2017-2018 Grade 12C1 Waltham Hawks Read

Yovensy Destine                  Title of the book: Architecture By: Nicole Bridge      During the beginning of the school year, my teacher wanted each person in our class to look for a book that was interesting to us and something that we could write about. I chose a book about architecture ironically called Architecture by Nicole Bridge. The book is based on the history of engineering from the ancient days to our era. It reveals ideas and theories that many mathematicians until this day can't figure out the possibility of it actually occurring. This book is mind-capturing and an attention grabber. In the book, the author takes a brief look at ancient Egypt.The meaning of the Sphinx and the pyramid are fully explained in an interesting tone giving you a clear understanding of why such a historic artifact was built. Especially if you are someone that is really interested in history and math, with no...

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...

DONALD B. SHONEN JUMP By Takao Aoki Fighting for a cause It’s breathtaking how Takao Aoki combines each of his comic books and how each of those comics carries an incredible message that we can all understand. In his first comic book called DragonBall Z, Takao tells us about a dad(Goku) and one of his friends (Picollo) that fought together  against his evil brothers that tried to kidnapped his son to get him to join them and protect their pride and legacy and carry on the duty he was sent to earth to accomplish. He “refuses to affirm [his] Saiyan birth by joining [them]”(Aoki 9). However, Raddick said, “Surely you don’t imagine that even the two of you together can defeat me?” Then they end up fighting against each other. Takao Aoki’s message in this first chapter was to protect what is important to you and always fight for the right cause. I recommend that you read at least the first chapter of the book. Also, I did some research, and I found out that there are at ...

Emilio Zepeda Escobar Do Androids dream of electric sheep book review By Philip K Dick 10/30/17     What if you lived in a world where you couldn't tell the difference between man and machine, a world in which murder is acceptable as long as it’s a scrap of nuts and bolts well that's reality in the world of Do Androids dream of electric sheep by Writer and Philip K Dick, also the inspiration for the critically acclaimed 1982 cult classic Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford, published 1968 set in a post apocalyptic 2021. The novel revolves around the main protagonist Rick Deckard who’s main occupation is “retiring” or killing fugitive androids in other words he’s a bounty hunter. He works in a nuclear dust filled San Francisco devoid of life due to a global nuclear war all that remains are humans not wealthy or healthy enough to escape to mars and androids. Throughout the novel Rick Deckard will have to confront situations that will break him physically and punish h...

Reality Boy October 22, 2013 Raul Arenales Reality Boy review c hapter 1-24 By A.S. King This is Gerald, a spoiled boy raised in a disastrous family. Gerald was on two episodes of a nanny reality show when he was six. He owes his fame to his bad temper, so much that they called him "The Crapper". Gerald works in a local arena center where there is a girl that he likes. His sister Tasha manipulates their entire family against Gerald, she tries to hurt Gerald a lot of times and blames him for all her issues. His mom places him into special education classes at school, she also makes fun of him when he mentions that he wants to go to college. No one cares that he is trying to learn to control himself, and that's why he loses his self-control. I choose this book because is an interesting book based on the life of a young guy trapped in his problems and also is very entertaining to read. I think that is a good book to read because young people ca...

Johnathan Hill Black Hole Sun review chapters 1-12 By: David Macinnis Gill Do you know why they call Mars the “Red Planet”? It’s not because of the rust colored rocks on its surface, no, it’s because of the trigger happy, gritty mercenaries that roam the cities and carry out any job if you’re willing to pay them. Durango is one of these mercenaries, a “dalit” as the people on Mars call them, masterless, outcasted regulators. Along with his A.I implant Mimi and his partner Vienne, they take up dirty deeds for dirt cheap to pay for meals. A mission to rescue two children from a man named Postole, who took them hostage. After Durango and Vienne arrive, Postole escapes with the ransom, but Durango and Vienne are able to save the two children who are from a wealthy family. Later on in the book, the boy who they saved approaches Durango outside of a pub and offers him money to train him on how to be a regulator like him, but Durango declines his offer as trouble stirs u...

The Killer Whisper Kimberlyn Juncos You know what you have to do By Bonnie Shimko Have you ever had sinful thoughts? Thoughts that you cannot control which give you a sudden urge to commit crimes? These are the thoughts Mary-Magdalene Feigenbaum has to deal with ever so often. Mary-Magdalene Feigenbaum: a tall, skinny, strawberry-blonde haired girl with glasses who attends Allenburg High School. The novel starts off with Mary-Magdalene explaining the reason for her existence in this world. Her mother has a bit of reputation. Let’s just say that back in her mother’s time of high school, she pretty much slept with anyone who ever smiled at her. Mary-Magdalene describes herself as the child who should have never been born. Her mother got pregnant in high school and ended up marrying Harry Feigenbaum, an older man who Mary- Magdalene’s mother, Roxie, did not love at all but married just so she could feed her kid. Mary-Magdalene's biological father left her and her mother for ...