Lucinda Anderson
The Lost Hero (summary)
Rick Riordan
Mythology
"He woke in the backseat of a school bus, not sure where he was"...
Jason is a sixteen year old boy who has no memory of who he is or where he is, he wakes up on a bus that stops at the the museum of the grand canyon. He discovers that he apparently has a girlfriend called Piper and a weird friend named Leo, and that they where in the the wilderness school for bad kids in Nevada. After learning this Jason's day took a turn for the worst, he is unwillingly flung into a world of Greek mythology: Monsters, Demigods (half mortal, half god), and an occasional Satyr (half man, half goat). Jason and his friends Piper and Leo are whisked away to Camp half-blood, a camp for demigods. They embark on a quest to save Hera goddess of marriage, each with their own aim in the quest. Jason, Leo, and Piper travel across the United states facing unknown enemies, and in their struggle they slowly uncover the horrible secret in the capture of Hera...
I enjoyed this storey greatly, I loved how there was some humor in it and their way of describing the characters made it easy to picture them in real life.
I strongly suggest this book to people who love mythology, and a good adventure. It builds suspense and makes you keep guessing right to the end! The setting is also based on real life events, and pieces of history. I also suggest you read the series to get a fool grasp of the stories main Idea!
ISWinterthur Grade 7 English
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The Thief Lord
Robert Yoo
The Thief Lord
Fantasy
Cornelia Funke
The Thief Lord Summary
The story is set in Venice
where abandoned houses and dark alleyways mix with great lagoons and tall
buildings. In an abandoned movie theater called the Stella, a large place with
a star-spangled curtain, a group of children live under the guidance of the Thief
Lord. The Thief Lord is a boy named Scipio. He cares for the group of children
by stealing things the children can sell. The two main characters of this story
are also the newest recruits. Prosper is twelve and is the older brother of Bo,
who is five. They are very close. So close that they ran away from their aunt
Esther just to stay together, as their aunt had plans to separate them. Unlike
most stories, their aunt is not evil. She just couldn’t care for both of the
brothers so she wanted to send Prosper off to boarding school. The two brothers
ran to Venice as their now-dead mother used to tell wonderful stories about the
place. Now aunt Esther has hired a detective in Venice called Victor Getz to
find Bo. Can Prosper and Bo avoid Victor and Esther? Read the book and see!
After reading this book, I thought about
how hard it must be to live on the streets. This book says it is much easier to
manage living on the streets in a group rather than alone. It also made me
think about how far you have to be pushed away by family and friends to run
away from them. I could never manage that.
I really enjoyed reading this book and I
would recommend it for any and all ages. It has several good “ingredients” to
be a really good story. By ingredients I mean things like orphaned brothers and
a detective on their trail etc. I would rate this book as 9/10 for a well-written
story with characters that have real depth. The storyline is also very well
thought out.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Shane Hodel
J.K.Rowling
Fantasy
This book takes place in England, on a quite pleasent street and on that street there is a house and in that house there is a boy that boys name is Harry Potter.He lives with his aunt and his aunts family .The aunts family do not like him because harry Potters mother and father are wizards.So Harry Potter now goes to a school that his parents went to.This school is where all magicains go, so goes there to.This school is called Hogwarts.There are three main characters in this book ; Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger.These three characters are best friends and try to help but always get in trouble one way or another. They are like the dream team and solve lots of very dangerous problems. The action in this book is that Ronald's little sister becomes possessed by a book that the dark lord Voldamor possessed and if you read it you become possessed. She accidently read it.Since Ron's little sister was possessed she knew where the secret chamber was and walked into it, when the three main characters found out where the secret chamber was and knew she was possessed. So they walked into the chamber and on the way they found this huge snakeskin. They were now scared but they carry on anyways. Suddenly they feel the ground shaking and boulders come tumbling down and block of Hemione and Ron. Harry is now alone. He walkes up to a circular door with stone snake heads coming out of the door. Harry says a word in a language that only some wizards know its a language of the snakes. So the door opens and in the middle of the room lies Ron's little sister. He runs up to her, behind him out comes Voldamor but Harry does not know that it is Valdamor because he is in a younger form. Voldamor summons a great snake called a Basilisk. The principles Phoenix flies by and drops him a sword. Will he kill the Basilisk or not read and find out!
The style of this store is fiction because theres no such thing as magic or magicians. the story was written in Harrys perspective. The ideas i got from this story is that it would be cool to be Harry but it would also be dangerous. I would still like to be a famous wizard and help people and be able to use magic I would not care how dangerous it would be.
This book I would highly recommend this book to people that have read the first one. This book is great for people that like fantasy, adventure and action. I really like this book because you always had to keep on reading. It was'nt to difficult to read and you never know whats going to happen next.
Monday, September 2, 2013
The Lost Hero
Tina Fischer
The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan
Mythology, action and fiction
A sixteen-year-old boy named Jason Grace wakes up on a bus
on his way to the Grand Canyon with his school, with no memory. Two people;
Piper and Leo, claim to be his friends, yet Jason has no idea who they are, who
he is, and where he is! When they arrive at the Grand Canyon storm spirits
attacked the three teenagers. Their protector Gleason Hedge turns out to be a
satyr and Jason turns out to be able to fly saving Piper. The storm spirits
leave taking Gleason Hedge with them. Later three demigods save them and take
them to camp half blood where Jason turns out to be the son of Zeus, Leo gets
claimed by Hephaestus and it is revealed that he can make fire while Piper got
claimed to be Aphrodite’s daughter and can charm speak about almost anyone. Leo
and Jason had dreams about Hera, the goddess needing their help, because she
got captured. Piper also had dreams about someone being captured but it was not
about Hera, instead it was about her father who was captured by a giant from
Gaia who wants to ruin the gods. The three go on a Quest to save Hera and
hopefully Pipers father. On their quest they fight some of the worst monsters
of old times which escaped from the underworld and are helping Gaia destroy the
gods.
I enjoyed reading this book a lot. I learned many things
from this book including; how important friendship is, and facts about
mythology both Greek, and Roman. I liked that there was a lot of action in this
book, yet there was also a lot of suspense and I was always willing to continue
reading the book. What I didn’t like was the beginning and the ending, I didn’t
enjoy the beginning as much because I was confused and didn’t understand what
was happening. What I didn’t like about the end was that the book stopped in
the middle of the story, and it didn’t seem like an ending but rather a new beginning.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes action and
Greek/roman mythology, or people who are between 10-14 years old. I don’t
recommend it to people who don’t like mythology because that is the purpose of
the book. Many people recommended
this book to me, and even though I didn’t enjoy it in the beginning, I liked it
as I started understanding it.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Summer Reading The Lost Hero
Verushka Panoff
The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan
Fantasy and adventure
Jason a sixteen year old boy wakes up in a
bus with no memory of who he is. On the way to a field trip to the Grand
canyon, Piper a fifteen year old girl believes to be Jasons girlfriend and Leo
a boy sitting next to him claims to be his best friend. As Jason does not
remember anything he is vey confused. At the Grand Canyon storm spirits attack
Jason, Piper and Leo. Coach Gleeson Hedge (a satyr) had been assigned to save
the three teenagers from the storm spirits and risks his life for them. The
three teenagers get sent to a camp for halfbloods. Jason, Piper and Leo are revealed
to be children of the Greek gods. They are told about a prophecy and that the
goddess Hera has been Captured. That evening at a big camp fire, in an
amphitheatre, Jason gets claimed to be a son of Zeus, Leo a son of Hephasus,
with the ability to create fire of nothing. Piper is revealed to be a daughter
of Aphrodite with the rare gift to charmspeak. The three decide to go on a
quest to save Hera before Gaia takes over the world using the gods power. At
the same time Pipers dad has been captured my Encadelious. Now they have two
goals that they want to accomplish but will they save them, both, in time?
My opinion on this book is very good. I
learnt a lot like to always trust your friends and work as a team. At the start
of the book Jason, Piper and Leo are not really friends but during their quest
their friendship grows. I also found out that the roman gods are actually the
greek gods with only some differences.
What I really liked about this book is that it is very action packed but
at the same time has a right about of suspence, keeping the reader eager to
read on. The only negative part of the book was that it is frustrating as it is
a series it did not have a proper ending of the book.
I would recommend this book to people aged
11- 15, who like to read greek mythology and adventurous books. What I think is
nice about the book is that the author writes the style of the book in a very
humorous way, with scenes that can make us as readers laugh. I would not
recommend this book to people that don’t like to read about cyclopses or other
creatures from greek mythology and science fiction.
10,000 Days of thunder summary
10,000 Days of thunder
Summary
This is a true story based in Vietnam in the time of the 1960s to the early 1970s, when a massive war breaks out which will be known as the Vietnam war. North Vietnam is a communist country wanting dominance over the south of Vietnam. South Vietnam will not have a communist power so they go to war. The south also has the United states of America on there side and they also join the fight.The orgins of the Vietnam war started with a man named Ho Che Mihn. Ho wanted independence from the French when Vietnam was a colony to them. After World war 2, Ho only had one solution to the problem, he had to take Vietnam by force and at the beginning of the 1950s, Ho and his army of soldiers went to war with French forces in Vietnam, Ho won the war but died before he saw Vietnam at peace once and forall and from that point on Vietnam was devided from North to South.
My opinion on 10,000 Days of thunder was it was a very intresting book which I enjoyed very much because I`ve wanted to learn about the Vietnam war for a very long time and it was worth the wait. It was also very interesting to find out about the secret missions and scandles that happend in the war.
I would recommend this book to young war historians who enjoy finding funny facts you would not expect.I would not recommend this book to people who would like action because it would bore them to death with the lack of exciting action scenes and cool charcters.
LIFE AS WE KNEW IT SUMMER READING
- · Marcus
- · LIFE AS WE KNEW IT SUMMARY
- · Susan Beth Collins
- · Fiction
The setting is in a little town in America
were a young girl falls in love with a boy while a meteor hits the moon and
tosses it closer to the world’s atmosphere causing worldwide tidal waves. This
is not only bad for the people living at the sea. It also starts conflicts
between the girl and her mom. Miranda, the girl, lives in a narrow street with
houses crunched together. Next to it is a pond where Miranda has on e of the
best times in her life. One day she gets picked up at school from her mom and
finds herself running in and out of a store buying as much as she can.
I personally did not like this book as much
because there were some very boring, repetitive parts. I liked it thought
because it always showed u the date of when the events they went through happened.
I would recommend this book to people who
like stories about normal people living a life explaining the needs and
purposes of their life. I do not recommend this book to people who like action because
there is not a lot of it in this book.
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