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Angelique lived in a beautiful big house close to the apartment Wanda lived in. Wanda couldn’t help herself she had to go and snoop. So she did and what she saw was not at all what she had expected. . She found out there was no furniture in the home, the father and mother were alcoholics, and there was nothing Angelique could do about it. Taking everything in from what Wanda saw, she realized how much she should value her life. Wanda had a loving mother and father, furniture, little brothers and sisters who cared about her. It really makes you wonder how many people in the world have problems like Angelique’s’ and never ask for or get help. It also goes back to the saying “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.”

Wanda was feeling ashamed about what she had done to Angelique, which I found relieving that she had come back to the right state of mind. She still hadn’t told Carla about what Angelique spoke to her about, but at least she was coming to her senses. In my prospective it’s hard to connect to or with Wanda and how strongly she felt about her boyfriend Kenny. I can relate more to Angelique who was being ridiculed for no apparent reason. I feel that has happened to me before, not to the extent that Wanda went through but it was very hurtful, and not so much unforgivable but definitely unforgettable.

Wanda started to invite Angelique to walk with her and Carla to School. Carla found this weird, and completely out of the blue. Especially after Wanda had resented Angelique so much after the cafeteria incident and when Kenny disappeared. Carla just excepted the fact and didn’t ask anymore questions.

The girls in this high school had a very noticeable clique. They would all get together and do something on particular week days, and weekends. From what I read about it it sounded like more of a cult. The girls in this group would have to do specific things just to get in. Every girl wanted to be in this group, again related back to mean girls. These girls were all pretty, popular, and liked by many guys at the school. They had initiation for other girls, to be excepted. Angelique was one of them and was finally excepted and happy. When I was little I used to think that these groups actually existed to the extent of the stories I’ve read and the movies I’ve watched, but in reality they don’t. Of course I wanted to be in the clique much like the one I have described from this book, but now that I am older I realized you can be friends with almost anyone from all different “groups.”

Everyone who reads this book can take two great life lessons needed to be taught to many young girls and boys going through school. They are that you shouldn’t judge someone just because of there appearance, and that you don’t have to stick to a certain group of people, go outside your comfort zone. You’ll discover new people and new things. You may not like everyone you meet or everything you do, but at least you can say you gave it a shot.

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This book wastes no time on getting to the point. It Starts off with the main characters Carla and Wanda eating lunch together in the cafeteria. That new girl trips and falls embarrassed she gets up by help from Wanda’s boyfriend Kenny, which Wanda isn’t to happy about. Wanda and Kenny get into a fight about the situation, which I found only came up because of Wanda’s insecurity’s.

I know many girls like Wanda who would react in that manner in that situation, only because they evaluate and compare other girls to themselves, which I find is not healthy or fair to you or the person your comparing yourself to. Taking into consideration ones genes, lifestyle, eating habits ect.

Later on in the chapter Wanda rethinks what she said, and finds it wrong that she was mad at Kenny, but for some reason she’s still mad at Angelique (the new girl). I find Wanda’s thoughts towards Angelique are, unkind, unfair, and unreasonable. Angelique was new, she did nothing wrong by tripping, she didn’t know that Kenny was Wanda’s boyfriend, and if she would have known Wanda and the way she thought about Kenny I’m sure she would have done something to prevent it from happening.

Wanda and Carla walked home from school everyday together and learned that Angelique lived just down the road from Wanda in a big beautiful house. This makes Wanda even more jealous of Angelique. Wanda was missing Kenny and wanted to apologize so her and Carla went to his apartment only to find that Kenny was gone. Her rage towards Angelique was getting greater, she started writing mean anonymous notes to Angelique the book started to remind me of mean girls the movie, in the way that jealousy was getting the best of the girls.

Angelique confronted Wanda in the hallways at school one day but not about Wanda writing those notes, Angelique thought Carla was writing them. Wanda was ashamed because Carla was the one trying to convince Wanda that Angelique wasn’t so bad after all. I think that Wanda for once is in the right state of mind, and I am excited to read on and discover what happens in the next chapters.

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Everything Changes is # 14 in a book series called Heartland, which is written by Lauren Brook. Everything changes is about a girl named Amy Fleming who runs a ranch that takes in abused, neglected, problem horses and she heals them mentally and physically. This ranch was once ran by Amy’s mom until her mom died in a car accident. Now Amy does all the work that her mom used to do, with the help of her sister Lou, her grandpa Jack, and the two stable hands Ben Stillman and Ty Baldwin. After a storm hit Virgina one of the barns had collapsed on Ty and he ended up in the hospital in a coma. For Amy it was hard to deal with doing chores, work, school and having Ty in the hospital. Especially since Ty was her boyfriend. Amy now has her hands full with work, the horses have to be fed, watered, brushed, exercised, and well kept. And there’s cleaning tack, sweeping the barn, cleaning the stalls, and making sure buckets are clean. Amy was offered to gentle and train a wild mustang. A beautiful blue roan stallion named Dazzle with lots of fire and pride in him. Will Amy be able to get near him? She had already used a technique called Join Up. Which was developed by a man named Monty Roberts, he learned that horses have a silent or non-verbal communication between them. And he learned that if we were patient then we could learn some of this too. And Amy had learned that she needs to be patient and let him gradually get used to her company even if she’s at the other end of the fence. Dazzle started to gradually accept her and later on in this book Ty started to come out of his coma. Amy was so happy that she had a break through that eventually almost everything was the same. As Ty was coming out of his coma Amy looked at things different later. As soon as Ty came out of his coma Amy saw that he had changed, be had uneven tempers, he ignored his friends family and Amy. But the doctor told her and Ty’s mom that that was common in coma patients, because they get frustrated and they have to learn everything again. Later on as Ty gotten used to doing things he had done before he went into a coma he started to visit Heartland and work there slowly, doing easy work. Amy came home late one day and saw that Ty’s wheel chair was empty at Dazzles paddock. When she got closer Ty was at Dazzles side petting him. A big break through had been done. That’s when Amy realized that Everything Changes nothing stays the same. For Amy School wasn’t big on her list since she worked and lived on a ranch. She had responsibilities, but it became hard when ty was in the hospital because she couldn’t find very much time to do her work. And she didn’t want to push Ben over the limit, Ben was working as hard as he could and any free time he worked with his horse Red. Ben and Red were on the show jumping circuit until a virus had swept through Virgina which happened before the storm. Everyone was so busy and they couldn’t find very much time to themselves,

I find that we all can connect to this book in a way. We all have had no time at one point in our lives. I mean it can be that we are hard workers and we work till the end. Or it’s that we don’t have enough time fit in things that we need to do in our daily lives. And what’s worse was that Amy had some one that she cared about in the hospital, and it threw off focus. Everyone has had a time when we had some one that we cared about in the hospital and it does throw us off. I know because I had a family member in the hospital in September, I couldn’t focus on school or anything. All I thought about was if they were going to be okay and outta there soon, couldn’t think strait. For some people they can forget until later and they can focus easily, but some like me do care if they are going to be okay or not. And every one has those times when they just can’t go on anymore, but we all have to be strong and be willing to move on. During your life time, there will be times when you think you can’t move on or keep going till the end. But you should know that it does get better at the end, and there will be relief after. For Amy it was hard to keep moving on but she did and she didn’t give up. She believed that things will get better, there are times when she some times doubted whether or not things will get better later. But she had forced herself to believe and she had so much hope in it too. Hope is something that everyone has in them, we all have beliefs too. If we hope on something when times are worse then we shouldn’t give up that hope, that only means we’re giving up and we can do it. But we can, some people say don’t get your hopes up to high. But out hope is uncontrollable we can’t control that. We just want things to get better or something like that. Some times our hopes do get shattered but we shouldn’t loose all hope. Should We? Now people are so critical these days. They always say “I give up” or “I can’t do it,” That’s all just a bunch of phony words, do they actually mean anything to you? Well to me that means nothing, yea sure I do say that sometimes but that’s only if I were to be playing some kind of game or something like that. For me I push myself till the end, some say that I push myself too hard and that I should give up. But I don’t, you should never give up on anything. Whether its a task, a game or if it is a hard time in you life. Never Ever Give Up. You should always believe that you can do this or that. Beliefs varies between other people some may be the same and some may be different. Example if some one says that they can’t do something maybe the other person will say “Well I believe that you can do it.” Some times all we need is encouraging words to keep us going.

How can we be strong for those in need? We have to support others in need. And when times get hard for you, you also need support. We are never through this alone. Even if we say we don’t want help, the truth is that everyone can’t go through something alone. We need to learn that when others help it does really matter. Some people think that people who need help are weak, and those who don’t need help are strong. But the truth is that those who need help are strong because they have the courage to go on with others. And those who don’t need help hide their weakness. We need to learn that when times get rough we do need to have people there for us.

When Ty was in a coma I was thinking what it would be be like to be in a coma. can you still think, Do you dream?

The really cool thing that this book has in it is when they described Monty Roberts. Some of you may have heard of him, some maybe not. But this man is really cool, he developed a technique called Join Up. Join up is technique to use on horses to gain their trust. What you do it take a horse and you send it away from you make the horse keep moving around the pen. There will be signs that the horse will give you. One the horse will turn it’s ear in towards you, then the horse will make chewing motions with its mouth. Then the horse will lower it’s head. When you see these signs you would turn around in a none threatening position and you want to look at the ground. This is the crucial part, if the horse walks up to you then the horse wants to be with you if the horse doesn’t then you have to start all over. Join Up can take minutes or even hours. The purpose of this is that horses are heard animals so then if you drive the horse away from you then the horse will feel lonely and since horses are heard animals they don’t like to be lonely. After Join Up you have gained the horses trust between you and the horse. you don’t always have to do Join Up to get the horses trust. You can spend time with the horse and you can work with the horse. Some people isolate the horse and they go and sit at the pen each day for a few hours. That does work but you’ll need lots of patients. I find that we need patients to work with horses because they don’t understand our kind of language but hey do understand when we hurt them or if we harm them in any way. You can’t force a horse to like trust you just like that you need to show that you can be trustworthy, you need to show that you can be their friends. Your probably wondering how did Monty develop this technique. Well he studied wild mustangs and he learned that horses don’t only used verbal communication they also use body language. He called this Equus. He then he started to work with some wild mustangs and that’s when he developed Join Up. He started to write books about how to gentle horses, to gain their trust and why he thought of Join Up. Monty Roberts goal was to leave this world a better place than he had found it for horses and people too. He has set up a stable in California to work there and people say he is never in the house or office, he is out working with horses all the time. This man I find is really wonderful to learn about because he worked so hard at finding this technique and he can tech any one about trust. It doesn’t have to be in horses to gain trust you can also gain trust in humans too.

Another cool things that this book talks about is that Amy uses herbal remedies on horses. I have looked up on some remedies and learned that these remedies can help with anything. Like in this book they used some kind of remedy called Honeysuckle on a yearling to let go of the past. And amazing it works. There are so many remedies that we could use on horses like Lavender which helps a horse to relax. What you do is you put some lavender on your hands or fingers and massage it on the horse. Hawthorn can help strengthen blood vessels without affecting blood pressure - which can help with Navicular in horses. Rosemary is an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic plant - horses enjoy eating the leaves. Dandelion is used to treat kidney or liver disorders, the root stimulates the liver and the leaves act as a diruetic. Garlic is antiseptic, antibiotic and expectorant. The expectorant properties make garlic excellent for the respiratory system. Bach Flower Remedies are used on horses with fears and anxieties, recuperation from illness or injury, rehabilitation of traumatised animals. These following are different types of Bach Flower Remedies. Agrimony, Aspen Beech, Centaury, Cerato, Cherry Plum, Chestnut Bud, Chicory, Clematis, Crab Apple, Elm, Gentian, Gorse, Heather, Holly, Honeysuckle, Hornbeam, Impatiens, Larch, Mimulus, Mustard, Oak, Olive, Pine, Red Chestnut, Rescue Remedy, Rock Rose, Rock Water, Scleranthus, Star of Bethlehem, Sweet Chestnut, Vervain, Vine, Walnut, Water Violet, White Chestnut, Wild Oat, Wild Rose, Willow. These are all different types of Bach Flower Remedies, the remedies are made from roots, plants (leaves ect.), flowers, trees, and others like that. These are all that I have been looking up. In the series they used these remedies in various books in the series. And the book talked a bit about the remedy. It’s really amazing how much natural remedies are out there. Not only can you use some of these remedies on horses you can use it on any kind of animal like a dog or a cat. For some like Lavender you can use it on people. Man it’s really interesting learning about these remedies, I hope I can find out more about these remedies.

Mustangs are really beautiful horses they are wild and free, they have no fences to keep them in. They are wild at heart. Amy wanted to train Dazzle, yet at the same time she wanted to return him to the wild. I find that we people are taking to much than we need, the cities want more and more land to build on. I’m not saying that, that is a bad thing I’m saying that we don’t think of the horses that live there. And I ain’t just blaming the towns and cities, I’m also blaming farmers. Farmers want more land for crops or they just don’t want mustangs on their property, So they shoot them, farmers and ranchers call mustangs parasites because they strip the land. Truly they don’t they are just trying to live like us. When settlers came on the land there was a hoof print beside the foot print. The mustang had roam these lands and they had survived the most harshest climates. For me they are true survivors of the plains, these horses now have given so much to us. What do give them in return? We give them nothing, We capture them and sell them, people buy them. A program called Bureau of Land Management (BLM) protects, manages, and controls the wild horse population. Each year they round up wild horses and sells them to certain people. Most of these wild horses go to really nice homes and the people who own them love them dearly. But some of these wild horses go to slaughter houses. How can we just forget these creatures? Some of us forgot these animal, but some of us still search for them before they are all gone. I hope that someday that we can see that the world can’t live without these creatures that God had created. God had created these creatures and we took them from there rightful place. I personally love horses, anything to do with horses in the world. I’m a really big suck up to when it comes to horses, these animals do complete my life. Horses are a big part of my life because I love the way they move, the way they look, the way they look and the way that you can connect with these creatures. My family owns 4 ponies, 1 donkey, 1 horse, and 1 draft horse. For me I only own 1 pony and the horse is a family horse so it’s partially my horse. Horses, ponies and drafts are all different in size and formation. Yet to me they are all special no matter what they look like, the reason why horses are special to me is because they have character. You can tell their personalities by looking at how they walk, stand, and they way they look at you. Another way that you can tell is their eyes. The eyes can tell you a lot about the horse, like hope fire, curiosity, gentleness etc. If you watch them closely in their movements and look into their eyes, it’s like looking at their souls and their hearts. Horses are magical they run freely with no boundaries. Some have fire in their hearts. All horses vary So I hope that these wild horses will keep on living. Not just on farms, photographs, or Television. But on the plains running freely on the land which is rightfully theirs. Since I ride it is such a wonderful experience. You fly because your not on the ground and sitting on an animal that races the sun. And chases the wind. They let you soar with them, without any worries. I hope that you get to experience something like that someday. One of my favorite quotes about horses is “A Horse Is Worth More Than Riches.”. To me it means than horses are more valuable than anything in the world. When I go riding I think that you get to reach even closer to heaven.

Heartland is also a T.V. series on every Sunday on the CBC channel. There are some other added characters in this and they kind of switch around some of the stories. Rather than copying the books they writes some of their own stories about Heartland. I do really like these episodes and this is their second year showing it.

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This is a book based on holocaust. The time when Germany tried to take over other countries like Russia. A Girl named Rachel, who was Jewish, was about 5 when this war had started. This is a book based on what her and her family did to survive. Rachel had her family to cope with too. She wasn’t alone on this, but during this time she was forced to move out of her house and move into the village. Then slowly her grandparents started to die. This was the part that shocked me the most. When Rachel’s grandpa died they went to bury him in the cemetery. The German soldiers were watching them then as they were burying the grandpa the Germans told the Grandma to bury herself alive in with him. Bury herself ALIVE! Rachel was even there too. She watched her grandma get buried alive by the Germans. There was nothing that anyone could do and Rachel was terrified. Any ways as time goes on, Rachel and her parents had to start going to different barns and live off of old vegetables. Then they came across a persons house they lived in there for months. The barn was owned by a family friend. So Rachel’s family dug a hole inside the barn where no one would find it and hid in there for months. Then they heard that the Russians where pushing the Germans back, so they went to roads and laid there till the Russians found them. Once the Russians found they were taken to a hospital. After wards they started a new life in Wroclaw, Rachel started school and she eventually started to take piano lessons, then violin lessons. Over more time Rachel started to date a boy named Peter, but Peter broke up with her. She later met a man named Adam, who they soon started to date and they got married. Later in the years they heard another war was happening and Adam went as a soldier. It was months after the war and Rachel hadn’t heard from him, then out of nowhere he showed up. Rachel’s father said to Adam and Rachel to move to Canada. But Rachel kept refusing because she didn’t want to leave her father alone since her mom died. Adam finally convinced Rachel to move to Canada. On one of her fathers visits to Canada to visit Rachel he brought the violin, and let Rachel keep it. As more years went by she later found out that her parents aren’t her real parents. It was her Uncle Vevel who was her real dad, the uncle owned the violin and gave it to Rachel.

And it’s about a boy named Adam who also was Jew, was about. He was also trying to survive with his family, but ended up without any family members at the end. Adams family died at the beginning of the war. Germans had killed his family. Adam had soon started to sleep in the forest and there he met other kids who worked on farms and they all abandoned him after wards. He was covered in dirt and body lice, he was hungry and thirsty. He went to farms begging for food, fortunately some farmers were nice and gave him food. But after wards kicked him out of their land so they wouldn’t get caught by Germans. Later Adam started to sleep in barns and he would go into empty homes and steal anything left. He was found and taken to a place for children until people wanted them. For Adam this was painful, because people kept returning him back. Finally he found a family who wanted him, but he never felt at ease. After he went off to collage and went into some aircraft mechanics. The he met Rachel, and that’s where it left off for him. He loved Rachel because he found some one who was not only Jewish but he found that he was at ease with her. He felt peace every time he was with her.
We are very lucky that we have people who care about us. It wasn’t easy for Adam because he had been rejected because he was a Jew. People judged him for that, and that had really hurt him deep, none of us had actually felt what he felt. There is something that Rachel and Adam had felt that we hadn’t actually felt before. Fear, you may think yea I have felt fear before. But that fear ain’t the same as Rachel’s or Adam’s kind of fear, there fear is something that I hope we’ll never feel. They were scared of everything that was involved with Germans, or even people. Adam was totally scared of everything and he thought that no one would help him after wards. And we all have a fear of something for me it’s planes and the fear of losing my own life or a family members. That last fear of having a family member of yourself dead is really similar to this book. These people didn’t want to lose any loved one. But unfortunately they lost some of their loved ones. Or even all of there loved ones. One thing that I hate is being alone, I hate walking this world alone. It would be pretty bad if you were walking alone in an area where there are bad people everywhere. We feel so safe when we are around those that we care about us, and that’s what we need in life. We need love, security and peace in our lives. And these people didn’t have that in their live during the war, these people lived with fear, insecurity and they lived with nothing in their lives. Try to imagine you life like that, for me it is hard cause it harder to tell whether or not this life would be hard in our minds it might sound a bit hard to find food and shelter. But what about the feelings that they felt we say that we have felt them before, but have we felt them like this?

We’ve all had nightmares in our life time, if you haven’t then your crazy! Yea nightmares are really scary, they be about anything. Your fear of something or just some kind of a crazy nightmare. For Rachel she had nightmares about her parents being tortured or had nightmares about herself being tortured to death by the Germans. Nightmares only use your weakness or your fears. These nightmares can become a reality if you believe in them, and of course we don’t or at least I don’t. I have nightmares sometimes this one is that I was at school then out of no where a big snake came and looked at me head one then he snapped at me right in the face that’s when everything turned black. At that moment I woke up and I looked around my room just trying to get back to sleep. Man that was my most scariest dream I have ever had. When I woke up the next morning I was thinking about my dream and I thought to myself. “I ain’t scared of snakes, but why did I have that dream oh well. Some nightmares just happen” Then at that moment I realized why I had that dream I have a fear of dying. My brother Derek one time said he had a nightmare and asked if he could lay in bed with me so I said yes. After a few hours of sleep he suddenly woke up hitting me shouting at me. So I grabbed him and pinned him down and started to talk to him in calming words. Then he went to sleep. This other time he was sleeping with my big sister in her bed and she said he woke up kicking her, hitting her and shouting something at her. So one day I asked Derek if he had any nightmares and he simply said Noe. So is it true that nightmares use your fears or weaknesses? Well I do believe that this is true.

Stop what you are doing and take a little dream in your mind. You have everything that you ever wanted you have nothing that bothers you, now imagine that everything that you have is turning upside down. Everything that you onced owned is now gone right before your eyes. How do you feel? Now imagine that you are watching your families death before your eyes. Now how do you feel? Now imagine that you are all alone in this world, just like Adam. Now how do you feel? I’m sure that you feel sad, and lonely. Maybe even angry. Sometimes we have journeys that will be painful and lonely, but you know always that the people that you love whether they are dead or not will always support you. And I know there are people out there that cares for you and for those who need help when they need it. There are those who will help those in need because they don’t like to see pain, sadness, or lonelyness on someones face. In this book It says that people would help Rachel and her family because they felt sorry for them, but the people that helped them were afraid of others who would catch them. But they still helped, they had hearts to lend a hand. It’s kind of like back in the pioneers days. The farmers would need help and their neighbors would come out and lend a hand because they know that others would help them. And I find that we should learn from this, because we need to know that if we help others then they will help us. Just imagine that you are homeless and you are hungry, people pass you buy. begging for food or money, but nobody is helping you. What do you say to yourself? Now switch places you walk by a hungry homeless person, what do you do? Keep walking? Give them some money? Well that’s your choice. There are soup kitchen that feed these homeless people and these people really do appreciate it very much. But who does make food at the soup kitchen? People of course, people who volunteer to help make food. And these hungry people really appreciate this. We shouldn’t take things for granted because we could end up just like those people who live on the streets and we could be the beggers in subways or the streets. We need to watch our things and start to help those in need. We can do food drives, charities, food kitchens, send clothing, we can help with all of these things if we try. The school does food donations, santas anomynous, they do Shoe Boxes too. So if one person does something like this that makes a difference in someones life. But everyone pitches in then it could change thousands or millions of lives. We could do so much to help these people who are less fortunate than us, it ain’t like the old days. We have the freedom now.

I find that this book is kind of easy to write about, but yet I don’t know how to put this into words. There’s not very much word I can describe this book about, it was horrifying and yet it showed that bad things can happen to anyone. Bad things can happen to those who make peace with other, those are are really good in all different ways. And it says how hard it was, so it was hard to describe this book. But in all efforts I went more into this book and then I realized that to Rachel it was just a living nightmare. So the nightmares was what I could connect with myself and others. I found that this book was very interesting and that it showed me that people were afraid and that they didn’t want to help because they were scared if someone would catch them. Rachel and Adam are true survivors.

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Flags Of Our Fathers is a good book and it’s written by James Bradley, the son of John Bradley. D-Day at Iwo Jima, thats what the book talks about the Marines and how they got into the camps. This book also talks about the Flag Raisers. Ira Haynes, John Bradley, Harlon Block, Mike Strank, Rene Gangon, and Franklin Sousley. These brave men had raised the flag at a Japanese island called Iwo Jima. This was about a war against America and Japan. Mike Strank was a sergeant and led a group called Easy Company, in this company was all of the flag raisers. Just John was a corps man out of the Easy Company who raised the flag with the others. Iwo Jima is also known as Sulfur Island because of all the sulfur deposits. Every where you’d go there would be blown body parts and the sand was basically sulfur. This book mainly talks about John Bradley, the marines started calling John “Doc” since he was a corpsman. A Corpsman was like a medic but they went more into the war and they didn’t wear the red cross or anything like that. They only wore a Unit 3, a Unit 3 is a sling that goes over the shoulders and it carries some medical supplies. They dressed like a normal marine who would go in combat, the only difference is that they wore Unit 3’s. For Doc it was a hard task to be a Corpsman, because he saw people be half torn up/blown up. And another reason it was hard to be a Corpsman was because they went under heavy fire between U.S.A and the Japanese. The Japanese fought under ground. This was a hard time because they couldn’t see the Japanese, these Japanese had better target of the Marines. But for the Marines it was difficult to even tell where one man or a group of men were. After a period of time the Marines finally made it to the top of Mount. Surbachi they took an old pole that was once a support beam of the underground tunnels. They put the original flag, but one of the commanders wanted that flag down and put a different one on. So up went Mike Stranks company, once they got there they got a bigger pole and started to put the flag on. Some one asked Doc to give them a hand once he did that’s when the photo was taken. This is the photo of the Flag raising taken by Joe Rosenthal. This man had taken other photos of the war on Iwo Jima. He says that this isn’t posed he just simply said that he saw it and took the picture.

After they we attacked and only three of these flags raisers survived. Rene Gangon, Ira Haynes, and John Bradley “Doc”. They were taken back to America and they started a bond tour, Rene went from a small town guy that no one even knew. To being a big hero of America that every one knows now. Ira was called a true American since he was an American Indian. And John was now known as a hero. Ira and John didn’t like the fame as much as Rene because they felt this wasn’t right. After the bond tour Rene went home and got married started a decent job too. John went home and went to school to learn how to become a Muorges person. He later got married and opened a funeral home. As for Ira he went back to the Marines after he came home he work on farms. No one has ever heard from him after wards.

I find that John had a very important message in this book. John Bradley always said “The true hero’s are those who died on Iwo Jima. Me I’m no hero I’m just a person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” this was referring to the photo. I think John wanted to take this back and that he never wanted this to happen. And I don’t blame him because these Americans had no idea of what happened in Iwo. I mean I wouldn’t want to be a person referred as a hero when the real heros died. These men risked their lives they have risked everything and now they are dead. They were forgotten by the Americans, but their families still miss them dearly. Did these American even care of the men who sacrificed everything that they had in life to go and protect them? Well I find they only focused on the image, Ira Haynes only wanted to die on the Island with all his friends who were dead. This is so sad how some people only focus on one thing and don’t realize that this is whats real. Life is really harsh on some people. It’s also sad how some of these Marines said they were going to die on this island, and later it comes true. Now a real hero is some one who keeps fighting till the end. And that’s what some of the Marines did. Some were shot half blown up and they still kept going till the end. And this makes me wonder how far are we willing to go? It’s amazing to hear that these men went so far just to protect their country. As I think about this I think to my self these men had given it there all and what had we done to help these brave men. This is a chorus of a song called Until The End by Breaking Benjamin.

~Why give up? Why give in?
It’s not enough, it never is
So I will go on until the end
We’ve become, desolate
It’s not enough, it never is
But I will go on until the end.~

I can relate to this song and why the Marines hadn’t giving in when they were shot, because I work hard and I never give up until I have finished the job. When I deal with tough things I will fight my way through, I will alway go on until the end. I always had a strong headed mind, I’m always focused on something that I want to do, I’m always focused on something that I have interest in. Some times we all give up but we need to keep moving on when things get hard. And for us it’s never enough. Some times we have got to get used to the fact that we have to work at things to earn something. And that’s what these soldiers did. They earned pride, and honor during this time. Some times I think doe we have enough courage or bravery to do this? Some of us do and some of us don’t, and we should respect that to. For Doc he never would have done this if he knew it would happen because he never wanted to be famous he wanted those who fought hard to be reconized, he wanted those who sacrificed so much to be noticed.

The wars that happened and are happening are so real and they don’t appear what they actually are. When you see movies or photos of wars, that’s not the real image, that’s not what it would actually look like. If you were in a war right now it would look worse than photos or images, It would be something that you would never want to experience ever again. Nobody wants this to happen again for as long as they live but its happening all over the world, wars happen just about everyday in some part of the world. One well known war that is still happening is in Afghanistan. Lots of brace soldiers from America and Canada are still in Afghanistan and they are still being killed there too. I find that this is a serious matter because we lose so many men and women from this and we have to eventually stop all of this before there is more damage done. When we lose these men and women, what happens to their families. What do we do to help them, we only say “Sorry for your loss. Is there anything that we can do?” No there isn’t anything we can do these families have lost someone that they love. We can make an effort to help these families, but they’ll still have that hole in their hearts that will never be repaired. These soldiers want to live, they want to make it home to their family and friends. But it’s fate that decides for them. And I think for Ira he wanted his fate to be on that island dead, with all his friends on that island. He never wanted to leave the island without his friends. Would you be willing to die. just to be with people that you care about?

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The name of the book is called Let him live, written and illustrated by Lurlene McDonald. Lurlene McDonald began writing about teenagers facing life problems. Because her son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Lurleme McDonald besides writing books, helps appropriate medical groups and hospice organizations, as well as the Tennessee Organ Donor Services because of her son. Ms. McDonald wanted to tell kids “that while people don’t get to choose what life gives them, they do get to choose how they respond.” All the novels she has written have received acclaim from the readers, teachers, parents, and reviewers. In all of her books are all depressing and deal with teenagers facing serious illnesses and possibly an early death. On the cover of the book, it says “ONE LAST WISH” and means people who are sick or dieing has one last wish.

The book is about Megan getting a job at the hospital because of her dad and to kill the pain over the death of her best friend. When she was working, she meets a teenage boy named Donovan, who is in desperate need of a liver transplant and Megan had helped him and accompanied during the time when she was working in the hospital.

People’s values can change when their life changes. Megan is having very hard triples to fan liver for Donovan and she think that if he dies it will be all her fault. I think that it is not her fault.

What I think of this book is depressing but really good book to read and the book was little bit confusing but the rust was good. I like this type book it is more the type of book I would read. Because the type of books I read are depressing and murder mysteries, and books that happen in realy life. I can relate to this book because some of my family are diagnose with diabetes.

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Eldest begins 3 days after the events of Eragon. The land of Alagaesia is suffering under the Empire of the wicked, evil and maybe a little crazy Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira, last of the Riders, are the only hope for the land. Eragon is young, inexperienced and has much to learn, and so he is sent off to the elven forest city of Ellesmera, where he and Saphira are tutored in magic, battle skills, and the ancient language by the wise former Rider Oromis and his elderly dragon Glaedr. Eragon and Saphira steadily get better, but Eragon is held back by the scar on his back. On a traditional elvish celebration day of the pact with the dragons, called the Blood-Oath Celebration, or Agaetí Blödhren in the ancient language, Eragon is healed of his wound and, as an unprecedented gift from the dragons, gains elvish qualities that enhance his strength and agility. Meanwhile, back at Carvahall, Eragon’s home, his cousin Roran is the target of a siege by the hideous, and extremely grusome Ra’zac, and he must lead the villagers on a desperate escape over the mountains. Eragon The book scene moves toward a massive battle with the forces of Galbatorix, where Eragon is battling the newest forsworn under Galbatorix’s control. learning a shocking, dismaying, and unbeleivable secret about his family and commits himself to saving his people

In this series Eragon and Saphira face many challenges and many difficulties. Along the way they are lucky enough to find good friends and make some enemies. Experiences such as the ones Eragon and Saphira face together have made them stronger. Eragon has learned how to deal with losing ones he cares about, but it is still very hard on him. Eragon and Saphira do everything together and know each other very well. They, able to anticipate each others moves, make a great team when in battle. The bond that Eragon and Sapira share is one of many advantages they hold. I love many parts in this book, but there is one that stands out. When Eragon is battleing the new forsworn of Galbatorix is dumbfounded that the fighting style of this new foe is similar to someone familirity. In a drastic attempt the uncover the truth, Eragon thruts forward and tears off the mask. It was like the bond and friendship they shared was broken. Eragon tries to talk sense into him but he was forced to do this for Galbatorix has put him under a spell or an oath that is unable to be broken. This means that Murtagh will never be free from Galbatorix’s grasp. Just when things seem lost as Eragon begins to lose, Murtagh gives him a break. Deep inside the two do care about each other. They too have a bond that cannot be broken. This is one of the things that gives Eragon strength. Trying his hardest to save Murtagh and the kingdom from Gabatorix, Eragon has a goal that he will complete no matter the cost. Eragon may seem like he has the hero’s role preferably compared to ones on television. Heroes always seem to come out as the victor. In Eldest, the outcome could easily be either way. With the writing of the book, many parts are surprising and many parts are how you say expected. That doesn’t change the fact that in his journey to help the world Eragon always has something up his sleeve.

Eragon always stands his ground, he’ll never give in. He’ll face anything, even hide the truth inside in order to protect others. This is where I find he holds the heroes role best. Sacrificing himself for anyone, especially Saphira, Eragon is one of many who pull heroism stunts like that in the book. something that was quite unexpected in this book was the role of Roran. He didnt seem to hold a major role in the last book. Now he hold a main positoin in this book. Moving up to one of the main characters, Roran finds himself fighting for his life and the ones he cares about with a hero role similar to Eragon. Roran’s role from victim to hero in the story is amazing. One thing that I found difficult in the book that there wasn’t alot of action. The best parts of the book apeared at the end of the book in the battle with Murtagh. With Dragons, urgals, elves, and dwarves, this fantasy/fiction book is one of a kind. I would suggest anyone to read it.

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Eragon, a young 15 year old begins his journey as a dragon rider in the spine. finding a facsinating saphire stone, hopes he can get money for it. What was unknown was that it was this was a thought extinct dragon egg. Eragon rasise his dragon, whom he later names saphira, incogneto from prying eyes. What Eragon was getting into was really dangerous, and the worst of it was, Eragon had no idea. Finding out most of his information from Brom the Carvahall story teller. Eragon was able to raise Saphira well. Unfortunately the kingdom heres of Eragon’s discovery and comes after him. When the ra’zac come for eragon he begins to know the truth. This is where his entire Journey as a Dragon rider begins.It appears that Eragons destiny has been chosen for him. Fighting the empire that has been put under Galbatorix’s power, and freeing the people is what he intends to do.

We all know that most fairy tale’s have found themself ending happily. This story may not seem any differnet. It still has originality to it, class, and makes the fans happy to read. It has a hero role in it and the usual bad guy that has to be defeated or its the end of humanity or somthing like that. This story is a fairy tale, where common fantasy creatures come to life. Urgals, ra’zac, elves, dragons, and dwarves have roles in the story. Eragon can relate to bedtime stories, he may seem like a vigalante at first but his courage and power resides within can be used for good. Which is when he makes an oath with the elves. Promising to fight for the varden, Eragon shows his true colors in the final battle. Not letting his feelings take over, he has proven himself to be a worthy commrade. One of Eragons goals is to wake the kingdom from their nightmare of Galbatorix’s control.

That isn’t all though, he seems to begin to develop feelings for the elf he saved near the end of the book. Love may seem to make the book sound romantic but it has a small role in the book. Barely recognized till the next book, Eragon and Arya have yet to confront each other. I found myself gawking when Eragon started to like her. I thought she seemed to have a crude attitude and seems to be the boss. Arya and the elves are very trustworthy and Eragon can depend on them when in need. Shyness is a structure that Eragon deals with in here. He may seem like he is different but he still has a teenage mind. Eragon is very brave and he never tends to get scared. In order to protect, Eragon will do anything. Obliterating the enemy, Eragon usually manages to kill his way to victory.

In the success of the book, Eragon was made into a film. I found the film shows some major points but it seemed overall a bit low on the main story. I found myself jumping for joy at the thought of a Eragon movie. It may have the Hero’s role shortened but they both have basically the same idea. The movie was pretty different but you would catch on rather quick. Eragon showed signs of weakness in the movie where as in the book, he tends to make the best out of his situation. In some cases the scene didnt make any sense, for the movie couldnt fit in all the details of the book. This is where reading the book would come in handy. Too many of the scenes also have characters that you may seem uncertain when they arrived or how they even managed to come into the story line. Eragon has a goal in both movie and book. To free the kingdom from Galbatorix and that will never change.

This book roughly relates to anyone who has problems with suddenly having to save the world. Which might narrow it down to basically none, still Eragon has problems that any normal teenage boy would still have. He has to deal with chores, the death of his uncle, making money, and helping out the family. Running a farm is no simple task, Eragon has many responsibliites. Then he has to go and leave them all for the sake of the empire. I understand his predicament. Who would want to leave there home, friends, family, and all of it behind to save some people you dont know? Just because its right? Its his destiny though. I don’t relate to Eragon very well, we have many differences, but we are both human right? So, we both can feel things the same way. In terms of death, Eragon would be rather sad as would I, he wouldn’t let that keep him down though. In a mature manner Eragon chooses to move on with his life. This is where it might be difficult for me. Eragon has already lost so much but he is still strong enough to go on with life. That takes dedication, and Eragon

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The book New Moon was the second book of the Twilight series written by a very talented and successful person Stephenie Meyer. New Moon starts out as Bella a 17 year old who moved to a small town called Forks where her life changes from being boring to an adventure that doesn’t just end with this book but goes on in many of her other books that she dedicated to the Twilight series. Bella’s boyfriend Edward Cullen is a vampire who lives with a family of 7 vampires known as the Cullen’s. This book starts out with Bella and Edward getting Bella ready for her birthday party that she has more than once told his family she didn’t want to have. When Bella and Edward arrive at the house he tells Bella to still act surprised by the party and then changed his mind once he realized that Alica(sees the future path someone is thinking on taking and then does take) could probably see the future and see that Bella already knows. Unfortunately the party is cut short when Bella gets a paper cut from the wrapping paper and Jasper tries to attack her only to be forded off by the family so that Edward could get Bella out of their.

After this incident Edward and Bella’s relationship takes a turn for the first when Edward starts to think that his family is to dangerous for Bella to be around anymore and decides that it’s best the Bella forget about him and his family and pretend they never existed. Once the long argument was done Edward tells Bella that his family and him are moving to a new place to start over since schools almost out and that he’s sorry for putting her in so much danger and that they weren’t going to be coming back again. Bella at first doesn’t believe that they where actually leaving and tries to get Edward to stay by telling him that she loves him and can’t live with out. This only lead to Edward telling Bella that he doesn’t love her anymore and that their love was not meant to be. Believing this Bella allows Edward to go leave with his family always knowing down in her heart that Edward was to good for her to really have fallen in love with her. Months after month pass by and Bella at first was depressed about the situation but then started to brighten up once she started to hang out with Jacob Black, Billy Blacks son and best friend of Bella’s father Charlie.

From all the previews of the movie and the comments on the books I just had to see if this book was worth all t he hype it was being given. One thing is for sure that everything positive about this book is true even though I’m only half way done New Moon I’m already positive that the rest of the dramatic love interest that Edward and Bella have for each other will still be strong even though they’re not together any more and that the new bond that Bella has formed with Jacob may just lead Bella into more trouble they she realizes yet. The book shows Bella as living her life without meaning or any life until she decides to own two motorcycles that are all broken down so she takes them to Jacob knowing that he’s good with mechanics and after going to his house and spending time with each other they both grow feelings for each other even thought Bella’s feelings are only in the brotherly love sense Jacob on the other hand starts to fall in love with Bella. After a few more chapters of Bella and Jacobs friendship grows stronger once Jacob finds out that he’s a werewolf. So this is where the book starts to get interesting and this is the part where I’m at at the moment.

So far the book has intrigued me so much that last weekend I went out and bought the whole series because when I’m finished this book I want to be able to just go to the other books without having to wait. Stephenie Meyer is a talented writer that has created a book that not only intrigues it’s readers but also has enough action that even the guys will find New Moon exciting. These books that Stephenie Meyer has written touch the souls of the girls reading them because every girl wishes their was a boy out their like Edward. A guy that is polite, caring, protective in the sense that he’d do anything not to lose you,someone who puts your happiness first and above his own because seeing you happy is what makes him happy, and also someone that is as good looking as Robert (the guy who plays Edward Cullen’s). I would recommend these books to anyone who likes a good romance story and some good vampire fights.

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This book was really interesting to me because I love sports and its all about hockey a sport a fairly like. The mars team was a hockey club that no other teams made fun of and thought were a bunch of freaks. The teams best player was a girl and that never helped matters at all. The strongest team in the league was the penguin’s let by there captain Happer Feldman who was everything after his resent summer camp held by Wayne Gretzky. Happer was the top of the team because he trained at this camp to do a wicked crazy wrist shot that scored pretty much every time for him.

The Mars team is considered the under dog in this league because its there first time in the
Waterloo league. The captain of the team Alexia was told she couldn’t play with the team right before the playoffs because of an old law made like 100 years ago saying girls weren’t allowed to hold a wood stick for some dumb reason. After they found this out the team was all down and mad because they just lost there best player right before the playoffs. She was the toughest player in the league and everyone was scared of her.

The Mars team was handed another player to take her spot on the team. A kid who was known for his nose bleeds and being such a small player. Alexia took over as assistant coach after this and was teaching everyone in practice to hit good like she did and to hold there own ground. Happer Feldman’s uncle was the president of the league and found this rule just to help Happer.

I relate to this because every sport I play other teams that are top in league doubt us and think we don’t belong in there league with them. But in the end they realize that were not to bad and are a competition for them.

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Slap Shot Cup crazy was a fairly good book to read it show how you shouldn’t judge a team or a person in life with out giving them a chance. This book is all about hockey and a new team from Mars that joins the Waterloo league for the first year. The team find out that there best player, their captain Alexia can’t play the playoffs because of some old dumb law about girls not being able to use, hold wooden sticks. The teams confidence in the playoffs drop when they then later find out that their new player is known for his nose bleeds and is a little shrimp nothing like the old captain Alexia. Alexia then takes on the job as assistant coach and starts teaching all the guys how to hit and not be suck wieners and give them their confidence back.

The top team in all of the league the Penguins from Waterloo let by the president of the leagues nephew Happer Feldman was the top player because of his crazy wrist shot that never really missed it was so fast and good and no goalie could ever stop it.

Playoff time Mars first game they played the sharks and beat them 3-1 and moved on to play the flames. The Flames suffered a hard loss and the Mars team moved on to the Finals against the Penguins and lost the first game 5-0. Before the second game one of the guys figured it out Alexia could play but not with a wooden stick an aluminum one with made it perfectly legal for her to join the team again for the final game against the hard power house team the Penguins.

Last game of the playoffs for the cup. Both teams take the ice and Happer was the first one to she Alexia and started to complain and they all figured out she was good and allowed to play. Happer decided it wouldn’t even mater with them being up 5-0 from last game. The puck hits the ice the Mar tians come up with it and start to play like they used to as a hard hitting team led by Alexia. Last minute of the game its all tied up at 8 and the Penguins couldn’t believe it they came back and are all tied up and the games back up for grabs.

The final horn sounds and Mars wins they came back to take the whole things its like a miracle but show that other people shouldn’t doubt teams or people till its all over . The Penguins leave the ice with their heads down in disappointment and the Mar tians leave with the cup and are the champs of the year.

I would recommend this book to hockey player or people who think they are everything and to show them that anything can happen in life.

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Young Elliot and his younger sister Wendy are traveling with there Mom and Dad through the mountains on a vacation and are bored in the car and bugging one and other. Wendy and Elliot ask there parents if they could ride in the trailer instead of the car were they are making mom and dad mad from fighting so much. The parents don’t think there would be ant harm in letting them ride in the for a while so decide to stop and put let them go in there. Once everyone was in there spots sitting down they started to leave and while they were going up a hill in the mountains the trailer came unhooked and started going down the hill instead of up. On the way down the trailer wasn’t stopping and ended up going down through a bunch of trees in the forest and nearly hit some big ones that would have destroyed the camper but just missed.

A little after once everything came to a complete stop the two kids Elliot and Wendy got up and looked out side and came to find a camp councilor standing out side. The kids went with the councilor
to the camp he was at for the summer and found it to be a sports camp.

Everyone that new Elliot new he was a sports freak and played as hard as he could to win and hated to lose. Mostly his sister new this because they argued and competed against each other all the time.

the main thing in the camp was a king coin you would get them after you win one of your sport events. Once you got six king coins you would do the winners walk at the end of the day. After Elliot and Wendy made a bunch of friends some of their friends has almost got six of the king coins and once they did they went and did the walk but Wendy found that they never came back they disappeared. Wendy started to tell people about this but no one would believe her and the councilors kept telling her that they went home.

Wendy started snooping around trying to figure this out. One night during the winners walk Wendy followed them. A found at the end there was a big monster that stunk really bad and figured it out to be The King Jellyjam him self. After Wendy saw this she went and got a great bunch of people and showed them and after that everyone believed her and they started the building on fire and police and other rescue teams from a town near by came and saw this and ended up closing the camp and sending all the kids back home to their families and everything was fine after that. All thanks to Wendy everyone was saved from this monster. King Jellyjam was never seen again after the fire.

I can relate to this a bit because I’m like Elliot love my sports and I try as hared as I can to do my best and never give up.

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The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks… After 30 years of marriage Wilson is forced to face the painful truth that his wife Jane has fallen out of love with him. He needs to make her fall in love with him… All over again. He has always been so busy with work and never spent enough time with Jane or the kids. Wilson knew it was time to change and to save his marriage. For the past year he had gone over memories of how they fell in love, and their first date. He planned a romantic dinner for Jane and him at Noah’s old house that he had built for Allie. He had cleaned it up for Anne’s wedding and wanted to bring Jane there to surprise her a week before the big day. Jane had noticed Wilson’s strange behavior but she wasn’t about to complain, she loved it. He had paid more attention to her in the past year than he did during his whole marriage. The wedding day, everything had gone as planned and everything was going smoothly and all that was left was the waiting. Anne came down the aisle with the vale off, and no wedding dress off. Jane was in shock and didn’t know what was going on. Wilson took her hand and told her that he had planned this for a year and couldn’t wait to give her the wedding she deserved. There was a reason Anne let her pick out everything. Wilson put his trust in a lot of people and it went as planned. He couldn’t be more happy than he was that moment. The doctors called Noah delusional because he thought that the swan that came to visit him everyday at the pond was Allie, and that she came to him through the sawn. But Wilson was the only one who believed him, and when Noah dissapeared after the wedding Wilson spotted him by the pond waiting for Allie. His heart slowly sunk when he thought that she wasn’t going to come. But she did, he thought she came for the wedding. She wouldn’t miss it for the world.

When Wilson found out that Jane didn’t love him anymore and was considering leaving him, he knew he had to do anything to keep her. Jane was the only thing in Wilson’s life that made sense and he would fight until she would love him again. This shows if you really try your hardest you can do anything and it will always work out the way you’ve wanted or even better. From reading this book I have learned that if you take something for granted you will never know how much you have loved that person or something until they are gone and sometimes it is too late to make the wrong things right. We make decisions all the time that we regret and wish we could do over and I know I have had regrets but you know that if you made a mistake in the past you can learn from that mistake and not do the same thing in the future and it will work out better.

The only future you can control is your own, you cannot control what is going to happen next but you can control the consequences by doing what you think is the right thing. Wilson never thought about how Jane felt after he stopped spending time with her and the kids. He thought she would stay with him forever just like she promised on their wedding day. Jane thought about leaving him more than once and he couldn’t stand the thought of living the rest of his life without her there. I believe that anyone can make their wrongs right you just have use what you’ve got left and give it your all to make it better. Wilson tried for a year for Jane and planned romantic dinners, taking a couple weeks off of work just to spend time with her, and planning a wedding for a year without letting her know so it could be one big surprise and that she would fall back in love with him all over again. I love this book The Wedding, I recommend it to everyone, it really gives you a thought on how good your chances are to make things right.

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The Notebook written by Nicholas Sparks, is a book about a man named Noah Calhoun and a lady who is suffering from Alzheimer’s Allie Nelson. This book talks a lot about love between two people and then it was wasted away from a cruel disease. This story is talking about how Noah tries to get Allie to remember the good old days when they were young. He read to Allie about the summer when they met, although he said it was two other people. And he talked about when they left and found each other again. Will he ever get Allies heart back again? He had once when she was engaged to a wealthy lawyer. She went over to see the house that Noah and redone, and she was surprised when she still loved him. Even Noah had loved her and anyone knew that there was only one girl for Noah. And it was Allie.

This novel was also written into a movie. Which is a movie filled with love, hope, and proves that people can have true love. The novel and the movie shows that good things come in small packages. To me this says that even though Noah wasn’t wealthy, or have a fancy home. It means that Noah had something even more special to have which is more that money or riches. Love. Love was something that he treasured dearly, even at his old age he could have went back home with his children. But he stayed with Allie who suffered from Alzheimer’s. Some people treat love like it is a precious gift from god, but some treat love like it is nothing in this world. But I believe that love is a great gift from god. We end up always wanting more of something and we cannot stop and think what is right in front of us. All this time we haven’t seen what is right in front of our eyes, some people realize that love is around us through family and friends. Is it that we don’t have enough time to sit back and enjoy this life which is full of emotions. Is it that some of us think that we are to good for certain things? For me it is a mystery that we cannot enjoy something for even a second. But Noah took every second to enjoy something whether it was work or if it was just looking at the river. Noah had treasured every beauty that he saw, that he took the time to see. Now here with this life we should think to ourselves do we actually get the time to stop and look? Some of us do, but some don’t for those who don’t they may regret that decision of not stopping to look at something even if it was for just a second. For those who have the time to look at something they will think it is worth while to see. Okay this story does talk about love, a whole lot. But think about it this book will touch some one’s heart and it may be yours. You may think to your self do we actually treasure this gift to us? Or is your have a relationship you’ll have questions that will relate with your relationship.

Now since this was set in the time when World War 2 happened, so there was some dramatic effects on the country. There was also people who were rated in high class and low class. this means that the people who were in high class were wealthy and rich, and the lower class were poor in goods, less money earned, no fancy clothes or houses. Is it that we people think that we have to be rich and have every thing cause the most popular people do? Or is it greed? Greed does over run us especially when we are driven by greed. People back then were fine with what they had. With only a house clothing, enough food to survive, and yet they still didn’t make as much as they would today. If you were working in a lumber yard back then you wouldn’t make as much money as you would now. Maybe we should look at those who are less fortunate than us. Like at Asia, Africa and all of the undeveloped countries. This reason is because they don’t have all these new technology like us. And some of us do support the cause of helping these people because we care about life we don’t want to watch our life wasted away. Some people are to rich to even care, they only want whats best of them or other that they care about. Maybe we’ll see that life can change for those who believe deeply that their lives can change even if they are poor and less fortunate than us. Maybe we can care for those who needs our help.

In this book it also talks about poetry, for me I like reading poetry. Because I look at it as it reflects peoples feelings and they understand things in their own way. In this book Noah had used poetry to learn how to talk again, this happened when Noah’s mom died when he was five. After he stopped talking and his father decided to take him to work, then Noah started to talk. But he stuttered a lot so his dad read poetry and stories. Noah’s dad would let him read to him every night. Maybe that’s what this book talked when we help someone we get the best reward after. And Noah had waited for years to have Allie back.

Love is a great mystery to everyone in this world. What is true love? Will I ever get loved? Those are questions that I do hear often from some people, and to my sister I am wise. Like a mini Yoda to her in a way, she’d ask me questions and some times I’d have an answer. But when it come to questions that involve love I’ll have some answers to that. If you really think about it you’ve all been asked questions about love, and you did answer some of them righ? Well lets say that you asked a tough question like what is real love? You think to your self and your thinking really hard. But you find no answer, this is because we don’t even know anything about love. Love is a mystery and we’ll never know why this happens to us or why we feel it. So we should keep exploring and start treasuring this precious gift from god. Then we’ll find the greatest treasure of all at the end.

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The name of the book s called The SECOND CLONE The gripping sequel to Cloning Miranda! Written by Carol Matas. Carol Matas has received many honors for her work including the Silver Birch Award, the Jewish Book Prize, and two nominations for the Governor Generatis Award. The book came out Oct 1, 2001.

The book is about Miranda surviving deadly disease, and rescued her secret clone, and adopted the girl as a sister. Everything was perfect for a while. something very weird is going on the clone is acting very strange and Miranda parents don’t even seem to notice.

People Values can change when their lives changes. When Miranda found out that her clone is really her sister and that one them has to die. Because Dr. Mullen wants one of them because to fix Miranda diseases. I think is not right that Miranda as to pick one of them to die. If it was me I would pick me because I would think that I would be the worst person on the eath to pick my sister to die

What I think of this book is depressing but really good book to read. I like this book it is more the tip of book I would read. Because the tip of books I read are depressing and murder mysteries, and that book are about whathappen in really life.

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The name of the book is called The Girl Death Left Behind, written and illustrated by Lurlene McDonald. Lurlene McDonald began writing about teenagers (facing life problems) because her son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Ms McDonald wanted to tell kids “that while people don’t get to choose what life gives them, they do get to choose how they respond.” All the novels she has written have received acclaim from the readers, teachers, parents, and reviewers. They are hard-hitting and realistic but she wanted to leave them an inspiration and hope.

The book is about Beth starting a new life, especially in Terri’s clique-filled school. With the help of some unexpected allies and the persistent concern of her aunt and her friends who have always loved her, Beth defies the despair that threatens to engulf her. Still she can’t bring herself to let go of her painful memories. Beth’s aunt goes away with her husband for one weekend, leaving Beth and her cousin alone. Beth takes it upon herself to go with Sloane (her new friend) and Sloane’s boyfriend to see her old home before it was sold. The house she lived in her whole life. She figured she would have all good memories of it, but that wasn’t the case. When her aunt found out what she had done she was not very pleased with both her and Terri for not telling her what was going on. In the end Beth, her aunt Camille, and Terri went to Beth’s family’s grave for one last time before she went to her new home. Beh felt that being there that she feels that she seeing them for the last time for a bit for the span of her life time. She would go on, and when her time was up, she would be with them once again. In the mean time though, it was up to Beth to spin the straw of her life into gold. After visiting her family for awhile, Beth, her Aunt Camille and Terri walked out of the cemetery together. This time it was Beth who left death behind. She as getting on with her life and finally able to let her painful memories go.

I think that this book is about finding where do you belong. Knowing that you can’t go back in time and change stuff that happens to you in the past.

People’s values can change when their life changes. Beth’s aunt is making Beth move to a new state and live with her aunt and spoiled cousin. Beth’s aunt is trying to help Beth that she will all ways still have a home any where she goes and be love too. I think it is not right that she as to move away from her home town and her house. If I was asked to move away from my home I would really be upset but I would go with my aunt any ways.

I like this book because it is the type of book I would read. The type of book I would read is murder mystery and romantic books, and stuff that can happen in real life. Even if the books is depressing, it is a good book to read.

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The name of the book SEEING AND BELIEVING A Mike and Riel Mystery, written by and illustrated by Norah McClintock. The book is from the five-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award. The book came out of the year 2006. This is the third book that I am reading

The book is about two guys named Mike and Vin. Mike finds out that one of his friends got in trouble and that Vin needs Mike help. Mike really wants to help Vin and his other friend Sal doesn’t want Mike to help but Mike decides to help Vin. Mike is the only one who believes Vin but if he does help Vin he could lose Sal for a friend.

What do I think about this book is that there are some people in the world who can relate to this book because stuff like this can happen to any one. If this happened to you and your stuck in the middle between your best friends who would you pick? I know that if this happened to one of my friends I would help that persion out. The book talks a lot about friendship and the truth.
People face life pressures when making every day decisions. Vin is not telling Mike the really truth what really helped at the robbery. Because Vin is very scared that if he tells the truth to Mike and the cops that the really truth he is going to be in big trouble. I think that is not O.K. lie to your friends or the cops. I now that I would not lie to the cops or my friends.

I like this book because Its more the tap of the book I would read. Because this can happen in really life. The type of books I like to read are sad, romantic and murder mysteries and that it is the second time reading the book.

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Scorpia

Scorpia by Anthony Horowiz is the book that I have chosen to read. This book is about a fourteen year old boy that was trained to be a spy by an organization called m16. Alex Rider found out m16, who he thought was on his side, might of killed his father. Alex had to find out the truth so he went to Venice to find an organization called Scorpia. Alex and his best friend Tom both went to Venice to look for the organization. Alex told Tom he had to get into the palace but he couldn’t tell him why. While he was in the palace he went into rooms looking for anything that has to do with scorpia. He went to one room that looked to be an office. Alex found that strange considering there were no cameras. It turns out that there were no cameras because there was a live tiger in the room. He was just about to be killed till a man came in and and took Alex away to the cellar. he didn’t how long or why he was in the cellar in till an alarm went off saying there was going to be a flood. Alex knew that the water was going to reach the top of the roof and he was going to drowned. Alex manage to ex scape and reach to hotel where he was staying.

Alex rider had to go through all types of challenges to find out how his father died. He was forced to train to be a spy when was only 12 years old by an organization that worked for the opposite side as his father. My sister and I used to act like we were spies after watching Spy Kids when we were younger but I would never want to become a spy. Even if Alex didn’t want to be a spy he had no say in the matter because of his father. His father worked for Scorpia so m16 wanted Alex on there side. I don’t think it’s right that Alex’s future was picked for him. I think everyone should be who they want to be not what someone else wants them to be.

Scorpia is a book that I can’t really relate to considering that I’m not a spy, and that my parents don’t have my future set for me. This book can relate to any reader that had to do something they didn’t want to do.When I was reading the book I felt sorry for Alex because he couldn’t trusted anyone and that he grew up not having a family. I feel like it would be hard growing up with out a family and not knowing what happened to our parents. Alex did have his friend Tom who came with him to Venice and Alex told him everything about his life.

Scorpia is the kind of book I like reading. It’s not only full of intensity and surprising moment but it his book also makes me want to read more. At the beginning of this book I was a little confused when I was reading it and I wasn’t really into it. After reading more of this book I got more into this book I understood it more. So far This book is really good and I want to keep on reading it.

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It starts out as a family going on a summer vacation. On there way to there camping trip and while they were in the mountains the kids were getting bored and they kept bugging and asking there parents if they could ride in there camper behind the car. Mom and Dad started thinking there would be no harm in letting them go in there while there driving and plus it would keep them quiet and out of there head. On the road they were driving through the mountains and while going up an hill the camper bounced of the hitch and started going back wards and drove off the road and ripped through a bunch of trees and stopped in the middle of the forests.

Once the camper was stopped the kids inside asked each other if they were both fine and they answered back yes to each and other. The kids opened the door and they were shocked to she that there was a guy standing out side the trailer. He started asking them questions like were they were from and what happened to them. This guy was really friendly and brought the kids to this camp were he was working as a camp counselor. The camp was into lots of games and if you won your event you won a gold coin, after you won six coins you got to go winners walk. Mysteriously after the walk kids started disappearing and the little girl named Wendy started to see this. Her brother Elliot was a sports freak much like my self but he wouldn’t believe her when she told him this and kept playing the games trying to win the six coins.

Wendy was scared and started asking people if they were noticing this and trying to figure out what was happening around this camp where every one was going to.

I can relate to this so far because I’m just like Elliot I love to play sports and always want to be the best. As well for Wendy I can relate to her because she was scared at this camp and the first camp I went to I was really scared at first till I started making friends.

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Author: Kathy Kacer type: non fiction Producer: Second Story Press

In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power of in Germany. They one belief and that was that the Germans belong to a superior race. Hitler wanted to get rid of all the religions that stood against him,the Roma people (Gypsies), and Particularily the Jews. He did not start his quest to take over europe then the world until 1938. When they started there quest the Jews life became hard and nearly impossible to live in certain places without the chance of being taken to concentration camps where they would torture the Jews. The Schwalb family put it into perspective for me on how hard it was. The family was travelling to new places every once in a while but later on they had to move nearly every two months, until one night the Nazis came and took the father away to a concentration camp. After he was gone there were four people left in the family Mutti (mother), Therese (sister), Edith (herself), and Gaston (brother). Mutti wasn’t able to take care of the three of them any longer so she took Edith to a city called Moissac where a french Jewish family was taking care of many orphaned Jewish children. Shatta and Bouli Simon risked it all to save these kids even there lives. The city would protect these kids to by telling Shatta or Bouli that the Nazis were coming to down and when this happend the kids would all go for a “camping trip.” A camping trip for them was get to the woods as quick but safely as possible and camp for a few days in a different location every night, of course the house was ready for this they were always packed up so when the call came they were gone. Edith met a new friend named Sarah Kupfer a friend that would help her through the toughest of times. Gaston Edith’s brother was sent to a different house in Moissac where they would just hide when the Nazis came. Unfortunately for Edith she had to leave Moissac when the Nazis came to often so they were sent to another school and she got rid of her identity of being Jewish for a catholic identity. This was very hard for her because Mutti her mother told her to never forget who she is ever. This new school Edith and Sarah had to go to was horrible they could only shower once a month they ended up getting lice and they were pretty much starved because the ration cards were so little they couldn’t get much food. When the ally planes flew over her school they started dropping bombs. Edith did not know what was going on until the school head mistress told her that they were dropping bombs to destroy travel ways into that town. She also had bad news for Edith and Sarah they were going to be split up and sent to different houses but Edith and Sarah made a pact that they would be see each other again no matter what. Edith had to go live with Oncle Albert and Tante Marie, they owned a farm and a plenty of food when Edith saw this she said that there was only six things missing Mutti, dad, Gaston, Therese, Sarah, and the war to be over. A year later the war was over and the Nazis were drivin’ back to Germany and Edith got to see her family again and Sarah. When she knew that Mutti still couldn’t keep the family fed and bathed, Edith went back to work at Moissac with Bouli and Shatta helping the other jewish kids that were orphaned and had no place to go. When Edith visited Mutti and Therese there was a older man about the same age as her father. It was one of his friends that was imprisoned with him and he came bearing terrible news about there father he died in the concentration camp. When the american soldiers saved them they were given to much food and they over fed and their bodies couldn’t handle it so they passed away the next day and he was one of the few that survived.

I thought this book was very sad and inspiring because this book was just about one jewish family going through all that pain and torture when there was thousand and thousands more families going through this because of Hitler and his selfishness. What I really did not get about him was he wasn’t even German so why would he do it. This book relates to many and many holocaust books ever written, movies made, radios playing songs in memory of those families, and every other source of media i can think of.

This was a very good book to read it taught me alot about the Halocaust, this is not the last book I will be reading about the Halocaust. No family should have ever had to go through this torture if it was my choice I would make Hitler reenact every torture and pain that all those families had to go through. The Focus Question in this story is what role do our values play in decision making? What other factors influence our decisions?
The answer to the first question is I would have taken the orphans into my home because if I were one of the kids I would have wanted the same thing, and the answer for the second question is what would you feel like if you denied lots of kids to your home would they survive?

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