2017-2018 Grade 12C1 Waltham Hawks Read

The complicated life of Pudge Julianne Mola Looking for Alaska John Greene Miles, or also known as “Pudge” according to the Colonel, a boy he meets who gave Miles the name Pudge, is still trying to find where he fits in just like the most of us right now. He did not have a lot of friends at his old school and decided it was time to follow his father’s footsteps and go to a boarding school. After having a hard time moving in, Pudge meets a strange funny boy who is called “The Colonel”. The colonel, straight forward and sociable, was nothing like Pudge but  helped guide him through life at the boarding school. He taught Pudge about the people; “Basically you’ve got two groups here”...  “You’ve got the regular boarders like me and then you’ve got the weekday warriors...they’re all rich kids.” While Pudge was starting to get the hang of things and getting used to the new school, the Colonel introduces Pudge to a very pretty and interesting girl named Alaska. Alaska caught ...

I have read part of a very interesting and completely action-filled book, Somebody Up There Hates You .  It’s a book about a somewhat crazy person named Richard, who does a lot of active, devious stuff.  It’s a good book, full of action.  At the beginning, Richard and another character, Sylvia, get beaten up and put into a hospital center, after a Halloween incident in the hospital.  Naturally, Richard has his own nurse and his family.  The father of Sylvia has been driven seriously overprotective and crazy, by the incident.  Nobody else likes this, even Sylvia, herself.  He gets in two fights, during what I have read.  Richard’s uncle, Phil, treats Richard like a king, both literally and seemingly jokingly.  “King Richard”  Sentenced to terminal cancer, Richard wants to live hard and strong, during the portion of life that he has left, however long that is.  He really does this, quite well, given his condition.  His mom hat...

Needing Answers Lizzy Madden Frozen Charlotte By Alex Bell Have you had to endure the pain of losing your best friend? Sophie has, in a mysterious way. In the beginning of the book, Frozen Charlotte, Sophie and her best friend Jay download an Ouija board game on his phone. While playing the game they ask many questions, including some about Sophie’s dead cousin, Rebecca. Jay chooses to ask when he’s going to die and the game spells out “t-o-n-i-g-h-t”. Both kids don’t believe it and they go about their night. Oddly enough, Jay ends up dying on his way home and Sophie believes it has something to do with the Ouija board and Rebecca. Sophie is extremely heartbroken and sad over the loss of Jay, so she is going to do everything and anything to find out what happened to him and get to the bottom of the mystery.     Sophie visits her aunt, uncle and cousins to see if she can find out what's going on with Rebecca and if she can get any hints as to why her best friend mysteri...

TWELVE AND IRISH Ronald Lutwama “Artemis Fowl” By Eoin Colfer Gripping doesn’t even begin to describe Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl. The book fires up the intrigue within you from the first page well into the latter chapters of the story. Following the story of fictional 12-year old character Artemis Fowl II, the author oscillates between past and present efficiently to create the characters on the go while sowing the seeds for the plot to develop. Fowl II is an only child who’s inherited the riches of his gone missing father and is in essence running an international underworld empire. His right hand and bodyguard, Butler, is with Artemis as often as possible, as one would expect of a bodyguard, so much that they have established a father-son like relationship over the years. Not entirely however as “the large Eurasian man [would] refer to the boy as sir”(Colfer 4). “The Book” is the boy’s purpose and he goes to show great amounts of determination and aggression (with Butler’s ...

Joseline Student Sold By: Patricia McCormick Have you ever had a huge reality check? Or learned something the hard way? This book all starts pretty normal considering what a poor family goes through. Once you get past it, it gets so sad you just have to read it until the ending. Lakshmi, who is thirteen years old, lives in a village in Nepal to where she struggles to make a living with her family each day. That all ends when her father sends her to work to receive a huge amount of money in India to which she thought she was going to be a maid but instead as a prostitute. "Finally, we turn down an alley and arrive in front of a mental gate held fast with a heavy chain. Uncle takes a key from his vest, opens the lock, and hurries me inside" (90). I personally found this book eye-opening because most people don't realize what they have and to also be thankful for simple things you already have that can be taken for granted. “Then it stops. The red cloth...

Zaine Casimir Catalyst By Laurie Halse Anderson Sometimes people think there’s a certain point in life we should all be matured and think on another level.  Some mature faster than most and others it takes them as long as them being their 30’s. Age does not justify your maturity.    For senior in high school, Kate probably appeared more mature than most kids in her grade. Kate portrays herself as the good Kate and bad Kate. On the outside she’s the loving Kate, "isn't she sweet, she helps so much.."(3)  The outside Kate is the one that everyone sees and the one that helps everyone out and cares about others feelings gets good grades in school and is the perfect daughter. The inner her is the bad Kate "daughter of no one" (3). The inner her is a bitch, stuck up, disrespectful, and thinks highly of herself. Kate is basically the mom figure in her family. She lost her mom in the fourth grade.  She takes care of her brother and does his chores and gives him th...