Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Ben Pike For the first time in history, two children have won the inhumane Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen. And even more less likely, both champions were tributes from District 12, the poor, coal mining area. Suzanne Collins has created yet another exciting masterpiece in the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy called Catching Fire. Katniss has
Read more“What followed was years of tears. A whole lifetime. That war will not be over until I take my last breath.” Hidden Like Anne Frank is an non-fiction book written by different survivors that went into hiding during WWII and the editors are Marcel Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis. It takes place in the Netherlands where an impressive amount of
Read moreAlex Shub “He was alone. In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone.” Hatchet is an engrossing realistic fiction novel written by Gary Paulsen. The story focuses on thirteen year old Brian Robeson, a son of divorced parents. As he travels from New York on a bush plane to see his father in the Canadian oil fields, his
Read moreBen Pike “Let the seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!” Only one may survive this ultimate battle. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games thrilled me with its suspense and adventure. The story is set in the dystopian far future in North America, all that lies in the ruins of the past is Panem, a country with a Capitol and twelve districts. The Capitol
Read more“The mechanized world had died. earthquakes and tsunamis had obliterated coasts, and plague had consumed billions.” Rick Yancey’s book The Infinite Sea was a nail biting story of the apocalypse. Cassie and Sam have been running from the others since Evan Walker infiltrated and blew up an alien military installation called Camp Haven. When they left the military installation they
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Crack. The eighty-five foot long whale slammed its head into the front of the ship, forming a gaping hole. In The Heart of The Sea, written by Nathaniel Philbrick, perfectly recounts the chilling story of the sinking of the Whaleship Essex. This true tale of death, fear, and survival is a truly exciting read. In The Heart of The Sea
Read moreKatherine Gardner The Chrysalids John Wyndham Review Set millennia after a nuclear holocaust, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a fascinating novel about a highly religious communities’ attempt to prevent mutation and evolution from occurring while struggling against a type of mutation they cannot detect. Their beliefs are based off of the Old Testament and a novel called Nicholases Repentances.
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A loud rumbling came from the sky, then, a giant barge flies in from over the mountains. A large crowd of villagers gather on the field where the barge seems to be landing. They all are feeling excited and hope this is some kind of good news. Mark and his friends Lana, Trina, Alec and Darnell wait with the rest
Read moreRussel Susskit can’t bear living in the horrid conditions that surround him, and while drowning himself in misery; he travels on a journey that will change his life forever. He is disgusted about almost everything in his little Eskimo village. He hates his father’s awful coughing, and the snowmobiles the Eskimo’s use for hunting. Russel feels that the snowmobiles violate
Read moreJames Dashner’s The Eye of Minds is an action thriller with Michael, Bryson and Sarah, the main characters, hacking their way through the VirtNet. VirtNet is a game where everything appears the same as the real world. It also is a system where gamers can feel, think, eat, drink, and interact with friends/Virtfriends, and even die if their core is
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