Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger 11/26/13

Prompt: Describe the main characters.
Pages: 0-90
     The first main character is Will Treaty. He is usually very cheery and goes around making jokes, smiling, and laughing. But recently he has been very grim. He is very angry that his friend died. In the first chapter of the book he is looking for the people that killed his friend. He is a Ranger. Rangers are the most skilled fighters in the kingdom and he is one of the best.

     The second main character is Madelyn, or Maddie. She is a princess in Araluen and the daughter of Queen Cassandra and King Horace, both Wills friends. She often sneaks into the woods around the castle to hunt with her sling. She is spoiled but often gets in trouble with her parents.

     The third main character is Maddie's mother Cassandra. She is the Queen of Araluen. She was a lot like her daughter. When she was a kid she would sneak out of the castle wit ha slingshot just like Maddie. But she would use the sling shot for a different purpose. She would shoot the tips of the guards spears. Although she did the same thing as her daughter she is still very strict in not wanting her out of the castle hunting.

The Giver - 11/21/13

Prompt: Write a summary of what you’ve read.
Pages: 1-79
     In the first part of the story Jonas tells his feelings for the ceremony. He comes up with the thought of apprehensive because he is nervous about the ceremony. The ceremony is when his job is chosen deciding his future. He and his parents then have a conversation about his feelings. After the conversation he feels less nervous but still doesn't know what his job will be.
     You then find out about the time when he got in trouble for taking an apple home without permission. He and he friend were playing catch when he noticed the apple change in mid air. He was confused and when he took the apple home, against the rules, he got in trouble. He then has a "stirring" and has to start taking pills.
     Finally is the ceremony. It starts with the naming ceremony for the newchildren. Then they tell about the ceremony of eights where Jonas' sister gets to start service hours. Although it is important Jonas' sister cannot wait until she is nine and gets a bike. Finally comes the ceremony of twelve. Jonas is happy that his friend Asher gets the important and fitting job of Assistant Director of Recreation. Then for some reason they skip Jonas. He is traumatized. After everyone else had been called Jonas' number was called. He was called last because he was receiving the most important job in the community, the Receiver. They rarely choose a new one. It was a huge honor for Jonas.

Bomb 11/13

Spoiler Alert

Pages: 0-70
Prompt: List five major events in order from which happened first to last.
     The book Bomb is about "the race to build - and steal - the world's most powerful bomb.
     The first major event is the discovery that fission is discovered. This is when a neutron hits a uranium atom and splits the uranium atom in two. One atom breaking has enough force to make a grain of sand jump. Although this is small a single ounce of uranium contains 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms. The next major event is when Albert Einstein writes a letter to Roosevelt, the president of the U.S. at the time. This is important because it causes the U.S. to begin researching the production of an atomic bomb.
     The third major event is Pearl Harbor. After Pearl Harbor Robert Oppenheimer started to design the atomic bomb. It said earlier in the book that Oppenheimer would play a major role in the building of the atomic bomb. The fourth event is Oppenheimer is visited by a KGB agent. This is important because KGB agents were Russian spies trying to steal info about the atomic bomb. It also says that Oppenheimer's decision to not tell anyone would haunt him for the reset of his life.
     The fifth major event is when Oppenheimer and Groves, the other leader of the bomb project chose a spot to use as their base. This is important because it is where all their experiments will be done.

Hardy Boys: The House on the Cliff

Pages: 0-35
Prompt: Summarize what you just read.
     In the first part of what I read the Hardy Boys, Joe and Frank, are helping their dad on a case. They borrow his telescope to look for smugglers. They then set up on a cliff next to an old abandoned house. After looking for a few minutes the see a man getting into a boat. They watch for a minute but are interrupted.
     The interruption is a scream coming from the old house. They go to investigate but find nothing. When they go to leave the house they discover that they are locked in they break down the door. They discover that the lenses on their telescopes had been stolen. They start driving home but their motorcycles break down and they discover that their tools were also stolen.
     They then see two boats that appear to be involved in a chase. One boat throws a grenade onto the other boat and the driver is thrown into the water. The boys then save the man and make it back home. This is an amazing book and I recommend it to anyone.