Legend

     Daniel Altan "Day" Wing and June Iparis believe that they're adversaries. In the past , June admired Day's brave feats, but scorned them out loud, as he was the most wanted criminal in her country. Day wishes he'd been a rich military progity , instead of a poor boy who could only keep his family alive through illegal activity. But that changes when June's fatherly older brother Metias is found murdered. Day was near the crime scene a minute earlier, and owned a knife that had pierced his heart. June is sent on a mission to find Day and avenge her brother's death. Neither of them know just what they're involved in. It certainly isn't another murder mystery for June or another crime to hide from for Day.

    My favorite character is June.

SOL #3

     We had just landed in Maui. We drove to our room that we were renting in a  house that was comprised of  5 or 6 small houses (do you know a word for this????). Before we even settled in,  Griffin and I wanted to go to the beach. we walked around, and even got to the city of Lahaina, but no beach. We walked back, disappointed. Mom said there would be other times we could go.
     "But it says, 'Beach Access'!" I complained. We decided that if we couldn't get to the beach, the least we could do was get to the beautiful meadow with hibiscus flowers and a paved walkway behind our _____(place were we were staying). We found the entrance quickly and hurried inside.
      I ran to the back of the field. There, another surprise greeted us: the concrete path went on. We followed it past a rock-strewn area with DO NOT ENTER signs on either side of the pavement, into a parking lot, and onto what appeared  to be a long, downward-sloped grassy strip we later nicknamed The Long Lawn.  Guess what was at the bottom! We were so excited to FINALLY find it. We played in the surf as the sun came down.

Lord of the Flies

      A plane full of boys crashes on a desert island. A boy named Ralph blows a conch shell to bring the others together and is voted chief. A fierce adversarie of his is named Jack Merridew, and is the leader of the choir boys.   The boys light a fire on a mountain so that it's smoke will attract ships, but the choir, who was in charge of keeping it stocked, went hunting just as a ship appeared. Many other boys also land: moral "Piggy", quiet Simon, and twins Sam and Eric are a few of the boys that crash. But when the rumor of a "beast" gets out amng the younger boys, Ralph represents the voice of reason.

Slice of Life #2

I hear shouts of "They're putting it together! They're putting it together!" Curious, I walk towards the cafeteria. I immediately see Sophie in her navy coat, gazing out at the middle. I walk in that direction and see an amazing sight spread out before my eyes. A giant  Sierpinski triangle made completely out of candy corn. I reach Sophie and we walk to the nearby head point.
     "Look," I say and kneel down. I point at one piece. "This little candy corn is leading it all."
      I stand up and walk to a different place.
      "It's so- well- sweet; and not just figuratively."
      Joel  walks by. "Do you like it?"

      "It's ... big." I say. My jaw is so wide open it's hard to get any words out at all. I am amazed.

Mockingjay

 Katniss Everdeen has been through a lot: two hunger games, destroying an arena while being electrocuted, hearing the news of Peeta Mellark's capture... The list goes on and on. But when she ses a Capitol propo with Peeta, she feels like a game of  Crazy Cat, a game her family plays with the rest of District 13and their ugly cat, Buttercup.  She thinks seeing Peeta dead would be better than seeing him in the Capitol. So she decides to get him out. But when he's rescued, Peeta has been tortured so his memories of Katniss have been warped. Katniss remembers her first Hunger Games, distrusting Peeta's motives then pretending to be madly in love with him, then actually falling in love during her second games. Now the roles are reversed. Suddenly Katniss feels like more is at stake than the rebellion/revolution war and her own life.

Slice of Life #1

We walked into a model home called The Dorado. Joel talked a bit with the guy that was in charge there. He was mentioning the other houses and slipped into the furniture. I wasn't paying much attention.  I heard the other guy say," Oh yeah. The island's over there." I walked over to a room and sketched a  lamp. Then I met up with Selah and Joel in the basement. I said, "I think we should visit The Island next." I had really wanted to find a tropical model home. Selah agreed. I met up with the man as we were walking out and asked where The Island was. He started talking about the architecture of the house. It turned out he had meant the kitchen island! Strangely enough, the next house we visited, The Cimarron, was designed in tropical style.

The Nazi Hunters

       When you think "evil people in Holocaust," you think," Adolf Hitler". But Hitler wasn't the only war criminal in charge of killing 6 million Jews ( and about 5 million others, though the antagonist of the book just killed Jews), a man named Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of German (and French, Italian, Soviet, ect) Jews, but disappeared after the war. Fifteen years later, the  daughter of a Argentine Holocaust survivor dates a boy named Nick Eichmann, who claims his father was a high-ranking SS official ( Adolf Eichmann's oldest son was named Nicholas). The hunt to bring Eichmann to trial in Jerusalem begins.

My book group is Lord of the Flies.