by Emery, (9 posts) on November 7th, 2009
Author: Thatcher Heldring
Title: Toby Wheeler Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer
Pages read: 211
The main character of this book is an eighth grader benchwarmer basketball player called Toby Wheeler. He used to be an ordinary gym rat; he played at the rec center and tried to beat the captain of Hamilton middle school, Vinny Pesto. But [...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on October 24th, 2009
Author: John Coy
Title: Box out
Pages: 276
The main character of this book is a sophomore called Liam Norbert Bergstrom. He just got picked to the varsity basketball team to replace an injured senior. When he first joined the varsity basketball team, he was really excited. But then he found out that [...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on October 7th, 2009
Author: D. Abela
Title: Max Remy spy force “The Amazon Experiment’’
Pages read: 274
In this story, Suave is one of the main characters. He is a new agent to the spy force, he is perfect, with great manners and always seems to do the right thing. When the pilot of the invisible jet [...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on September 24th, 2009
The Sea
By: James Reeves
Pg 47
The sea is a hungry dog,
Giant and grey.
He rolls on the beach all day.
With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws
Hour upon hour he gnaws
The rumbling, tumbling stones,
And ‘ Bones, bones, bones, bones!’
The giant sea-dog moans,
Licking his greasy paws.
[...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on September 23rd, 2009
The author: Khaled Hosseini
Title: The Kite Runner
Number of pages: 324
The main character of this book is called Amir, he spend his childhood in Afghanistan then he escaped to USA with his father because the Russians invaded the country. Amir is timid and weak when he was young, when he saw [...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on September 19th, 2009
Boy! China was the worst place I’ve ever been to.
I mean, when you look around in the morning, you expect to see goods views, but the only thing you see are goddam Chinese spitting and some phony parents screaming at their children.
Then you can’t even take a walk on the street or [...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on September 16th, 2009
‘Catcher in the rye’ is a very weird book compared to the other books I’ve read before. The main character Holden is a very special and unique teenage boy. He swears a lot, went to bars, gets prostitutes and failed nearly all of the subjects in school. Sounds like a really bad boy to [...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on September 10th, 2009
Author: Alice Sebold
Title: The lovely bones
Pages: 328
One of the major themes was in the beginning of this book. Where Susie Salmon the main character was getting back home from the junior high, she took a shortcut through the cornfield and then she saw her neighbor Mr. Harvey. He [...]
by Emery, (9 posts) on August 29th, 2009
Who will I be? I have been wondering this question since I was Grade 6. I used to be confused when people asked me this kind of question, simply because I had too many dreams. But now, I have come to realize that all I want is to be an ordinary person, who is [...]
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