Survival: ISLAND

Posted by Craig on Mar 26th, 2009
2009
Mar 26

 

These kids are put in the most dangerous situations they have ever been in. Once they landed on the island these kids didn’t know what to do and they lost another one of their group members. Will had taken off and left the group to survive by himself. So with five people left in the group they decided to forget about will and take care of their own survival first. The began to build a shelter.

They finished their shelter and tried to start a fire. They succeeded but the wood on the forest was just small twigs so they had to have a large amount of wood in order to keep the fire going. They went off into the forest to get more wood, when they arrived back their shelter was burnt down. The kids thought that their fire had been to close to the shelter and the win caught the flames and set the shelter on fire. they figured it was their fault and now they had to built their shelter over again. So they began to build it over again and made sure the fire was a save distance away from the shelter.

After their fire was stocked and shelter was built up they decided to get some food, When they found food they had been starving because of not eating for about week now. So when they found food they began to eat like pigs, but after about an hour of eating they all felt sick to thier stomach. They thought they had eaten a poisonous fruit, but they actually realized it had been a reaction with their stomach and food. They had eaten too fast and now they were paying for it the hard way. They all couldn’t move because of thier stomach ache. The kids all sat around complaining of their stomach ache, once the ache’s and pains were gone they decided to travel the island.

When the arrived on the other side of the island they found out that they were not alone on this island. There were other people with planes on the island, but their exitment was decreased when one of the men pulled out a hang gun and shot another man. The kids knew thay were not good guys and couldn’t do anything but watch. The kids figured that these guys were smugglers and had to keep away from them or else they will be killed. The men came back to the island several different times and then left again. The kids thought that if they want to be rescued they would have to sneak in the plane and get back to safety.

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Shipwreck: ISLAND

Posted by Craig on Mar 25th, 2009
2009
Mar 25

 

This book has six kids, one shipwreck, and one deserted island. These six kids Luke, J.J., Lyssa, Charla, and Ian who are put on this ship called CNC. CNC stands for Charting a New Course, this ship to try to make the kids ask more maturely. For example Will and Lyssa were put on this ship because they didn’t get along with each other at home so their parents put them on this ship to make them get along. J.J. didn’t really do anything wrong its just his Dad was a movie star in Hollywood and his Dad didn’t have time for him so he put Will on this CNC trip. These kids were not alone on this trip, they had captains and guides.

On this tour they were in the middle of the Ocean when a big storm had arrived. They couldn’t out run the storm or o around so the had to go through it. The waves were tremendously huge and one wave knocked captain James Cascadden over the edge of the ship.  The crew members thought they could save their captain with a life saver but to no avail. They lost their captain and they thought everything was horrible but the worst was yet to come. A few more days under the huge storm, they lost their last guide, so they were left alone. When they lost their other guide they thought they were all going to die.

Eventually the storm had gone and they were left by themselves to survive. The kids were in the middle of the Ocean and didn’t know what to do. When the kids were on the ship they began to walk about the boat. They though they were sinking cause when they went to bed that night they had water in their bunk houses. The next morning they woke up and more water was in their little bunk house. They ran out and went to see how much other water was on the ship. When the found out their engine was flooded with water. Their only chance of survival was the get the engine started. They pumped out the water and took every last piece of the engine out and dried it all then rebuilt the engine. Once they had it all rebuild they tried to fire up the engine.

BANG! with a huge burst of flame went the engine, a spark had lit the entire engine into flames same with their ship. They had no choice but the jump ship and hope to survive on their little life boat. For a little luck they ended up on an island, the bad thing was they had no supplies and nothing to help them survive on. Once they hit the island they immediatly started to think, we need a shelter, food, fire and fresh water. The problem was how were they going to do all of that.

In this six group of kids Ian was a T.V addict, he loved to watch the discovery channel. He was the one that saved these kids lives over and over and over again. He knew what kind of fruits were edible and what were not. Ian was the one who kept these kids alive for the time . These kids were not out of the woods yet though, they had to somehow escape and get home safely.

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Chicken Chicken

Posted by Craig on Mar 25th, 2009
2009
Mar 25

It starts out with two kids living on a farm with their parents. They have some chickens on the farm but the two kids Crystal and Cole hate the chickens, they don’t know why they have them because no one likes them anyway. Apparently that was their parents dream though, to have a farm and raise chickens. Cole and Crystal took turns feeding the chickens even though they both hated them. One weekend when their parents left they decided to forget about the chickens and go out with friends.

They went out with friends and tried playing a joke on a Gothic girl named Vanessa. They were going to fill up her mail both with water. Vanessa lived in a big black house just out of town. Before they tried their prank they thought of something. Once before a kid in their class tried a prank on her she cast a spell on him and made his head swell up. The kid had moved away now because of this spell. The kids decided to do the prank anyway.

When they were filling up the mailbox they heard the front door open. They all scattered away and ran all the way back to Crystal and Cole’s house. The next day they were playing football up town. Cole said to his sister go long so she ran and ran and ran, she turned back to catch it and behind her walking out of a store was Vanessa. Vanessa was walking out of the grocery store and when they collided Crystal and spilled all hergroceries. Crystal helped her pick them up but as she was helping Vanessa whispered “Chicken Chicken”

Crystal didn’t know why she said that. In a few days she figured out why she said that. Crystal and her brother started to turn into a chicken. The began growing feathers on there necks and there lips began to go hard as a beak would. They were wondering what to do when they decided that she must have cast a spell on us. They thought there must have been a way to rewind the spell and they would become normal again. They ran to Vanessa house to see if a spell book was there so they could reverse the spell.

When they were in the house Vanessa came in and by this time they had tried to reverse the spell so many times that they became little chicks. Vanessa knew it must have been them because they had the spell book out. Crystal and Cole couldn’t even speak because they were little chicks. Vanessa had a typewriter on the table next to her and Crystal seen it. She thought this was there last chance to survive. She jumped from Vanessa hands on the typewriter. She began to a sorry letter. Vanessa saw the note and felt bad for them so decided to turn them back to normal. After they turned back to human Vanessa asked them if they would like a drink. Crystal and Cole said yeas please because Vanessa is a manors freak. After they took a long drink of soda Cole let out a huge burp. Crystal couldn’t hold it back and started to laugh, this made Cole laugh too. Cole did not say, “Excuse me” and that ticked off Vanessa, then she pointed at Cole and then to Crystal and whispered “Pig Pig”.

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Stay Out of the Basement

Posted by Craig on Feb 12th, 2009
2009
Feb 12

The book starts with DR Brewer (he is scientist who research on plants) shifts his experiments into the basement because he gets fired from his job. One day Casey and Margaret (Dr Brewer’s kids) went into the basement to call their dad but unfortunately they get yelled at by their dad and he said Stay out of the basement! One day Casey, Margaret and Diane (Casey and Margaret’s friend) decide to go to the basement to check out some of their dad’s cool experiment. When they reach the basement they saw like lots of huge moving plants similar to the ones at rain forest. After seeing all the experiment they go upstairs they saw Dr Brewer in the lawn talking to his neighbor. That’s when Casey remembers that he forgot his shirt in the basement. Then he goes downstairs to get his shirt.

After a while later Margaret was tired of waiting for Casey so she went downstairs that’s when she was in deep shock that her brother was grabbed by a huge plant so Margaret and Diane started to pull Casey and they managed to pull him out. When they were about to go upstairs they saw their dad in the staircase staring at them with a fierce face but his mood was calm. From that incident Dr Brewer got a lock so he can lock the door of the basement. One day when Margaret was downstairs to get something to eat from the refrigerator she saw her dad eating something when she checked what it was she was in a deep shock again. He was eating plant food! This seen in the book reminded me about a movie I was watching one night. The movie is called Ace Ventura when Ace ate the Bat Droppings, it just popped up in my head when he was eating that disgusting plant food.

This book ends really dumb, the kids were in the basement and they heard this thumping noise in the storage closet. The decided to go see what it was. They broke through the door and they seen a whole bunch more plants. They were thick and plentiful. They searched through the plants and they found human feet. They decided to see what it was and it ended up being there real dad. The dad they had been living with for the past few days was just a copy of their real dad. He was a plant, when they untied there real dad he said it was an experiment gone wrong. They had to kill the other dad which was a plant.

They killed him and there real dad said he was going to get rid of the science experiment room in the basement and turn it into a recreational room for the kids. They got all the plants destroyed and some were moved out in to the back yard in the garden. They went shopping that following weekend and bought a pool table to put in the basement. When things began to become normal around the house Margaret went out side and sat at the garden, thats when she heard a voice. She looked down and a little plant was saying “Help me I am your real dad”. I recommend this book to any person that likes to read a nice intense, and interesting book.

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