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

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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.

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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