Where the Red Fern Grows is about a young boy and his love for dogs. Ever since age ten, he has wanted a pair of dogs to hunt with him. He lives on a farm with his parents and siblings, and his family cannot afford two dogs. In response to this, he begins to collect money in any way he can, whether it is selling to local fishermen or catching [...]
Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Ra...
Where the Red Fern Grows is about a young boy and his love for dogs. Ever since age ten, he has wanted a pair of dogs to hunt with him. He lives on a farm with his parents and siblings, and his family cannot afford two dogs. In response to this, he begins to collect money in any way he can, whether it is selling to local fishermen or catching [...]
Legend by Marie Lu
The future of the US: it splits into two parts divided at the Mississippi River. East is the Colonies and west is the Republic. Day, the Republic’s most wanted criminal has an unknown side. He is 15 and his only goal is to protect and save his poor family from the plague? Day has just been announced the prime suspect of killing a Republ [...]
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The book Moneyball by Michael Lewis is an exciting book that forces you to read throughout the night. Moneyball is about the manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, and how he built a strong baseball team with one of the lowest payrolls in the Major Baseball League (MLB). Billy Beane found different ways to look at a player. He attaine [...]
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
In the book Hatchet by Gary Paulson Brian Robeson lives with his mom and decided to take a trip to this father in Canada. He boards an old plane and it takes off. For a while all is fine until the pilot has a heart attack and dies when the plane is still flying. Brian is forced to crash land the plane in the Canadian wilderness. He then must [...]
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
One day, Eragon, a fifteen year old boy, finds a blue dragon egg while hunting in a mountain range known as the Spine. The dragon hatches, and Eragon raises her secretly. He names her Saphira. When some enemies named the Ra’zac burn Eragon’s house down, he and Saphira leave to try and kill the Ra’zac. After Brom is killed, Eragon eventually e [...]
Curveball, The year I lost my grip
This story is about a young baseball star, who is just starting high school. He and his best friend AJ hope to be scouted and recruited for the High school team. But everything goes wrong when Peter, the baseball stud, hurts his arm and is never going to be able to pitch again. This book includes the many challenges he faced, and how he broug [...]
Every Day by David Levithan
I read the book Every Day by David Levithan. It is about a boy who switches bodies every day. Taking over someone’s life just for a day. He doesn’t remember having parents or knowing any other people like him. He has been switching bodies for 16 years. He gave himself the name “A”. A has tried to stay awake for more th [...]
Lockdown by Alex Grodon Smith
Lockdown by Alex Gordon Smith is the first installment in the Escape From Furnace series. The main character is Alex who is a kid who had a taste of greed and power and spent his life committed to crime. Minor stuff like stealing. However it all went wrong when they robbed a house in which his friend was shot in the head by a monstrosity of a [...]
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Ra...
Where the Red Fern Grows written, by Wilson Rawls is an outstanding read. The book is written in the first person of a boy named Billy. Billy is an outdoorsman. He is constantly in the woods, watching the wildlife around him. One day he figures that he should buy some coon hounds and start hunting, because nature interested him. Billy immedia [...]
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
“One woman I find not dead. She’s lying on the ground, her body like cut in half, legs not attach to her body and blood, blood everywhere. She sit up, like all of a sudden she has strength, like cobra, and she spit at me.” (pg 133)
Never Fall Down is a true story about a young boy named Arn, struggling to survive the Khmer R [...]
Curveball, The Year I Lost my Grip by...
This story is about a young baseball star, who is just starting high school. He and his best friend AJ hope to be scouted and recruited for the High school team. But everything goes wrong when Peter, the baseball stud, hurts his arm and is never going to be able to pitch again. This book includes the many challenges he faced, and how he brou [...]
The Final Four by Paul Volponi
There are only four teams left in the NCAA tournament. The Troy Trojans are the underdogs, and Michigan State is favored to win the championship. These two teams meet in the first game in the semifinals. When the game clock starts winding down, you will learn the pasts of all the different players; how they loved playing basketball growing up [...]
And Then There Were None by Agatha Ch...
In the book, And Then There Were None written by Agatha Christie, ten people are invited to stay a weekend on an island by a stranger. The guests are connected to the host for different reasons. Eventually, the guests are accused of a murder and are trapped on the island. Haunted by a nursery rhyme, each person must fend for himself or hersel [...]
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
Samuel is a 13 year-old boy living on a farm in Pennsylvania in 1776. He loves to be outdoors, especially to hunt. One day, he was heading back to his cottage after a good day of hunting and his parents were missing, taken by the British and the Iroqois Indians. He was determined to find them.
Samuel understands that he is right in the middle [...]
Storm Runners by Roland Smith
Storm Runners is about a boy named Chase who after his mother and little sister died in a car crash lived alone with his father. One day during a thunder storm Chase’s father was struck by lightning and fell into a coma. When he woke up he was a different man, he soon became oddly interested in storms. Over the course of the next year Chase a [...]
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
I found this book to be very exciting in a way only fantasy can be. Young Winnie Foster is bored with her life of not being able to go anywhere. She wants to go places and do great things. She had contemplated running away forever, but kept deciding against it because she always thought that she would get hurt, kidnapped, or maybe even die. S [...]