“The whole area seemed deserted and forgotten.” At least that's what Matt thought before breaking and entering into the place in which Kelvin, his one and only friend was to attempt murder. (I chose that quote for it expresses my feeling towards this book quite well.) Raven’s Gate, by Anthony Horowitz was not nearly as exciting, suspenseful, and entertaining as I originally thought. Though it does have its moments, with a hard to follow plot twists, vague explanations, and unclear scientific references, this book was not an especially easy read.
The novel revolves around 14 year Matthew Freeman, one of five children who saved the world once before and are destined to did it again. After getting arrested, he is sent to live with Mrs. Deverill
One thing the book talks about is keeping childhood innocence. Mostly through the characters of the story the novel also shows how easily experience can change people and cause them to lose their youthful traits. Dallys rough youth has made him tough and fearsome, and he seems not to care about anything. But Dally has a soft spot too caring for Johnny.
This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.
We don´t get a lot of information about the various characters.The story is told in first person through a narrator who’s an african american man who remains without a name throughout the novel, besides
The book takes a lot of perspectives mainly among Aries, Clementine, Michael and mason. This is really good compared to other books. The multiple perspective makes it feel like a movie and mixes it up. Also, it has an abundance of suspenseful cliff-hangers that make you crave to read more and lead you on. The characters also aren’t afraid all the time and cower how most teens would. They seem to know how to live in the moment, and have good times and joke even when there is danger. That shows us they are fearless kids just about.
This novel was set during the post war period, this was a time when independence and rebelling against parents and law was more important than doing the right thing, during these times of independence, and teenagers needed friendship more than anything else.
The book grasps all parts of growing up in a unstable environment, with the parents getting divorces, moving away from friends to go to a new school, the meeting of new friends the getting falsely accused of things you say you did not do but still get in trouble for, feeling like nobody likes you, feeling like running away and the lazy never wanting to get up out of bed mornings. The author, Bridget Lowry, Is trying to portray the problems of growing up and I think she succeeds in this novel. This novel is very exciting and adventurous I do recommend other students read this book
The book centers around an incident involving Allison Huguet and Beau Donaldson. One night, Allison was hanging out with a group of childhood friends when she was invited to a party at Beau Donaldson’s house. When the party was winding down, the friends decided to stay
The time period of the setting in the book is the late 1960s and through the 1980s.
A quick summary to mostly explaining the book would be. At the beginning of the story, Davie is just your typical mischievous altar boy who along with his friend Geordie enjoys stealing the sacramental wine and smoking stolen cigarettes. They do go to confession each week though to make up for it. Along with their altar boy antics, Davie and Geordie are enemies with the town bully, a typically drunken and belligerent Protestant named Martin Mould, aka Mouldy. They're
First off, the summary of the book is about a boy named Danny who lived with his Ma in New York City, but that all changed
This novel tells the story of a sixteen-year-old named Blake. One day, when Blake went to Six Flags with his two friends, Maggie (with whom Blake is in love with) and her boyfriend, Russ, and his brother, Quinn, Blake received an invitation to a carnival from a strange, gorgeous girl, Cassandra. Blake thought that the idea of going to the carnival is stupid, until he realized his brother stole the invitation. Blake convinced his two friends to tag along with him, so they could go find Quinn. As the characters entered the carnival, they learned that they have to survive seven deadly rides by dawn.
He’s a teenage African American boy who seems to have some conflict occurring in his life at the start of the book. One of them is his mother got a job in Springdale, a town that Jordan doesn’t want to move to. Another struggle I learned is that his father left him, his mother, and his little sister, Tachelle, when Jordan was little. Jordan got into the Cobra’s gang which was filled with older guys who stole, did drugs, and were overall a horrible influence on Jordan. One night Jordan left to go to his grandfather’s to take his watch for the gang. The King of the gang offered Jordan a place to live since he complained about moving. He thought it was a good opportunity and he felt wanted. Wanted, something he hadn’t felt since his father had left. As he walks along a street in the evening somehow he goes through a portal to the 1700’s and loses the watch. A little boy comes up to him and asks him where he came from. Jordan doesn’t know at the time but it was his great grandfather. Jordan stays as a slave and would get whipped if he didn’t do something his Paddyroller, a white man that kept little boys as slaves, wanted him to do. He finally goes back to the present time after he finds the watch. When he returns he doesn’t give the King the watch and all the men jump him. He goes to the hospital, but in the end everything turns out fine and he finally realizes that the watch had much more value to his family than the money it was
The main story in the novel is of Josephine Alibrandis life when she is 17 years old and at the end of her high
The book I chose to do my summer reading assignment on, was Ashfall. Personally, I was very fascinated by this book, it truly was one of those novels that left you questioning, what would I do if I was in that situation?. Mike Mullin kept the storyline going with very imaginative descriptions and detailed scenes, that left me turning the pages, till I realized the book was almost done for. Nevertheless, I thought this book was a riveting tale of survival that demonstrated, how dark times can turn good people into creatures with no emotions. The protagonist, Alex, was extremely strong willed and his character was deeply authentic. Throughout the novel I could connect with Alex, to the point where I felt like I was in the book making the decisions
This novel teaches us about the endless possibilities of life that we can face and that we can keep trying until we succeed with the many opportunities that we have around us.