week 5

I am currently reading Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson. Anderson is a Nation Book Award finalist, and she won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book award, and an Edgar Allen Poe finalist.
Catalyst is about a young girl named Kate that is about 17 or 18 years old. Kate’s father is a pastor at a church, so she basically is the “good girl”. Kate’s mother died when she was 8 years old. And she has a little brother that’s 14 years old.
She is a senior in high school and she’s super smart. She has been freaking out over the last 98 eight days because she only applied to one college. The one and only college she wants to get into is MIT. Her letter came in and she was rejected. After a bad day at school, she came home only to realize it got even worse. Her worse enemy, Teri Litch, now has to live in her house because their house burned down. Because her father is the pastor, it’s his job to help people who need help so he decides to let Teri’s family stay in their house. Teri is a bit of a heavy set, big girl. Because of this, everyone makes fun of her, and when people make fun of her, Teri fights them back and always gets into trouble. While Teri has been living with Kate, Kate notices that some of her jewelry has gone missing and she sees Teri wearing it. She has tried telling her father, but he wouldn’t listen. And this is all that I read so far.

Week 2

I am reading Hothouse by Chris Lynch. So far the story is about a guy named Russell, who is attempting to get over the death of his father David who was a firefighter that had died in a fire saving an old lady and her cat. Also killed in the fire is his best friend DJ’s father Russell died. Russell’s dad (David) was best friends with DJ’s father (Russell) and they both named their boys after their best friend names. The whole community feels devastated of the loss of David and Russell. The mayor places an memorial in the town stating that Russell’s and DJ’s dad was a hero. Russell still dealing with his grief but is happy for school to start so he can put the whole summer behind him. On the first day of school he gets into a fight with a guy named Montgomerie. Montogmerie and Russell never really got along, Montogmerie is always trying to start trouble, giving Russell an evil eye, and smirking in his direction. Mont. came up to Rusell Friday morning stating that his father was a phony hero and that he was drunk the night he died. Russell told Mont. to take it back but Mont. refused to, so Russell got very angry and started beating up on Mont. His friends pulled him off of Mont. Russell got a text massage from his mom right after he was pulled off of Mont to come home and realizing what he did ran home.

So far I have really enjoyed this book. I can relate to missing a loved one and trying to move on in life and let it go. I hope to read more novels by this author. I can not wait to finish this book and share more with you.

What I'm Reading

Im still readin "Peak" and it is a very good book. Im at the part where Peak arrives at a hotel a couple miles outside of Everst. His dad Josh had bought a whole bunch of new gear and left it in his room. Peak is trying it all out and inspecting it all when a person knocks on the door. He opens it and sees a boy about his age but a couple inches shorter. He said his name was Sun-jo and he was the grandson of a sherpa. He was sent there to get Peak and bring him to the buddhist temple. When they arrive Peak and the Sherpa (Zopa) greet each other and he gives them some money for a taxi and head back to the hotel. When they get there Zopa looks at all his gear and says he needs some different gear. So they traded some in and get some gear that fits. After this they head up to Everest. When they arrive they see Josh dodging a punch from a guy that was mad about being sent home. The doctor there said he had a heart murmur and could not continue so Josh was sending him home. After they get the guy to start packing Josh talks with Peak about whats going on at Base Camp. He shows him around a little and shows him his company "Peak Adventures." What strikes Peak kind of weird is that there is a camera crew around the Base camp. He hears of how much people are paying him just to take him to the top. And he thinks of when in court his dad said "Don't worry, ill get the money back." He figures his dad only took him for publicity. Take Peak and get him to the top, and make a lot of money out of it. Who wouldn't want to be taken up to the top by a company who got the youngest person in the world up? But he shakes it off and decides its just nice to have some time with his dad. Right then an SUV pulled up and a man in uniform came up to them and shouted "Papers!" So Josh handed them their climbing permits and the man said "We be watching you very closely." Then he left. Josh said that was Captain Shek. He was a very mean man who would send anyone back down the mountain for even the littlest of infringments. He told Peak just to not mind him, that he would take care of it whenever he came up. This is as far as ive read so far

I have started reading the book All these things I’ve done, by Gabrielle Zevin. She won the Borders Original Voices award. This story is obviously set in the future, though how far I can’t be sure. The simple acronym OMG that is used by most teens today is scarcely known to these people. Chocolate has also been declared contraband, caffeine is illegal, and there hasn’t been a new book printed in many, many years. Everything, from paper to water is limited and laws change so frequently you could hardly know whether you were doing something illegal or not.
The main character in this story is Anya. She is the daughter of a well known crime boss. Though her dad is dead his reputation follows her wherever she goes. She lives in a small apartment, though that’s the same as everyone else, with her sickly grandmother, mentally handicap older brother, and her little sister. The school year has just started for Anya and it is her junior year. Things do not have a good beginning for her. The night before school starts she breaks up with her boyfriend Gable only to wake up the next morning and find that he had already spread rumors of his version of how they broke up, which earns him a tray of hot lasagna over his head.
I really feel sympathetic for Anya because despite some rash decisions, such as the lasagna, she is really a good kid. She takes good care of her family and does her best to stay out of trouble, which she usually is very good at. She struggles with her dad’s bad reputation always preceding her and always being judged by others because of it. I hope that as I continue reading this story that Anya will be able to escape the dirty business of her family and show people just what an admirable person she is.

Lucky

I just started reading the book Lucky.
Its a memoir about a girl named Alice Sebold.
During her freshman year at Syracuse University, she was beaten and raped in the park along the university.
She went to the police and they did everything they could but they still couldnt find the man.
She went back home during the summer, and returned the following school year back at Syracuse. She had to make some changes though, she had to live in the all girls single room dorm, she needed an escort when she went out past five o'clock, and most people were surprised she came back.
During her sophomore year, she was walking through town and she passed by her rapist. He began to talk to her and she kept walking. She turned to see the man talking to a police officer. She went to her class and told her teacher, he escorted her to the police station were she made another complaint on him. They took her description of the police officer the man was talking to, and it was enough evidence for them to identify him. Thats as far as I've gotten.

Dear John

John starts to realize that now he is gonna have to leave, even though now him and savanna are more in love and in a bigger relationship the more that time passes. Not no wing how to tell her he figures that he might as well just tell her. She is sad but what else can you do, john then says we can wright and email. Savanna seems that she agrees but in a way really doesn't want him to leave her. I understand that though why would you not want your new boyfriend to leave after spilling out your guts to one another oh and also meeting each others family. Going out seems to be every day now and all day being with each other. It seems so sad to me, and just thinking oh we can wright and email would never be enough for anyone. Soon enough he is leaving, gone what seems to be forever. Savanna alone starts to beginning to wright a letter to send to john. John waiting for the letter wondering will she even right, how long will it take,plus with the time of coming all the way here. Soon he gets the letter then they begin to start to send them back and forth now he knows exactly when he should be getting the letters and everything seems fine. It seems to be taking a while for letters so he asks if they should email but they both agree letters are better because the way of waiting for the letters is exciting and more fun. Plus they can still send pictures with the letters. Every time they get a picture from other especially john starts to realize how much he is starting to forget about her face and hair, just her appearance in generally.

Week Five

I started a new book it On The Far Side of The Mountain by Jean Craighead-George. I’m on page 29. I the begging the main character Sam Gribley starts to talk about how his family came to visit and then how he got stuck with his little sister. I feel his pain. I noticed how he felt about his sister. Then his falcon which helps provide food for him and his sister Alice.
I noticed in the story that he was over joyed that his sister was staying with him I am just joking although he somewhat happy to have a person to talk to. i also noticed that he really depends on his pet falcon Frightful. I also noticed that with his sisters help he can do more things like build bigger things. I noticed that he has to get more food being that his sister is living with him. I also noticed that he had to change up his routine being that he had someone else with him. Another thing that i noticed in the story so far is that he uses other people for help and also goes to town more he isn’t trying to hide from people anymore.
I feel his sadness when a conservation officer comes and takes his falcon away from him. I also feel the need to be alone when this happens. I also feel his concern when he starts to think what his he going to do without Frightful.
It reminds me of going hunting and fishing. This story also reminds me of going camping with my family. It also reminds me of building things with my sisters. It reminds me of going out the woods and playing around in the trees.
I have a couple of questions so far and they are: What is going to happen to Sam and his sister Alice? Will Sam ever get Frightful back? (318)