The World Without Us

By Alan Weisman

       This book was totally different than I expected. I was expecting  a fictional story about how the animals react to humans suddenly disappearing and what they do with all of our man made structures. It is a lot more about how long it would take for the entire human civilization to collapse including buildings. It talks about a timeline and breaks down how  a New York type city would collapse and eventually go back to how it was before we were here. The only difference it that there would be new plants that we brought from all over the world. I would recommend this book to anybody who likes to learn about nature and likes a good non fiction book.

Screwtape Letters

By C. S. Lewis

          Screwtape letters is a book of a lot of letters from Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood. This book is nothing like what I expected. Screwtape works for the devil and he is sending letters to Wormwood who is trying to get his "patient" to do bad things and not fall into "the enemies" hands. All the letters are from Screwtape  but you can tell what Wormwood is asking because each letter is molded around the question. This book is pretty short and it is about 200 pages but it is a pretty big font. I would recommend this book to anybody because it shows a really cool perspective that I had never thought of before and I think it would be the same for others who read this.

Slice Of Life

Finding a Christmas Tree

"Waist deep snow?" I hear my dad say into the phone.

Every year on Thanksgiving weekend we go to find Christmas tree. Last year we went to find a tree in shorts and ran through the forest looking for the perfect tree. This year we went to the same place on the same day but in totally different conditions. We  had snow boots and pants on with heavy coats. When we got there it looked like there was only about a foot of snow. We started hiking off the road and down a small trail. Soon the trail disappeared and we were on our own. My friends and I tried to run up ahead but I quickly learned it would not be that easy. I fell through the snow and it went up past my hips. This surprised everybody, especially me. My friends had snow shoes on so they did not fall through but from then on everybody took careful steps so they did not fall through the snow did just like me.

The Graveyard Book

This book is about a kid named Bod. One night he wakes up and climbs out of his crib. He crawls out the front door and towards the graveyard, unaware of the fact that his family was being murdered and the murderer was coming after him. Two souls that had been in the graveyard for over a hundred years took him in and promises the child's mom's spirit to keep him safe from the killer. The graveyard votes for him to have freedom of the graveyard allowing him to go into places that most humans cannot. He grows up learning bout his family and staying in the graveyard. Every once in a while he makes a friend or two. He cannot take any chances or else he risks his life.

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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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.