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Young Elliot and his younger sister Wendy are traveling with there Mom and Dad through the mountains on a vacation and are bored in the car and bugging one and other. Wendy and Elliot ask there parents if they could ride in the trailer instead of the car were they are making mom and dad mad from fighting so much. The parents don’t think there would be ant harm in letting them ride in the for a while so decide to stop and put let them go in there. Once everyone was in there spots sitting down they started to leave and while they were going up a hill in the mountains the trailer came unhooked and started going down the hill instead of up. On the way down the trailer wasn’t stopping and ended up going down through a bunch of trees in the forest and nearly hit some big ones that would have destroyed the camper but just missed.

A little after once everything came to a complete stop the two kids Elliot and Wendy got up and looked out side and came to find a camp councilor standing out side. The kids went with the councilor
to the camp he was at for the summer and found it to be a sports camp.

Everyone that new Elliot new he was a sports freak and played as hard as he could to win and hated to lose. Mostly his sister new this because they argued and competed against each other all the time.

the main thing in the camp was a king coin you would get them after you win one of your sport events. Once you got six king coins you would do the winners walk at the end of the day. After Elliot and Wendy made a bunch of friends some of their friends has almost got six of the king coins and once they did they went and did the walk but Wendy found that they never came back they disappeared. Wendy started to tell people about this but no one would believe her and the councilors kept telling her that they went home.

Wendy started snooping around trying to figure this out. One night during the winners walk Wendy followed them. A found at the end there was a big monster that stunk really bad and figured it out to be The King Jellyjam him self. After Wendy saw this she went and got a great bunch of people and showed them and after that everyone believed her and they started the building on fire and police and other rescue teams from a town near by came and saw this and ended up closing the camp and sending all the kids back home to their families and everything was fine after that. All thanks to Wendy everyone was saved from this monster. King Jellyjam was never seen again after the fire.

I can relate to this a bit because I’m like Elliot love my sports and I try as hared as I can to do my best and never give up.

Precious Jonas has been invisible to the world for most of her life. Imagine living a life were you have no one. A life that your father rapes you, your mother physically and mentally abused you, and you had a child when you were only 12 and having another one on the way when your 16 and it wasn’t even your choice. Precious just wants to live a normal life like the rest of us live. After reading this book I thought to myself that my life isn’t as bad as I though and that most of us take things for granted even the little things.

Precious gets expelled from her old school because they didn’t like the fact she was pregnant. So she gets requested to go to a school called Each One Teach One. She learns a lot by going to the school. Not just how to read and write but that she learns that were she was living wasn’t a safe environment to raise her second child. Ms Weiss, her teacher from Each One Teach One helps her enter a halfway house. She feels safe there and she realizes that there is a lot more to life then what she was living. Precious attitude is changing and she is having more confidence in herself. She joins an incest support group were she find people just like her and doesn’t feel so alone.

Precious was a very strong women. She had very little in her life but she was able to rise above all of her hardships. Reading this book made me see how anyone no matter what there situation is can rise above anything with the right support. Precious found people who accepted her for who she was and became stronger because of there guidance . I am so fortunate to have people that support and love me in my life and this book helped me realize that I can do anything I set mt made to just like Precious did.

The Year of the Flood is the second of a series of books created by Margret Atwood. The main premise is that in the new future, human begins have been wiped out by a pill distributed worldwide by HelthWyzr (a sort of world health organization that seeks to profit rather than serve) that supposedly increases sexual drive and performance. The pills contained a virus, which, after a certain amount of time lying dormant, simultaneously activated across the globe, killing nearly everyone. It didn’t exactly help that once the virus was released, it became airborne and killed people whether or not they had taken the pill in the first place.

So, everyone is dead EXCEPT the two characters the story is centered on: Toby and Ren, who survived due to luck and misfortune that turned out to be fortune. The story is told through a variety of flashbacks from the two women and tells us how they ended up where we see them at the start of the book, and even dates back all the way to their childhood. Their world is ours and not ours, combining the familiar and alien aspects of a world being overcome by poverty and global warming with that of bizarre genetic splices and plastic surgeries. In short, the human race was deteriorating long before the metaphorical Flood responsible for annihilating human begins. It is because of this that the Flood took place… one man felt it was his responsibility to change the world for what he believed would be for the best. As a rich and sophisticated genius, he had both the money and the intellect to fulfill his dark dream, utilizing the health supergiant HelthWyzer as his distribution agent.

Toby and Ren represent a profoundly human experience as they are tossed like driftwood through the Flood in a world they have no control over. It is a cathartic experience that really made me think. The world of Toby and Ren seems like one we could be headed towards… and perhaps it is not far off either. It is true extinguishing what we would call the “traditional” human begins would solve most of the world’s problems, but part of Crake’s (the mastermind behind the virus) plan was to replace human begins with what he believed to be a superior race of begins of his own creation. These creatures (know as “Crakers” to the main characters) are superior in some aspects, to be sure, but these advantages are purely physical. They are described as the most beautiful people imaginable, and while they are of different ethnicities, they all possess the same green eyes (a factor explained in the previous book, Oryx and Crake). They also have superior immune and digestive systems. For example, they are strictly vegetarians, and possess remarkable healing capabilities as well as no need to possess clothing. As you can probably guess, they are indeed genetically altered. But not all traits they have are positive ones. The Craker’s mentality is much different than yours and mine. What was perceived by Crake to be negative human traits are in fact the ones that affect our individualities as human begins. Crakers have no sense or knowledge of humour, love, anger, and any other emotions that can stem from these. Crake’s reasoning was that these emotions can lead to disagreements, which in turn turns to conflict, which in evidently takes us back to the state the world was in before the Flood.

So the question is… is removing the human spirit something that is a positive turn for humanity… or are we better off the way we are now? I don’t think I can answer this unless I lived in the environment described in the book… But even with 99.9% of the human race gone… there is still the 0.1% left who may be able to change things… and after all, the Crakers do possess the ability to learn. It will be interesting to see how thing will finally pan out in the next book.

Playing with fire was written by Theo Fleury with Kristie McLellan Day. Theo had a tough life at home, his dad was an alcoholic while his mother was addicted to drugs. Fleury as a child would go to hockey practice and have a blast. The worst part was always waiting for his dad at the end of the night to realize he was drunk and wasn’t coming. It it wasn’t for the hockey families in Russell The

o would have never even began in hockey. Theo’s problems all began at a hockey camp in Brandon where Graham James, a sexual predator, got ahold of Theo. James could spot a troubled kid a mile away. Sheldon Kennedy was another victim of James who has also wrote a book about his personal life.

Fleury talks about his life in the WHL and how much partying he actually did. Every night after practices and games Theo got absolutely wasted and coked out on cocaine. He would party early into the morning most nights. Even with all the partying and drugs Theo was a force to be reckoned with. He was one of the smallest players but had unreal intensity and pissed off anybody who came near him.

Theo started his NHL career with the Calgary Flames and had an amazing time there. He enjoyed the coaching staff, the team, and everything about Calgary. In Theo’s rookie year the Flames won the stanley cup and he was on top of the world. The Flames manager had a lot of pressure on him to make his team younger and faster. He traded almost every talented player the Flames had except for Theo. Lots of the team was upset and couldn’t believe some of the trades, especially Fleury.

Fleury has played with many teams and had quite the career. He scored 455 goals and 1,088 points in the NHL regular season playing for the Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers, and Chicago Blackhawks. Theo’s biggest mistake was when he took the Chicago Blackhawks huge offer. Theo got even worse into the drugs and couldn’t function without them. His body was hurting. Theo became a disgrace to the league and was suspended multiple times for the use of drugs and alcohol. While in the NHL Theo’s therapy didn’t help him at all, it just made him want it more.

Theo’s lowest point in life was after his hockey career when he almost committed suicide. He bought a gun, a single bullet and contemplated pulling the trigger while sitting in his living room. Something went through his mind that made him stop and realize he has to much to live for. Theo threw the gun out and doesn’t regret it at all.

I give Theo so much credit for writing this book. It takes alot of balls to admit all the wrongs that he has done. Theo was sexually assaulted as a child and kept it a secret to keep his hockey career alive. Theo is a little cocky in this book and doesn’t care what people think. I personally enjoyed this book alot and would recommend it to anybody who wants to read an good biography.

The focus Question that I am using is: What is right and Wrong? What is the purpose of the law? When are laws fair? What might cause an individual to ignore the law? While I was reading this amazing book, I noticed that this song has to do with the law so that’s why I picked the question. In the book, there is this boy named Stanley Yelnats who was a young boy going to school and one day, he was walking under an underpass when a pair of shoes came falling from the sky. The shoes landed right on Stanley and he wondered where they came from. While he was looking at the shoes, he heard sirens from a distance and noticed they were getting louder and then saw a cop car stop him. Later on in the story, he had been guilty for stealing the shoes and was sent to Camp Green Lake. At the lake was like a boot camp and at the camp there were kids that had done criminal crimes. While he was there, the boys there picked on him for a few days, maybe even about a week.

The thing that was right is that while Stanley was at the court, he told the Judge that he never stole the shoes and he told the truth. The thing that was wrong is that while he was at the camp, he was being bullied and he was fighting back to defend himself. The purpose of the law for Stanley was to not steal and to never to any criminal crimes that will cause you to go to jail. To me, I don’t thing that some laws are fair at all. The only time when the law s fair is when a murder happens and they need to do investigations to find the murderer. The only time when an individual would ignore the law is when they are doing something really dumb thats causes lives in danger and there own lives in danger.

While Stanley was at the lake, he eventually became friends with the boys that were picking on him and they were giving him a nickname since everyone else had a nickname. After he had been at the camp for a while, and his blisters on his hand had gone away, Stanley had been a good kid but Mr.Sir, the camp leader, wasn’t to pleased with Stanley. After being there for a while, he was still being a good kid but the boys didn’t like him when him and a boy named Zero helped him dig his hole if Stanley helped Zero learn how to read. Thats as far as I got and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the book.

On a small island there lived a 12 year old boy named Phillip. Whether it be running to the dock or leaping around the town Phillip was always having fun. Although there was something that came upon this family. A war was started and there was an army heading toward the town that Phillip and his family had lived. The mother had the idea of abandoning the town to seak out safe lands in america, but this did not go well with the father. After arguing the decision was made that Phillip and his mother would take a ship to new lands for safety while the father had to stay and work. Traveling through these waters by ship was dangerous, due to a risk of submarines shooting the ship down. Phillip and his mother took the chance.

Three days had passed by and the town of Curacao where they had lived and abandoned was now attacked. Shortly after the ship they were on had also been shot. Chaos circled the passengers and put everyone into panic mode. Luckily the passengers had practiced how to handle these situations previous to being shot at. Within a few minutes the ship was hit again this time beginning to sink.

Phillip opened his eyes and woke up to a black man, a cat, and a endless sea of water. Phillip had hit his head while the ship sank, luckily the black man named Timothy had taken Phillip aboard the raft. Unfortunately Phillip has been seperated from his mother. Phillip has no idea where his mother could be or if she was even alright. On top of that he is stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean.

Hours had passed on the raft and Phillip was dying for a drink of water. Timothy pulled out the keg of water, only pouring Phillip a few drops. Chuckling Phillip thought Tim was joking, but young Phillip did not realize that they may be stranded for months. Timothy explained to the boy that you must only drink enough to wet your mouth, just in case the two are not found for a long time. Conserving their supplies is crutial for survival in the open waters. Open waters surround the raft meaning they would have to spend quite some time afloat their life support.

“The Cay” is a book of adventure, one must learn to rely on another. Color of skin does not mean they are dumb, or weird, or slow, but instead we must learn everyone is simply human. One particular thing I really enjoy in this book is the text. When the black man talks you can tell his accent by simply reading. Timothy says,”Do not be alarm now, young bahss. I am goin’ to jump into d’wattah an’ kick dis raff to d’shore.” Dialogue like this makes a book that much better. It describes who the man is and personality. Theodore Taylor is a very thoughtfull author.

After having a difficult time emotionally and physically recovering from the fire of his home, it is decided that 16 year old Jamie is to stay with his Aunt Jane and daughter Allison. He leaves his busy life to laid-back living in the countryside, in a town called Crownhill. Jamie hopes that by leaving his home, all the troubles and emotions brought by the fire will be left there, too. The first night he goes to sleep he is remarkably surprised. He has a horrible dream about the fire and a witch who chases him, trying to get him. As every day turns to night, he keeps having these dreams and they get more and more intense each time. However as they continue, he doesn’t dare tell his Aunt Jane or her daughter, Allison, because he believes he may just be delusional.

As the days continue on, Jamie’s family plans to restore an old monument that is built on the hill overlooking the town. The monument is an image of a Crown, representing “Crownhill”, that is made of lines of chalk laid on the hill. It is not visible anymore though because it has been overgrown with weeds and bushes. Janes plan is to gather the entire village and get everyone involved to clean and restore the crown. However when they clean the “Crown,” they are quite surprised. What they find sets of anger in the village, confusion in the family, and clues in an unsolved case of a 16 year old “witch.”

The way Jamie felt about himself after the fire strongly affected his self-image. He felt worthless due to the fact that he didn’t save his sister when he easily could’ve. He also felt like he was “losing it” because these dreams were strongly affecting his everyday life. But instead of coming forward about his feelings and his dreams, he kept it inside. Jamie didn’t want anyone to know what was happening, he wanted to go on with his day and pretend like nothing was wrong. By not coming forward, Marcus Sedgewick was able to capture what happens when feelings and emotions build up inside. Because of Jamies actions, he couldn’t seem to pay attention to people around him and caught himself continuously wondering off in his thoughts. Most importantly however, his emotions kept building up and eventually he had a break down, something that can happen to many individuals.

While reading Witch Hill, I couldn’t help but be reminded of The Shack. Like Jamie, Mack continuously thought about Missy’s death and it seemed to be keeping his at a distant with the rest of his family. Mack also blamed himself everyday for not being able to save his daughter. Like Jamie and Mack, many humans have had a situation where we blame ourselves for specific situations. The hardest thing for us to realize is that eventually the guilt will go away. Down every dark tunnel there is a light, just like at the end of this book and in The Shack

This series of books is about a Boy, his family, and best friend. He travels deep into the earth, and on his journey he meets new people, some want him dead, some save his life, and some become traitors to him. He gets to eat animals that he thought were extinct, he finds new animals all together.

The main character, Will Burrows (Seth Jerome). Never fit into his life as a child, topsoil that is. He felt that he didn’t fit with his family, he never had any friends. He was as if he wasn’t from this world, really he wasn’t he was from the Colony. He was adopted and his family never told him. And one of the crazy things is that he was Albino.

For Will he didn’t have, the brotherhood, sports, five men, leaders, family, and religious contacts that I have in my life. Will really is lost within himself. Will is lost in him self in many different ways, no family connection, friends or any connetion at all. The question, What makes us unique? Distinctive?, to Will is very simple to answer, everything is unigue and distictive for Will, nothing is simmilar or fitting for him. Will is almost too destinctic form “Topsoil” people.

Will is face with a fear or hights, when his brother dies he finds that anytime he is near a drop or anything, he wants to junp. He wasts to be with his brother, dead with his brother. Now when he knows every time he migh have to face his fears he is scared and this affects him his is travles to find his father, who is not his father.

Topsoil is the word that is used to describe earth as we know it today.
The colony is the word used to describe the secret life underground.
Will has to names because on is his topsoil name and one is his colony name.

The focus question that I am using is; What is right? What is admirable? What is not-so-admirable? Does everyone agree? Throughout the history of sports there has always been young stars arise to become champions. In hockey there has been many young men trying to become the next “one.” It all started in 1966 with an young boy named Bobby Orr. He played in the NHL for over thirteen years. He was a dominate defense men who ruled over everyone on the ice. He was one of the toughest players out there with having over a dozen knee surgeries. He was a very admirable person and ended his NHL career with 953 points.

The next “one” on the list was a boy from Brantford, Ontario. His name was Wayne Gretzky. Wayne’s father Walter was one of the most persistent coaches anyone could have. Every time Wayne and his younger brothers had free time Walter made them skate, and do drills, and practice their shot. Walter had built his own backyard rink for the boys to practice on. Wayne was definitely the star out of his other siblings and everyone in the town knew that. Wayne played minor hockey in Brantford and most years he would play a age level ahead of him. Gretzky was so competitive and not in the gritty way. Wayne was a gentleman on the ice and rarely got into tussles. Gretzky kept gaining skill and zipped into professional hockey. The parents and crowd in Brantford were very critical of Wayne and his success but it didn’t seem to bother Wayne.

When Wayne entered the NHL he flourished like no other. Wayne lead the league in points and in his second year of the show he won a Stanley cup. Later in his career with the Oilers he won three more Stanley cups. He was unstoppable but after his last cup with Edmonton his dad had a talk with him. Walter told Wayne that the GM of the Oilers, Peter Pocklington was going to trade Gretzky. Wayne couldn’t believe the news. The greatest team in the league was going to lose the greatest player that had ever played. Pocklington needed money bad and knew Gretzky was worth a fortune. To me this isn’t right to screw over a team and a player that worked so hard and then get torn apart because of money.

Wayne was not happy to leave the city of champions. In his last interview before leaving he could barely spit out a word. Tears were flowing out of the grown mans eyes. Gretzky knew his time with the Oilers was done but it was hard for him to swallow. Luckily for Wayne his wife lived in LA where Wayne was going. Wayne’s wife was Janet Jones, who was an actress/ entertainer in Hollywood. The media saw Janet as a thief, and that she took Wayne away from Edmonton but that wasn’t the case. Because of Pocklingtons greed and his unprofessional, not-so-admirable way of using his money Gretzky had to leave.

In LA Gretzky played for the Kings. The Los Angeles Kings weren’t very popular and had competition with the Lakers for fans. The Laker fans were much greater than the Kings fans until Gretzky arrived. Wayne added just the ingredient to make the Kings exciting and talented. Some people think that Gretzky should have stayed in Edmonton and got rid of some other players. Others believe it was right to give him away and start a new job with a new organization. I think Wayne should have stayed and won five more cups with Edmonton.

Theo Fleury was an amazing hockey player. He began his career in Calgary and loved it there. He has a girlfriend and thought life was great. He won the Stanley Cup in his rookie season and wanted to play for Calgary the rest of his life. Then in that off season the General Manager traded most of the players from that Stanley cup winning team to try to become a younger team. Calgary has not won another Stanly cup to this day. Theo didn’t know what the General manager was doing and all of a sudden his awesome team has diminished to a few good players.

Theo has been traded a few times in his career, one of the biggest trades that Theo has been involved in was being traded to New York. New York offered him a huge contract and Theo said money changes people. Well money does change people and money changed Theo, he became a crackhead, he was not able to function without cocaine is his system. The league has suspended him for his cocaine use and drinking so much alcohol.

Theo has been suspended a few times in his career and the NHL has told him to clean his act up. In this book Theo talk about when he went out and partied that if they had a road game and he had a roommate that he told his roommate to pack his stuff and Theo would be there in time for the bus to leave. Theo was just getting back from the bar and just makes it in time for the bus. Theo thought since he was the person who was putting the puck in the net every night what could the NHL do. He was way wrong, they put him through drug and alcohol therapy to try to keep him from cocaine and drugs. That never work so the drug and alcohol therapy plus the NHL had four stages or discipline. Each stage got worse and worse. Theo managed to go through all four stages in his career before he retired. In fact he retired when he was in his fourth stage.

Theo moved on from hockey and actually almost committed suicide. One night he went to the pawn shop and grabbed a gun and the clerk gave him one bullet, Theo loaded the gun got back to his house sat on the couch for hours wondering if he had the balls to kill himself. Theo got to the point where the gun was loaded safety was off and the barrel in his outh and finger shaking like a leave on the trigger. Something just snapped into his head and he thought that this was retarded and decided not to kill him self. So Theo ran out into the dessert because he was living in a house out in the middle of the desert and threw the gun outside.

I like Theo as a person and I believe that this is a great book and I just wanna credit him for coming out with this story and I love how the book talked about all his highs and lows of his life. Its incredible of what he went through to become what he was. He was raped as a child and to let that go and just focus on hockey is incredible that his mind could do that. Theo is a good person I believe and has touched many peoples hearts and I hope if any other kid out there is being raped or has been to come forward just like Theo said. I don’t think people have gave Theo a chance, he has been told he couldn’t do anything since he was a child because he was to small well he was a really good player in the NHL and proved all of those peoples wrong. This is a really good book and I would recommend this to anyone to read it.
Theo was a part of the New York Rangers when he was making a large amount of money, and with all this money he became a alcoholic, drug addict and had a gambling problem. His identity was changes because he was an alcoholic and a drug addict so many people look at him differently and was called all sorts of names.