This book is about how Bear Grylls climbed Mount Everest. It tells about how he broke his back while he was younger and why he decided to attempt to climb Everest. It also tells about the preparations and training needed to do this. What most of the book is about is the challenges he faced while on Everest. This is my favorite book because he talks about how he dealt with the difficulties on Everest and it talks about a subject I am interested in. I read this book last week.
2: Hatchet
This book is about a boy named Brian who was in a plane that crashed in the middle of the forest. He survives by building a shelter in a cave, drinking lake water, and eating berries at first. He then begins to fish and hunt birds and eventually kills a moose. He then finds a radio transmitter in the crashed plane and accidentally left it on. Because of this a plane finds him. This is my second favorite book because I like this topic and it shows what might happen if an unexperienced person were lost in the woods. I first read this book in fifth grade.
3: Holes
This book is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who is sent to a work camp for doing something he did not do. While at this camp he meets the boy who actually committed the crime he was sent there for. They escape the camp together and live on a mountain until law officials come and take them out of the camp. This is my third favorite book ever because of how the three different stories being told all fit together. I read this book first in fifth grade.
4 The President Has Been Shot
This book describes the the details of the assassination of President Kennedy. It tells about the life of the murderer and possible motives. It tells where the murder took place and how things were set up. It tells about how the murder happened and how it could have been prevented. It then tells about how the murder was caught and how people reacted. I liked this book because I learned something I didn't know before and it was very interesting. I read this book in seventh grade.
5 Ripper
This book is a mystery fiction book about if the murderer Jack the Ripper went to America and murdered people. The main character is an orphan and is adopted by Pinkerton Detectives. He works with them and discovers that Jack the Ripper is his father. He discovers who he is going to murder next and protects them. He fights his father and traps him but he escapes. I liked this book because of how everything connects and makes sense at the end. Also when I thought it was almost finished I looked and was only halfway through. I read this book in seventh grade.
6 The Giver
This book is about a community where everything is regulated carefully. Everyone has no knowledge of the past before their community. The community has no books other than rule books and dictionaries, no dangerous or progress slowing items or geographical formations, and no color vision. When people get old they do not die but are released. This is when doctors give them lethal injections. No one except the doctors and elders know about this. I like this book because of the morals it talks about. I read this book in seventh grade.
7 Son
This book is a sequel to The Giver. It talks about the community from a different point of view and talks about different communities there also are and what they are like. The main character left the community to look for her son who was taken. She finds other communities and eventually finds her son. I liked this book because it was inspirational and thought invoking. I read this book in seventh grade.
8 Old Yeller
This book is about a dog that a family adopts. The story is about the family's hardships and how the dog helps them out. At the end of the book the dog gets very sick. By then the whole family has become very attached to the dog. The father has to kill the dog and it is very sad. I like this story because it was inspirational and interesting. I read this book in fifth grade.
9 Of Mice and Men
This book is about two men who are migrant workers. They go to work at a farm. One of the workers is not very smart and always gets in trouble. He likes to touch soft things. He is very strong and often hurts or kills small furry animals. He was feeling someone's hair and he accidentally killed them. The other man is forced to shoot him. I liked this book because it was thought invoking and interesting. I read this book in seventh grade.
10 The Right Fight
This book is about a man who is a tank driver in WWII. He is fighting in North Africa and fights in many battles. He has many good and bad experiences and makes new friends. At the end of the book the tank he is in explodes and he is the only one of his crew to survive. I like this book because I am interested in WWII and liked learning what it might have been like as a soldier. I read this book in seventh grade.
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