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Ender’s Game (Spoilers) Ender’s Game is a book about a boy named Ender which takes place in the future. The book is told in a third-person perspective and mainly focuses on Ender but the narrator also jumps to other places far away from Ender, such as his home. The book also makes the reading think about the plot by including parts of dialogue that never say who is talking and not giving away much detail. This feature made the book a page-turner by building suspense in a unique way. In the book, humans have discovered alien life through space travel. The aliens are not so nice and humans go to war with them. At the beginning of the book, the story goes into Ender's early life as a kid. From when he was born ender was already somewhat special as there was a two-child policy on Earth and his family already had a son and a daughter. The reason Ender was born was not because his parents were breaking the law but because his siblings had shown promise in the battle school (a school wher...

by evie      The cover of Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen Summary (no spoilers)                    Wild Bird is about a girl named Wren and her battle with drugs, friends, and school. Her parents have tried 'everything' to help her- therapists, counseling, behavior modification techniques, but none of it seems to work. It seems like they'd run out of options.  Until one morning, when Wren is woken up by a police officer and the rest of her family in her room. She then gets dragged out of her house  to Utah, in the middle of the desert.  This is a  'survivalist' camp, where she's stuck for eight weeks. Here, there are no parents, no phones, and no ways to escape.                 Will Wren be able to survive in the unforgiving desert? Will she be able to find water. or maybe find herself?? Read the book. It's in there.   My opinion ...

     Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Warning: Spoilers Synopsis: Unbroken is a nonfiction book that tells the story of a Japanese prisoner of war who is also an olympian. The book starts with the main character’s life growing up in Torrance California. The main character, Louis Zamperini, was a terribly behaved child when he was young, Louis would constantly steal things every day. During Louis’s teenage years he joined the track team at his school, although he was the slowest one on the team he kept practicing. Louis soon realized he loved the sport and he ran a lot that summer. Louis soon became the fastest one on his team.  At this point in the book, Louis is starting his running career and realizing how good of a runner he is. A little later in the book Louis qualifies for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which not only shows how fast a runner he was but even today, he remains the youngest American to qualif...

A Review of Echo by Pam  Muñoz  Ryan          Echo is a wonderfully complex book with four storylines that connect to each other in subtle but powerful ways, using the universal language of music to transcend distance and time. (spoilers ahead)          The book starts with a boy named  Otto and a story in a book he has. Otto is lost in the woods playing hide and seek, and reads the story. The story tells of three sisters who were cast away and raised by a witch, as their father, a king, wanted an heir to the throne. After the king died, they were searched for and found, but the witch cursed all of them with a spell that stopped time, trapping them. After finishing the book and noticing how late it was, he tries and fails to return home, and is instead saved by the three sisters. He carries their spirit in the harmonica and returns home half a day later, despite experiencing three in the forest. The prelude ends with ...

Review of Code Name Verity      After finishing Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, I wanted to throw the book against a wall. From the hilarious lines to the heartbreaking scenes, this book took you through an emotional rollercoaster. The novel is told through the different perspectives of two women during World War II in 1943. Both are  fighting for their lives against the Nazis, not knowing if each other are alive. Verity:      Verity, her code name, tells the story in the first half of the book. As a British prisoner, the Nazi gives her two choices -- tell the truth of her mission or be executed. Verity chooses the former, fighting for her life, as she “confesses” her work through writing. Through Verity’s words, we learn about the close friendship between her and a pilot, Maddie.  Kittyhawk:      Maddie, or her codename Kittyhawk, narrates the second part of the book. She is a pilot who, along with her passenger, Verity, ...