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The book HIDEOUT, written by Gordon Korman, begins with an adventurous group of middle school kids that come to the rescue of one of their friends to hide a fierce Doberman before a crooked businessman can bring him harm. The story starts out in the beginning of August, in Cedarville, New York, with the school friends all heading off to summer camps but they did not know they would be sneaking a dog along with them. There are two main characters in each of the summer camps and the story takes place in all three of these camps. These summer camps are in the woods of New York’s Catskill Mountains. They are Camp Ebony Lake, Camp Ta-da and Camp Endless Pines. These three camps may be in the same woods but they are spread out and are miles away from each other. There is a different theme to each camp and it makes the book more interesting because the setting is always changing.
The main characters in this story are 6 friends from Cedarville Middle School, a crooked businessman, and a Doberman Pincher. Griffin Bing is, “The Man With The Plan,” and he organizes the missions this group of friends get involved in. Ben Slovak is Griffins best friend and he has a ferret that goes everywhere with him to help him with his narcolepsy or sleep disorder. Pitch Benson is an expert at mountain climbing and she helps them get into impossible places. Melissa Dukakis is a computer expert which comes in handy for eves dropping. Logan Kellerman is an actor and he is good at distracting people. Savannah Drysdale is an animal whisperer which has helped them get past guard dogs. S. Wendell Palomino or, “Swindle” is a crooked businessman who has caused these friends a lot of problems. Luthor is a huge temperamental Doberman who be...
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...se and no one in this book has super powers. There is also nothing about their situation that couldn’t happen to a person in real life. I think that the only thing that makes this story different from non-fiction is that it would not be as entertaining if it were real life events. It would be hard to think there would be this many twists to a real life story.
My favorite part of this story was when Griffin hid Luthor in his luggage bag and the Doberman chewed up all of his clothes. When they arrived at camp the camp instructor thought that he was poor and told him he would help get him clothes to wear. The clothes that he would bring him were out of the lost and found. Every day Griffin had to wear some dorky shirt with Care Bears or a picture of a bride and groom kissing and framed with pink and red flowers. He was embarrassed but he wore them anyway.
The Underdogs is an amazing book about kids overcoming many challenges during their football season. Will Tyler, one of the best running backs for his age, is truly passionate about football. He tries to make a football team after the city he lives in, Forbes, says they can’t fit a 12 year old football team and equipment into the budget. This is only one example of the many conflicts that Will Tyler overcomes.
One of the team mates with a conflict that needed to be resolved is Lion. Lion lives alone in a tiny apartment with a hot plate. He gets lonely sometimes and the only things that stop him from getting depressed are swimming and being with his best friends Walker, Jeff, and Nortie. They never talk about Lion’s life but he knows that they life him for who he is not becau...
teams; Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are
The book, Midnight Thief by Liva Blackburne is a captivating story about a seventeen-year-old girl named Kyra in Britain during the middle ages. Kyra is a thief in the night, who steals from the rich so she has money to take care of herself and help her friend’s sick sister. One day, she is hired by James, the leader of the infamous Assassins Guild, and is forced to join them so she can afford medicine for her friend. Two red shield soldiers ,Jack and Tristam, are about to become knights when they encounter a clan of barbarian, feline demons known as the Demon Riders. The Demon Riders are notorious for thievery, and raiding farms and carverns. Jack and Tristam try to stop them when they sees the Demon Riders raiding
The Beltway Sniper attacks took place in October 2002 around the Washington D.C. area killing 10 people, injuring 3, and causing paranoia for weeks. All of the shootings took place in the Washington D.C. area and on Interstate 95 south. The shootings lasted for 3 weeks. John Allen Muhammad 41 and Lee Boyd Malvo 17 were arrested and proven guilty with the attacks.
Light years from earth, Buggers, a hyper intelligent species, are preparing for war with mankind. The I.F or The International Fleet is preparing a group of elite geniuses to fight the next war. However, this group of geniuses includes with a child named Andrew Wiggin, an ingenious six year old who goes by the nickname of Ender. At home is constantly manipulated and bullied by his little brother, Peter and he only had one person to love. Valentine, a 8 year old girl was the only person Ender cared about Valentine as she was the only person Ender loved as Valentine treats Ender with love. Colonel Graff a ruthless Commander of Battle School, isolates Ender to manipulate his creative and ingenious potential. Mazer Rackham,
Near in the Ozark Mountains, live the two of finest coon hunters ever lived. Old Dan, a dog with brawn and Little Ann, a dog with brains and Billy is the trainer that made them the finest hunting dogs in all the Ozarks mountains. Living with the help of Billy’s kind mother, his hard-working dad, and helpful grandparent, they are famous for their amazing coon hunting skills. But, so after that fame, something dreadful will
For example, Liam heads to baseball tryouts when he remembers the name of his new Little League. San Fernando, the same Little League that beat he and Carters team in the World Series last year. On top of that, Liam fell down trying to hit a homerun embarrassing himself in front of millions of people and the San Fernando Little League. With all this distraction Liam has a bad tryout. Luckily two twin boys help Liam get used to his new town and Little League.
Redwall is a tale of a huge abbey which is named Redwall and within it live all sorts of animals, such as badgers, mice, squirrels, shrews, rabbits and hedgehogs. Redwall’s greatest hero is named Matthias. He is young mouse who seems normal, even average, in appearance, but through a series of adventures and tests he discovers that he has courage and greatness within. This book is recommended to all teenagers because of three main reasons. The first reason is that it is a story about good verses evil and each has their own champions. The second is that it has amazing detail that makes you feel like you are right there. The last one is that there is one last major battle to see what who will prevail.
The Vindico is a novel about 5 teenagers named James, Lana, Hayden, Emily, and Sam. They get kidnapped by the League of Villains and are brought to the Vindico Mansion. Torturer, Rono, Avaria, Leni, and Silver each select a teenager to train based on their similarities in personality and ability. The kids train to become the villain’s protégés and their future generation. Baron, the mastermind villain, states that there will be severe consequences imposed if they try to escape the estate. He also lures the teenagers into joining the Vindico by offering to give them a superpower, which they can use to defeat the people who hurt them. James, Lana, Hayden, Emily, and Sam get bullied, either at school or at home, so they coalesce to get back at the world that has been cruel to them. After receiving their super power, they have a group session, personal training, and a workout for 4 hours every day to prepare them to battle the League of Heroes. The first main event in this book is when the Vindico finds out that a member of the League named Junkit- also known as the Sparrow- is in a near...
...group as they face more and more trials. Their small group triumphantly solved an important problem that affected each individual. As a group, they were much more suited to outwit "One-eyed" Willy’s booby traps, to outrun the underhanded Fratelli family, and to out do the rich people of the town by saving their neighborhood.
The story is about these four kids named Carol (hacker extraordinaire), Mitchell (monster expert), Jarvis (gadget whiz), Rosario (super-ripped fashionista). One day they were trying to do an experiment by cutting open frogs and the frogs weren’t there. So they had to find out who stole them. So they heard about this guy named Perry Milburn and he had won all the science fairs except when he was in eighth grade and he got held back so he could win the science fair and his experiment for the science fair is switching human body parts with robot body parts. So they knew he wasn’t the person who stole the frogs. So when they left they ran into this thing called Frankenfrogs, which zaps people and could talk and they needed to find out who was making
The story follows three girls- Jeanette, the oldest in the pack, Claudette, the narrator and middle child, and the youngest, Mirabella- as they go through the various stages of becoming civilized people. Each girl is an example of the different reactions to being placed in an unfamiliar environment and retrained. Jeanette adapts quickly, becoming the first in the pack to assimilate to the new way of life. She accepts her education and rejects her previous life with few relapses. Claudette understands the education being presented to her but resists adapting fully, her hatred turning into apathy as she quietly accepts her fate. Mirabella either does not comprehend her education, or fully ignores it, as she continually breaks the rules and boundaries set around her, eventually resulting in her removal from the school.
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Just a valley of nothingness for miles. What was I to do with people I wasn’t even friends with for four days? The mere thought of it consumed me. Then I hear the scoutmaster shout, “Okay boys! We’re going to kick things off with a bang. Your first activity for today will be to locate your camping gear!” Immediately I thought to myself, “what? Are you kidding me?” The day shifted from bad to worse, and I didn’t think it was going to stop there. So here I was with my troop, maps in hand, the mixture of fear and anxiety overwhelming us. We contemplated our game plan for a while. Another scout, who would later become my best friend, broke the silence. “Well, better get going before it gets dark. Don’t want to be sleeping out in the open.” Reluctantly, the rest of us got up and followed.