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