Gruns Day Book Report

The title of the book is Crenshaw. The author’s name is Kathrine Applegate. The genre is fantasy.

What inspired the author to write a book about such a crazy thing? My book is called “ Hideout” by Watt Key. This book was published on January 10, 2017. It was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (BYR). It also has 320 riveting pages that won't let you put the book down! This is my absolute favorite book ever and is full of mystery and edge.

Does fighting fire with fire ever have a good outcome? Scowler is a book written by Daniel Kraus that goes in depth with a family's struggle to overcome an abusive dad. Nobody in the family will stand up to the Marvin Burk, who is the abusive father that gives the family a hard time. Ry Burk is a kid with good intentions who is held back from his living a normal life due to his father Marvin’s evil.

the book MAUS by Art Spiegelman is an amazing book about Spiegelman father’s experience during WW2. The story is told by Spiegelman, as in present time with present events, and the story of WW2 is described as a memory. The main characters in the story for the present time are Spiegelman (author) , Vladek (author’s father), and Mala ( Vladek’s wife). The main characters in WW2 story are Vladek, and Anja (Vladek’s wife during the war). The story takes places in Poland, mid 1930’s to winter 1944. The main conflict Vladek is facing is, he is losing his family along the way throughout the war.

After reading 80 pages of, “Skud,” by Dennis Foon, I felt motivated by the actions and determination shown by the main characters of the story, especially Andy. In the book, all the characters had a goal or objective and worked hard to reach that goal. Although most people would not advise someone to center their life around one certain thing, I think that when one finds a purpose or objective in life they should always do their best to reach this goal regardless of what others say or thinks of it. In the book, Andy dream was to become a popular actor.Although the possibility of getting cast is low and although he was hurt and unwell, Andy still went to the audition because of that small possibility. After reading about this, I felt determined and motivated by actions like this.

I’ve participated in 3 sports teams since freshman year. I tried out for and joined Cross-Country in August of 2015 and was put on the Freshman-Sophomore team. This year I made it to the 2016 IHSA 2A Cross Country Sectional Champions. I tried out for and joined the women’s basketball team in October of 2015 and this year I was nominated for and became captain of the Junior Varsity team. I tried out for and joined Track & Field in March of 2015 and I have been on the Varsity team since freshman year. I participate in the 100 and 200 meter dashes, low and high hurdles, long jump, triple jump, and shot put. I made it to the 2017 Indoor City Championships for long and triple jump. I am in Key Club, African-Culture and Dance, Recycling Club, Science Olympiad, and Latin Honor Society.

The author’s purpose in writing The Eighth Day was to teach a lesson. Not everything comes to you as easy as you think. Throughout the book, the main character, Jax struggles to obtain his friendship with Evangeline. Jax is called a transitioner. That means that he has eight days in a week. Evangeline is what they call kin. In this book, kin means that she can only live 1 out of all 8 days. This is a struggle for Jax because, for everyone one of her days, he has seven more. Plus, Jax’s guardian, Riley, was trying to keep Jax away from Evangeline. Riley is her captor. He has trapped her in a house and is going to keep her there until she dies. Jax doesn’t realize this is for her own good, and he goes against Riley to get her out. Riley is

The book I read was The Eighth Day by Dianne K Salerni.The genre of this novel is fantasy adventure.This book is labeled as fantasy because of it’s magic a well as it’s interesting fictional plot. Adventure is also featured in the title because of all the unusual and exciting occurrences.This piece of literature mixes Ancient magic,Arthurian legend and a modern twist to bring an intriguing book.The complicated alliances and cold-hearted villains keeps the reader on their toes.

How could someone’s mind not be changed after reading what we have read this semester? These books contain eye witnessed testimony of what the camps were like and how you had to live or be killed. The horror that occurs in any Holocaust or genocide is too horrible for a mind to create just for a story. The information presented by Abzug is not just a pile of statistics, it is evidence. I question if it is too real for someone not to believe it happened? I am disgusted at the fact that some people will deny the fact that this happened or even try to lessen what it was to make our country and its hypocritical government seem better and look like they tried to help.

Wow this book i called the candy shop book 2Brandon Mull, is a fiction book about magic candy. One summer day, Nate moves to Colson. He wants to find friends quickly, so he won’t be lonely and shy when the school year starts.Nate is a kind ten-year-old who becomes close friends with three kids over the summer. The three friends make a club called the Blue Falcons. Nate’s friend Pigeon is a 5th grader who made friends with a pigeon, which explains the nickname. Another friend of Nate’s is Summer, who is an energetic girl and learns to not trust strange people. Another member of the club is Trevor, a boy who can use the magic candy well. When the Blue Falcons first meet Mrs. White, a magic candy maker, they think she is nice, but she turns

The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo, is a story about a small mouse named Despereaux who has giant ears and loves a princess named Pea. Because of his love, Despereaux is sent to the dungeon where rats live. The book is divided into four stories.

In a small fishing village in the Russian town of Uleaborg on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, Olaf Jansen, a 27 year old Norwegian fisherman retells the tale of him and his father Jens Jansen a 6 foot 3 in height, and weighed over 15 stone (210 pounds), discovering the inner world Agartha. The story begins when Olaf and his father went on a fishing voyage where they end up finding a passage in a glacier at the north pole which brings them to Agartha, Agartha is a land inside our Earth with an inner sun and everything like the Earth above ground. When they arrived they noticed the inhabitants looked much like them but stood twelve feet tall eating foods bigger than the average human head, the capital city of Agartha was the original Garden of Eden

In his book, Louv stresses that in a generation brought up amongst a culture of fear, our society is at direct blame for teaching young children to avoid intimate contact with the natural world. Well-intentioned parents, schools, and media have instilled this said culture, due to our own generalized social anxieties and fears. Fear of lawsuits, strangers, traffic and the unknown wilderness are only a few examples of how we as a society has begun to over-parent. Everything from a child’s school routine to their leisure time is carefully controlled these days. This general ignorance stems deep into this generation's’ parental expectations, only supporting the absence of unstructured outdoor activities in children’s lives. Other factors are

I did my book report on The Hunger games, because it is suspenseful, adventurous, and has tons of action. This is about Katness, Peeta, Haymitch, Effie, and the Games.

Sacrifice, even when it comes to one’s ultimate end, is crucial in order to survive as a productive race. In the book Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, he illustrates the hardships of the early-nineteenth-century lifestyles. With the resurrection of an evicted man, the novel sprouts from a broken family recovering and growing. This novel incorporates many grand gestures and adventures, such as the French Revolution, treason trials, and the sacrifice of one’s own life in the name of love.