Colfax Walk Connection

I was walking down Colfax with my class

When I see a person looking at me

I was picking up trash and so was he

I was at a bus stop picking up a Doritos bag

He was picking up a two liter bottle and throwing it away

I wondered why he was picking up trash

I bet he was wondering the same for us

I think he was doing the same as us

Just trying to make a difference

READY PLAYER 1

By Ernest Cline

Genre Science Fiction

       Ready Player One is about a futuristic world that has major global problems. People don't like to be out in the real world because it is an ugly place. Almost everybody in the real world owns an OASIS, a virtual utopia. The creator had died but before he died, he created a quest. The first person to complete the quest won all of the creator's fortune. The main character(Wade Watts) decided to devote his life to completing all three gates and completing the quest. Along the way he makes friends, and plenty of enemies. His largest enemy is IOI. They are a large group that want to take over IOSIS and change it. Along the way IOI tries to kill Wade, and not just in the virtual world.

       I really liked this books and it is one of my favorite books of all time. The plot was amazing along with the writing. Ernest Cline(author) made me feel everything that Wade felt. The description in the book was great, and every description reminded me of a character in a video game I have played. I could not stop reading this book and I had a few late nights reading. This book has some adult language and uses the f-word a lot.

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The Martian
Armada
Mr. Michelangelo's Library
When You Reach Me

Crossover

by Kwame Alexander 

             "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering," wraps teenage Josh Bell. Josh has played basketball for a long time with his twin brother. They look exactly the same but Josh has dread-lox. They both have a love for the game and they know each other super well but when Jordan(Josh's brother) gets a girlfriend he starts to drift away from Josh. Josh does not know how to react so he decides to react with anger. During the game he passes the  ball into Jordan's face but not for him to shoot, he did it out of pure anger. His parents take him out of the game even though he is the star of the team. They are on the way to winning nationals but Josh's dad is starting to have health troubles but he still refuses to go to the doctor. This book was a short book and I would recommend this book to anybody, even if you don't know basketball.

The Curious Incedent of The Dog in The Night Time

            This is the second part of this book because it is my book group book. I like this book because it is a mystery and so I am always trying to figure out what is happening. It made this book really fly by and so I read it really quickly.  This book is a pretty quick read and I think anybody in the class would enjoy reading it.

            It was interesting to see how much the dad was hurt after Chris loses all trust in him. He was obviously hurt and all he wanted was to gain trust back but Chris was very stubborn about it and thought he was not safe.

The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time

By Mark Haddon

           This book is about a kid named Chris who has autism. He finds his neighbors dog with a pitch fork through the middle of it. He goes up to the dog, removes the pitchfork and hugs the dog. When his neighbors find him in the middle of the night holding the dead dog they immediately call the police. When he realizes that everybody thinks he did it and nobody knows who really killed the dog, he wants to find out who killed him.

          Chris lives with his dad because his mom died of a heart attack a few years earlier. Mrs. Shear was the one who's dog got killed. Mr. Shear had left Mrs. Shear at the same time Chris's mother died. When Chris's dad got really mad when he said Mr. Shear I started to realize what is happening. It takes Chris a lot longer.

Out of my Mind

By Sharon m Draper

Rating 4/5 Stars

         This book is about a 13 year old girl named Melody, who is not able talk or move anything besides her head and thumbs. It creates a lot of challenges for her. On top of all of that she also has a photographic memory. She uses a board and points to the word so she can communicate. She is in a class with some other kids that have disabilities and completely separated from the rest of the school. In 5th grade the school started inclusion classes so that kids like her could join the rest of the school. One day in one of the classes a girl brought in a new computer. Melody said that she wanted a computer that was designed just for her. The next day she is given a chance to research it in one of the classes. Just a little bit later she gets it. After some practice she is able to use it. Later one of the teachers starts talking about Whiz Kids Team that answers questions and goes to competitions. Melody's goal is to get on the team even when everybody in the school is doubting her.

       I think this would be a good movie because it would be really cool to see how the emotion was showed even though Melody cannot talk and how she deals with it. It would also be really hard for the producer to show emotion and feeling in Melody.

Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld

Genre: Young Adult

 

       Uglies is about a girl named Tally. This book takes place in the future after everything has gone wrong. The government created a surgery that makes you pretty. Almost everybody has this surgery once they turn sixteen. Tally has looked forward to becoming pretty her entire life. Her best friend turned pretty just a months before Tally. That meant they would not see each other in tell Tally tuned pretty. For Tally, the months dragged by slowly. She ends up making friends with Shay. Shay teaches tally to hover board and eventually tells tally that she is going to run off to a place called Smoke. Tally chooses not to go along and to turn pretty. When tally goes to the hospital to have the operation, she is sent to another place called Special Circumstances. She meets a person named Dr. Cable. Dr. Cable threatens that if she does not go after Shay and find the place called Smoke, she will never turn pretty.

 

       I really liked this book. The book was not super descriptive but it still gave me a very vivid image of what this world looked like and everything that happened in the book. I also liked the plot of the book. It seemed so unreal but at the same time I was thinking, "What if this ends up happening? How? and Why?" It was also fun to both try to predict what the choice would lead to (I was never right) and would I have make that decision? I think that this book is not a quick read but I would definitely recommend this book to anybody and everybody.