Gym Candy

As the main character, Mick, just finished his summer vacation of taking steroids and shooting up. He got a lot stronger for the first day of tryouts. He made the First string and as i finished reading they are getting ready for the home opener. Mick finished the gym candy because of the season starting. I think he shouldn't take more during the season because as he came in to practice after the summer he had really improved on his game. He is 200 pounds and runs 40 yards in 4.5 seconds. They had to double check that time as they mad him do it again.


I think steroid will always be a problem for him because of the temptation of doing it again. As his reps increase by 1-5 each time he is still getting results. I think the trainer, Peter, who got Mick started on steroids. Will get him back on  them as he decreases over time in the season.


Th conflict in the book has been the motivation to be a great football player. I think he will succeed if he doesn't do gym candy again. So far the book is really good and is just about a kid who wants to be like his dad as he follows his dreams. The dad was a running back and was a star in college but never succeed in the NFL. Mick will try to be like his dad but will never do it if he keeps doing steroids.


That is just what I think

Lucas:End

I just finished the book and it was great. I hope I don't spoil it for anyone but why would he kill himself. If there was going to be another book i would read it because there are a lot of untold questions. I recommend this to everyone, even though it is kind of sad. If there would be another book i think when Lucas jumps off the cliff he wouldn't die and just be swimming away. 

Lucus: New Book (Character Study)

I just started this book and so far the main character, Cait has a weird family. The father is an alcoholic and the brother is strange. The Dad writes books and the brother, Dominic, just came back from the university in Liver pool. They live in England, on an island connected to the main land by a land bridge. It is only called a land bridge because the tide if it is high, can cover the bridge.

As they were in the car coming back from the train station picking up Dom. Cait saw a man walking across the bridge going to the island. I think the man is going to be important because for the rest of the chapter Cait keeps and thinking about him. Also I think The man is going to be Lucas. This is because it foreshadows saying that I can't forget the day I saw him on the land bridge. I think in the near future of the book, Cait will meet him and get to know him.


I think lastly that Cait will go back to this part in the book a lot when the time in the book comes to met Lucas

Break HW: Post by Josephine Z 803

I read Josephine Z's post on Hatchet by Gary Paulson. She has a lot of good ideas about the book but it sounds like she just started it. I read Hatchet and really liked it, so I choose this blog post by Josephine because of the book, Hatchet.

As I read Josephine’s blog I realized things that I didn't realize in 6th grade, which is when I read the book. First, the author's intrusions (viewpoints) are found throughout the book. I didn't know about “intrusions” in 6th grade so I can't say I noticed them. As I read Josephine’s blog post it made me want to re-read parts of the book. So I did. I read the first few chapters which is what she was talking about and now I can agree to what she blogged about, the idea of action being different than thoughts. Especially when Brian thought he was going to die, but he landed the plane successfully.

I also agree with Josephine when she said that Brian was blaming his parents for where he is now. I agree with this because Brian always goes back to the divorce and uses it as an excuse whenever something goes wrong. When the divorce happened between his father and mother he couldn't trust either one of them, he felt vulnerable. Now in the forest, Brian has nowhere to go so he feels vulnerable too.

Josephine’s blog was long and detailed but it wasn’t finished. The blog stops mid way and she doesn’t finish her thoughts. I was reading it and her ideas were there, but she “fell off the cliff” when the last word was 'because'. She didn't state her reasoning. I would really like to hear/read what she had to say about the plane landing.

The only really bad part about the blog was the font. I could barely read it and had to copy and paste it in to word to read it. Other wise the bog was long and she has really good ideas about the book and I will be looking to read what she posts about the book next!!

Fat Kid Rules the World

The story is about how friends start a band and the journey of the friends through life and hard times. The part I am up to is when the two friends, Curt and Troy, are going to have their first gig. The main character, Troy, is really nervous about the gig because he can’t play the drums and has to keep up with a really fast guitarist in Curt. I think the 2 characters have a complicated relationship because at one point they could be really close and joking, but when they play music, Curt is really serious. The 2 sides of Curt is a big part in the story. Troy sometimes feels friends with Curt, but not so much other times. This affects their relationship between them because Troy doesn’t always trust Curt. In the band they practice almost everyday. This brings them together. As Troy is supposed to be the best drumist, he can’t keep up with Curt. So far I think this story is really good and I can’t wait to finish it. I hope that Troy doesn’t mess up at the gig.

Old Topics: Social action lens at book The DoomsDay Box by herbie brennan

This book is about a team of kid agents that go back in time to stop a disease from spreading. they have to go back to the U.S.S.R. They have to find a undercover agent, that is working in the KGB and saves them from torment. The undercover agent is trying to stop thew Cuban Missile Crisis. They kids that g back in time know that the Crisis doesn't happen so he tells them that he wont do the thing. Agent cobra saves them from the KGB, that took them off the streets in Russia. While the agent was under cover he saved them destroyed there arrest papers and brought them to his apartment. 


I said this is a social action post because, the book shows us the the police, the KGB, runs the country and not the government. i think this because the government wouldn't take kids off the street just because they were time travelers. how did the KGB even know this? I think the have secret files and have people all over the world. As i finished reading, Agent cobra assumes that the person that sent them on this mission was a KGB  member working undercover.


After all I like this book and would recommend it to anyone who would read it. it has a lot of action and weirdness and would have to read the first book in the series to understand it, but it is still one of my favorite books.

Spanking Shakespeare

I just ended amazing book. The book was about a high school senior and about what he did leading up to graduation and the things he wrote, he is a really good writer. The main character is a senior who goes through high school with friends that are really strange. His family consists of an alcoholic dad, a more popular little brother, and a mother that is a guidance councilor He is friends with Katie, Neil, and over time becomes friends with Charlotte, his girl friend in the end of the book. I am going to talk about how he gets by with the friends and family he has.

His mom and dad are completely different. The dad is an alcoholic that takes everything not seriously abut school. The mom is crazy about school and doesn’t want any joking around. The mom is a guidance councilor at a different high school and as Shakespeare is looking at colleges, the mom is more serious than ever. Shakespeare applies to a lot of colleges. He doesn’t get in to a lot of them mostly his back up schools. The parents make this a strange story because they have their twist on things and do unexpected things that I wouldn’t think parents should do. They allow the kids to smoke, only after caught though. The said that you can experiment but it has to be in the house because weed is illegal.

His brother, Gandhi, is a popular kid at school, even being a sophomore. The two brothers go to the same school. Gandhi has a girl friend that is close to the family and comes over a lot for dinner. Shakespeare always complains to his friends that his brother hangs out with people in their grade and how he gets more girls than him. Near the end of the book they get closer because of smoking, Shakespeare tells his parents at a dinner with their aunt while he is acting strange, “I’m high out of my mind right now.” He gets Gandhi's respect for doing that.

Neil and Katie, his oldest friends in high school are boyfriend and girl friend over time. They are both totally different though. Katie drinks a lot and Neil talks about bowel movements. Both of them are strange but can be very good friends at times.

Charlotte is a shy girl and isn’t at school a lot because she has to take care of her family. Her brother is a hassle to be with and needs a lot of attention. Her dad has been n and off of jobs because of his addictions. So she has to care for her family.

In conclusion this book is written by its characters and what they bring to the story. i don't think the story would be very exiting without the weird characters and changes of story lines.