian perspective Kat would of make things differently by praying. She should have prayed during the school hour instead of worrying about her dog Cheddar and she should have believed that God can do anything with her faith.

My thoughts
I was pleased with the book because it was always “what is going to happen next" and "what is she going to do after?"One part I did not like about the book was when the Ending was so common and as usual than I thought. I was expecting more of sad ending or even a unique ending. I recommend this book to anyone who likes modern books.

It only looks easy

title: It only looks easy
Author: Pamela Curtis Swallow
Publisher: Scholastic
Place and year of publication: New York, 2003
Number of pages: 167 pages
Where I found the book: Christian Heritage School’s library

Story review:
The title of this book shows that life can’t always be easy and it might not look complicated as it is. Kat Randall lives with her beloved dog, Cheddar, her sister Hannah, and her parents. Kat is going into 7th grade and she’s feeling that this is going to be her best year. Kat comes before the school day and she finds out that Cheddar gets into a car accident. Cheddar goes to the veteran hospital before Kat’s first day of school that she’s been very excited for. She tries not to worry for her school day, but she gets impatient and “borrows” a bike to go to the veteran hospital. When she’s done, she finds out that the bike got stolen. Kat tells her parents about it and they tell her, to tell the bike owner (which is Melody Whiezersky), what had exactly happened to the bike.

Mrs. Lawrence is the one who gets Cheddar into a car accident and Mr. Lawrence invites Kat to go fishing together. While they’re fishing, Mr. Lawrence tells about his wife, about the Alzheimer’s disease that she has which makes you so confused that you can’t be left alone in the house and can’t remember things very well.

When Kat gets home, she finds out that Cheddar gets to come home soon. She gets excited but she remembers that she still got the bike problem. Kat’s school year is not going great as she expected and she tries to solve the problem as fast as she can, but doesn’t go smooth as she expects. Kat calls her two best friends; Abby and Matthew to see if they want help Kat to look for the bike. They look all over the place, but still can’t find it.

When she gets back, she gets a call from Mr. Lawrence and he asks if he can take care of Mrs. Lawrence. Kat says she will, because she still needs to earn more money for the bike. Kat helps Mrs. Lawrence with the gardening and when they are done, Kat gets some drinks and when she goes outside, she can’t find Mrs. Lawrence. Kat looks everywhere in the garden and the other side of the house and she’s not there, so Kat calls 911 and tell them what had happened. After she hangs up, she finds Mrs. Lawrence, coming out of the Bathroom. A moment later, a police car screeches at Mrs. Lawrence’s house and Kat tells that they lost a track of each other for a little bit.

About a half an hour later, Mr. Lawrence arrives and when Kat is about to leave, she sees a police officer, stretching something in the water and it was a bike. Kat tells the officer about the missing bike. He kept reaching the bikes out of the river and the fourth bike that he found was Melody’s bike. Even though the bike was missing some pieces; at least she found the bike. When Kat goes to the school the next day, she gets called in the principle office and she finds out that, her classmate, Dennis Boyle and his brother was the bike crime. They found the missing pieces in their shed. Dennis and his brother apologize to Kat and she is so happy that the bike crime is over. Kat realizes that everything is over now, and everything is now back to normal again.

Christian perspective:
This book doesn’t specifically talk about Christianity, but there are some actions and believes that Christians also believe and act in. The family kept praying when their dog got into a car accident. They also prayed when the bike got stolen. The main characters shows some Christianity perspective, when her classmate asked for help, she helped her classmate even though she didn’t wanted to and had lots of other things that she had to deal with.

My thoughts:
In my perspective, I think this is a great book, especially to those who like dogs. I enjoyed the book, because this book taught me some lessons about being patient and looking at the positive perspective. I like how this book makes you curious and makes you wonder about the next chapter. I like how this book isn’t just focused on one main idea, but focused on school, friendships, family, and lots of other things that are happening around you. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to talk about their friendships, communities, school and who likes animals.

Escape Under The Forever Sky -by Olivia

Title: Escape Under the Forever Sky
Author: Eve Yohalem
Publisher: Scholastic
Place and year of publication: December 2009
Number of pages: 215
Where you found the book: School library

Story Review

13 year old Lucy Hoffman has to move to Africa with her mom because her mom accepted a job as an American Ambassador, while her father stays in Indonesia with the World Bank. Her mom is very protective and won’t let her go anywhere accept for school. Her best friends are Teddy, Tana, and Iskinder who works in the residence.
Her mother always makes her come to boring dinners for her work, but one day Lucy and Tana decide to sneak out to a café called Mmmm My Flavour. While they are there, Dawit her driver, comes to the café and tells them that he is supposed to take them home. They’re busted! Dawit drops Tana off and is going to take Lucy home, but all of the sudden Lucy notices that they’re not going the right way but Dawit doesn’t listen, she gets frantic and yells at him to pull over. He swirves over and a man gets in the car and knocks her out.
The next thing she knows, she’s in a dark room and she bruised and hungry. After a few days of being there, eating nothing but ingera and water to drink, she finds out who kidnapped her. Marcos is the mean leader and Helena and Dawit are just in it for the money. Lucy realizes that she will die if she doesn’t make a run for it, so she gets out through a window and runs as fast as she can until she get to the jungle in the distance. She hides in a tree until her abductors are gone, then she goes off to find a river. She decides to follow the river and hopefully it will lead to a village. On her way she has to hide from her abductors, find food, and watch out for animals. Will she find her way home? Will she die by animals? Or will Marcos, Helena, and Dawit find her?

Christian Perspective
This book wasn’t written in a Christian perspective but Lucy (the main character) had heard about God before and sometimes did a little prayer of thanks or when she was in trouble. Since this book wasn’t written in a Christian perspective, Lucy could have dealt her problems with her mother by trying to understand why her mother was so over protective. She could have not run off to the café or markets and obeyed her mother.

Your Thoughts
I really liked this book because it was an adventure book so it was really interesting and there was never a dull moment. Another reason I liked this book was because it was inspired by a true story of a 12 year old girl in Ethiopia who was kidnapped for a week until she decided to escape. She ran into the jungle where she met three lions they chased off her abductors and surrounded her for several hours until the police arrived. I would recommend this book to people who like adventures and suspense.

Book Review: Fablehaven

Title: Rise of the Evening star (Fablehaven)

Author: Brandon Mull

Publisher and place & year of publication: Aladdin April 2007 New York

Number of pages: 368

Where I found the book: From a friend

Story review:

This is a fantasy-adventure genre book. It is about a boy and a girl named Seth and Kendra. Kendra is 12 and Seth is 10. Seth is very courageous and outgoing but sometimes a bit headstrong. Kendra is very timid and not outgoing at all. The reason this book is called Fablehaven is because that is the name of the magical preserve that their grandpa lives on. They go to their grandparents because their mom and dad are going on a vacation.

They don’t know their grandparents very well because they’ve never been to their house before. So when they get there they are amazed at how big there grandparent’s yard is and that there are so many bugs like butterflies around. When they see their grandpa he tells them that they aren’t allowed in the yard because there are ticks and stuff like that in the forest but he says it very suspiciously.

Eventually they find out that the butterflies are fairies and that the yard is full of magical creatures. On Midsummer’s eve, the most dangerous day on the preserve Seth opens a window and lets evil magical creatures inside the house. When they wake up they find the house in ruins, and they go on an adventure to fix everything.

Christian Perspective:

This book is not written from a Christian perspective. At times it is quite intense and dark. There are lots of times when Kendra, Seth, or there grandpa could’ve prayed for help from God. When they first find out that the butterflies are fairies, they ask their grandpa if the fairies are good or evil and he says “they are not good or evil. The brownies fix things because it is what they do not to be kind.”

Personal thoughts:

This is a great book, but like I said in Christian perspective, at times it can get a little dark. It has all the elements of a great book though. Adventure, emotion, cliffhangers, plot twists, etc. I would recommend this to anyone who likes amazing books.

Book Review:Nava

Title: After Ever After

Publisher:Scholastic Press

Place and year of publication:New York, 2010

I found his book at Christian Heritage School

Genre:Non-fiction

-Story Review-

After Ever After is a book about thirteen year old Jeffrey Alper,who is a cancer survivor. He cant participate in phys.ed. because of the nerve damage in his right foot that makes him limp. So he gets to ride the bike. He is a serious bike guy so every year he bikes twenty five miles to raise money in a Bike-a-Thon for cancer survivors.

Jeffrey's older, responsible, caring, non-rebelling brother Steven has gone off to Africa for a drumming circle. He tries to keep in touch with Steven, but Steven is tired of taking responsibility after his little brother. Jeff is helping his best friend Tad, who also had cancer, prepare for a secret, surprising plan for their grade eight graduation, Jeffrey and Tad had always been seen as the cancer twins since becoming friends in grade four.

He is also very focused on this beautiful,smart, funny girl named Lindsey Abraham,popular new girl in his grade eight class, who might even like him too. It all happened in the morning of the first day of school in New Jersey, when he sees this girl crouched down gathering her stuff all over the floor, Jeff thinks she will be late for class and if he didn't help she would get walked all over by the people in the hallway. After they are done picking up the items of her book bag, she turns to the side and says thank you to him, when instantly Ka- POW! Jeff thought it was a figure of speech when someone said that beauty can hit you suddenly.

His dad is a big lover of math and numbers, he also works as an accountant but Jeff isn't doing well in math or in other classes so he makes a deal with Tad. Jeff helps prepare Tad for graduation, Tad tutors him. The signifigance of the title After Ever After is how his life is after battling his cancer.

-Christian Perspective-

As a Christian, I thought that the book was okay. I also thought that the characters in the book didn't really deal with issues or problems in a Christ-like way because if Jeffrey and his family were Christians they would pray to God for Jeffrey's cancer and his parents wouldn't be arguing that much. Another thing that wasn't very Christ-like about the characters is that they use the Lord's name as an expression

-My Thoughts-

I really liked this book because it is a non-fiction book and it is about a teen's life. This book made me feel happy, sad, excited, in suspense, and sometimes happy and sad. This book is also about how your life is affected after surviving cancer. I would recommend this book to people who like reading about the life of a teen or to people who like non-fiction.

Thanks for reading my book review people!=)

The Skin I'm In

Title: The Skin I’m In
Author: Sharon G Flake
Publisher: scholastic Inc
Place and year publication: 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012, 1998
Number of pages: 170
Where you got this book: CHS library

STORY REVIEW
This book is the story of a seventh grader named Maleeka. Maleeka has very dark black skin. She used to be proud of it, but when her father died, kids started picking on her. Char, the most popular girl in the grade, makes a deal with Maleeka that if she does her homework, Char will stick up for her, and Maleeka can hang out with her. A new teacher arrives, Miss Saunders. She too gets made fun of because she has a big blotch on her face, which is a birth mark.

Every morning Char, Maleeka, and the twins Raina and Raise hung out in the bathroom. They smoked, did drugs, and gave Maleeka clothes, all before class started. All the girls at some point went into the bathrooms to smoke and do drugs. It came to a point where the principal didn't like it, so he took down all the stall doors and walls, but that didn’t stop them. Maleeka goes along with Char, and gets in trouble. Maleeka ends up having to work in the office. A boy named Caleb started liking Maleeka, but then he stops talking to her because everyone is making fun of them.

One day, Miss Saunders makes Char really mad, so Char drags Maleeka along and they go to the school, up to Miss Saunders’ class room. Char makes Maleeka light the room on fire and runs away, leaving poor Maleeka to get caught. Maleeka takes the blame at first, but then tells on Char. In the end, Maleeka and Caleb are back together and Maleeka is friends with Miss Saunders. Also, Char gets expelled and sent to a new school.

MY THOUGHTS
Even though I don’t like reading fiction, I really enjoyed this book. This is the best book that was fiction I’ve ever read! This book would be for someone who’s been insulted hurt because what race, religion, belief, strengths or weaknesses. At the beginning Maleeka was ashamed about her colour but that just brought her down. I’m black and I really am proud of it. This book related to me very much and would have been useful for my middle years, but it really shows that it doesn’t matter the way you look or dress we are all the same. Everybody has flaws, so there is no need of making fun of someone else’s when you have another type of flaw.

CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
1 Peter 4:14 says... If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of God rests on you. You can fill in the words underlined with anything else that you are insulted by. If the Spirit of God lives in you then it doesn’t matter what people say on the outside because the inside of you are gorgeous. Maleeka isn’t what the people around make her to be, you decide if you are going to believe what people say, or be who you really are. How you live in the real world should reflect who you are inside, and Jesus lives inside of us who believe in him, so we should be showing Christ like behaviour!

Tales of King Arthur

Author: Felicity brooks

Published in the The British Library

Usborne publishing ltd in 2006

The book has over 138 pages

And was found in the CHS library

The story is about a man named Arthur. He was the son of Uther who used to be the king of Britain. Arthur was an infant when Merlin told Uther that Arthur was not safe in the castle because of the enemy invaders the king agreed so Merlin took him and put him in a foster family his foster father was named sir Ector and his older foster brother sir Kay there was a tournament at Camelot the winner will be crowned king of Britain so knight overlord and king all over the world came to the tournament. And when it was mourning there was a stone with a sword through it said the one who pulls the sword out is the true born king many tired but fail when the tournament started Arthur forgot sir Kays sword so he saw that sword and pulled it out and from there on Arthur is known as the king and he married a beautiful girl named Guinevere so the story of Arthur and his knights begins the enemy of his father and also new enemies raise up to invade Camelot in the end the final battle they defeat all their enemies and Arthur can finally restore peace.

Christian perspective

The book is not related to the Christian way because of its dark magic and evil and it did not really have anything related to God. To make the book in a more Christian way is to have a holy bible in the kingdom and everyone must obey the rules of the bible and I would not recommend this for Christians.

My thoughts

I think this was a very good book because the Author put words that made the characters sound so heroic and evil. This book is for people who like history in the early times and fantasy or myths mixed with it and also this book setting is around the mid evil times so if you like magic and witchcraft, sorcery this is the book for you.

Kourtney's Book Review

Information About the Book

Title: Sender Unknown

Author: Sallie Lowenstein

Publisher: Scholastic

Place & Year of Publication: USA 2006

Number of Pages: 258

Where you found the book: School library

Story Review

Mark is a VERY smart guy who graduated at the age of 14. Since then he has loved his job as a fix-it man. But one day, after his high school reunion, he decides to change his life in big ways.

He gets a good high paying job, a new car, and he buys a big old house. But there’s a mystery about this house. Every day (except Sundays) he receives about 15 catalogs.

All these catalogs are toy catalogs and apparently they’ve been coming to this address for 52 years. Another thing that these catalogs have in common is that none of them have a return address.

One day he decides to order out of some of them. He gets his order but it’s not quite what he expected. But there are no refunds and no returns. He tries to find an answer to the mystery of the catalogs by teaming up with an ex-cop. On the way he finds out something very interesting about himself. But will the mystery stay hidden? After all, the sender is unknown.

Christian Perspective

This book has no mention of God or Christianity. But Mark deals with his problems in a nice calm manner. He’s pretty patient with getting an answer. The thing that he could’ve done though, was to ask God for help and guidance. He also could’ve been more considerate of Elliot’s (his personal secretary) feelings, because Elliot was just trying to help Mark with his job, but it got on Marks nerves. Even though it wasn’t a Christian book there weren’t any swears or bad language in it.

My Thoughts

I really enjoyed reading this book. It’s very well written and it made me want to keep reading. The author had A LOT of imagination and I think that in order to enjoy this book the reader also needs to have a good imagination. It’s a longer book so if you’re not a very big reader then it might overwhelm you a bit. It has a pretty small font size. I would recommend this book to someone who likes to read, has a good imagination, and someone who enjoys mysteries.

The Sign of the Beaver

Title: The Sign of the Beaver
Author: Elizabeth george Speare
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for young readers
Place and year of publication: New York, August 1984
Number of pages: 135
Where you found the book: The school library

Summary:
The book I read was called Sign of the Beaver and I was really attached to it while reading it. The book is about a story that takes place in the late 1760s in northeast coast of America. The main characters are Matt Hallowell, Matt’s father, Attean, and Saknis. The Book starts when Matt and his Dad are finished building a cabin near the beaver tribe territory. The dad leaves Matt with a gun, watch, and a cabin to take care of while Matt’s dad gets the rest of the family. A couple of days after Matt’s dad leaves, a stranger named Ben comes to Matt’s cabin and tries to make himself comfortable at the cabin, he was wandering down the forest and was heading towards the beaver tribe, but it was getting dark when he saw Matt’s cabin, he decided to knock, Matt opens for him and he enters, Matt then makes him food, Ben who was famished ate till he got stuffed and slept. Matt thought it was rude to wake him up, so he lets him stay. Next day Matt wakes up to find that his rifle was gone and he found no sign of Ben. Matt felt scared and miserable, like his guts were being ripped off, all what he could think of was without a gun there is no food.

Matt was tired of thinking of ways to look for food, one idea flashed, he remembered seeing a bee hive with his dad couple of weeks ago, so he was tempted to get honey and decides to climb the tree to get to the hive, unfortunately he gets stung and falls off. Lying on the floor with a blurry vision, all he notices was 2 strange figures helping him, one big figure and a small figure picking him up to the cabin and giving him medicine. He wakes up next day with an Indian chief in his cabin which is the guy who helped him pull out the bee stings. His name was saknis. Out of his deep gratitude Matt decides to give him a gift to show his respect, so he gives him a book which was one of the few things Matt had. After that Saknis asked Matt to teach his grandson Attean to speak English so when more English settlers come, he can communicate with them and make treaties. Attean then started coming everyday to learn English and he would bring food for matt such as a rabbit or a duck. A month later things reverse, it was now Attean's turn to teach Matt hunting and to pass to him some of the tribe secrets such as carving trail signs leading to the beaver tribe on trees, so if they are lost they can find their way back to the tribe.

Few weeks later, it was getting cooler, and winter signs started to show, Matt was expecting his family to come any time now. However, The bad news was that the Beaver Tribe were getting ready to move North as their usual before winter hits, this mean't that they will leave Matt’s Area. As both kids became best friends, Attean asked Matt to join the tribe as he called him now, the white brother. Matt was confused and did not know what to do because leaving with the tribe could mean that he should abandon his hopes of ever seeing his family, so he decided to stay and wait. Attean understands his decision and he assured him by saying that he would do the same. Attean then gives him his dog as a gift and Matt gives him a golden watch. Matt knew that he made the right decision when his family showed up a week later which during the time he had prepared the cabin for them and for his new baby brother or sister. As soon as they came he discovered that the baby did not survive the cold weather and died. Disappointed but happy for the return of his father and mother, he prepared a nice kitchen for his mom and every day, after their first meal, Matt would have a new story to tell his parents about his adventures with Attean and his life in the past months.

Christian Perspective:
In this book the main character struggles alot with finding food and he is always trying to figure
out a way to survive. He ends up with his Native American friend who helps him learn how to survive and brings him food. In this book I believe Matt was Christian because it talked about him having 2 books the bible and a fiction book. Matt decides not to give away the Bible because he knew its importance of it for himself. I realized that he acted like a Christian because he welcomed stranger into his home. He offered to help and teach Attean how to speak and read. Throughout the book there were many moments where he got frustrated but he controlled
himself, like how a Christian should. I also believe that he was a good Christian because he shared stories with Attean like Noah and the ark. If I was in Matt’s spot I would have taught Attean how to read and speak using the bible because he would the learn Christianity, they way of life. Overall Matt shows His Christian like behaviour because he does not lose hope in ever seeing his family and by welcoming people to his home and sharing his skills with others.


Your Thoughts:
The Sign of the Beaver was a very interesting book; it was so good that it won a Newberry Medal. The book was one of my favourites; it was probably my most liked book that I have read this year. This book has an extensive amount of details. I think the author put so many details that she made me use all my five senses, and it really showed me that we are all the same even if we have different cultures and religions, we all think the same and we all have same feelings and this was the main message of this book. In the beginning Matt and Attean both thought they had nothing in common, but they ended up calling each other brothers because that’s how much they had in common even with their different beliefs. I learned that we can always learn from anyone, no matter how different we are in all aspects and give second chances. This book is for the type of people interested in adventure and survival books.

Mr. Poppers Penguins

Book review

Title:Mr. Poppers Penguins.

Authors:Richard and Florence Atwater.

Publisher:Scholastic INC

Place and year of publication:730 Broadway, New York, first Scholastic printing, January 1994

Number of pages:138

Where you found the book: CHS library

Summary

My book that I that I am writing a review about is called Mr. Poppers Penguins. The story takes place in a small town called Stillwater. The main the characters in Mr. Poppers Penguins are Mr. and Mrs. Popper and his two children Janie and Bill. This book takes you in a big adventure and it has a lot of ups and downs.

Its hard enough for Mr. Popper to support his family, Mr. Popper is a house painter and he doesn't earn enough money on time. When Mr. Popper was Painting a housewife kitchen, he painted the kitchen two different colours, after a while everyone stared having two coloured kitchen instead of one. Mr Popper always had a dream of far counties because he had never been out Sillwater. Mr Popper had only one regret that he had never been to the Poles. Janie and Bill always wanted a pet but soon they will get the wish.

On day Mr. and Mrs. Popper got a package all the way the Antarctica from Admiral Drake. When Mr Popper and his family where opening the package they heard a little ''Ork'' . Inside the package was a little Penguin and they named the Penguin Captain Cook. One day Captain Cook got very lonely so they got another Penguin and the name her Greta soon later they had 10 little baby Penguins. Soon later Mr popper train the penguins and puts them in a theatre. When they were preforming the audience loved them so much that they gain a lot of fame and Mr. And Mrs. Popper started making five thousand a week. One day Admiral Drake came back to get the penguins because the people in the Antarctica need a pet so Mr Popper agrees to do whats best for the penguins and Mr. Popper ended up going with then to the Antarctica.

My thoughts

I think this book was really good. The reason I chose this book because I like animals and penguins. The author did a really good job writing the book. I would recommend this book to people who like animals or penguins. Personally I really like this book.

Christians Perspective

I don't think this book was made to be Christian. But Christians can easily add on to it. Like one time in this book Mr. Popper had little money and he wasted it all on the penguins. He bought the food he made them beds even though the penguins really weren't his. That the love Christians need to have.

Heroes Don't Run

Title: Heroes Don’t Run

Author: Harry Mazer

Publisher: Scholastic printing

Year of publication: September 2005

Place of publication: printed in U.S.A

Number of pages: 116

Where I found the book: Christian heritage library

Story review

This book is about a boy named Adam Pelko who was too young to join the military, so his grandpa signed a paper that allowed him to join. Then he went on a train that brought him to boot camp, where he spent the next seven months training to be in the military. Then after his military training he went to an island called Okinawa, where he was in combat with the Japanese soldiers. Then one day he was fighting in a shell hole and a mortar exploded above him and his commander, which sent them flying into the ground. Then he was in the hospital he had a broken leg and a concussion and if his commander didn’t land on him, he would have also died. I think the title is Heroes Don’t Run because even though he thought he would die he still joined the military because it was the right thing to do.

Christian Perspective

It is not a very Christ like book because their always talking down to one another and swearing. Sometimes they encourage and help one another, but not most of the time. It is very descriptive, in some ways good and other times bad.

My thoughts

I really liked this book because I love studying about the world wars. It was one of the few books I liked, because it was full of action and it was about World War 2. I would recommend this book to anyone who is into studying the World Wars.

Joel

Realistic Fiction

October 26, 2011

Emnet’s Book Report,October 26,2011-The total tragedy of a girl named hamlet

Information

Title: The total tragedy of a girl named hamlet

Author: By Erin Dionne.

Publisher: penguin group.

Place and year of publication: February 4th 2010 (first published October 23rd 2009) in New York.

Number of pages: 290 pages, hardcover.

Where I found the book: school library.

Story review

Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average happy eighth grader, But with parents who are Shakespeare scholars who show up to school wearing customs,dresses, like they are living in the sixteenth century, it’s impossible. But it doesn't get any better because one day they decide that her genius seven year old sister should Rockne’ the HOHO art and music wing, because she is too young for high school.

And on the first day of school when hamlet gets to her English class, her teacher tells the class that history and English are blocked this semester, because they are going to use those class to do A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHTS DREAM; play.And once in class when they were practising the play the teacher chose hamlet to read her; one of the characters lines and when she did our heroine turned out to be an extraordinary Shakespearean actress, which made her stand out even more in school and class which is exactly the opposite of what she wanted her grade 8 year to be.

And it gets better because know her sister is helping in algebra class for the students who need extra help in that class. And the significance for the title is because it tells the reader that the main character life is a total tragedy before they even start the reading the book.At times its tragic,at times ridiculous and, in the end. totally wonderfully unexpected.

Christian perspective

Well this book wasn't written from a Christian’s perspective, but I think that the character might have had a better way to deal with the conflict then to just leave it and not talk to her parents about it, it just made the whole problem seem worse than it was. she should have just told her parents straight out from the start that she didn't break the Shakespeare project her dad was working on .The but in the end she did deal with the conflict in a godly way.

My thoughts

Well at first I thought that the book, wasn't gone be that interesting cause it included the word Shakespeare and that is one of the least things that I like. But when I started reading the book I wanted to see what will happen in the end so I couldn't stop reading it. And this book has lots of interesting things, and hamlet, the main character ;she deals with her life in a way that is hilarious and painful. But the result was interesting to see. I would probably recommend this book to, people who enjoy reading about Shakespeare's and his''interesting'' books, and who like fiction books that are about middle school and all that comes with it.

Things Not Seen.

Title: Things Not Seen.

Author: Andrew Clements.

Publisher: Scholastics Inc.

Place/Year of Publication: New York, October 2002.

Number of Pages: 251 Pages.

Where Did I Find The Book: Christian Heritage's Library.

Story Review:

It's a Feburary morning on a Tuesday. He goes to the bathroom to take a shower. After that, he goes to wipe off the mirror. He can't see anything. So he tries again. Still nothing. Of course now he sees something, but it's what he doesn't see. ''I am invisible'' Bobby Phillips said.

This is a story about a boy named Bobby Phillips. Nobody can see him, as if he was invisible. People who see him or walk by him can't see him. That means they can just see a boy that they don't notice. To get to know more about Bobby's parents, they leave him home for a few nights alone, so they never really ''get together'' alot. Since he is home alone a lot and lives in a ''mysterious'' town, he hears noises just are just the neighbours or something outside, just like we do sometimes. In the middle of the story, Bobby meets a girl named Alicia. They got to know each other better by emailing each other all night. Bobby never went to school for a few days which turned into weeks. Who would want to go to school when nobody especially your classmates and teacher can't even notice you. Eventually, some of his school friends got to him and said it be cool to go and spy on everybody. Nobody got his problem. Nobody knew what he was going through.

The signifiance of this book has to the title (Things Not Seen) , Bobby Phillips is not seen. Nobody notices him or virbally sees him. Nobody can notice him - not even his parents or teacher can.

Christian Perspective:

In my personal opinon, this is some what of a Christian book. The author did mention God in some ways. For example, in every 3 chapter there would be a ''Oh my, God!'' or ''Thank God''. It never said anything about Bobby's family having a religion or going to church, but Bobby did pray in some parts. If this was a top Christian book, then the characters would have delt with this different in my thought. Bobby could have paryed daily for his problem to go away. He also could ahve went to youth group and learn more about God instead of staying at home all paranoid. His parents would have been a lot closer to him instead of going out a million times a week. Andrew Clements (the author) is a Christian because in the second book ''Things Hoped For'' be does mention Bible verses.

My Thoughts:

This boo is a really good book! It repeats important words just like in the Hatchet, for you's to understand it more better and that helped me in some parts. This book is interesting and it's like a mystery because you have to find out why he has that problem. I would recommend this book to a person who loes fiction and figuring out mystery.

alex rider: scorpia rising

Information about the book

Title: Scorpia rising

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Publisher: Walker Books

Place and year of publication: first published in 2011 in London

Number of pages: 431

Where I found it: I bought it at a bookshop

Plot:

Part one of this book gives a introduction on the activities and characters of the Scorpia operation. When Zeljan Kurst arrived in London, MI6 became very suspicious and followed him to the British Museum. At the museum the MI6 operation failed and Scorpia agents assassinated all the MI6-agents. Despite high alert throughout the whole city to find the Scorpia agent he escapes with a brilliant disguise.

Part two takes up the majority of the book. Here the reader gets introduced to Alex and MI6 as well as the conflict with Scorpia and their agents. Meanwhile Alex Rider is trying to live a normal live again, but once a spy, always a spy. This means he will never have his old live back. At school his class comes under attack by a sniper. Alex follows the sniper to an old a house where he managed to disable the getaway helicopter. To his dismay the sniper and his accomplice were already gone. With all their agents killed MI6 recruits him again.

Scorpia helped Julius escape from prison to kill Alex, as a distraction to Alex. Scorpia tries to bring disgrace to England, steal and return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. It seems to be the end of Alex’s career and life....

One bullet

and

one life

the end is near, and this is where it starts.

Christian perspective

No, this book does not reflect a Christian perspective. Because it is about revenge agianst Alex and the MI6

Julius Grief is a character from the second book of the Alex Rider series. He was created in a lab by his “father” Hugo Grief hoe wanted to duplicates of the worlds most wealthy men‘s sons. Fortunately Alex stopped him and Hugo was killed in the proses. Now Julius would do any thing to get revenge.

Julius should forgive Alex and forget about it, and go on with his live. Or listen to his prison psychiatrist that could have helped him with his problem with Alex and help him continue with his live. He chose neither and escaped from his prison and tried to kill Alex but got killed him self.

What did I think about the book and who should read it:

This book and the rest of the Alex Rider series is brilliant and I would recommend it to any one who likes action packed books. I would also recommend to start by reading the first book in the series an work trough them sequentially.

Mayday at 2500

Mayday

At two thousand five hundred

Author: Frank E Peretti

Publisher: Tommy Nelson

Number of pages: 132

It was published in 1997 in Canada

I found it in the school library

Mayday at 2500 is about Jay Cooper and his uncle Rex who went flying to the Cascade Mountains. When a huge jet flew over them the wind turbulence was strong it knocked Rex unconscious and Jay with a bad head injury.

Once in the story they want jay to land the plane in the water but that would mean he would have to crash in the water and only save himself but not uncle Rex.

So the titles resemblance with the book is that the title says mayday at 2500 that is when they get knocked out at 2500 above ground it is a big experience for him.

Christian perspective

My reaction to this book is since it’s a Christian book I loved it they prayed a lot in this book he might have been praying a lot like I would be praying a lot. Jay was thankful God kept him safe.

My thoughts

I thought that this was a good book because it had adventure and at every chapter you would not want to stop. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes Frank E Peretti or who ever like’s a adventure with the cooper kid’s series

Composition

The setting was in an airplane and in an airport.

The characters are:

Jay, uncle Rex, Dr. Cooper, the aunt and Jay’s Sister Lilia.

The problem was that Rex got knocked out and Jay was blinded by blood from his head injury and Jay had to land blind.

~Destiny

I am a Taxi

Author- Deborah Ellis

Number of pages- 208

Publisher- Groundwood

Place published- Toronto Berkeley 2007

Where I found the book- Christian Heritage Library

The book I decided to read is called “I am a Taxi.” The title of the book tells the story of the main character in these few words. What he does for a living and what keeps him going. This book is about a 12 year old boy named Diego who lives in Cochabamba, Bolivia with his parents and younger sister. His mother and father were falsely accused of being in possession of drugs.

His mother, his younger sister Corina and he all live in the San Sebastián Woman’s Prison in a cell on the second floor. His father lives in the San Sebastián Men's Prison. His family was poor and struggled to pay the cell rent.

Diego worked as a taxi delivering messages and packages for other inmates in the prison. His friend Mando persuades Diego to leave his family for two weeks to work for the men. Mando and Diego leave with the men hoping for money, little did they know these men were criminals. Next thing they know, Diego is deep in a jungle in Bolivia stomping in cocaine pits.

Diego and Mando didn’t like the work and decided to run away. Unfortunately, while Mando and Diego try to escape, an incident happens with Mando.

It strikes Diego that he will never see his friend again. He runs away from camp. He runs far enough that he ends up in a cocoa leaf field and meets a girl named Bonita. Her family helps him with food and shelter and provides comfort for him to rest and carry on with life.

This book is full of action and is an exciting read.

Christian Perspective

I don't think this book was made to be Christian but Christianity could easily be added to the book. The 2 main characters in the book got into trouble and should have prayed for God to help them. Their problems could have been easily solved with the help of God. If this book was christian i think that when Diego finds rest in the end of the book, its like he has found rest in the arms of God.

Your Thoughts

I think this book was an awesome read. It kept me on the edge of my seat.

I liked how the entire book didn't have only one main topic, but changed throughout the book. That way it keeps the book exciting and different.

I would recommend this book to readers who like action stories. It will keep people wondering what will happen next. Also people who want to know more about this particular subject can read the sequel and expand on their knowledge

Every soul a star

Title: Every soul a star
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Hachette book group
Place and year of publication: New York, 2008
Numbers of pages: 322
Where you found the book: In the school’s library

Story review:

This book is written in 3 perspectives: Ally, Bree and Jack. If they were in a same school, they won’t even talk to each other.

Ally, she lives in Mood shadow campground, Middle of nowhere, U.S.A. She will not and cannot imagine life anywhere else. But fate has different plans for her, after the eclipse she has to “civilization “or in other words in a city. She is shocked so she and Bree make a plan. They even helped Jack and Mr. Silver in Mr.Silver's project with Ryan, Melony, Bree, Kenny (her brother). They had time of their life. Next afternoon, they saw their saw the eclipse right above their heads.

Bree is a popular, pretty and believes that she got switched at birth because her parents and her sister are geniuses. She wants to be a model .When her parents told her that they are moving to a campground; she was crushed because she’s not actually a nature girl. When they arrived, she decided she would never survive here. She got together with Ally and Kenny to make a plan. She even looked at the moon through a telescope. Then she realized that her "inner geek" is realeased. When she saw the eclipse she never ever saw anything that beautiful.

Jack is an overweight and always lonely plus no friends, just failed Mr, Silver’s science class. So, instead of doing summer school Mr. Silver offers him to be his assistant at an eclipse tour. He’ll write a report at the end and that will count as his science credit. On the way he made a strong connection with an old lady named Stella(he met her on the bus) and Ally. He plans to miss the eclipse.

As the eclipse is approaching all three of them are looking for something(even though they might not know what it is). In the end would they find it...or not.

Christian perspective:

I don’t think this book was written in a Christian perspective. Ally and Bree should have prayed and should have asked God to guide them. Before they actually put the plan into place they should have prayed and that if it didn’t work, they should know God should guide them, and he as always with you.

Your thoughts:

I really liked and enjoyed the book. I liked how the book was divided into 3 perspectives, and how sometimes one person starts from where the last person left off. I liked how each chapter ends off with the cliff hanger and it forces you to read more into it. I loved all the characters. My favourite one was Ally. The reason why I thought she was a nature loving girl, cheerful and did not care what people thought about her. I think the name of the book “ Every Soul A Star” correctly because every soul is as precious as a star. If could recommend this book to anyone it would be a person intrested in Science or a person who just loves realistic fiction.