I chose the quote‚"You cannot open a book without learning something" by the Irish proverb because I can relate it to my favorite book‚"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton which taught me lots of stuff that I did not know about. The book is about a 14 year old named Ponyboy and his two brothers Darry who is 16 and Sodapop who is 20 years old. Darry is in charge of them due to both of his parents dying in a car accident. They are all greasers in a gang and often watch over Johnny ‚who is another greaser
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Hatchet is a book written by Gary Paulsen and is a fictional novel about a boy lost in the Canadian woods. This story is about a boy in the Canadian woods that is dealing with the struggles of divorce where he will experience what it is like to be alone. He will come to find that there are some problems to face along the way. Brian will come to find out that the Canadian woods is a very dangerous place for a lost boy. Brian knows that finding the right foods and protection could be very crucial
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in our world and it is important to not categorize people based on their disability. For this project‚ I choose to read the book Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine. This was a very thought provoking book that kept me engaged the whole time. Mockingbird is the story of a young girl who has Asperger syndrome and her brother was recently shot in a school shooting.Throughout the book‚ Caitlin struggles to deal with her brothers death and has a hard time talking to anyone about the situation. She does however
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important plot point. The ending of the book had the most impact on me‚ with the descriptions of the battle at the cornucopia really resonating with me. I was also taken aback at the gamesmasters’ decision to make only one team member survive. I also fully believed that Katniss and Peeta were going to commit suicide to outsmart the gamesmasters‚ so the quick‚ turnaround ruling that both Katniss and Peeta could live was a huge relief for me. I think that in the next book‚ Collins will make the fact that
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Euphoria Hits East Bay High My journey to winning a softball state championship is one of the most euphoric moments I’ve yet to experience and by far my greatest high school achievement. This journey began my freshman year at East Bay high school in Gibsonton‚ Florida. I was a young committed softball player with big dreams and a handful of goals that I had hoped to accomplish throughout my high school career. The first day of try outs‚ I stepped out on the field with a nervous
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The seventy-four-year old Minnesota author has been popular with young adults since 1966 when Paulsen first appeared on the writing scene. Paulsen has been noted for his fiction writing about survival and wilderness. Books such as Hatchet‚ Dogsong‚ and The Winter Room have all won the Newbery Honor Award. Paulsen is one of the most noted authors in the category and very popular with young people. Growing up in Minnesota Paulsen was born in Minneapolis on May 17‚ 1939 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen)
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The Outsiders by‚ S.E. Hinton was an awesome book that included drama between two groups. Before the book even starts‚ one of Greasers named‚ Johnny gets jumped by the Socs. Also‚ before the book starts‚ Ponyboy‚ Sodapop‚ and Darry lose their parents because of a car crash. Then‚ when the book finally starts and all of the characters are announced‚ the main character‚ Ponyboy gets jumped by some Socs as well. Then‚ when the book is about three fourths done‚ Johnny kills a Soc‚ named Bob. After that
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the idea to play fetch with Cerberus using a red rubber ball she stole from the Waterworld gift store.Her idea works and percy and grover get out of there fast.When they all go through the metal detector thing it goes off so they just run straight through it.As they run away annabeth gets a little upset because the cerberus reminded her of the dof she had at her
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The book that I recently loved was "Flipped" By Wendelin Van Draanen. Flipped is a fiction book and contains 212 pages‚ I started the book on May 2nd and finished it the week later.Wendelin Van Draanen was born January 6 in Chicago‚IL and is still living. Wendelin Van Draanen’s previous jobs was a fork lifter(a fork lifter is a person who works at a construction site lifting up heavy weights off the ground with a mechanical machine)‚high school computer teacher‚ and even was a singer in a rock band
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The Hidden Side of Freakonomics Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is a book aimed at exposing the secret within everything. The authors prove that in many cases‚ two items don’t have to be connected because they are correlated. Moreover‚ two unrelated items can in fact be connected. Proving so was less difficult than it would seem. All it took was the right information. They were able to prove the most unlikely of correlations. The authors stress that in a world where incentives
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