This Boys Life by Tobias Wolff

This Boys Life by Tobias Wolff is about a boys named Jack who is moving to Utah with his mom. They are moving after his mom had a troubling time with her husband. Jack was also trouble in school and also by the police. Halfway through the book, Jack is trying to leave Utah and run away to Alaska with his friend. He then later is going to different schools and moving around with his friends. Jack later gets caught by the police for stealing oil from a farm which leads him to be kicked out of the elite High School that he got accepted into. He then joins the army and serves in the Vietnam war. This book was very good and I enjoyed it a lot. Although some parts were confusing in the book, it was very interesting and kept me reading until I was finished. Overall, this book is excellent and I recommend this to everyone.

Miracle Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

Miracle Boys by Jacqueline Woodson is a book about 3 orphan brothers whose parents died. The brothers names are Charlie, Lafayette, and Tyree. Charlie just had came back from 2 years of reform school and is upset and angry, Tyree was about to go to college but soon gave up after his parents died, and Lafayette is also very upset about his parents death. Their father died of hypothermia after Tyree forced his father to save a lady who fell in a frozen water lake. Their mother died of a coma when Charlie was 9 years old. He was to young to know what to do. Throughout the book, they get in trouble very much and blame each other for their problems. Overall, this book is very good and I enjoyed it a lot. The book is very interesting and not too hard to read. I recommend this book to everyone.

Slam by Walter Dean Myers

Slam by Walter Dean Myers about a boy named Greg Harris who is a very good basketball player. He is a very good point guard and a slam dunker. His main problem he had that his coach and friends didn't give him the respect he deserved. He also had trouble in school because his teacher got mad at him for his grades. Greg's best friend named Ice is slowly moving away from him in his life. Greg thinks that Ice is selling and using drugs is the problem. I am 3/4 done with the book and I am enjoying it a lot. The plot and the characters are very interesting. I like this book because it is easy to understand and is in my reading level. This book is very good and I recommend this book to everyone!

Icefire by Chris d’Lacey

Icefire is a book by Chris d’Lacey which is about a student named David Rain who lives in Pennykettle. While he is in college, he starts to have an interest in dragons from his tutor and then soon starts to research about them too. He soon became more interested in them and wanted to find out the secrets of them in the Arctic. Later in the book, David meets a college roommate named Suzanna and he shows her the dragons den. He shows her the dragon egg and she touches it accidentally and it comes to life. The dragon that comes to life is red and is named Grokle. Throughout the book, David has to help take care of the dragon while Suzanna is at a trip in Africa. This book is a sequel from Fire Star which I plan to read in the future. This book is very interesting and kept me reading more and more. I like this book a lot and I recommend this book to everyone!

Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz

Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz is about a boy named Alex Rider who is a spy and works for M16. He was on a mission to see why so many billionaires were dead. In the beginning of the book, Alex was going to Point Blank which was this military academy from his hotel until someone tricked him and put a drug in his drink. He was then taken by this person who examined him and then put him back in the hotel. While Alex is in Point Blank, he realizes that this doctor named Hugo Grief is trying to control the world by making clones of everyone. The purpose of making the clones was that when their parents die, they would take the assets the clones inherit. He would then lock the clones in the cellar of his basement. Alex soon gets caught by Dr. Grief and gets put into a cellar. He then gets freed by an M16 worker and kills Dr. Grief while he is in his helicopter. The story was also Publish Postvery interesting and kept me reading more. Overall, this book was very good and I recommend it to everyone.

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Over the summer, the second book I have read is called Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. This is a series about a boy named Alex Rider who is a spy who works for this undercover organization called the M16. In the beginning of the book, he realizes that his uncle has been killed in a car crash by the police. Alex questions the police and investigates because he knows that his uncle always put his seat belt on. One of his missions in the M16 is to spy on this rich man named Herod Sayle. He is building a computer called a Stormbreaker which he is giving to the schools in Britain. These Stormbreakers are infected with a small pox virus which will cause a deadly virus. Just before the Prime Minister was activating it, he shoots all of it and deactivates it. Also, Alex was about about to be thrown off the roof but then is saved by a man named Yassen Gregorovich who is the man who killed his uncle. He then kills Herod and tells Alex to stop being a spy or he is going to die one day. This book is very good and kept me reading until I was finished with the book. I also have read some of the other books in the series which were very good too. I enjoyed this book a lot and I recommend this book to anyone who like books with a lot of action in it!

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Over the summer, I read Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers which is about an African American boy named Richie. He is 17 years old and just graduated high school. After he entered the army, he was sent to Vietnam after a month. While he is in the military, he meet two new friends named Jenkins and Peewee. While they were doing basic training, Jenkins gets killed by a land mine. After a little while later while he is in war, he became very sad and cannot communicate to his family or friends. Later in the book, Richie and his friends get a new leader named Sargent Dongan. He was a very rude person and put both of them in a very dangerous situations when they were about to die. Soon, Sargent Dongan died and Richie and Peewee became seriously wounded. Their wounds became so bad that they both had to be discharged and were sent home. Then they both went home in a plane surrounded by new soldiers entering Vietnam for war. This book was very enjoyable and was in my reading level. I understood all of it with no problems. It is very interesting and I recommend this book to everyone!

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan is about a boy names Percy Jackson. He is at lunch playing dodge ball when a bunch of 7th grades disguised as Laistrygonians are trying to kill him. Then, Tyson is saved by a friend named Tyson who wasn't hurt. Then, the camp is under fire because some one has poisoned the tree. In the middle of the book, Percy realizes that his friend Tyson is the Cyclops and is the son of Poseidon. The main part of the book is the final fight between Luke and Percy when Luke captured Tyson and his best friend Grover. In the end, Percy is almost killed but then saved by Chiron. This book is a really good book. I have read the book before this sequel which is called, The Lightning Thief which was very good too. I was very interesting. I recommend this book to you.

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis is another book in the Chronicles of Narnia. The story is about the main character named Eustace Scrubb who is in Aslan country. He is a victim of bulling so he had tried to escape. In the middle of the book, Aslan blows Jill and Eustace Scrubb into Narnia after one of them almost fell off a cliff saving one another. Throughout the book, Eustace and Jill have to go through a lot of adventures and fights which in the end leads to where Aslan wants them to be. In the book, they go through a lot of conflicts such as being under attack by the Lady of the Green Kirtle and by the gnomes. As I am finishing this book up, I enjoyed it a lot because it has a lot of adventure and is a very interesting book which I enjoyed a lot. This is my 3rd book from the Chronicles of Narnia and I look forward in finishing up all the other books in the series. This book is a very good book and I recommend this to you!

Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears by Antony Horowitz

Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears is by Anthony Horowitz and is about a teenage boy named Alex Rider who is a secret agent trying to save the world. As I only read a few chapters of this book, it starts out with a man named Ravi Chandra in India who blows up a nuclear power station. A little while later, Alex is spending time in Scotland with his best friend Sabrina. In the end of the chapter, Sabrina and their family leave to America. So far, this book is very good and interesting. This book is the 8th one in the series. So far, I have read them all which were all very good. I like this book a lot and i recommend this book to you!

The Lightning Theif by Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is about a boy named Percy Jackson. He is dyslexic and has ADHD. Percy's best friend's name is Grover. Percy got kicked out of school so his mom sends him to a special camp. While they go to the camp, they are attacked by a monster and then Percy's mom disappears. They run away to the camp called Half-Blood. While they are there, Percy realizes that Grover is a satyr. Camp Half-Blood is a camp in which people train to become half a god. Percy has a mission by Zeus to find his bolt which was stolen by Hades. To find this, Percy goes to Los Angeles and has to fight the Minotaur and a god named Ares. Percy is tricked by Ares when he realizes that the bolt is in his backpack the whole time. Percy leaves the Underworld and gives back the bolt to Zeus. He also realizes that his mother is alive and then he leaves with her to another school. This book is very good. It is really interesting and had a lot of adventure. This book also has a sequel called the Sea of Monsters which I might read. I liked this book a lot and I recommend this book to you!

The Outsiders by S.E.Hilton

The Outsiders by S.E.Hilton is about Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry who are brothers and are in this gang called the greasers who always get into fights with the Socs. Most of the time, the Socs are jumping the greasers and they are both killing each other. In one part of the book, Ponyboy is being drowned in the fountain by one of the Socs, Ponyboy's best friend Johnny stabs the member of the Socs and then has to hide. Johnny and Ponyboy hide and they also rescue these children in the burning fire. Johnny dies in a fight between the Socs and Dally gets shot by the police while he was holding his gun. When Ponyboy comes back to school, he writes an English assignment about his life so he doesn't fail English. This book is really good. It is very interesting and made me want to read more of it. I liked it a lot and I recommend this book to you!

Uninetown Musical

Urinetown: The Musical was an amazing performance that I saw last Saturday. It was about a buisness man named Cadwell Cadwell who put tax on peeing because there was a shortage of water in many places. If they were caught peeing in the bushes or in any places similar to that, they were put to this place called Urinetown. Then Bobby Strong and many other people protested so they can have freedom to pee. Everyone started peeing all over places with out paying any money and then people got sent to Urinetown such as Booby Strong's dad. Everyone realized that people who were sent to Urinetown were actually killed. They all got very angry and put Cadwell Cadwell's daughter as hostage until they had the freedom to pee. In the end of the musical, Bobby Strong and Cadwell was sent to Urinetown and everyone had the freedom to pee. They also set up a Bobby Strong foundation to honer him. This is the first time I am seeing a musical at Ardsley High School. It was amazing and really funny. I enjoyed it very much and look foward for the next musical's they have.

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment By James Patterson

Maximum Ride is about a 14 year old girl named Max. She also has members of a group called the flock named Fang,Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel. The flock are just regular kids except that they have wings to fly. The flock were made by a genetic expariment done at birth with recombiant life forms. They have run away from school which is called the lab which is the place the scientists made them. Angel is the youngest member of the group and she gets kidnapped and goes back to the school in which she was experimented. The rest of the group have to go to this place in California called Death Valley to save angel. While they are trying to save Angel, they are being tracked by these hybrid humans called Eaters. In the end, Max has to go by himself to save the world by himself. This book is a really good book and I recomend this book to everyone. This book has a lot of adventure which I enjoyed. I also am thinking on reading the next books that are in the series too.

The Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstien

As I am finishing up The Last Shot: A final four mystery by John Feinstein, the main character of the book, Steven Thomas and Susan Carol win a national sportswriter contest. Their prize for winning the competition is that they can cover as press for the Final Four basketball tournament. They were very happy of this because they can work for the press, go to closed practices, and also go to the locker room interviews. Steve and Susan were wandering around the super dome until they were lost. Then, they find there way when they see the media taking pictures when the Michigan State Basketball enters to the back entrance. Then they became really upset and mad when they hear a man threatening Chip Graber who is the Star of the Michigan State Basketball team. The mysterious man is blackmailing Chip to throw off the champion game. Most of this book is an adventure about how they are trying to show every one who the real blackmailers are. Overall, I liked this book a lot even though it got confusing at some parts. I think that this book is one of the better books I have read this quarter. I like Mystery and I might read the sequel to this book. The sequel is called Vanishing Act and is with the same characters who are tying to solve a kidnapping at the U.S Open Tournament. I recommend this book to all!

The horse and his boy by C.S Lewis

Over the Christmas break, I read The Horse and his Boy by C.S Lewis. It is one of the books in the Chronicles of Narnia. I read this books because I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe which was by the same author. This book is about a boy named Shasta who was raised by this fisherman. In the beginning of the book, Shasta hears the fisherman trying to sell him to this noble. He hears that he actually is not the fisherman's son and neither of them liked each other. Outside of the house, Shasta goes to the stable to sees the horse of the noble. Then, Shasta becomes very frightened when he saw that the horse could talk. The horse's name is Bee and he came from Narnia. He also did not like his master either so they both decided to run away to Narnia where everything was good. On their way, they meet this girl named Aravis who also had a talking horse named Hwin running away. She also running away to Narnia because she was forced to marry someone so they all started going their way to Narnia. Later in the book, Aravis is found by her noblewomen. They both go to the palace and then hears the ruler of Calormen talking about attacking Archenland and Narnia. Then, they all go to King Luke of Archenland to warn the king about this and they prepare their army and defend until the Narian army comes. In the end, they won the battle and King Luke realizes that Shasta's real name is Cor and that he has a twin brother who is the prince of Archenland. Shasta soon marries Aravis and they have a child named Ram the Great who becomes the greatest king of Archenland. Overall, this book was very good although it got confusing at some parts. I enjoyed it a lot and I am also interested in reading the other books in the series. I recommend this book to you all!!