Deception Point ( By Dan Brown)

I read Deception Point, by Dan Brown. The book had more than one main character. The story was told by a few peoples’ points of view. A few of the main characters are Rachel Sexton, Michael Tolland, William Pickering, and President Herney, Senator Sedgwig Sexton, and Gabriel Ashe.

Rachel Sexton is the daughter of Sedgwig Sexton. Her father is a senator that is running for president.  Rachel works at NRO, an agency that works behind the president. Giving the president daily briefings is Rachel’s job. She is very high up in ranks, compared to the other people in NRO. Rachel is courageous. When she is on the Milne Ice Shelf Rachel doesn’t panic in terror when she’s out on the frozen glacier, collecting an ice core sample. She doesn’t lose it when she sees the delta one squad kill off an innocent civilian scientist either. Rachel is brave. She doesn’t bend to her father’s every whim, she stands up for what is right. In the book she tries to tell her dad not to go public with information that would hurt NASA, but when he doesn’t listen to her she takes things into her own hands and tries to stop him the only way that she knows how to. Rachel Sexton is smart. When she is on the ship in the middle of the ocean she doesn’t let her guard down for a second, she even tells the helicopter pilot to turn on his radar when she thinks that her phone conversation was tapped. The choices that she makes save her life several times. Rachel is kind. When someone is injured she tries to help them. She is also a fast thinker. When Rachel was on a boat with Michael Tolland her quick thinking led to their safety, and the death of one of her enemies.

Michael Tolland is depressed. At one time he was married, but his wife died of cancer and before she died she told him to find another lover, but he said that he would never be able to. Ever since his wife’s death he never dated and worked instead of going out. Michael is also smart. He has his own ocean show, all about animals that live in the sea. He researches them and then films episodes for his fans. He is nice. Michael Tolland has really good manners. When he was introduced to Rachel he complemented her and shook her hand. And he was always nice to everyone he met.

Breaking Dawn Book Report

I read Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. It’s the fourth book in the Twilight saga. Bella is married to Edward Cullen and so now she is a Cullen too. I think that the main character Bella is kind of dumb. She is always trying to protect people who don’t need her protection when she should be trying to protect herself. she always wants things that she can’t have or that she shouldn’t have.  I think that Bella is also very nice. She is always kind to the people she knows and she tries not to hurt the people that she cares for. She is very stuborn. When she was pregrant with her baby everyone was trying to get her to let them take it out of her so it couldn’t kill her, but she wouldn’t let them because she loved the thing inside of her. She was strong willed too. When Jacob came to the Cullen’s house to visit her she tried to act like she was okay and that she was strong even when she was very fragile and sickly. She is also determined. When she set her mind on something nothing the other people could do would stop her. Bella is very self consious. She is always trying to please other people. She thinks that if they are happy with how she looks than she can be happy with how she looks. When somebody looked at her for to long she would think that something was wrong with her, even if nothing really was wrong with her. She is very loving. She really loves her husband and her family a lot. When she held her baby for the first time nothing else mattered to her. It was just her and her baby. Bella is also persistant. When she wanted something that she didn’t have there was not much anybody could do that would stop her from getting the thing that she wanted. She would keep on bugging or begging people to give her what she wanted untill they would give it to her. Bella is really passionate. If she likes something or someone than she will stick up for them and help incourage them. Bella can be anoying. Sometimes she getts on peoples nerves when she acts like she is okay when she’s not.

One conflict in the book is Bella wanting Edward to “change her” into a vampire, but Edward not wanting to. Edward doesn’t want to end Bella’s life but Bella wants to be a vampire so that she can live forever with Edward. Bella is always hinting that he should change her through out the story and he is always avoids the question or says no. when Bella gives birth to her baby she is on the verge of death and Edward doesn’t want her to die, so he changes her into a vampire.   

Another conflict in the book is Bella wanting to keep her child even though it is killing her when almost all of the others want her to let them take it out of her. Bella wants to have the baby because she pictures a miniature Edward in her mind and she thinks that it would be good for them. Edward wants her to get rid of the baby so that it can not kill her. After a few days Bella stated to grow weaker and get sicker and that just strengthened Edward’s dislike to the “creature” that was inside of Bella. In the end Bella gets her way, but she ends up getting a little baby girl.

A third conflict is Bella wanting Jacob in her life. Bella was in love with jacob for a while, but it wasn’t  love love, it was the love someone has for a brother. She doesn’t want him to leave her life but having him stick around is making him want to leave. When Bella has her baby the urge for Jacob to stay near seems to have left her. She doesn’t seem to need him anymore. But she finds out later that he has fallen in love with her daughter. And eventually he will be her son-in-law.

Another conflict in the book is Charlie. Charlie is Bella’s dad. Bella has wanted him in her life but it would be impossible because he can’t find out about vampires. Jacob comes up with a plan and in the end the find a way that allows Charlie into their lives and he still doesn’t know that they are vampires. But he still gets to see Bella and her daughter and visits regularly.

I really liked this book and I would highly recommend it.

The Lovely Bones (book report)

I read the Lovely Bones. It is about a girl named Susie Salmon. She was very curious. In the book she was very interested in the way that her teacher had built the secret underground room.  She was very curious when she was at school one day and Ray tells her to come up into the rafters of the school auditorium and skip homeroom with him. Susie was very caring. When she is up in heaven she is constantly worrying about her family and friends. She wishes that she could come down from her heaven and comfort them and tell them it’s alright. When her father talks to her murderer in his back yard and helps him to put up his bridal tent she tries to will him to realize the danger that he’s in and give him a warning not to mess with him. While she is in heaven all she does is watch her family, her friends, and her killer. She wants to be sure that they are alright, except for her murderer, she still wants revenge for him killing her. She likes to see how their lives play out and when they get into tuff spots she tries as hard as she can to help them and make things alright. Susie is also very considerate of others. When she is still alive she was always worrying that she wouldn’t be a good enough kisser. She was deeply in love with a boy named Ray and she was waiting for a kiss from him, but she never thought that she would be a good enough kisser for him. I think that Susie was a deep thinker. She talks about how her mother was like a different person without all her make-up on. Susie was also not judgmental. When she was younger she would look at her mom sitting on their porch, and would stare into her eyes, and see what her dad meant when he called her ocean eyes. Her eyes were very blue, and they seemed to swallow everything up. Susie is very responsible. When she was younger she would help her dad make ships in a bottle. She would hold the bottle small glass bottle while her father pulled the string that raised the masts and burn the string.

 I liked the Lovely Bones because it is written in a way so that when you read it the words just seem to flow off of the pages. Another reason why I like it is because the story is very well written. The author used a lot of details and describes the things around her very well. The Lovely Bones had some “edge of your seat” suspense, and some romance, and a little bit of horror at the beginning of the book when she is murdered. I would recommend this book to anybody who likes suspense books or science fiction stories. This book has a lot of flash backs in it that tell the story of how Susie came to be what she was. My favorite part of the story would probably be when she was describing how her mother looks before she puts on her makeup and drinks her coffee. The author uses very good descriptive words and uses similes to describe how her mom’s eyes seem to be like giant blue endless oceans, pulling you in and drowning you in there dept. Another part I liked was a suspenseful moment. Her sister is trying to break into her murderer’s house to find proof that he really did murder Susie and to prove to her dad that his assumption was right. The whole time she is in the house he is moments away, driving home, when she starts to check the rooms she hears a car door slam. That is when she knows, deep down in her soul that this man killed her sister, and she has to get out with proof before she is next. I liked this part because it made me think about how I would feel in her situation, trying to find evidence that someone killed my sister would be terrible. I would have the guts to break into somebody’s house, even if I suspected them of murder, it would only make me stay away from them and their house even more. That part of the book inspired me. I felt how much responsibility was on her shoulders and how badly she needed to know for her father as much as for herself, that her sister’s murderer be brought to justice. I would not recommend this book to the faint of heart or anybody who is easily spooked, if you read The Lovely Bones it may scare you a little. But even though some parts were gross, and some were just nasty, I still liked this book.

The Threat (my choice book reprt)

The main character in my book was Jake. He is the leader of the Animorphs, a group of humans, an alien, and a hawk boy. Jake understands the other Anmorph's strengths and their weaknesses. He is kind because he always looks at how his choices affect the rest of the group and he feels that if somebody gets hurt that it is his fault. If things work out for them then he compliments the other Animorphs on a job well done and if they fail or screw up he takes the blame, even if it wasn’t his fault. When he is scared he doesn’t show it he keeps it to himself so that the others will feel safer.  Another thing Jake is thoughtful, he looks at the situation from all angles before rushing into things, he looks  at all of the possible outcomes and goes through all of his strategies so that he has the best chance of surviving and the least chance of dying while still doing damage to the bad guys.  When the have to make big decisions he states the possible outcomes and then he asks the Animorphs what they think and then they vote. If somebody doesn’t want to go on one of the “missions” then they can skip it, and he wouldn’t make you feel bad. When they were in a fight he helps them to think of a way to out-smart their opponents and he warns them to be careful when they get cocky. He always has the other Animorphs backs. Jake is also considerate,  he thinks about how badly they need to do something, if it isn’t a have to do thing then he makes it a side job, first priority is almost always the dangerous missions to Jake. When their lives are most at stake he asks everybody several time are they sure that they want to do it. They then come up with several plans in case something happens to any of the other Animorphs.  He always makes sure that they have the right “morphs” to turn into and that they are capable of what they intend to do and that they are strong enough to survive being shot at and attacked.  Jake is also understanding, he knows when you have to stay home you have to and that sometimes certain people just can’t  handle it at the time and need a break, he is fine with that. Those are some of the major characteristics of Jake in my story hope you liked it.

    Even though the series is written in several different characters point of view, I think that this story was written in Jake’s point of view because it is more meaningful in his perspective. A good example is when Jake has to decide what they are going to do to stop the “bad guys” (yeerks) from taking over the human race as their slaves, literally. He is thinking to himself a lot then, and if it was in a different characters point of view we would know what he was thinking in his head.  One other thing is that it makes the book more interesting when it is written from Jake’s perspective instead of the others, because he makes all of the decisions in this story. In the book Jake’s choices are affected by the things that he already knows and how he feels about others and how to handle people.  If it was written in one of the other characters point of view the story would have been different, because, every character has their own thoughts on a subject and they all do things in a different way.  If the book was written from Marco’s point of view there would be different “thoughts” in the book. Like how he thought they should handle things and the little comments he thinks of that he doesn’t always keep to himself would probably affect how he thinks of others.  If the book was written by David’s point of view it would be drastically different because he is trying to kill all of the other Animorphs. He wants to be the only one to be able to morph into other animals and he wants the “blue box” that allows you to morph once you touch it. He would have been scheming and plotting how to take them all out, how to attack, when to strike a blow, who to take out first, and where to hide, so the story would then be way different.  One intriguing point of view that came from the book being in Jake’s point of view is that he knew how to “use” every one of the Animorphs and how to plan a way to get David before David got them.  Jake had all sorts of ideas going through his head. He only had a little time to do what he wanted to do and he thought of the quickest and fastest way to destroy David.


    And that is my book report for the story The Threat.

Bailey (Memoir #2)

      One bright, warm, and breezy day when I was  two feet tall and still growing, my Mom and my Dad decided to buy a dog. We all drove in our little Dodge Grand Caravan down to the humain society to pick out a furry, friendly, little companion. We looked at different dogs for almost half an hour until we saw one lonely, short, cute, brown, black, and white little beagle, Bailey. We desided to buy Bailey and we took her home that very afternoon. When we got home the first thing we did was put on her shiny new red leash and collar and took her for a walk around our neighborhood, I was just giddy with glee from the thought that this dog was MY dog.

   
One day my Mom maid some Red Barren pizzas, a three meat and a pepperoini. After they were done baking she left them out to cool on top of our stove. When we waltzed into the house again the first thing that we saw was sauce, lots and lots of sauce, and when we looked at the stove-top we were very shocked. The three meat pizza was gone, well... atleast all of the stuff that was surposed to be on the crust was gone. we walked in closer and saw that there was evidence of who devowared the pizza and left a huge mess all over the kitchen, on the pizza there was a lone paw print. As soon as we reallized it was Bailey that did this we looked at the place where our three foot tall gate was surposed to be lodged between two of our hallway's walls, it ws lieying on the floor. and then we searched, the house following the trail of pizza sauce paw prints over linolium and on now stained carpet until... we found our culprit. In the middle of our newly carpeted living room crouching down, and depositing the evidence of the left over pizza onto our snowy white fuzzy carpet. We just stared and stared, at her fur, stained an eerie orangie read, her paws, crimsom crust hardening between her toes, and her muzzel, caked with the juices of her treat and then she yawned. Her mouth was gaping open, and we could see the tiny torn-up chuncks of half chewed sausage and the thin strings of peperoni still stuck between her teeth. A few weeks later a got a red rash on my nose my Mom and Dad said that I must be allergic to dogs. And that was the end of Bailey, that weekend we sold her to two teens and I never saw her again.


     I am not allergic to dogs.

Powder Ridge

When I was 11 all of the 6th graders went to Powder Ridge to go skiing for a day. I have never skied before then so I went with the group of students who were learning how to ski. The teacher was soooo slow that it took her over an hour, I wanted to just skip and go on the ski lift.


When I got done with the ski class the first thing I did was ski over to the lift and got a ride to the to of the hills. When I got to the top I was amazed with the view from the top of the hill, I could see a ton of tiny houses in the distance, and they looked like they were tiny little toys!  When I looked back at all of the hills it was like they grew from the time I had gotten off of the ski lift!  I was so nervous that I made a friend go down the Out Back with me, after that all day I was skiing on the hills like a pro, I think.



When I started to get hungry I went on one last hill and then took off my skis and went inside the building to eat my lunch. After I ate my lunch I chatted with some of my friends as we warmed up and we walked around inside the building for a while. After I was warmed up I got the urge to go skiing again. I sad see ya later to my friends and grabbed my skis, and got on the ski lift. As I was on my way up to the top of the hill the teachers announced that it was 15 minutes tell me were leaving, that meant that this was my last ride. About half way to the top of the hill the ski lift stopped, and stayed there, and I waited, and waited, and waited, it took like 8 minutes! When it finally got moving again I was totally sicked to got on the hill, on my last ride down i went on the hill right next to gunpowder and leaned forward, for speed. The wind whipped my face and plastered my hair to my face as I rocketed down the hill, it was the steepest one, and at the last second I slowed down, and slid to a stop at the bottom of the hill.



That's my favorite memory from Westwood when I was in 6th grade.

     I have three brothers, Nathan 11, Brandon 9, and Aaron 5, and a sister, Carrie 6.  I have one fish and a hamster and two chinchillas (see picture below)  They all go to Westwood Elementary School. My mom babysits our neighbors little 2 year old girl Sophia and my dad has a job at Heartland Glass as an accountant.

that's my family.