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Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
Warriors: Into The Wild
I read the second best book in the world, it is called Into the Wild by Erin Hunter. Into the Wild is part of the series Warriors. The book is about a kittypet (a house cat) called Rusty. Rusty lives in a house right next to the woods. One day Rusty goes into the woods and gets attacked by some ThunderClan warriors (wild cats) who ask Rusty if he wants to be part of the ThunderClan. The rest of the book is about Rusty’s life living as a ThunderClan cat. The book takes place in the ThunderClan camp in the woods. The book always makes me feel like I am with Rusty on one his adventures.
Rusty does not always keep his name He is also known as Firepaw. If I were to describe Firepaw with three adjectives, they would be: brave, sneaky and smart. I think Firepaw is brave because he always tries to protect his clan and he always wants to help keep the clan alive by catching prey or fighting in battles. Firepaw is sneaky because he does not always follow the warrior code and does not always do what he is told. I think Firepaw is smart because he knows how to attack in different ways on different cats. The problem in the story is that the ThunderClan cats think the ShadowClan cats are going to attack. An interesting and important part of the book is the beginning of the book when Firepaw goes out in the woods and gets attacked. Firepaw gets attacked by ThunderClan cats who surprisingly offer him to join the ThunderClan. The only reason they asked this question is because the ThunderClan needs more warriors. Another interesting and important part of the book is when Firepaw fights the loner cat Yellowfang and breaks warrior code. Firepaw was hunting for food for the clan, and after the fight with Yellowfang he saw she was very hungry and he was very hungry so he caught a rabbit and gave it to Yellowfang and he ate the scraps. The first rule in warrior code is always feed the clan before feeding yourself.
I really liked this book and the writing style . I like it because it is about cats and I love cats. I also liked this book because the story is really interesting. I was so into this book a soccer ball flew over my head while I reading the book and I didn’t notice. The characters are also really fun. I would recommend this book to whoever likes cats and is okay with a lot of dying. Like I said this book is really good and whenever I read about the cats it makes me want to cuddle with my own cats. All people who like Harry Potter and also like cats should read this book. There are other cat warrior books but they are not part of the series. There are also other books in this series that I have not read. I rate this book five stars!
The Mark Of Athena by Rick Riordan
This book is action packed, mysterious, and even a little scary. In The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan, the characters are always out numbered and constantly solving tons of problems. The book is the third in a series called The Heroes of Olympus. This book is about seven characters named Frank, Hazel, Leo, Piper, Jason, Annabeth, and Percy. They are all demigods. The main story is about the characters travelling to Rome to follow the Mark of Athena. The Mark Of Athena is a Quest only Annabeth can do, alone. They travel on a flying ship, but they main setting is Rome, Italy.
One of the main characters, Percy, is brave, a natural leader and able to survive on his own. Percy is brave because he fought Crysor (a gold pirate) all by himself. He is a natural leader because he takes charge and wants to protect everyone as much as he wants to protect himself. He is able to survive on his own because when all of his other teammates were knocked out, and Crysor’s henchmen threatened to kill them with a dagger, he found a way to beat Crysor. When they get to Rome, Annabeth finds where the Mark of Athena starts. Then she goes into a dark cave and is outnumbered by monsters but uses her knowledge to get out of it. Then she had to face her greatest fear, spiders! She also had to defeat her mother’s (Athena) arch nemesis, the Arachne. Arachne was turned into a spider because she bragged too much. The way Annabeth defeated Arachne was she tricked her into weaving a Chinese finger trap for her to get stuck in. After the defeat, Annabeth reclaimed the Athena Parthenos. Meanwhile, Percy, Piper and Jason also had their own mini quest. This involved defeating the twin giants Otis and Ephialtes. They had to get a god’s help to destroy them. After they won, they reclaimed their prize, which was Nico, another demigod who was captured by the giants.
I think this book was amazing because there are a lot of different things that are happening on every page. I love the author’s writing style I think it is good because he uses a lot of big words. It is a long book but is fast paced. There are a lot of challenges that the characters face, which keeps the book interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes action, adventure, and mythology. If you have read the previous two books to this, you should definitely keep reading the series. A book that is similar to this series is Percy Jackson also by Rick Riordan. I give this book 5 stars.
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Harry Potter, “the boy who lived”, goes on an adventure with his friends
in the book Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By J.K Rowling. The first part of this book is about Harry at Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Ministry of Magic (like the government but for wizards) has hired a new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher, but the thing is, they don’t really learn anything in class so Harry and his friends make secret meetings so others can learn. The other part is about Harry going to the Ministry to save his godfather (who everyone thinks is a murderer) who he thinks is in danger from Voldemort. The beginning happens at Hogwarts and the end in the Ministry.
Harry is a pretty curious person, when he doesn’t know something he will try to figure it out, like in the 2nd book (The Chamber Of Secrets) he puts on his cloak of invisibility (a cloak that makes him invisible) to find out who was stunning everyone when he wasn’t allowed. Harry is also a really nice person and is only mean to the people who are mean to him like all the Slytherins (one of the 4 houses at Hogwarts, there is also Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor). They are always teasing him so he is mean back to them but he is really kind to all the people who are kind to him. Harry is a really brave boy because he risked his life just to save his godfather. Harry also figures out that the reason Voldemort was at the Ministry was so he could find a prophecy that had to do with him and Harry.
I liked this book because it has some action in it, it didn’t have as much as I had hoped but it still had about 75% action. I also liked it because it is in the Harry Potter series and I like all of those books no matter what. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes books with 75% action/adventure in it. You also might like it if you like the other Harry Potter books. This book is a lot like books 1 2 3 and 4 of the Harry Potter series.
I would rate this book:
Number The Stars By Lois Lowery
The book I read is called Number The Stars by Lois Lowry. The book is mainly about a girl named Annemarie Johansen who is living during World War II in 1943. It is about how she lives through this and how she helps her best friend Ellen who is Jewish not get found and captured. The main setting of the book is Copenhagen and some other settings are Sweden and Denmark.
Three adjectives to describe Annemarie are fearless, polite, and honest. She’s fearless because when she first meets one of the Nazi guards she does not get scared and she just tries to stay calm. She’s polite because whenever she gets frustrated she does not get very worked up about it like when her little sister Kristi was about to tell the Nazis that they were helping Jews go to Sweden. She gave Kristi a serious look indicating that she should not say anything. Annemarie is honest because when she talks about her sister Lise who died, she did not try to sugarcoat it, she just said the cold hard truth.
There were many important things I learned when I read this book. One of them is about this thing called the Resistance which is like a secret organization to stop the Nazis. The second thing that I learned was that the Nazis would somehow know if you are helping Jews stay safe and go to Sweden. I think they know Annemarie’s family is helping Jews because her sister was part of the Resistance. A third thing that I found important was that the Nazi guards had guard dogs and people would carry little handkerchiefs of a scent and if the dogs smelled it then it would numb their sense of smell and then they would be unable to smell. Another thing that I found interesting was that during the war no one could eat butter and if they were lucky some people would have butter but very little. The people did not have butter because the Nazis had better privileges then the people living in the war. The Nazis had taken most of the butter and they would never even eat it. They did not eat it because they just wanted the people living in the war to suffer.
I enjoyed this book very much because I got to learn a little bit more of people living during the times of dictators and why they might have left their homes. This book is not related to any movies I’ve seen, but this book is similar to Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez. It is also an immigration story around the same time period but in a diffrent place in the world.
I give this book a rating of 5 stars because I really liked it. I would be happy to read it again.
George Washington’s Socks A Time Travel Adventure By Elvira Woodruff
I read a book called George Washington’s Socks, by Elvira Woodruff. I don’t know if this is in a series or not but Elvira Woodruff wrote other books. The main character’s name is Matt. There are four other main characters, Q, Tony, Hooter, and Katie. The setting is in Nebraska and New Jersey. The time is the 20th and 18th centuries. One night on their first club camp out, they were reading a book about George Washington when he crossed the Delaware River. They didn’t really feel that cool so they wanted an adventure. There was a lake near where they were camping so Q, Tony, Hooter, Matt, and Katie all camped out by the lake. When they got to the lake they saw a boat. Now just think of this, the name of the boat is Emit Levart, if you look closely you’ll see it. Read the title.
One thing I think is important to know is when the kids cross the Delaware river they are wearing 20th century clothes. Think of how strange it would be to be a soldier seeing them. Another thing that I think is important to know is that when they time travelled they came back at sun rise so the parents didn’t know what had happened. Except when Katie the little sister told her parents what happened the past night. One adjective that I thought goes well with Matt is courage. An example was when Matt was riding Blackjack the horse through the dark woods. Another adjective is bravery. An example was when Matt pick up the muskets to tried to scare the Hessians. He, Hooter, and Tony all failed. The last adjective is confident. The example was when Tony got mad that they could not get home but Matt always said “We will get home, I promise.”
I liked this book because there is always a problem. You can or can’t guess what what the next thing is going to be. I recommend this book to people that like adventures. Also to people that like time travel. This book reminds me of a book we read last year called “The Magic Tunnel.” That book was also about time travelling. But The Magic Tunnel was when the English took over New Amsterdam. I rate this book five stars. *****
The Bad Apple by T.R. Burns
I read The Bad Apple by T.R. Burns and it’s the first book in the Merits of Mischief series. The main character is Seamus Hinkle and the book takes place at the Kilter Academy for Troubled Youth. I think it’s set in the present because there’s a reference to a SUV but there is some stuff that most people did in the past. 12 year old Seamus ends up at Kilter after an accident at his old school. Kilter isn’t a normal school. It’s a school that rewards bad behavior. At Kilter, it’s good to get in trouble but it’s bad to get gold stars. The book is about Seamus trying to fit in and make friends in a weird new school with lots of strange rules.
I think Seamus is responsible because he calls the Hoodlum Hotline (technically, the police) about bad things that keep happening at Kilter. When you call the Hoodlum Hotline, you are given gold stars. (Remember, gold stars are bad.) This is why students at Kilter don’t call the hotline; it actually gets you in trouble. Seamus calls the hotline because he thinks it’s a way to see his parents. I think Seamus isn’t a troubled kid because the accident that put him in Kilter really was an accident. No one at Kilter believes him. I think Seamus is loyal to his new friends Abe, Lemon, Gabby and Elinor because when they tried to do something bad and it backfires, Seamus goes to help them even though he doesn’t agree with their idea. Something that was interesting to me is the demerit system at Kilter Academy. Kilter has its own store. It sells paintballs, boomerangs and fire extinguishers for people whose heads catch on fire (which happens a lot there). Kids can go shopping whenever they have enough demerits to spend. The best fire extinguisher costs 2,000 demerits. That’s a lot of demerits. If you surprise a teacher with anything like a smoke bomb, you get 100 demerits. Kids save their demerits to get the better stuff. One thing that is interesting to me is the way Annika, the founder of Kilter Academy, treats her niece, Elinor. It surprised me because when Elinor once got hurt at school Annika barely lifted a finger . I thought that she would care more about her niece. Annika says that Elinor isn’t doing anything bad and regrets letting her into the school. This means Elinor can’t earn any demerits, which is the whole point of going to Kilter.
I liked this book because it had a lot of action and friendship in it. It has action when Seamus and his friends are trying to trick the teachers. It has friendship in it when one of Seamus and his friends plan backfires and Seamus comes to save his friends when their powers get used against them. I recommend this book to people who like mystery because you never know what’s going to happen next. Also, it’s a book about friendship because no matter what Seamus’s friends do, he does the same thing. I think it’s kinda related to fighting in hockey because hockey teams want people that can fight but fighting is bad in hockey. I would give this book 5 stars because I never wanted to put the book down.
*****
Prophet of Yonwood By Jeanne Duprau
The book that I read was The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau. This is the third book in the Ember series. The setting is in Yonwood, North Carolina. It is in the future but before Ember. The book is about this girl named Nickie that is 11 years old. She lives in Philadelphia but her aunt Crystal is trying to sell her great great grandfather’s house in the town of Yonwood with her.
I think that Nickie is trusting because when her friend Amanda told Nickie that she has to watch Amanda’s dog Otis, Nickie did it very well. I also think that Nickie is brave because she stays home by herself for 5 hours and goes outside without anyone keeping her company. I think that Nickie is ambitious because in the beginning of the book she set up 3 goals. Her goals were: 1. keeping her great great grandfather’s house so she and her parents could live in it. 2. Doing something helpful for the world. And 3. falling in love. One of the most interesting parts of the book is in the beginning of the book when Althea Tower had a vision of a city that had nothing and it was all fiery.The second interesting part was when Brenda Beeson, who tries to help out, thought that the “prophet” (Althea Tower) was mumbling sinners when the Prophet tried to say cities and she was actually saying sinnies. When Brenda Beeson thought that the prophet was saying sinners thats when she was called the prophet and people followed what she said. The third interesting part was when I found out that this book is actually a pre sequel Nickie’s father was the builder of Ember. These events happened before Ember was built.
I enjoyed this book because I liked all the weird things like the humming bracelet and the no dogs part when they take all the dogs away. I would recommend this book if you want a book that gets you at the edge of your seat and that has a lot of surprising parts. I don’t think that there are any TV shows or movies related to this book. I would give this book 4 stars. ****
The Cats Of The Tanglewood Forest by Charles De Lint
I read The Cats Of The Tanglewood Forest by Charles De Lint. The book is about a girl who gets bitten by a snake and turns into a cat and the main character is a girl named Lillian.The setting of the book is on Lillian’s aunt’s farm next to a forest. It is in the country in America.
One adjective to describe Lillian is brave. I think this because she worked for giants and she didn’t run away until she had a reason to other than because they are scary. I think Lillian is kind. I think this because she gives someone something to eat when they’re hungry. I think Lillian is curious. I think so because she tries to find fairies in the forest. A part of the book I found interesting was when Lillian turns into a cat. I think this is interesting because it surprised me that someone would turn into a cat because they were getting bitten by a snake. Another part I found interesting was when Lillian has a potion that makes you able to speak with animals. I think this is interesting because it would be cool to be able to speak with animals. I think this because you could understand what they’re saying.
I enjoyed this book. I loved it because it is fantasy. I like fantasy because anything can happen and it is a surprise what happens next. I also enjoyed it has a lot of exciting things going on at the same time. I would recommend this book. I think you should read it because it because it is a great fantasy book. I think this book is similar to Warriors Into The Wild. I think it is similar because it also has cats. I would rate it five stars.
One Dead Spy by Nathan Hale
My book is called One Dead Spy by Nathan Hale (The name of the spy). It is in a series called Hazardous Tales. The book is about a real spy named Nathan Hale telling his story to the Hangman, who is about to hang him, and an English soldier. The setting is the tree where the Hangman is going to hang Nathan Hale because he was spying on the English, and the time is 1776.
I would describe Nathan as loyal because even though he was sick he still wanted to spy on the English to help his country. I would describe the Hangman as funny because when Nathan was telling him his story he would always interrupt and make jokes. I would describe the English soldier as mean because whenever Nathan was talking about wars between England and America and England won he would always tease Nathan about America losing the war. One thing that I think is interesting is that there is a bonus story at the end about Crispus Attucks who was an escaped slave but got killed in a fight with English soldiers. I think this is interesting because I thought that the story would only be about Nathan Hale. Another thing I thought was interesting was when Nathan’s friend Ben escaped from the British army but he left his horse there so he went all the way back to the British army to save his horse. I think it is interesting because he could have died but he still saved the horse.
I enjoyed this book because it has a lot of wars and battles and I like to learn about that kind of stuff. I also enjoyed this book because it has very, very detailed pictures of battles and other stuff. I would recommend this book to people who like history because it has big historical events in it. I would also recommend this book to people who like action because it has a lot of wars and battles. I don’t think this book relates to any books or TV shows that I know of. I would rate this book 4 stars because it was a very good book.