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This is a book about a boy and a girl who get into a lot of mischief. They try to find out what happened to there parents who were lost on an expedition.

I love this book. This is adventure was exciting and Non-boring. I am so getting the sequel. The characters are my ideal personality

"Shanghai 1920: On board the research ship Expedient, two teens, Becca and Doug MacKenzie, anxiously await news of their missing parents…and stumble across their uncle’s secrets and a mysterious organization.

England 2002: Joshua Mowll inherits a remarkable archive of documents and painstakingly pieces together a series of extraordinary events that took place more than eighty years earlier.

This is the story of an ancient order created to protect the world from evil and two young people who get caught up in an astonishing adventure…with far-reaching consequences for the whole  world.

Operation Red Jericho: No ordinary tale. No ordinary book."

-Book Back

Alice from the Twilight series is one of my favorite character, here are a few quotes by her:

“I’m betting on Alice”-Bella

"I’m not coming over anymore if Alice is going to treat me like a Guinea Pig Barbie when I do" -Bella

Alice: I think it’s a nice idea. Your only a senior once. Might as well document the experience.
Bella: How many times have you been a senior?

"You don’t get a lot of suicidal vampires" -Alice

"How strongly are you opposed to grand theft auto?" -Alice

"This hostage stuff is fun" -Alice

Bella: You’re kidnapping me, aren’t you?
Alice: Sorry, He paid me.
Bella: How much?
Alice: The Porsche. It’s exactly like the one I stole in Italy.

"I think she’s having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her" -Alice

"It sounded as if you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share" -Alice

"Alice will be Alice" -Edward

"And speaking of Italy and sports cars that I stole there, you still owe me a yellow Porsche" -Alice

"I know you love me. Thanks. But I would really appreciate it if you didn’t try to kill Bella. First of all, Edward’s serious and I don’t want you two fighting. Secondly, she’s my friend. At least, she’s going to be." -Alice

     The book The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is about outsiders. The story takes place in a city called Tulsa in the state of Oklahoma. Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy are three Greasers. Greasers are the poor, tough guys who live there (they are named Greasers after their obsession of greasing their long hair.) Randy and Bob are Socs. Socs are the rich guys who jump random Greasers, and of course the Greasers hate them. In The Outsiders Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy all make important decisions that change their lives, for better or for worse.

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     “He was the gang’s pet, everyone’s kid brother.” (page 14) That is how Ponyboy describes Johnny. Johnny had been quiet and scared ever since a group of Socs jumped him. It was really bad, too. His parents beat him also. Johnny is like a shadow, a shadow that everyone in their gang loved and took care of. One day a group of Socs jumped Johnny and Ponyboy. In the group were Randy and Bob. Bob held Ponyboy’s head under the water of a fountain and was drowning him. Johnny stabbed Bob in self defense and ended up killing him. Randy and the others escaped. Johnny and Ponyboy knew that if they stayed they would get the death sentence for killing Bob, and so the went to Dally.

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     Dally was the tough guy. The guy that owned a gun, and shop lifted for fun. His Dad was wild, but Dally did not live with him much. Dally loved Johnny like a brother. Johnny was the only person he loved; he was Dally’s life. Dally would risk anything for Johnny. Dally told Johnny and Ponyboy of an old church were they could hide for a while. Johnny and Ponyboy went there and Dally went to check on them. They all went to get some groceries and when they got back to the church, it was on fire. There were a few little kid in the burning building and Ponyboy, Dally, and Johnny went in to rescue them. They got all the little kids out. Ponyboy was fine, Dally was burned but healed in about a week, but Johnny was in bad shape. Johnny was so burnt that he died in the hospital. Dally was so sad when Johnny died that he took action that led to Police Assisted Suicide. He shop lifted then when the cops were chasing him, he pointed an unloaded gun at them. They shot him. He died.

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     Johnny was a good guy and he only killed Bob in self defense. Just because he was a Greaser did not mean he was bad. Greasers and even Socs can be good. Johnny definitely was not bad; he saved the lives of the kids in the church. He just did some bad things like kill Bob. Just because Bob died did not make him an angel. Johnny killed him because he was drowning Ponyboy. “I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. They might have killed you. And they had a blade… they were gonna beat me up…” (page 57) Killing Bob could have been avoided if they were not there when the Socs showed up, but they were. It could have also been avoided by only knocking Bob unconscious.

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     Dally’s choice to send Johnny and Ponyboy to the church was a good choice. If he did not Ponyboy would have gone to jail and Johnny would have faced the death sentence. Of course, they could have made sure that their cigarettes were not still burning before leaving to get groceries.

Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally’s choice to save the children from the fire was good. They saved lives, plus proved that Greasers are not all that bad. Of course, the whole situation could have been avoided by stomping out their cigarettes. Since it was too late and the fire had already started, it was good that they saved the kids. They could have avoided being hurt by going quicker, and getting out more quickly.

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     Dally should have never committed police assisted suicide. He should have toughened up instead of making a spur of the moment decision to kill himself. Johnny would never have done that, he always had hope. Any last bit of hope Dally had died with Johnny.

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      The decisions that Johnny and Dally made changed their lives. Some of them were good, like Dally’s decision to send Johnny and Ponyboy to the church. Some of them could have been done without bad things happening, like Johnny did not have to kill Bob. And some of them were really bad such as Dally committing suicide. All in all, they could have thought all their decisions through a bit more and perhaps some of the bad things might not have happened.

Pretties, the sequel to Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is also about Tally. In the first book, Uglies, David Tally’s boyfriend’s mom discovers a cure for pretties. You see, when you become a pretty the doctor not only makes you body pretty but your mind. They make small cuts in your brain called lesions which make you into a bubblehead not able to think strait. David’s mom just needs a willing pretty to test the pills on. Tally makes a big sacrifice, she will test the pills. She becomes Pretty.

In the second book, Pretties, Tally the bubblehead is havening the time of her life. Her Clique the Crims (all the people who were criminals before turning pretty) and her are invited to all the parties where they get drunk. During one of the parties Croy a Smokie shows up and gives Tally direction to where to find the pills. Tally and Zane (her boyfriend/Crim) split the pills. They worked. Tally can think straight and so can Zane despite his headaches.

Shay the bubblehead finds out about the pills and is mad that Tally didn’t split them with her. Shay makes her own Clique the Cutters who cut themselves to be bubbly, the same effect of the pills. The Crims have to escape before Special Circumstances talk to Shay. Can they pull it off? Read the book to find out!

I read this book in two days flat. It was spectacular! When I read the book it made me think well I wouldn’t be a bubblehead I would resist but the truth is I probably would be able to do it, I mean no one else was able to pull it off.

      Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a girl named tally. In Tally’s world about 300 years into the future everyone gets an operation at age 16 that turns you from a normal ugly to an outstanding pretty.

      Shay, Tallys friend doesn’t want to be pretty. Shay runs away to a secret town called Smoke where you never have to turn pretty. Of course Your not supposed to run away so special circumstances gives Tally a mission; to find shay and betray Smoke or never turn pretty. Its up to Tally to decide.

      I sped through this book, its that good. It makes you think about what you would actually do to get something you desperately want.

      Evil Genius is about a boy named Cadle, who was very very smart. In some ways he was evil, in some ways he wasn’t.

      He was evil because he made an online dating program, a scam that matches you with made up people. He did it for the money.

      In some ways he is good. Like he feels bad when he accidentally kills a bunch of people.

      His therapist is more than just a therapist. He is Cadles friend, college teacher, and the way he communicate with his dad Professor Darkkon who was currently in jail for being a genius like Cadle.

       Cadle makes new friends, new choices, new victories, and new mistakes in this riveting series: Evil Genius.

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      The Outsiders is another book I read for the summer reading list. I read it in 2 days. It was really, really, really, good. I had my friend Kaitlyn over at my house and she picked up my book and didn’t put it down until she had to go.

      The Outsiders is about the life of Ponyboy, a 14 year old member of a Greaser gang. They fight the Socs. The book has al lot of character development. The Greasers are hoods. Ponyboy and his other gang members really bond in the book.

       Its hard to explain how good this book is, so you really should read it. Well, that depends. People who like fighting and hoody books should read it. People who like romance and cliqueish books shouldn’t. You dig? Comment and tell me.

 

       I read a book called Holes for my summer reading list. It was a really easy read, I read it in one night.

       It is more plot then character development, but it does have a nice plot. Stanley Yelnats (by the way his last name is his first backwards,) has no luck. The bad luck has followed his family since his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

       Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake, a place where Juvenile Delinquents are sent to dig 5 x 5 holes  all day. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake just miles and miles of hot, dry, deserted, nothingness. Of course Stanley is sent for something that he didn’t do because of the bad luck. Stanley starts to notice that they aren’t just digging to improve their character but they are looking for something.

       Stanley makes new friends, builds new muscles, and discovers more about Camp Green Lakes past!