The Dark SIde_Stephen King

- Zack Nute



I choose this book because it is a fictional muder story. This book interested me because just in the prolouge it talks about the main character having a supposed brain tumor. In reality it wasn't a brain tumor but it was peices of his absorbed twin.

The main character, Thad Beaumont, is a professional writer. His Pen name is George Stark. He "buries" George stark so that he does not have to continue writing under this pen name. But what he does not know is that George Stark has come to life and is trying to stay alive by getting Thad to teach him to write. Thad does not want to help Gearge write because he does not want George stark to live. Thad does not want George to live because in the time taht he has lived he has killed a number of people allready, so who really wants to let that live?

Thad decides to pretend to help George write for the sake of his wife and childeren, which are twins. Thads plan is to teach Geaorge to write on his own so that George will be concetrated on his writing while Thad Uses the sparrows to haul George Stark back to the land of the dead. He does this by using a Bird call given to him by a fellow teacher at the university in Ludlow. The sparrow rip bits and peices off of George until he is light enough for them to carry back to the land of the dead. Thus, Thad saves his family along with the sheriff.

The title is significant Because it shows that Every one has a "dark half" even if they don't know it. Also it is significant because it tells the reader right away that it wil be about something dark or bad.

If I met Stephen King, I would ask him what goes through his mind as he writes these gruesome books. I would also ask him where he gets his ideas for these books. and the third question i would ask him is "can i have you autograph" jk. But seriouslly the third question i would ask him is if he would come and do a book signing at CHS.

Grist- Alex Rader

Genre-Fiction
I chose the book, Grist, because I like the fact that the book is based on a girl who loves to write and has a really bad sarcasm problem. Also, the book takes place at Charlie's Grandma's house near a lake.
Grist is the one word, through out the book, that Charlie is constantly trying to find. The last day of school, Charlie is called in to her creative writing class by her strict teacher, Mr. Pollen. Mr. Pollen tells Charlie that her last creative writing assignment, The Chocolate Moose Man, had o Grist, horror or excitement. Charlie than packs her things to leave her Dad and Step mom to go to Lake Ringrose for the summer, ad for a change. Lake Ringrose is where Charlie's Grams lives and where Charlie's mother lived before she died. Upon her arrival, Charlie has met a cute guy who works at Jenny's Restaurant in the middle of town. Every time she is seen with Kerry, Charlie finds herself falling deeper and deeper into a whirlwind of mystery and...Grist.
Grist, I think, is a good title for the book since that is all Charlie is ever thinking about. Grist is what Charlie needs in order to get a productive writing assignment and the change she wants.
Questions:
1) Why did you choose Grist as the title of your book?
2) Where did you get you storyline from?
3) Is any part of the book based on your's or someone else's life?

13 Little Blue Envelopes By Maureen Johnson

BLOG BY LINDSEY HUNT <3

Genre: Fiction

13 Little Blue Envelopes is about a girl named Virginia, Aka Ginny, who randomly gets a message from her dead Aunt Peg. This message gives her strict instructions with $1, 000 more instructions to buy a plane ticket and 4 rules she must follow. RULE 1: she may only bring what fits in her backpack. No purse or carry on item. RULE 2: Ginny cannot bring any guidebooks, phrase books, or any kind of foreign language aid. And no journals. RULE 3: she cannot bring any extra money like credit/debit cards or traveler's checks. Aunt Peg is taking care of that. RULE 4: no "electronic crutches. This means no laptop, no cell phone, no music, and no camera. She cant call home or communticate with people in the U.S. by internet or telephone. Postcards and letters are acceptable and encouraged.

Step one of Ginny's journy is to leave her home town of New Jersey and go to her Aunt's old apartment in New York called 4th Noodle to recieve a package. The package contains the 12 envelopes in which she can only read each numbered letter after she completes the previous task. These letters take her all over Europe to places like London, Paris, Rome, Greece, Scotland and the Netherlands. Over the course of the book Ginny learns more and more not only about her dead Aunt, but herself. Ginny goes from a shy and quiet teenage girl to a mature and outgoing young woman.

I chose to read this book just because of the cover, and plus Keely said it was a good book. I think i liked the cover because of the coloring and because there is a girl that looked to be my age on the front. Books that have characters my age are easier to relate to and understand.

The title of the book does have to do with the contents inside of it. Ginny recieves a total of 13 envelopes over the course of her journy through Europe.

3 QUESTIONS I WOULD ASK MAUREEN JOHNSON :

1: Were Aunt Peg and Richard ever anything more than just roommates? During the book it just says they lived together. There isnt much information on how they met or get together.

2: How did Ginny and Keith end up? Ginny falls for Keith but Maureen never says if they ever get to speak again.

3: What was the purpose of only using letters? Obviously the dead Aunt couldnt talk to her but what made Mrs. Johnson choose letters?

Twiligt by stephenie meyer post by Darian Rader

I chose twilight because it was under the fiction section. Also because i love books about mysterious romance,not to mention vampires.
Twilight is about a girl, Isabella Swan, who lives in Arizona with her recently married mother. When her mother and step-dad decide too move to Florida she wants to move with her Father in the small town of Forks, Washington. There she makes new friends, including a mysterious vampire named Edward. After realizing they fell in love with each other Edward and his family invite Bella over for a baseball game, and end up running into three other vampires, one of which can tell she`s human, and tries to hunt her down to her old town in Arizona.
Twilight is the point of the sunset right before darkness comes. It is significant to this book because when Twilight comes Edward feels like its an end of a good day withe Bella, and a soon to start great day.
If i could ask Stephenie Meyer any three questions about the book they would be:
I would want to know what drove her to write the book, how did she come up with the characters?
I would also want to know if she based any of these characters on any real life people?
I would finally like to know, if she will write any more books, not specifically about Bella, but about maybe Carlisle`s past and how he came to be a vampire.

Sade Allen book project

Genre: Fiction

I chose this book because I have an interest for weather stories for example thing that happen to people after tornadoes hit.so when I heard of all the things that happen in the book, with earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. It caught my attention.


The basic thing that happens in the book is the moon is hit by a meteor.Everyone excited until they realize that the moon is coming closer to the earth and then all hell brakes loose. The main character Miranda and her Family are forced to survive the best they can. Their survival was left to a giant food supply and a wood stove. Miranda had many things she love that had to disappear along with the electricity. Her school wasn't able to sustain it's self and had to loose power, teacher, school lunch, and more than half of the student body. toward the end almost every had lost hope but then suddenly they start getting more and more power. which give's our high school teenager a new begin in the end.

the titles Significance is life as it once was is what it's suppose to mean. After all the bad things happened in the book.

The Questions I have for the author is What inspired you to write this? What did you think after you publish the book? do you have any connections with any of the character, if so what?

Brisingr

This book is called “Brisingr” it is the third book of the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, this follows the two other books, Eragon and Eldest. The genre of this book is a fantasy. The reason why I chose this book is because Eragon was given a few awards when it was released. So then I went on and read the back of the book and got really interested. I read Eragon and eldest, and decided that this would be a good time to get back into the series for this book project.

The book “Brisingr” is basically about how Eragon and his cousin, Roran are brought back together. They finally destroy the Ra’zac, which was one of the overall missions for Eragon and Roran because they were the ones responsible for killing Garrow, Roran’s father, and kidnapping Katrina. Then go on to let Ronan to finally get to marry Katrina. After that they go back to the Varden, a rebel group that despises the king, and plan to destroy all of the evil things the king has done, and remove him from power.

In January of 2008 it was stated that the title of the third book of the inheritance series was to be called “Brisingr”. Brisingr was the first word in the ancient language to be said by Eragon and also it means more than even what Eragon could have known. The word Brisingr means “fire” used by the magic users to summon fire and use it in combat and to do things such as cook.Fans thought that it may have more importance than being the name of the book and may be the true name of Eragon since the first two books names are closely related to the major characters that are in them. The book cover has the picture of the gold dragon, Glaedr, looking to the right.


Are Eragon and Saphira going to live through the entire series of inheritance?
I am really interested if they are going to be able to live through another book? Because it wouldn’t completely destroy the story if Saphira dies, because Eragon would have to go down the same path is main enemy, Galbixtorixs, had to go down.

Are you going to make the “Ancient Language” fully functional and otherwise a complete language itself?
I would think it would be cool to make up a complete language on your own, and I was just wandering if he will, or has yet.

When is the last book going to be released?
I ask this because I can’t wait to continue the story, and understand how they truly wrap up the story. There are so many unanswered questions.


Summary by: Alan Hartquist

Small Steps by Davis Young

This book is fiction. The reason I chose this book is because I really liked the first book Holes and thought that it was going to be just like it and it was. I also thought it was a very good book.

What this book is about is that it follows the life of Armpit after he is released from Camp Greenlake. He is living in Austin, Texas and X-Ray comes to him with a business propisition for the pop singer that is coming to town and the way X-Ray wants him is to get money fast by buying tickets and then selling them for a higher price. Then when everything is going good X-Ray's plan backfires an the police get involved. When Armpit hears about this he tries stay calm because he does not want to go back to jail. Also he goes to go the concert but when the security guard gets him he finds out X-Ray gave him counterfeit tickets which starts the whole thing with the police.

The signifacance of the title is that Armpit would like to just take small steps but then X-Ray comes and wants him to take big steps and in the end Armpit learns and takes small steps.

Some questions that I have for Louis Sachar is

1. Why did Armpit choose to do what X-Ray told him to? I would ask him this because it isn't clear in the book.
2. Why didn't X-Ray have his own job to get his own money? I would ask him this because he asked Armpit for the money to buy the tickets.
3. Why did Armpit work for a landscapeing company? I would ask him this because wouldn't he tired of digging.