Deven

**Books I've Read:** __ **Savvy** __ **, Ingrid Law** http://amzn.to/KchTpk

**Story of me reading:** I couldn't put it down and I read over the assigned pages several times. __Hunger Games,__ Suzzane Collins.
 * Character:**The protagonist in the book is a 12 year old girl named Mississippi Beaumont who turns 13 soon in the book.
 * Summary:** Mississippi (Nicknamed Mibs) gets her savvy at the age of 13, like all Beaumonts. When she hears that her father is in trouble, she flees from her birthday party with a couple of friends to go save her dad. During the long bus ride Mibs meets new friends, learns her savvy, and gets involved with a thing called love.
 * Rating:** I give the book a 5 star out of 5 stars. Easy to get into and understand but somehow challenging.

__ **Leepike Ridge,** __ **N.D. Wilson** http://amzn.to/IcP9wE **Story of me reading:** | was starting to get into it at the 4th chapter and it wasn't grabbing me like it should have.


 * Character:**The protagonist in the book is an 11 year old named Thomas Hammond who is living with his mom. He seems like he would never quit.


 * Summary:**11 year old Thomas Hammond was playing in a river when all of a sudden he gets sucked down underground. Inside he finds a corpse, a dog, a flashlight, a castaway, crawdads, 4 graves, a tomb and buried treasure. Do you think Thomas can make it back out alive?
 * Rating:** I give the book a 3 star out of 5 stars. Was hard to get into and I couldn't stick with it.

__Hunger Games,__ Suzzane Collins. http://amzn.to/yVHFHg **Summary:** In the distant future, where a single district rules all of Panem, a girl named Katniss Everdeen lives her life. Every year the hunger games are held. 24 tributes, 2 from each of 12 districts, are put in an arena to fight. The last one alive is the winner and his or her district is rewarded. When Katniss's daughter, Prim, is selected to become a tribute, Katniss volunteers to become a tribute. Will Katniss survive? **Connections** **Text-to-self:** I have a younger sibling as well. **Text-to-Text:** I read a book about the future.**Text-to-World:** I saw a prediction of the future once. **Questions I still have:** I wonder what happens in the second book.**How I saw this character:** I saw Katniss as a distressed girl who hides pain and misfortune behind her eyes. A skilled hunter and planner. I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars. --  **__Eragon __, Chritopher Paolini** http://amzn.to/ttJZ5u

__Flush__, by Carl Hiaasen
 * Summary:** A regular boy named Eragon finds a blue stone. It soon later becomes his very own dragon, who's name is Saphira. Now they must journey to Farthen Du to find the dwarves. With the help from a storyteller, an elf, and an old friend, they make the long journey. Then they face a hole army of vicious Urgals. **Connections:** **Text-to-Self:** I don't have any connections with this book **Text-to-Text:** It reminds me of a movie I watched that has a character named Eragon **Text-to-World:** It reminds me when I read an article about some guy going crazy because he thought he saw a dragon **Questions I still have:** I don't have any other questions. **How I saw this character:** I saw Saphira as a kind and brave spirit that wanted to be with a friend. I rate this 5 stars.


 * Summary: ** When Noah's dad, Paine Underwood, finds out that Dusty Muleman is illegally dumping sewage water into the ocean, Paine sinks the ship, which is the //Coral Queen.// Now that he is in jail, it is up to Noah, his little sister Abbey, and there friends to prove to everyone that Dusty Muleman is a criminal.
 * Connections: **
 * Text to self: ** This reminds me of when I had to prove to my parents that my brother was the one who kept messing up my room, not me.
 * Text to world: ** This doesn't remind of anything in the world.
 * Text to text: ** This reminds me of when these people were dumping trash into a lake in a nature reserve.

**I give this a** // **Son of Neptune, ** // **by Rick Riordan**
 * Questions I still have: ** I don't have any questions.

http://amzn.to/rBH4Fc **Summary:** The book is about a 16 year old named Percy Jackson who suffers amnesia. With the help of his new friends, he sets out on an thrilling quest to free Death itself and defeat the mighty giant, Alcynoeus. When they return to their roman camp, they find that it is under attack led by another giant, Polybotes.
 * Connections:**
 * Text-to-self: This reminds me of when I tried to beat a giant in a video game. **
 * Text-to-world: I remember seeing a movie called //The Lightning Thief// and it is about greek mythology. **
 * Text-to-text: This is like a book called //The Lost Hero.// **
 * Questions I still have:**

**I wonder why Rick Riordan ended the book with Percy gaining his memory.** **I rate this book 10 stars. **
 * Important or new vocabulary: God, goddess, giant, Gaea. **
 * How I saw this character: How I saw Percy was a brave, heroic, caring, strong, handsome boy. **

Hi Deven, this is Ben. I agree that this is such a great book! I rate this book 12 stars! I read this book about a month ago. When I finished this book I just wanted to keep reading his books. The next book I read when I finished this was the 11th book in the 39 Clues. I can't wait for the third book in this series and in the Red Pyramid series to come out. ~Ben Hey Ben, this is Deven. I went on wikipedia and found out that the next book is called __The Mark of Athena.__ ~Deven

Yeah i know I bet it is about Annabeth. ~Ben Kempers _