Witness

The book Witness doesn't have one main character is has four. One farmer, two students, and one eighteen-year-old. Yes the characters change and grow through out the book. They learn that the KKK is bad and not right for their town. The internal conflict is everyone trying to get along and be happy. The external conflict is the KKK going around town threatening and hurting people.I haven't read any other book like this so I guess you could compare this book to any other book that takes place during this time. You could also compare this book to a book written about the civil rights movement.

Graceling

Graceling is book about a girl named Kasta and a boy named Po. Both characters are graced. Po is graced with mind reading and sensing other things and movements around him. Kasta is graced with fighting and survival. Kasta works for King Randa and his court to torture and kill enemies. One day she decides not to torture an innocent lord. When the king finds out he orders her to be put in the dungeon but she refuses to go to the dungeon and she runs away. While looking for the man who kidnapped Po’s grandfather, they figure out its King Leck. King Leck is also graced but he manipulates people. They find this out when King Leck kills his wife, and Po’s aunt, Aspen. They figure that out so they go rescue Bitterblue the princess and Po gets hurt so they have to leave him behind. They cross through a mountain range that only few have crossed but she does it with the princess and they go back to Po’s home land. When they get to his castle they find King Leck and she kills him. They go back, find Po, and live happily ever after.

Speak: By Laurie Halse Anderson

Melinda Sordino is in the 9th grade with zero friends. She called the police at a end of the year party after a senior boy tried to hurt her, and everyone hated her. She has become a outcast. She needs someone to talk to but she has become very depressed and can't talk. She hates school and begins to skip it. Melinda's parents get her a counselor, and it gets worse. She needs to speak!

Melinda went from: I might talk, to I will never talk! She changes quickly. She wanted to have the best high school years ever now she will have three more years of torture.

The book Speak is a unique book about a girl who needs to talk. It has some fast paced and some slow moving parts to the book.

Melinda has a lot of problems she needs to pick up her grades, and she needs to talk to someone who will help fix her problem of everyone hating her. Who will that person be?

The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins

The games have started, and many have died, but not Katniss Everdeen.  She is barely surviving on roots, raw fish and water.   Soon after becoming allies with a girl named Rue, a boy from district one comes and kills her.  Now she is all alone again until she finds Peeta the boy tribute from her district, he is hurt, sick and hiding in a cave. She cleans up his wounds and finds a huge gash on his leg it hasn’t gotten any better for days. The Gamemakers are changing the rules to: if both tributes from one district are still alive at the end, they win.  Of course Katniss wants to win with only five kids left. Will she win?

Katniss was horrified before the games had started and now she is a confident, brave girl who is willing to give everything to win. Including her hearing, she tried to steal food from the careers, and bombs went off which made her deaf in one ear.  She realizes this is her life and she isn’t going to die in the arena. She is going to win.

The Hunger Games is a very unique book. There is no magic, vampires or Greek Gods. But this book has the amount of action as The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. They are book two exciting cliffhanger books. You never know what will happen next!

Katniss as come across some internal conflicts like: Will she die today? Is Peeta going to survive? Do they have enough food? Are her sister and mom okay? Can she win?  She has little external conflict: Does Peeta really love her or is it an act? Should she play along with the lovebird story?


By Sarah Heffner

Graceling

Katsa Is a characters that changes a lot over the course of the book. She is a ruthless killer and she changes to someone who does not like to kill. Why she changes over the course is because of the conflicts out side and inside her head. what really convinces her to change is a poor lord who is kind to his people and family but did not pay up so the king has her torture him except she decides not to.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (end of part 2)

Right now there are 6 tributes left on the Hunger Games, the 18 others have died. Rue just died and it was very sad. So far there are only 2 career tributes left and they really want to kill Katniss. Katniss just blew up the career's food source and the careers are after her. All Katniss is trying to do is survive.

Katniss is the main character in the Hunger Games and she recently made an alliance with a tribute called Rue and two days later Rue died when they were blowing up the carers food. Katniss' life and strategy has changed drastically once Rue died. Rue, like all of the other tributes, had a big impact on the Hunger Games and Katniss.

I think it would be vary had to be in the Hunger Games because people would be trying to kill you every chance they get but also because you don't know who to trust and who not to trust. I think it is very hard for Katniss to trust people. That means that Rue must be very trustworthy for Katniss to trust her that much.

By: Landon Shelley

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

The other book I chose was Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. Airborn is a book about a boy named Matt Cruse he is a cabin boy on an airship named the Aurora. He is on this airship most of his life he sends all the money he gets to his mom and his two sisters. One night he was on night shift and he radios the captain. There was a big hot air balloon coming towards them. They tried to talk to the balloon but it wouldn't respond. They decided to land it on their ship. They had to get up there somehow. Matt decided to climb into the basket of the hot air balloon. When Matt reached the basket he found a old man, a very, very sick old man. A couple of days later Matt went to the Nurse where the old man was still very sick he asked Matt, "Did you see them?". Matt didn't know what he was talking about. But then later Matt meets a girl whose Grandfather was the Dying old man. They talk about the creatures he was asking about. Will Matt believe them or not like every one else?

By Ele McCarter