THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE

by George Selden 

drawings by Garth Williams 

the main character is Chester and he is a cricket

the second main character is Mario he is a person

the third main person is tucker and he is a rat

the fourth main person is harry and he is a cat

As my story starts there was a cricket out in Connecticut just sitting there and humming and then he smelled something really good it was a picnic basket and so he hopped in and thought it would be nice so he ate a few things and then he felt something the basket was moving then the next thing he knew he was in new york then he saw something it was a newsstand or something and so he jumped up and then before he knew it he was in a cage. The person was a boy and his name was Mario he was the person that had put Chester in the cage then one day when Mario was still asleep at his house and in his bed a rat named tucker came up to the cage and told Chester his name and then in no time chest was out and they were best friend but then a few minutes later a cat jumped up then Chester was so scared that he ran into his cage and locked it then tucker said that the cat was his best friend and so the cat and Chester told each other there names and them too were best friends.


chloe

The City of Ember The writer is Jeanne DuPrau she is Female

Lina is an adventurous girl that wants to know what is out of the city of Ember.

Doon is a boy that wants to save his city from the disastrous ending.

Poppy is Lina's baby sister.

The comments about the setting is the City of Ember is underground.

The story is about courage hard work and friendship.

First the lights started to go out 3 times a week.  And then more and more then one day the lights went out longer then they had ever gone out before they went out seven minutes and fifteen seconds.

I thought that the book was good. I liked how it was easy to find the way out. I didn't like how it took them a long time to to find it. The story was hard to believe. The story was predictable sometimes. The Ending was OK.

Kaleb

The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Title

2

Sherlock Holmes is the Hero of the story.

Holmes is one of the most amazing guys I have ever read about.  He is sharp, quick, intelligent, observant, very energetic, and the world's most famous detective.  He lives with Watson and is also a scientist/chemist.  He likes trying to invent ways to stop crime by inventing powders, chemicals, and anything of the sort to help the police out with finding the bad guy.

Holmes does right when he decides to fight crime, not use his powers for doing crime.

I can identify with Holmes when he states that he hates crime.

Dr. Watson is another character.

He writes down all the cases that he and Holmes go on and sometimes helps with Holmes cases.  He is a retired army doctor and was wounded in the war, so that he was discharged.

John Small is a main character in this story.  He is a man who was betrayed by his friends and crippled.  He is a large man who lives only for revenge.  He is not violent or evil, he has just harbored the thought of getting revenge for so long that it has consumed him.

3

The story takes place in London around 1860.

London is a place filled with crime and decider, and Holmes is out to stop it.

4

Probably that crime does not pay, and that you sin will always find you out.

This is a story of mystery, intrigue, murder, revenge, and treasure.

5

1. Holmes is hired by a lady to come with her, she got a telegram from a man that told her to meet him a a house.  When they get there a small bald man tells them a story about how their father left half a million in jewels to them and how he thought a man was after them.
2. When they got to his twin brother's house, they find him dead, and the treasure gone.  Holmes and Watson immediately go after the man.
3. They catch up to him while trying to make his getaway and they are forced to shoot this small indian with a deadly poison blow dart.
4. John Small (the bad guy) tells them how he was betrayed and how his servant, the one Holmes had shot, had killed the brother.  Then he told them that he had thrown the treasure off the ship and into the water.

6

I thought it was very well written and thought out.

I liked it how in the end Watson got the lady who hired them, and they got married.

I don't think I didn't like any of the story.

Not really.

No, the story had lots of good twists.

Watson got the girl, the bad guy got ten years.

The End
Ky

The city of Ember

The City of Ember

Jeanne Duprau

Adventure

Lina Mayfleet

She is a typical girl in that world about twelve years old.  But she become one of the two who find the way out of Ember.

She does right when she decides that she should stop doing what every else is doing and try to find a way out of Ember.

Doon Harrow

A boy about the age of twelve he has a bad temper.  But he is able to fix almost anything.  He is the other person to find the way out of Ember first.

The Mayor

The Mayor is a selfish, greedy, look-out-for-himself-punk.

A war was about to happen and to preserve life they decide to build an under ground city.

This story was about Courage, Greed, and Friends.

One of the main problems in the story is that the power source of the city, the generator, is beginning to fail and the whole city would go black.  So in order to live they find a way out of Ember.

At the beginning of the story Lina got her job as a pipeworks worker  but the boy who got messenger decided that he didn't what it so he traded her for pipeworks.

Doon had some ideas about the generator but when he went to check it out he saw that it was hopeless for him to find out how to fix it.

Lina come home one day to find that her grandma was looking for something really important what she didn't realize was that she had thrown a big box out of the closet not noticing what it was.  Lina found that poppy her younger sister what chewing on something.

She took it out of her younger sister just find out that it was directions of some sort.  She takes it to her friends to help her find out what it meant.

With some help they find out it is the directions to the way out of the city of Ember.  They both get accused of spreading Rumor about they mayor which was true.

Finally they manage to get enough time to try to get out of Ember.  And they succeed on doing so.  When they make it out of Ember they right the note explaining the way out of Ember

I really loved the whole book.
I don't think there was anything that I didn't like about the book.
The whole book sound like it was pretty realistic.
Well, It was kind to predictable.
I loved the ending of the story I just can't wait until I get the next book.

KWINN

The Harper Book of Princes was written by Sally Patrick Johnson She is a female.

There are a lot of main characters because this is a book with lots of stories in it.

These stories are about Courage, Working Hard, Friends, Love, Happiness, Sadness.

The time of these stories is Medieval where the Sword was the Weapon.

One of the stories was there was a Rabbit that was once a man, He was a prince too, and he wanted to be a price again, The King did not want the rabbit to be prince, but he didn't know the the rabbit was the prince.

I think the book was good, I liked how everything happened as a thought it would, I didn't like how there was so much love in the stories, The stories were predictable, The stories were not hard to believe, And the Endings were good.

Kaleb

The little's go exploring

THE LITTLE'S GO EXPLORING

BY JOHN PETERSON

PICTURES BY ROBERTA CARTER CLARK

the main character is Tom  he is very smart
and he is always very tough

the second main character is Lucy

she  really likes exploring a lot

she likes lots of mysterys

the third main character is grandpa

he likes to explore just like lucy he likes to find out lots of stuff

Now the story begin with Tom and Lucy up on the roof big bigg's  house and then they saw a leter fall into the chiminy they thought for a long time and then lucy said "we should go get that leter it might be inportant" so they went down the chiminy they saw some thing white alright and then Tom said "hey! lucy these bricks are like stairs" "yeh they kind of do look like steps" then tom said "hey lucy this leter is sighned to you its from your best freind " then tom leaned back on a brick and then it moved "hey!" this rock just moved it did then tom pushed and pushed then he saw some light hey! look it is really bright.  Lucy thought that is was time to help her brother so she pushed and pushed too. Finally they got it opend and they walked in it was a little room there were little chairs and a table that had lots of papers on it.

chloe

Start Here

Author. Brett and Alex Harris

Title. Start Here

Publisher. Multnomah

It was published in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2010.

It taught me how to get started with the ideas I have.  And it told a lot of story's about people who have had an idea to glorify God but when they do it people begin to think there crazy or something by not going with the flow.  

It also taught me that God could help me through every thing that happens to me.  They told a lot of storys of things that have happend to people that really hurt them but God help them through.

It also taught me that God could use these hard things to prepare you for something bigger in your life.

This book taught me that if I had an idea or a way to glorify God I need to continuosly look at my motives to makes sure that they are about God and not about me and all the glory I can get for me.

I found out that with help from other people we can do greater things for the glory of God.

Three really good thing about this book is that I encourages teens to get ideas about how they can glorify God.

It shows them story's of other people who have done really hard things for God.

It shows teens what can happen and what big of an impact they can be to other if they don't act like the world's ordinary teen.

The title give the readers some ideas of ways thy can impact the world.

I believe that the book and all the story's inside it are real.

Quick story.  A little while ago Brett and Alex were at a conference, and they had some people snap there fingers some rub there hands together and some pat there legs.  When it when through the whole thing I sounded like it had rained and said that if you just had one person snap or one raindrop it would not make a big impact on people but when when you have a lot of people doing the those raindrops become a flood.

KWINN 

Erak's Ransom

Erak's Ransom

John Flanagan

Action/Adventure

2

Will is the main character.

He is the apprentice of the famed ranger Halt.  A ranger is one of the most dreaded fighters in all the land or Araluen.  They are masters of unseen  movement and have deadly accuracy with a bow.  They also use a Saxe knife and a smaller throwing knife.

Will does right, when he volunteers to go with the princess Cassandra and Horace to free Erak.

Erak is another main character  in the story. 

Erak is a Scandian, a huge viking like guy who carries an axe, and loves to go on raids.  He is also the Oberjarl of the Scandians, and a good friend to the king a princess of Araluen.  And a good friend of Will's.

Selethen is another character who plays a big part in the book.

Selethen is an Aradian.  He is the one who is responsible for taking Erak captive when he is trying to raid his city.  He is the the governor-like guy who is in charge of the city.

3

A majority of the book is written in Aradia, somewhere in the medieval times.

Aradia is largely inhabited by deserts and barren lands, where it is hot, and dry, and humid.

4

Moral of the story:  Good always win over the bad (in the end).

Friendship, and courage.

A big problem in the book was King Duncan of Araluen had important business to attend to, so he could not go and ransom Erak.  His daughter, Cassandra, volunteered to go, but he was reluctant to let her, since she was only fifteen.  But finally after much persuading from his friends he relented and told her she could go.

5

1. Erak grows restless of being Oberjarl and decides to go on a raid, but he is captured and his men are sent away to collect a ransom for him
2. Instead of going to Scandia, he goes to Araluen.  Erak had told his first mate Svengel to go to Araluen instead of Scandia because he believed that a fellow Scandian had betrayed him so he could claim to be the Oberjarl in Erak's place.
3. Will, Horace, Halt, Gilan, Cassandra, Svengel and thirty Scandians go back to Aradia to ransom Erak.
4. When they get there they find that Erak's escort had been ambushed and he had been taken captive but the Blueveils, or the Forgotten of God.  A desert warring tribe, whose only desire in life was to get as much Gold as they could.
5. After Will's horse runs away and he is found by the Bedullins, Halt and his companions are taken captive by the Blueveils and are going to be taken captive.
6. Will rallies the Bedullin's help and united with them takes out the Blueveils and Asek, the leader.

6

It is my favorite book of the series.

I like it in the end when Will comes to the rescue and saves Halt and his friends from becoming headless.

I don't like it how Will is willing to risk his life for his horse.

Not really, John Flanagan is one of the best authors I have ever read before.

Not at all.

Will finally gets the silver oakleaf, the sign of him becoming a full-fletched ranger.

Ky

The Vile Village was written by Lemony Snicket he is a male.

Violet is a main character she is 14 and an inventor, Klaus is a boy that is almost 13 and has read more books than any kid his age, Sunny is another character she has 4 teeth and loves to bite things.

The place they are in right now is V.F.D. which stands for Village of Fowl DevoteesV.F.D. also is a town with thousand of crows living in it.

The Moral of the story is stay away from Violet, Klaus, and Sunny.

All three of them got moved to V.F.D.
They only lived there for two days.
They found Isadora and Duncan.

I didn't really like the book.
It was sad.
I didn't like how the book was sad.
No.No.Bad.

Kaleb

Ben Her

Ben Her


The author Lew Wallace


Genre Action Adventure


The main characters names is Judah / Ben her.


A young, hansom, intelligent man.


He does right when he begins to believe in Jesus.


Another character is Messala


Messala is a proud, Strong, intelligent man.


The author I think is trying to show that hatred will not fulfill you and that Christ can do anything.


This book is about greed, sadness, love caring, and friends.


A problem is that he could not find his mom and his sister but he does not give up and he finds them.


Six events that happened was
He was taken captive.
He was sold into slavery.
His mother and sister were taken captive.
He was taken in as a son to someone.
He saw the Christ.
He found his sister and his mother.


I actually really liked the book.


I liked how there was good and bad parts in the book.


No! The book was no confusing or hard to believe.


Yes it was kind of predictable because I had heard the story before.


The ending was great.


KWINN      

The trumpet of the swan

THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN  the trumpet of the swan is a book I just finished today. It is a really really good book so I just wanted you know this book which was written by E.B. white  this story begins with two swans in the Canada river in the spring. They were hatching there young cygnets each of them opened there eyes to see there father looking over them and there mother was there too. There were both looking down at there newborn baby's it was wonderful to see there great baby's finally hatched. One who's name was Louis could not speak he could not even say koh ho like the trumpeter swans who always do that.One day when they were teaching there young cygnets how to swim when they saw there old friend Sam beaver they let there cygnets go and talk to him but all they could say was ko ho but Louis could not say any thing so he pulled his shoelace and Sam looked down and picked up Louis and brought him up and then put him down and said goodbye and left a long time later Sam came back and took Louis to school with him and there Louis learned how to read and wright and then that same month Louis fell in love with this girl named Serena she was very beautiful but he could still not talk and she did not know how to read  the dad felt really sad for his son cause if he had no sound he had no mate so the dad went out to a place called billings it was a very busy place then the dad saw a music store so he circled it once and  then dove down and broke threw the glass and took a trumpet and then flew right back to the pond and gave it to Louis but it was to late a few male swans had already taken Serena it mad Louis feel really sad but at least he had a trumpet and a slate from school. One day Sam came and took louis to a camp were he would play his trumpet to get the kids to wake up to eat and to sleep louis really liked his job he was going to play all sumer.

chloe

Dream Thief

Dream Thief

Stephen Lawhead

SciFi/Adventure/Futuristic

2

Spencer is the main character, but he goes by the name of Spence.  He lives on the huge space station known as Gotham.  He is on a research project, studying sleep habits.  He falls in love with this girl who is the directors daughter, her name is Ari.

Spence is a very high-strung character, usually does not interact with people, and has a very strong will.  He's ashamed of his status, because he is a poor man, and he only got to his job because he was really smart.

Hocking is another main character in this book.

He is Spence's Arch Nemesis.  He is able to control dreams with a machine, that is able to pry into you dreams and plant the dreams the user wants.  Spence is awake when it happens, but when he wakes up he can't remember anything.  Spence is Hocking's main target.  He is more skeleton than human, and is a grade A on Gotham.

Adjani is the coolest guy in the book.

He is an Indian who work on Gotham, he befriends Spence and repeatedly tries to convince Spence that there is a God.  He is one of the only friends Spence has, and is a key element in getting the dream thief.

3

The time is somewhere in the future, it never said.

The setting is mainly on the space station Gotham.  But sometimes it will be on earth, or on mars.

4

One of the lessons in this book, and one that Spence constantly faces is that there really is a God.  Spence's martian friend Kyr, and Adjani repeatedly try to convince Spence there is a God.

Love, betrayal, mystery, friendship, and adventure.

Spence's girlfriend was kidnapped, and he had the choice to go after the dream thief and try to stop him before he had control over all of mankind, or go after Ari.  He chooses to go after the dream thief.

5

1. Spence realizes that someone is controlling his dreams, but has no idea who it is.  He decides to go on an exploration to mars, hoping to get away from his mysterious marauder.
2. On mars he is nearly killed, when Hocking finds out and plants a dream that makes him sleepwalk into a mars storm.  Where the temperature is -87F and the winds are around 100 miles an hour.
3. Spence manages to make it into an underground cavern, where he discovers a deserted martian city.  And he manages to 'remake' and martian name Kyr.  They become friends and Kyr gives Spence a small disc that he is able to use to signal him when he holds it and thinks about him.
4. Spence and Adjani go to earth to find Ari's mother and ask her where the dream thief is.  She tells them it is in India.  Ari's mother went crazy after an encounter with the dream thief.
5. Spence and Adjani go off together, after Ari is kidnapped, after the dream thief.  They find him, but Hocking already killed him and stole the machine.  The real dream thief was a martian named Ortu, and he was Hockings master. 
6. Meanwhile Hockings had taken the machine to Gotham and was about to take over the station when Spence comes and foils his plans.

6

Best book I ever read.

I really like how Spence told Kyr that people had to choose whether or not they believed in God, and Kyr says "how can anyone not believe there is a god?  There is no logical explanation for all this, except that God made it."

I don't know as if I didn't like any part of it.

Not really, I mean it was futuristic and such, but besides the computer stuff he sometimes uses, it wasn't confusing.

Not by any long shot, I kept expecting it to end soon, but it kept going for quite a while.

Spence announced that he was giving up his project and going back to earth, Ari is disappointed, and then he asked her if she wanted to go with him, and meet his family.

Ky

The Thiefs of Tyburn Sqaure

The Thiefs of Tyburn Sqaure
Elizabeth Fry she is a Female

The main character is Betsy she is a girl that had many hardships in life and endured them all. Her brother Loren is the one that made some of the hardships he got caught for stealing and she got caught for being his accomplice. Their mother is the one that taught her kids to steal because she stole 2 candle sticks.

It was 1817 in London when this took place London was very dirty and had all kindes of outlaws and  thieves.

Moral of the story don't get caught being an accomplice.

The hardships in her life were she got her mother taken away with her then she got put into a workhouse then she got put into a prison for six months and finally her best friend died.

I think the book was good, I liked it how she got let out of prison.  But I don't like how she got put into prison.

The story was not hard to believe and it was a good ending.

Kaleb

Edward Tulane

EDWARD TULANE this is a story that I read a little while ago and I finished it. That book was a really good so I just want to tell you it. Okay here I go. Once there was a china rabbit and he lived with a girl named Abilene and she was an angel to him he loved her so much and every day she would put him on a chair and she would get his own little pocket watch and put it in his lap and she would say wait for me to come back from school. that night she came back home and she had some dinner and then she went into her bed and every night her grandma who's name was pelagrena cam in her room and every night the little girl would ask her grandma if she would tell her a story and her grandma would always say there will be a story tonight so she told her a story. The next day as the family was eating there breakfast they said that they were going to London and so they left on a big boat the next day. Then one day when they were still on the boat two boys flung Edward off the boat and he was drowning and then when all hope was lost a fisher man caught him in his net and took the rabbit with him to his wife Nellie and she loved him she thought he was a girl so she made little dresses for him and they called him Susan. One day Nellie's daughter came and she hated toys so while nobody was looking she put Edward in the trash bin and told her mother that she needed to go shopping so she took the trash bin with her and dumped it in the garbage dump and drove away. and then like a year later a dog was digging in the dump till the dog smelled something weird and the dog dug more till finally the dog found Edward and took him out and brought Edward to its master and the man the dogs master said good job Lucy you want some rabbit pie now but then the man found out it was a toy and he was like ugh man and he walked along still with Edward in his hands and then he got tired and he got in a train and slept then Lucy woke up and looked around and there was a man with a club and the man that owned the dogs name was bull so the other man said get out of my train and he took Edward and threw him down a hill and then Edward heard Lucy's hurting call. Then an old lady came and picked him up and said you will be great scearcrow and she picked him up and made him a scearcrow and then Edward saw a kid and the kid said I will be here tonight to get you down so that night the kid got him down and gave him to his little sister who was really sick and she loved him so much and then things started to get bad the 5 month she would not eat and the 6 month she started coughing up blood and then one day in Septembers she died and so the boy was so sad and then Edward broke and he had to go to a shop to get fixed and one day when he was on a shelf waiting to be bought a girl and her grandma came in and it was Abilene and then they bought Edward.




THE END

Charlotte's web part 3

The next day was the fair and Wilbur was going and Charlotte of course and Templeton and it was the next day Wilbur said his goodbyes and before he knew what was happening  he was in a great big green box that said in gold letters Zuckerman's famous pig.  They all went to the fair and all Fern wanted to do was to do all the games and Wilbur just sat there in his pen. Just waiting and then the judging began and Wilbur won. And everybody was so exited, The next day they would come and pick Wilbur up and take him back to the barn . Then Wilbur looked right at Charlotte and asked what it that white thing and there was an egg sack right by Charlotte and she said "it is my egg sack" and she said that in a very low voice but it was still very beautiful and Wilbur asked why her voice was like that and she answered "I am not young anymore I am getting very old" and Wilbur was like "don't talk about that and Wilbur changed the subject how many eggs are in the sack and she said 540 and Wilbur could not believe it then he said to Charlotte then we can enjoy it watching your kids play and Charlotte said I won't be there with my kids and Wilbur was shocked oh my goodness no I don't want you to die. Then they heared the truck coming and then Wilbur got Templeton the rat to get the to get the egg sack for him and Templeton did for only one reason Wilbur told him could eat first and so Templeton the rat go the egg sack and gave it to Wilbur and Charlotte died a few days later and nobody was with her when she died and it was a nice spring day once and Wilbur was watching his egg sack and he saw something move and it was a tiny little spider it looked just like Charlotte but a lot smaller and he went over and did for a few days was one day a spider got up on the pole and let out a parachute and left Wilbur  cried a lot and and then all of them left well what he thought and he cried harder and harder and then three little spiders said we will stay with you and Wilbur was so glad. 

                                                                             THE END

Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain

H. Rider Haggard

Action/Adventure

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Allan Quatermain is the main character in the story

He is a short grizzled old man of sixty-sumthin'.  He is the best shot in all of Africa and is an adventurer at heart.

Allan Quatermain does right when he puts his life in harms-way to keep good from being impaled on a spear.

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Sir Henry Good is another important character in the story

He is a tall, muscular, handsome man.  He is good friends with Allan and like Allan, has a keen sense of adventure.

Umslopogaas is one of my favorite characters in the book

He is a wiry old native, and old friend of Allan's and he carries a long pole ax which he referes to as Ignoisi-glaas.  He often speaks to his ax, but considers it 'unsportsmanlike' to use the blade side of his weapon, and instead uses mainly a spike at the top of the ax to 'peck' his enemies heads.

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The time is somewhere in the mid 1800's and the place is deep in the heart of South America.

An underground river feeds into a large lake, and on the borders of this lake is a peaceful people (who I forgot their names).  They worship the sun as the ultimate god and the land is mainly ruled by the priest of the sun.  Even though the official rulers are the Twin Queens, Umslythia, and Soria.  Both very beautiful ladies.

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I wouldn't say there is any moral to the story, or a meaning.  I think it was just meant to be a good read.

This is a story of battle, betrayal, treachery, adventure, friendships, and love.

I don't think I could say I learned anything from this book, except maybe the word piqued, (tho i might still not know what it means)

The Masai were holding the missionaries daughter as hostage until the white men decided to give up either Henry, John, or Allan.  They resolved to do a sneak attack and take the Masai by surprise, and try to free his daughter.

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1. Allan and his friends are attacked by the Masai, while staying with their missionary friends.  They repel the attack and set off to find the Lost White Tribe.
2. They are sucked underground, while canoeing down the river, and let out the other side to find that they are right in the middle of the city where the Lost White Tribe lives.
3. They kill a herd of Hippo, which are a sacred animal and the ones they shot were a families pets, and tame.  The high priest Agon becomes infuriated and tries to kill them but they escape.
4. Both Queens falls in love with Henry but he loves one over the other, and Soria, the younger, builds an army to fight against her sister.
5. Soria is repelled and Allan is gravely wounded and has internal bleeding.  And Umslopogaas is killed when he fights off the priest of Agon to save the Queen.  And Allan dies of internal bleeding.
6. Henry takes up Allan's diary and finishes the last pages, all of which are attributed to Allan.

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I thought this book was one of the best books I have ever read.

I don't really know, it is very hard for me to decide.  Maybe the part when Umslopogaas fight all the priest.

I didn't like the part when Allan and his friends killed two hundred Masai with only twenty five guys that could fight, it was a little hard to believe.

It wasn't confusing, but as I said above it was a little hard to believe.

It was predictable in the sense that I knew they were going to find another long-lost civilization, because it happened in the other two books he wrote before.

The ending was sad, because Henry took Allan's diary and filled the last pages about Allan. . . it made me cry a bit.

Ky

Do Hard Things

Alex and Brett Harris

Do Hard Things

The publisher is Multnomah

This book was written in Colorado Springs CO in 2008

This book taught me that even though some things may be hard it is always best to do them.
This book says that now days people don't expect much from our teens.  So when we get out of our comfort zone to do something good that is glorifying God, it will have a big impact on others.
IT says that a lot of real life problems may be hard to do and even though we do not see the benefit of doing them now you will see it in the future.
In the book a lot of people didn't know that they can do hard thing but they found out that if we really try hard to accomplish them, we can.

I really liked how they gave a lot of information about other people that have gone through the same things that we have and that it is not impossible.
I really liked it how they gave encouragement on a lot of  areas that I need to work on.  
I loved this book because it seamed  they were hitting the nail on the head for me.  Like before I read this book I was saying to myself that God did not create me to be a read but in the book it said that we sometimes think like that, but it is not true.

The title basically explains the book.  Do Hard Thing, that is what they are talking about the whole time.

I don't really think that they added any fiction in this book.  Reason. Because it all seamed so real and because they are Christians so I don't think they would add anything fake in their book.

KWINN 
  

Boys of Grit who became Men of Honor

Boys of Grit who became Men of Honor

Archer Wallace is the Author he is also a male

In the summer of 1730 a baby boy was born into a family of 12 kids he was the therteenth.
The boy's name was Josiah Wedgewood He went to school until his father died and then went to work in a factory that made pot and pottery.

This Book was published by Lamplighter Publishing and it was published October 2002 in the United States of America.

I learned not to give up when you get let down. And to put all your efort into you work.  And not to complain becase when Josiah had small pox and it left him crippled he did not complain about it once in his life.  To make my work look good.  And to care for my mother.

I like how he didn't complain, He cared for his mother and and he was the best potter of his time.
I didn't like how he got small pox, and I didn't like how he was crippled and I didn't like how his father died.

The title is related to this book because the boys that were crippled and uneducated became men of Honor.

I think it was all real the whole book.

Kaleb

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte (Charlotte Bronte's sister)
Novel

Mr. Lockwood is a rich man and the new tenet at Thrushcross Grange. He wants to escape society and live peaceably....until he hears the story of Mr. Heathcliff...

Mr. Heathcliff is the owner of both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights, and he is one of the central characters of the story. He is a very evil, plotting, and vengeful person. He loves Catherine Earnshaw.

Catherine Earnshaw is Mr. Heathcliff's sister, (orphan), and is in love with Heathcliff.

The setting is the mid seventeen hundreds to just after the start of the eighteen hundreds in Northern England.



Mr. Lockwood is a rich man and the new tenet at Thrushcross Grange. He goes to meet his landlord at a nearby farmhouse called Wuthering Heights, and finds his landlord, and the landlord's family, to be very queer. He has to spend a haunted night at Wuthering Heights when the weather becomes bad. When he returns to his rented estate the next day, he find that his housekeeper once lived with his landlord and he requests to hear their story. The story begins thirteen years before this setting.

Mr. Heathcliff was an orphan child of about seven who was picked up by the Earnshaw family. Because of the love Mr. Earnshaw shows Heathcliff, Hindley, the Earnshaw's oldest at fourteen, becomes jealous and hates Heathcliff. However, Catherine Earnshaw, the Earnshaw's other child, loves Heathcliff and they share a very wild attachment. Hindley is sent away to college because of his hatetred of Heathcliff, and doesn't return until both his parents die and he is married. Some years later, while spying on the Linton's children, Edgar and Isabella, Heathcliff and Catherine are jumped upon by the Linton's guard dog and Catherine is injured. She would stay with the Lintons for some weeks and grow accustomed to their fancy way of living. When she comes back with the lintons, Edgar and Heathcliff, who has dressed up to try and impress Catherine, get in a fight and Hindley puts Heathcliff in the attic for the rest of the night. Heathcliff vows to get revenge on Hindley. The next year, Hindley's wife dies giving birth to his son named Hareton. Because of this Hindley starts becoming drunk continually and hates his son. Two years later, Edgar asks Catherine to be his wife and she accepts because she sees it as a way to raise Heathcliff's status. Heathcliff does not know her intentions and runs away. Three years later, Catherine and Edgar are married; six months afterward, Heathcliff returns seeking revenge.

Heathcliff takes his revenge on Hindley by winning Wuthering Heights from him and turning Hindley's son against his father.  He then takes his revenge on Edgar by marrying his sister, Isabella. He does not marry her forcefully, rather, she thinks he is some kind of romantic hero. Catherine falls ill during this time and dies while giving birth to a daughter Edgar would name Cathy. Isabella runs away to Southern England and gives birth to a son, Linton.

Twelve years later, Isabella dies and Linton, a very sick child, goes to live with his father Heathcliff. Cathy and Linton meet three years later, and grow attached to each other. One day, Heathcliff traps Cathy and forces her to marry Linton. Cathy escapes, with Linton's help, and gets to she her father just before he dies. Linton dies soon afterward and Heathcliff own both the Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Hareton tries to be nice to Cathy, but she retreats to herself.

This is the point where Mr. Lockwood enters the scene. He decides he doesn't want to live at the Grange anymore and leaves. Eights months later, Mr. Lockwood returns (because he still had to rent the place for the rest of the year), and finds that his housekeeper is living at Wuthering Heights. He meets her there, and she fills him in on everything that happened since he left.

Hareton was hurt while farming and was confined to the house. During this time, he and Cathy became friends. Heathcliff would die soon after because of self-starvation. Lockwood thanks her and begins to take his leave when she tells him that Cathy and Hareton are to be married on New Year's Day.

I really enjoyed the book even though it had a very evil storyline. It made the story very different than a lot of other books. One of the things I didn't like, was how mentally weak the good guys were. The book was a little confusing. The "H" names also made it difficult at first. I was very surprised with the ending. I thought that a book centered around an evil person doing evil throughout the whole book would end the same way.

-Kole

Charlotte's web part 2

CHARLOTTE'S WEB I  now am going to do part 2 know I am going to do it this second. When she got home she started feeding Wilbur. One day her mother said "Fern that pig can't sleep with you anymore" and Fern just sat down and cried because she didn't have any place to put him. Then she thought of something she remembered that her dad had put some extra planks of wood in the shed so she went over and then she found a tree. She thought it would be the best idea ever and she put pig wire all around the tree. Then she got in the wire and she built a little house but then Wilbur wouldn't get in but he got use to it and he liked it . This is the end of part 2 next time I will finish the story.


Ruler

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Author Robert louis stevenson.

It is a mystery book.

The main character is Mr. Utterson.

Mr. Utterson is a smart, intellegent, lawyer who is kind hearted and a good friend.

The main character does the right thing when he vows to find out why Mr. Jekyll has been influecened by Mr. Hyde.

I can identify the character when he has compasion for his friend tries to help him.

Mr. Hyde plays a big role in this story.

Mr. Hyde is a cruel cold hearted man and a murderer.

Dr. Jekyll is a nice calm and gentle man he also is an inventor and he keeps many secrets.

The whole story takes place in London.

The author is making the point that we are all like the Dr. Jekyll, but we all have the Mr. hyde inside.  When we decide to bring him out it is hard to put him back away again.  Once it happens it will continue to grow and we will want to continue to bring him out.  Until that is who we are and who we are known for.  

This book is about who we have inside of us and if we are going to master the bad inside.

Mr. Utterson meets Mr. Hyde on the road .
Mr. Utterson finds out that Mr. Hyde knows Mr. Jekyll.  Not only does he find out that they both know about eachother but he finds out that Dr. Jekyll names Mr. Hyde his heir.
In the story some people actually witness Mr.hyde kill someone.  Thats when he becomes a murderer
In the end of the book Dr. Jekyll kills himself himself so he doesn't have to explain things to his best friend Mr. Utterson .
But before Dr. Jekyll dies he leaves a note explaining why he killed himself.  And Mr. Utterson finds out that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the same person.

I really liked this book.
I liked the mystery part of the book.
I didn't really like how they how they list all the details.
No! It was not really confusing.  Or at least not for me.
No! It was not predictable.
The ending was very good.

KWINN

City on our Knees

Toby Mckeehan (Tobymac)

City on our Knees

Bethany House Publishers

Bloomington, Minnesota 2010

This was a book full of the stories of Christians who did not see division in them and others, but instead stepped out in faith and love and ended up impacting lives, cities, countries, and the world. I learned that differences, not division, is what our God is about. He made people in all different ways, and all to glorify Him! He gets glory in diversity. I also learned that, "Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are". I saw many times, people who were just "ordinary". But they saw God in a big way, and God used them in a big way. It is the same for us. Many times, God just uses the humble people who show their need of Him, and then step out in faith across their own comfort zones.

The book was great in showing diversity, faith, and trust in God. I really enjoyed the stories. Although, it seems to me that whenever some profit wants to be gained, and you don't really have a good author, they just write a book with a lot of stories of other people. And although it was great, I would have liked to hear more thoughts and contents from the author. And I wish it were a bit longer also.

City on our Knees is about a "moment. A moment that we all come together and our differences fall by the wayside and love fills in the cracks, and we turn our attention on what unites us." I'm not sure myself what this has to do with the words "City on our Knees", but that's what Tobymac said, and it sounds good to me. I think in simpler terms, it means "a place where people forget what divides us, and instead, come to our knees is worship of the King.' 

It does seem to be true. Although it would be possible that parts were added to make the stories better/more exciting.

-Kade

She

H. Rider Haggard

Adventure

2

Ludwig Horace Holly

Holly is not very handsome, very learned, and very strong.  He has an adopted son named Leo, and is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Holly does right when he stays by Leo and goes off with him, to keep him safe.

Leo Vincey

Leo is tall, smart, extremely handsome, despite his adopted father.  He is strong, and has a very strong desire for adventure.

Ayesha or She

Ayesha is extremely beautiful, yet terrifying.  She believes that Leo is the reincarnation of her late beloved that she killed because he was in love with another.  She is also over two thousand years old, but still very beautiful and youthful.

All of the characters start off in England except for Ayesha, and they travel to somewhere in South America.

The Author does a very good job in describing the setting in South America, with the jungles and marshes.

I don't know what the author is trying to say in the book, I think it may be something like beauty is deceptive and charm is vain, or something like that.

This is a story of love, adventure, and friendship.

Not much, it was just a good read.

Ayesha was in love with Leo, and Ustane, a native girl who was in love with Leo, refused to leave.  Because in her tradition, if she kissed a man, and he kissed her back they would be married until they decided they didn't want to be married anymore.  Ayesha solved this problem by killing Ustane.  I know not the greatest, but it was the first that popped into my mind when I read the question.

1. Leo's father, Professor Vincey, was dying and he entrusted Holly with a box, and his little five-year-old son.  So when Leo opened the box he found that he was the descendant of Killkrates and he set off to see if the legend was true.
2. They arrived at their destination and were taking by natives who said 'the-one-who-must-be-obeyed' said that they were to be brought to her palace in three days.
3. Leo contracted a fever and was on the verge of dying when Ayesha, seeing that it was her beloved that she had been waiting for, for two thousand years, revived him with her secret medicine. 
4. Ayesha killed Ustane to put any doubt in Leo's mind to rest about who he loved then they set off to England.
5. But on the way, Ayesha showed them the secret of everlasting life.  A pillar of fire that you had to bathe your body in.  But since she had already been in it and she went in again, the magic was reversed and she turned old and died in a matter of minutes.
6. Leo and Holly escaped with their lives and returned to England where they lived the rest of their lives in peace, but never forgetting Ayesha.

I though it was very well written, depicted, and set.  I like all of the characters personalities, and the author does an overall good job with the characters surroundings.

I really liked how Holly was so strong, yet so ugly, but he dismissed the fact that he was ugly and was able to overcome obstacles.

I didn't like in the beginning when the author had like all these different translations of the letter, and he used different languages a lot.

At some parts it was confusing, like when he started using different languages.  But it wasn't very hard to believe because I have read many books harder to believe than that one.

Was the story predictable. . .?  Not really.

Ayesha died, Job died, and Holly and Leo went back to live in England.

Ky

Coyote Autumn

This books name is Coyote Autumn the Author is a male and his name is Bill Wallace.

Bradley is the main character his is a boy with one friend and he wants a dog.  He does the right thing when he saves the coyote.  I can recognise Bradley when he takes the coyote.
Another character is Bradley's dad he wants his son to be whatever he wants to.
Bradley's mother:Short fuse loses her temper a lot.

It was August and Bradley lived on a farm.

This story is about secrecy and I learned not to have a lot of secrets and the problem in this story was that Bradley didn't tell any body but his mom and dad found out.

I thought the book was good.  I did like the book.  I didn't like how the mom and dad weren't hard on him.  The story was not confusing or had to believe.  The book was not predictable.  And the ending was sad.

The Swiss Family Robinson

Swiss Family Robinson.

Johann David Wyss.

Action adventure.

Mr Robinson is the main Character.

He is very intelligent.

He becomes the leader of the family.

He prepares for what is coming.

Fritz Robinson.

He is also intelligent and is a good shot with a rifle.

Ernest Robinson.

He is smart and enjoys poetry.

They first lived in Switzerland and then got stranded on an island.

I think the auther is trying to make a point of, trusting in God is a good choice when you feel all alone.

This story is about courage and working hard.

This story showed me to trust in God no matter what happens.

They had no where to live when it rain so they built a house out of the side of a rock.

They were stranded on an island.

They built a temporary home.

They went back to the boat to get more supplies.

They got there animals.

They made a big garden for planting stuff.

Some of them went back to Europe.

The book was OK.

I liked how they used their resources.

The way they used complicated words.

No! It was not confusing.

Yes! it was predictable.

The ending was pretty good.

KWINN

the Hiding Place

Corrie Ten Boom.

The Hiding Place.

Published by Bantam Books.

Published 1974 in the U.S.

I learned many things in this book about the times during WWII in Germany and Holland. The concentration camps were very brutal places where disease and death spread like fire. The Nazi regtime was often merciless towards the old, the feeble, and the Jews. The regtime took everything from Betsie and Corrie Ten Boom... their house and everything in it, their father, friends, even the clothes on their backs. But despite this and the many trials Betsie and Corrie went through, God proved to be stronger and more powerful than their conditions and used them in great ways.

One of my favorite parts in this book was just seeing the faith that these two women had. Many times, they had compassion for the other prisoners they were with, but even more than that... the guards and soldiers that beat them. Many times we see the younger as stronger, but in this case, Corrie and Betsie would spiritually outrun, out-lift, and outfight me every time. Another part I liked in this book was the ministry that Betsie and Corrie did in their home (the Beje) that should model for us what all Christian homes should look like. And even when they were taken from their home, their ministry did not stop, it only continued in a different way.

And although this book was fantastic, it did have some parts where, if I were the author, would have changed. A sizable part of the book was about Corrie's earlier life, and although that does give us more of a perspective on the main character and setting, I felt like it was a bit too much, and ended up making the book a bit longer than it could have been. There were also some detailed areas that could have been cut to make the book a bit thinner and more enjoyable to read.

The title (The Hiding Place) relates to the place where Corrie Ten Boom found her strength, hope, safety: in God.

I believe that the book is factual. It is told as a true account and first person.

-Kade

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a book written by Charlotte Bronte, and it is very much based on Charlotte's own life. Some of the things that happen in the book were personal experiences. It is a fictional story, but because it contains these experiences it is also considered an autobiography.

Jane Eyre, the representation of Charlotte, is a young girl at the beginning of the book who is living with her aunt because both her parents have died from typhus. Jane is not very beautiful, but she is very smart and quick witted. She is a very moral person and has a very high regard for herself. Jane is educated over the years and ends up being a governess at the age of 18 for Mr. Edward Rochester.

Mr. Rochester is a very rich gentleman who is conceited, and despises everyone. He is use to always having his way with things, and he is about twenty years older than Jane.

St. John is one of Jane's unknown cousins that she meets later on in the book. He lives with his two sisters Diana and Mary and plans to become a missionary to India. He is represented as a very cold, hard hearted person.

The setting is the early nineteen hundreds in Northern England. About the same time the author was alive.

The author has many themes that are expressed in this book but two of the main ones are being independent, and doing what is right. However, the main character, Jane, doesn't do what is right because she holds to a specific religion, as much as she does it because she must keep her self-respect. Forgiveness is also a big theme is this book. Jane forgives many people who had wronged her in her childhood years.

Jane ends up falling in love with Mr. Rochester; and he, unknown to Jane, falls in love with her. He proposes to Jane, one summer night, to her great surprise and they plan to be married. At the church, on the day of their wedding, and man shows up and claims that his sister is married to Mr. Rochester! Mr Rochester confesses to everyone that he is married, but claims that his wife is mad and has tried to kill him many times. Jane runs away that night and ends up getting lost with no money.

She is found by St. John Rivers, who ends up being a distant cousin of Jane's, and who wants to be a missionary. During her stay with him, he starts to see her and her skills as things he could use in his missionary work. He proposes to her but she realises that she still loves Mr. Rochester! She returns to find that his house was destroyed by a fire started by his mad wife; she also committed suicide during the fire.

She finds Mr. Rochester a few miles off at a cottage he owns, and she notices he has become blind. She reveals herself that night when she pretends to be one of his servants. They would both confess that they still loved each other, and they would marry shortly after.

I really enjoyed reading this book, because the author was so good at describing places without giving an overwhelming amount of detail. I felt like I understood all the settings well enough to envision it, but not so much that it becomes dreary. It still had a fantastical, (or fantasy like), feel to it. The author was also very good at describing the character's emotions, but I felt like she didn't give the character Jane enough emotion. Jane would become emotionally numb when bad things would happen. Bronte, I feel, is a very good writer because she doesn't waste words. I never felt the book was confusing or that there was too much information.

The ending was short, which I normally don't like, but I felt that it was the proper way to end this book. There was so much tension going on for so long that the short ending made it feel like a burden was removed after running with it for a long time. The short ending was able to gave the characters instant relief that they each deserved because of the trials they each had gone through.

-Kole

Charlotte's web part 1

CHARLOTTE'S WEB This story is about a pig, and this is how the story goes. There was a girl that was named Fern and she came down to have some breakfast. She saw her dad take an ax out to the pigpen, and she said to her mom who was washing the dishes, "what is father doing with that ax" (begging her mother to tell her what he was doing) . Finally, her mother told her "there were some pigs born last night and one of them were too skinny and he didn't weigh anything" and Fern felt so sad that she ran after her dad right as he was going kill the pig. Then, Fern said, "if I didn't weigh anything and I was super skinny would you kill me." Her dad said Of course not". So she said to her dad, "Would you mind if I took care of him"? And the dad said, Well, if you feed him well. But before he could finish, Fern said okay and quickly grabbed the pig and ran off to get a bottle and some milk for the pig to eat because that pig was an extra pig so there was no room for him to eat from his mother. So she took care of him for like six weeks and it was funny because that day she had go to school she thinking of a name for him in the bus. At school then she finally thought of one she decided that she would call him Wilbur. So when the teacher asked her a question she would always say "Wilbur" until she got home

-to be continued -

chloe

King Solomon's Mines

1
King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

Action/Adventure

2

Allan Quatermain

A humble, yet smart man. Short, skinny, and a hunter/trader. About forty years old. He hunts for a living, selling or trading elephant tusks or other valuable skins or meat.

He agrees to go with some men to find King Solomon's Mines

_________________

Sir Henry Curtis

A big strong man, timid, but violent when extremely angry. About forty years old. Very rich, and has a deep sense of regret for fighting with his brother. His brother went in search of King Solomon's Mines after he and Henry got in a fight. Henry hires Allan to help him search for the Mines and his brother because Allan has the only map.

Captain Good

A retired naval officer, who loves to be neat, tidy, and clean. About forty. But he agrees to go with Sir Henry on the expedition, for the diamonds. He also curses a lot, but they don't put much of it in the book.

3

Starts off in some place I don't know, but all three end up on a boat sailing for their home somewhere in South Africa and they decide to go off in search for the treasure. Then they go deeper in to South Africa, it never really says where.

4

I don't know, maybe that life is precious, because the author repeats that over a few times. Like when the characters fight the evil savage leader, because he is an unjust man, who does not value life above the food he eats.

Treasure, friendship, and doing what's right even when it may cost you your life.

Life is more precious than gold.

The three men were trapped in Solomon's treasure room and there is no way out. Then when Allan says that there is fresh air and not stale or musty air they began searching, in the dark, for a way out, and they find one.

5

1. Sir Henry and Captain Good find Allan and convince him to go with them in search for the treasure.
2. They hire a man called Umbopa to help them in the desert
3. They cross the desert and reach Kaukaland, where savage natives live.
4. They are mistaken for Gods and taken to the royal city of Loo, where they meet King Twala, a fearsome lord who rules over his people with terror.
5. The Man Umbopa is found out to be the real king that had supposedly died as a small child many years ago, after King Twala killed his father, who was Twala's twin brother. They fight a great war and defeat King Twala.
6. Then Good, Sir Henry, and Allan, go in search for the treasure and find it. They return home and live out the rest of their lives in luxury.

6

I thought it was very good, intriguing, suspense filled, and good characteristics of the main guys.

I liked how it was found out that Umbopa was King and when they tried to in spite a rebellion the generals asked for a sign. Good brought out his almanac that he had in his medical bag, and told them that they would darken the moon for a full hour. But actually he was telling them about the eclipse that was about to happen. And that was all the superstitious savages needed to convince them that the white men were really gods.

How in the hunting expeditions they killed nine elephants and then only cut off the tusks, and buried the rest of the elephant.

Only some of the times, but mostly it was an easy read.

Not really. . .

Actually pretty good, Henry found his brother, and they shared the diamonds that they had brought from the cave, and lived the rest of their lives together as very good friends.

Ky

True Dog Stories

This story is about a Thumper.Thumper is loyal. Stays with his master Benjamin. Licks his Benjamin face. Benjamin three years old. Likes to hunt. Benjamin mother. careful. 1979 Farm. Lots of little lakes. Very dangerous.

(Love Loyalty Self sacrificing)Deadication.Benjamin was lost and then he got found.

Benjamin left Thumper fallowed.Mother foundout.Got a search party.Went to look for Benjamin.
Found him.

GoodBenjamin goes hunting for tigers nothing no yes happy.

Louis Sabin.
Male

Kaleb

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Be Warned: Read, Don't Exceed, & Fear

Ecclesiastes 12:12-14

12 But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.

13 The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

14For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.