Independent Reading quarter #2

This quarter,
I Read the award winning book, "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose. Like all war books, this book had me on the edge of my seat for most of the story. However, what made this one better is knowing that all the events being written about have taken place. It gives the story a more authentic feel to it. During the book, I actually felt like I was apart of Easy Company, fighting in the battles, and going through all the hardships. Despite being trapped in a High School english class, I really enjoyed this book, and recommend it to anyone seeking an adventure without having to move. Overall, a 8/10 is fitting.
--Brian Loomba

Star wars Trilogy

Star wars, a story of father and son's, family, and most of all redemption. Ironically, I used to insult anyone who bravely admitted they enjoyed Star Wars. Now, I consider myself the biggest fan in the grade, perhaps even the whole school. We begin this wonderful story around the time where Leia is rushing across space in the patented Tentav IV, which contains the stolen plans to the Empire's deadliest weapon, The "Death Star". Unfortunately for Leia and the rest of the the rebellion, the Empire has tracked them down and has boarded their ship. Almost every rebel is killed, and the living are taken captive. Right before her capture, Leia places the stolen Death Star plan's into R2-D2. There R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape the ship in an escape pod and land on the remote planet of tatooine. There, they meet luke skywalker. by fate and fate alone, luke meets obi-wan kenobi, one of the few remaining jedi. When Obi-Wan discovers the stolen Death Star plan's, he realizes he has to get them back home to alderaan! There Luke and Obi-Wan meet Han Solo and chewbacca, crewmates of the infamous ship, the Milenium Falcon. Long story short, they rescue the princess and blow up the Deathstar.

This summer, to support my love of Star wars, I chose to read Star Wars: The Phantom menace. the tricky thing about Star Wars is that everything is backwards. As you all should know, Darth Vader was once a jedi, but was seduced by the dark side of the force. So, in these books, its interesting to see how a little boy with so much potential could screw up so hard. As Obi-Wan said, "You were supposed to destroy the dark side, not join them!". In this book, you can discover how Obi-wan takes anakin skywalker as his aprentice. This I find most interesting and ironic because anakin is actually the one that kills Obi-wan. Small world. This book also shows how anakin meets the beautiful Padme Amidala, AKA Natalie Portman. I liked this book because it lays the structure for the rest of the Star Wars saga.

IRR #3

The title of the book is Manchild in the Promise Land, the author is Claude Brown.

When Claude was young he was in a fish and chip place and he was shot in his side. it was important because he could have died. it made me think about how bout violence is in low class areas. i thought that he was going to die and the story would be told from someone else's perspective of Claude's life.

I like Claude. I do not like PaPa because he beats up his son when he acts out. i do not relate to anybody in the book. I wonder what happens to Claude's friends later on in life.

The important choice that Claude faces is giving up his life of a thug and becoming a better person. When he was shot a second time his decision was influenced to get better.

The minor characters are his siblings, Mama and Papa, Pimp, Turk And Danny. they either help him try to get better or make him get worse.

Overall this was such a fantastic book sand look forward to reading more like it.

my 2nd book

in my book the main character was shot in a fish and chip joint then was put in the hospital, he had many dreams/nightmares, it is a great book so far.

watsons wonderful trip

In the great book by Christopher Paul Curtis a black family from the north go on a trip to the south. they are forced to go because the oldest son got in trouble too much, they are greeted by racism and hatred as they go into the south.

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