Luke Garner Book Report

The book the I am reading is called Dead And Gone, By Norah McClintock. Furthermore the book is about an 14 year old boy named Mike who's parents have died and know has to live with his foster parent John Riel. In the book Mike has to serve community service for stealing CD's. Working at the community center Mike meets a girl who's mother got murdered, And Riel knows something about the murder because he was an ex police officer. During this time, the police had found a body that mite of been Emily's mother. The main theme of the book is crime, murder, drama, adventure, and thriller.

When he wakes up, he is in the hospital. Three days have passed while he is in his coma. The doctor tells him that he is blind in his left eye and will probably not be able to go back to sports. Through the many days that Luke is in the hospital many people come to visit him,

Growing and Inch by Stanley Gordon West is a novel about a 18 year old boy trying to keep his family together while at the same time live a senior life. Donny Cunningham is senior at central high school trying to live a normal life. His mother died when he was 14 years old and ever since then his dad has been hard into drinking. With social services after them and having high school to worry about Donny has a lot on his table. When his dad finally gets thrown in jail, Stewy, the youngest kid in the family is taken and sent to live with a foster family. Donny goes to great measures to locate Stewy and go illegally take him. He feels all his work has been done, but his dad is in some money trouble with gangsters out to kill. Even with one life

By: Xander Dell Book: New Kid Author: Tim Green Book genre: Realistic Fiction Quote: “Be careful what you wish for” Summary: A kid named Brock and his dad are moving around because there was a warrant out for Brock's dad and they would kill Brock if he did not turn himself in. When he gets to his new school he gets in a fight then becomes friends with the kid. Brock is only in eighth grade and is a giant for a kid.

The book That was Then, This Is Now is about to really good friends Bryon and Mark starting to go their separate ways. Bryon was a 16 year old hustler who lived in a hood. His mother was poor and she had adopted his best friend Mark. Mark was an illegitimate who was adopted by new parents that got in a drunken fight and killed each other. Mark was a thief, and he always got away with everything that he possibly could do. Teen kids in there element who thought they could rule the world, everything was theirs and that nothing could possibly go wrong. They did everything bad together smoke, drink, jump kids for their money, steal, skip school, take drugs and get into gang brawls.

Jasper jones is intriguing novel by Craig Silvey it revolves around the mysterious death the mayors daughter Laura Whishhart (jaspers girlfriend). Whose brutally abused body is found hanging from a tree in a clearing that has been adopted by jasper jones? And who has bad reputation due to his race and the fact that he has to to steal in order to survive due to the lack of parents. So jasper enlist the help of Charlie Bucktin an intelligent teenager to help hide Lauras body and get to the bottom of this alleged murder. Jasper is forced to to hide her body instead of giving her a proper funeral as the residents who reside in Corrigan are ignorant, hypocritical, narrow-minded, racist people who fail to give jasper a fair judgement of

book tells the story of the high school experiences of a fourteen-year-old boy named Scott

This book series is the story of young Luke Garner who was born in a time that the government controlled the total number of children that were allowed to be born per family. He was the third child born in his family and his existence was illegal. Luke and his family knew the trouble they’ll receive if this secret was revealed. Luke remained hidden majority of his life in his family’s farmhouse attic, hiding from the public.

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

self. Luke has to deal with the reality of his mother’s death well in prison; he receives the news through a letter. What went through Luke’s head was a mystery but whatever it was it made him want to escape the prison. He tries to escape 3 times and during the third time, Dragline joins him; he later gets shot and is taken to the prison hospital instead of the regular hospital which was much closer because it was the Captains decision. In the end it didn’t show whether he lived, but his mother’s death had caused all this. Another thing that Luke had to face was also wanted to be free. Luke is locked up in the prison with a sentence of two years; he is forced to do labour in the heat during the weekdays. Psychologically humans do not like to be confined which Luke is, because of this he also tries to escape because he wants freedom, but fails. Chief Bromden, a protagonist/narrator of the story has to deal with being lost in the fog. “It’s rolling in thicker than I ever seen it before” (Kesey 133). He is in the mental state where he thinks that the ward uses fog machines on the patients, eventually later in the story he is freed from the fog. He is only freed once he became more active in the ward and when he analyzed McMurphy. McMurphy wants to be free from the ward. “It’s interesting to me that you bums didn’t tell me what a risk I was running,twisting her tail that way. Just because I don’t like her ain’t a sign

This book is called Forged by Fire, by Sharon M. Drapper. In the book Gerald has to grow up with many challenges. The book takes place in the Hazelwood area. Gerald is a three year old boy who lives with his single mom. Gerald's mom is a major drug addict, she doesn't really take good care of Gerald. If he were to have a “accident”, she would make him keep it in his pants or not change him till the end of the day as a lesson to him. Gerald has many problems to deal with in this book, but the main one is having to deal with Jordan, his mom's husband who abuses all 3 of them, Monique (mom), Gerald, and Angel (sister). But worst of all Gerald has to deal with the fact that Jordan is sexually abusing Angel.

Where: The story takes place in Harlem, New York. The settings are at the subway, the school, the brother’s childhood home, Isabel’s home, the narrator’s home, and the nightclub.

The Wolf Mark by Joseph Bruchac is about a Native American Teenager, named Luke who’s had a troubled past with his mom dying at young age and with his dad unable to handle her absence has turned to a life of drugs and alcohol. His dad before the unfortunate passing of his wife worked in a government task force, however Luke isn’t privileged with much details of his father’s work. Due to his time in the black opps his father has become very paranoid. As a result of this they live in a trailer and move every six to twelve months, plus Luke has been giving military training on how to use guns and fist in combat. With Luke’s troubled past he’s had a lot of social issues especially when trying to win over Meena, a muslim girl he likes. However he finally gets the courage to ask her out and she says yes. Things are finally looking good for him until he

The main character is a detective in England named Luke Thanet who goes by Thanet. He has 3 kids who are all in school. His wife is named Bridget and she is a stay at home mom. In the book Thanet gets called out to investigate a murder. When he arrives at the scene he realizes he does not have is partner/ assistant. The challenge in the story for the detective is to find out who the killer is without having his best man by his side. The challenge is overcome whenever he calls

In just the course of A New Hope, Luke’s character changes immensely. The critical incident that sparks a change of his