Jim And Me Book Report

When Josh’s coach says to the team “if you can't go out there in a game like this and perform,then you’ll never will be great”.In my opinion,I think the coach means that Josh is really good and he should keep up the good work for the game so they could win.I know that he is really good in baseball because,when in the book it said “There is a newspaper with a picture of Josh with a bat” I think it means that Josh is a good baseball player also, if he brings the effort low then he would never think he will be great.

Jim Thorpe was an American Athlete who performed during the early 1900’s. At a young age he picked up track and field and eventually other sports like baseball and football and excelled in all of them. He gained worldwide attention because of his amazing talent in every sport he picked up and also because of his race being Native American, which was rare to see in professional sports. His two best sports were Football and Track and field which he won many awards in. He then got into the acting business which made him even more popular and respected throughout the US and even the world. From being told he is the best athlete in the world by a king, to being the president of what is now the NFL, Jim Thorpe changed America culturally because of his athletic career, his ability to persuade people not to discriminate

The book that I chose to review was Summer ball by Mike Lupica. It is about a kid named Danny who let his basketball travel team to the league’s championship and won. The next year he is going to Right Way Basketball Camp, which is a camp designed for kids at the elite level of basketball.

One of the main characters is Joe Rantz. This book mainly focuses on his life and onto the 1936 Olympics. He has a father and a stepmother. His father’s name is Henry and his stepmother furiously despised Joe Rantz. Joe’s stepmother gave Henry an option, either to live with her and Joe leaves or she leaves and Joe stays. It ended up Joe running away but he still went to school. He learned many things such as finding food that people just walk by like mushrooms. He was a curious,kind and young

The last engine of the plan goes out as the crew of the “superman” hurls towards the ground; “Prepare for impact” was a understatement. An american biographical war thriller book, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand describes Louis Zamperini life as he grows up from getting in trouble to becoming one of the most bravest and strongest people to date. In early childhood, Louis Zamperini grew up getting in trouble as much as possible, but as he grew older he became more of a man due to his new love for running. Running became such a passion and talent it brought him to the 1936 Summer olympics; unfortunately he only came in 8th. Louis later got drafted into the army where he became part of the “superman” crew in the United States Air Forces. Through traumatic events, he gets lost at sea and eventually gets captured to be sent to a camp of war. He faces many obstacles following the rest of the

For the book I was reading, it's called My story by Elizabeth Smart and Chris Stewart.

Jim Thorpe is debatably the best athlete of the 20th century. He was born on May 28th, 1887. Jim's mother had a pair of twin sisters before Jim was born. Unfortunately, they both passed away while they were babies. “He was born to Hiram Thorpe, a farmer, and Mary James, a Pottawatomie Indian and descendant of the last great Sauk and Fox chief Black Hawk, a noted warrior and athlete. Jim was actually born a twin, but his brother Charlie died at the age of nine. His Indian name, Wa-Tho-Huk, translated to “Bright Path,” something that Thorpe definitely had ahead of him.” (CMG Worldwide) Because Jim was born in Indian territory, he learned to hunt and trap animals which helped him develop his amazing endurance. When Jim was six, he was forced to

osh is our protagonist in this book he is the kid with all the power and looks and overall a great guy. During the run to the championship Josh goes up to bat a gets hit with a beanball right in the cheek and is down even though he is hurting he stays in the game. On the next defensive series he turns a triple play to win the Championship Game now the move on to the Hall of Fame Tour in Cooperstown. This book takes place With Josh and his two other friends Jaden and Benji they spend time out on the lake at each other’s houses and of course the baseball field. The big conflict in this story is that they made it to the Championship game in the Hall of Fame tour and Josh’s best friend Jaden goes and reports for the rival team with star baseball

“He gave up drinking and smoking.” Louie did exactly this, because he knew the potential he had in running, and wanted to reach that potential. Louie is the main character in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Almost the whole story revolves around him, and his magnificent life. Louie has grown from being a very troubled young boy, to being a very mature, giving, and humble young man.

Unbroken, A book written by Louie Hillenbrand, is the story that follows Louie Zamperini’s life. He was a troublemaker at the beginning of his life, but, when a friend that his brother was tutoring was deemed feeble-minded, he decided to change his ways.

Your childhood is a huge factor of who you will be when you grow up. If you have a rough home life as a kid chances are you will grow up to be different than an over privileged child. But at the same time anybody; if they're willing to put in the work; can be whoever they want to be. This is why adolescence and the changes that come with it are positive. Adolescence is a huge part of life and it should be viewed as such.

America is the place of unlimited potential; anyone can be whatever they set their mind to. Everyone has the ability to become wealthy. From rags to riches, a poor young child can become the greatest in the world, and this is what happened to Jim Thorpe.With his endowed abilities, Jim Thorpe became the greatest, most well rounded athlete in the world. Even though Jim Thorpe’s childhood was rough, he rose above it to become the greatest athlete of the twentieth century, and he left a legacy still being felt today.

Homeroom Diaries In Homeroom Diaries, by James Patterson and Lisa Papademetriou, Cuckoo, a 16 year old girl, has experienced a lot of tragedy. Her dad abandoned her when she is young, and her mom left her a few months ago, but her friends were always there for her. However, when things get tough, for the whole Freakshow, not just Cuckoo, their friendship is tested. But in the end, when you have a friendship as strong as the Freakshow’s, you don’t give up on each other.

Big Nate, (AKA Nate Wright), is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the wunderkind creation of cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Nate is also the star of six novelized books to be published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on the New York Times children's best-seller list. Big Nate Out Loud collects Peirce's Big Nate strips, originally published only in newspapers and online at comics.com.

From the book Savvy, the main idea of this story is about a little girl named Mibs Beaumont that comes from a family that has magical powers, which is called their savvy, and she is about to find out exactly what her savvy is when she turns thirteen. Her father ends up in the hospital and Mibs needs to wake him up. This story takes you on a journey in a company bus from Nebraska to Kansas, as Mibs is trying to get to Salina Hospital which is located in Kansas. This story does not give a specific time period or date, but the story does mention that Mibs’s birthday is on a Saturday and that their adventure started on that Saturday to the next day, Sunday. The author of this book is Ingrid Law, and she did a wonderful job on creating this fictional