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
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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
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
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
- 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
- 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.
- Will, Horace, Halt, Gilan, Cassandra, Svengel and thirty Scandians go back to Aradia to ransom Erak.
- 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.
- 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.
- Will rallies the Bedullin's help and united with them takes out the Blueveils and Asek, the leader.
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
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
Friday, December 3, 2010
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 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
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
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
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Meanwhile Hockings had taken the machine to Gotham and was about to take over the station when Spence comes and foils his plans.
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
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
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