Ungifted Gordon Korman Summary

This book is about how this kid named Donovan Curtis who knocked down a humongous globe, destroys a school gym, and goes into a school for the GT students. But he does get caught by the superintendent of the district, Dr. Schultz. But luckily Dr. Schultz had to go do something. That's when Donovan made a run for it.

The book is about these people from planet Earth. A boy name Mike gets a game that he always wanted in his life. By the time he puts the game in his computer, malfunctions began to

This book is about a teenage boy named Kamran who is the star on the football team and is very smart. His brother Darius is in the military and Kamran wants to join the military like his brother. One day, Darius is blamed for a terrorist attack on the U.S. Kamran’s life is completely flipped upside down and the people he thought were his friends have now turned on him and his family. Kamran has to find ways

The California Gold Rush affected the 49ers in a numerous amount of ways that could either mean life or death. The California Gold Rush started back on January 24, 1848 and ended somewhere in 1855. 49ers are people who left home to travel to California and become rich. The 49ers had a difficult time during the California Gold Rush because they faced many challenges such as having to travel the long distance to California, the horrible diseases they encountered along the way and there, and the majority of 49ers didn’t make enough profit.

The feeling of hope can pull us out of the darkest times and give us a sense of light at the end of a dark tunnel. In 2010 a magnitude 7 earthquake devastated Haiti's capital and surrounding towns and effecting an estimated three million people. The hardships the Haitian people have faced have had lasting effects on the current generations and it is likely to affect future generations. Haiti was founded on slavery, discrimination, and oppression. These hardships are shown throughout every chapter of the novel Krik?

The book, The Sixth Man, is a memoir that tells the story of Andre Iguodala from his childhood in Springfield, Illinois to his final years playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Iguodala opens his book in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois and gives an insight on the demographics of Springfield, which has a population of 115,000 with only 20,000 of those people being black. Shortly after introducing us to how Springfield was not officially segregated but it felt so, how it felt like black people had their own world, and within that world their own community, we are introduced to who Iguodala is. While growing up, he showed characteristics of keeping his head down and staying to himself, but also displayed a high competitiveness and energy especially when it came to sports and school.

The only way humans can interact with each other is by communicating. Communicating is getting a message across to someone else, however Neil Postman who wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death points out that there are many different ways this can be done. How content is presented regulates how it comes across and therefore how we react to it. There are many different ways messages can be sent, it could be through speech, gestures, writing, TV, or the newspaper. However, all these forms of communication that people utilize currently haven’t always existed. What our culture is like largely depends on what kind of form communication takes regulating how our brains think about oncoming details. The way the message is sent helps the reader to interpret

How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me From Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel is one of the best books you can read this year. Jennifer Brown has done it again with another middle school classic. It has a diverse cast of characters, all with great personalities. Join the adventures of Luke Abbott, and his journey through the Forest Shade Middle School robotics team. With such lovable characters, and a compelling story it will be sure to get your emotions stirring. With great reviews like a 5/5 stars from Barnes and Nobles, this is certainly a book you won't want to

The narrator for the seventh man should forgive himself for not being able to save K because he did everything he could do to try to save him but he would not listen. In the story the seventh man a huge typhoon strikes the beach with a big boom while the narrator and his friend K were investigating the previous damage from the past wind and rain. The narrator heard the big booms and tried to warn his friend K but he just couldn't K was too interested in whatever he was looking at that he did not hear the yelling or the loud booms.

Someone once said; “When we acknowledge the value in every human life and witness such, we thrive and succeed and protect one another”. The value in life is a prospect that should not be suppressed, even in times of hardship. Conveying this message through literary elements can be tough at times, consequently leaving the message unclear. Neal Shusterman’s “Unwind” demonstrates the opposite and conveys the theme thoroughly, leaving no room for uncertainty. His characters, one of the most important elements of an amazing story, all adapt realistically to a situation where the safety of their life comes first. Additionally, the conflict in “Unwind” is a central point of interest and engages the reader in the motives behind the battle faced by the characters. Finally, the narrative perspective further expresses a sense of meaningfulness when dealing with the topic of life significance. Evidently, Shusterman emphasizes the worth in human life through his character development, the conflicts and the theme.

Ethan Sumner is a middle school student who lives a normal life as a teen, he plays sports and is very involved in academic activity. His willingness to do well inside and outside of school will lead him to his life goal of having a job. Fred Korematsu is a WW2 civil rights activist who worked hard to make a living in America and spent years fighting against the U.S government for other American’s of his ethnicity. His lifetime goal was finding justice for Japanese-Americans. The pair may be very different in their ambitions for life, but the two surprisingly share the traits of being outspoken and lifestyle.

The two elements of friction that I pick are setting and character. The setting of a book really helps the readers get engaged into the story. The setting of a story refers to the geographical location, time period, and social environment. The story of the novel “Unwind” by Neal Shusterman is happened after the Second Civil War. By that time, parents are allowed to sign a unwind order for their children. Those who are unwound will be sent to a place called the harvest camps. The same situation can also happen to babies. Parents who are unable to raise their babies to age thirteen for retroactive abortion have the option to "stork" babies by leaving them on another family's porch. If parents do not get caught, the "storked" babies then become

Mistakes can seriously impact the people who make them; however, the effects are not always negative. In the book, Whirligig, by Paul Fleischman, a teenage boy named Brent is the new kid in town and he faces some major problems with his peers. After being pushed around, treated like a pawn, and utterly rejected, Brent tries to commit suicide by taking his hands off the wheel of his moving car. Although Brent’s attempt is not successful, his actions still have a tragic ending- Lea, a young, kind, beautiful girl, is unlucky enough to be in the car that Brent crashes into. The car accident results in Lea’s death, but also the start of Brent’s magical journey of redemption. Brent’s task is to travel to the four corners of the country, build

This book is about a young man who attends a small West Virginian High School. He lives in a house that is located off of the coal mine that the town rests on. Homer’s dad is the manager of the mine. Homer doesn’t receive much appreciation from his father. Homer sees on television the launch of the satellite sputnik, and after seeing this he is driven to be a part of the space race. He convinces some of his friends to help him build a rocket. They used terrible materials, and the rocket blew up their mother’s fence. They go to many different people for help on ideas, math and materials. After much hard work they finally build a rocket that launches into the air.

The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie has characters living in the harsh society of the 1930s during the Great Depression. The play The Glass Menagerie has multiple characters that respond to the way society works. One of The Glass Menagerie characters is Amanda who lives in a society that is hard on the poor. Amanda is affected by society which she can not handle and remembers the time of when she was younger.