Hunger Games

Kyle Monteiro

Hunger Games

This book about a girl call Katniss and she has to fight for her life for the entertainment of others. The book called the Hunger Games it is by Suzanne collins. Katniss dad died in a explosion. Katniss also sacrifice herself for her sister not to be in the hunger games by tributing herself. Katniss had experience with a bow so she had skill to use a weapon unlike any other person in sector 12 tributes. Katniss find out Peeta loves her and she got angry and slap him. Kaniss also got betrayed from peeta join an alliance with other tributes and help them find her. My favorite part of this book is that when katniss shot an arrow at the judges when they were just ignoring her like she had no skill and then they were in shock after the arrow hit the pig. I did not like how Katniss and Peeta move to a cave and were never found. I will rate this book a 4* and I recommend this book for the age of 13 and up. There were some parts in the book that were graphic and confusing and also some parts that were some hard words and there was a really good plot. the reason why I think people should read this book is because the plot for this book is just spectacular. This book has action and weapons also death. This story also has romance and drama with a little comedy. The book does build suspense and leaves you hanging a little. This book will make you want to turn the page none stop and not stop thinking about it on what will happen next or is it true. This book will have something that anyone would like because they put a little of everything in it.

Monster: Walter Dean Myers

Jay Patel

Block 3

Book review

            The title is of the book is Monster. The author of this book is named Walter Dean Myers. It took place in a city. It is about a shooting at the robbery that has occurred in a store. The court and the police have convinced themselves that the young boy was part of the robbery that was taking place. His name is Steve. He was 16 and his friend Bobo was selling cigarettes and got caught and snitched them both out. They called Steve “Monster” throughout the book because they thought that a young boy would never do the thing that they thought that he did.

I liked how it shows what has been happening before and then it goes back to what happened after. I didn’t like how it ended even though there so was so much proof that showed that he wasn’t involved in the shooting. The court still turned on him and made the wrong decision. I recommended this book to people who like mystery and it is based on a true story. I give this this book a 4 out of 4 because of all the violence it describes from robbery to shooting. It had all the details it needed.

This book will keeps you thinking at the end of every page. The book makes you want to keep reading. The book is good for people that love to predict what happens next. It has a lot of foreshadowing. This book is all about remembering the facts. It is a creative way to read because it is formatted like a play. It changes plots and the changes to settings in a way you will find out by the characters talking.

A Child called "IT"

Francheska Chour

1/14/13

Reading writing workshop

Book Review #1

The book A Child called “it” by Dave Pelzer is a tragic story about a boy who gets physically abused by his mother. The little boys name is Dave; he has three other brothers and lives with both his parents. In the beginning, Dave’s mom used to love him but it quickly started to change. She called him a bad boy and punished him harshly. She starved him, made him her own personal maid, locked him in the bathroom with the smell of Clorox and other deadly chemicals, she even made him eat poop, vomit, and left over crumbs from breakfast or dinner as his meal. His brothers and father didn’t do anything, at first they watched sadly but after some time they didn’t even show any affection towards him. I liked reading this book because it talked about every incident briefly. My favorite part was when they went to a family trip and Dave’s mom was forcing him to eat his brother’s poop. I liked it because he was really descriptive and showed a lot of emotion in the chapter. My least favorite part was when she made him throw up and eat it again and his father just watched without doing anything. I recommend this book for anyone that likes memoirs because it keeps you awake and won’t let you put the book down. I believe this book should be for teens ranging from 14-17 years old because it has a lot of curses and its very violent. I would rate this book a four out of four stars because it was really good and it actually teaches you a lot about abuse and about what others around you might be going through without you thinking about it and not judging people because you never know what happens when they are home.

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller is about a girl named Haven that had been reincarnated. She was living in Snope City which is located in Tennessee she hoped to move to New York when she was older though so that she could go to school and meet the boy she was destined to be with. Though along the way she struggles with weather this boy was actually the one. Finally by playing it safe in New York and by trying to avoid the paparazzi before the people from a secret society get to know to much information.
I liked the book because it left you wondering what would happen next it also made you make many predictions though out the book. everything in the end though went together in the end i didn't like that in the end they made you wait for answers to the questions that where running though your head at the time. My favorite part of the book was when Haven found that the one she loved was not actually dead.
I would recommend this book for anyone that likes a suspenseful romance story. I would also recommend this book to people in there teen age years. If i where to rate this book i would give it 3.5 stars because it was really good but the start of the book started a little slow but by the end of the book you didn't want to put the book down. This book will blow you away with it's intriguing yet suspenseful moments in the book though there is also some romance to the book.

Book Review#1 Chris Landry

I am reading the book Hatchet by Gary Paulson. Genre is either adventure or suspense. The story is about a boy named Brian Robeson who gets into a plane and while in the air the pilot has a violent heart attack. Brian strears it into a lake and it stuck him in the middle of a Canadian wilderness with no one with him and nothing to use to survive. He has to use only what he can find to survive.

This book kept me interested because of the way the author describes the situations and the way Brian handles them. My favorite part of the book was when he the pilot has the heart attack and Brian is panicing on what to do and how to land the plane without getting killed. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading suspencful books and younger kids might not truly understand whats going on. Also people who like wildlife becasue he deals with alot of animals and forest. I rate this book 4 stars because I was able to read it and stay interested and actually painted a vivid picture what was going on.

It is definitly a great book to read!



Stephen King - The Shinning

Stephen King- The Shinning.
By: Erik Karlson
There is a family there is a mother a father and a son. Jack is the father Wendy is the mother and Danny is the son. Jack gets a job as the winter caretaker at the Overlook hotel. They find out later that the old winter caretaker killed his wife, two daughters’ and himself, brutally. Their son Danny has the Shining. This allows people with the Shine to see into the future. Also people extremely gifted can see the dead. Danny, exploring the hotel comes across the two girls that were killed by their father in room 217. The girls haunt that room.
I liked how suspenseful the book was, it always kept you thinking and wondering what was going to happen next. I did not like how slow the book was at first, it took a while to get to the suspense, but one there I couldn’t put the book down.
If you like horror, suspense, and creepiness in a book, this book is for you! I think that this book should be for people who are at least of 16 years of age. I think this because the dialogue of this book is extremely hard and it is too graphic for the younger generation. I would give this book four and a half stars. This book is great for people that like to be scared.