Thursday, October 8, 2009

Everest Book Two: The Climb

Everest Book Two: The Climb is an awesome book. Everest is mostly about four kids, Dominic, Tilt, Sammi, and Perry who try to climb the biggest mountain in the world. They travel to Nepal and begin their training. The altitude is high and Dominic can't take it. Dominic gets HAPE, which means it is hard to breathe. When they get to camp, Tilt spreads news about Dominic to reporters. Cap Cicero, the leader, doesn't know that Tilt was spreading the news. During Dominic's recovery , the team starts up the mountain.
When Dominic recovered , he was helping the sherpa's. The sherpas carry and lift bags for the climbers. Dominic was the youngest , but he was by far the strongest. When Dominic started up the mountain, he could feel the altitude changing. The weather is very harsh, it can get to minus sixty-six degrees. The suns rays are so strong, they had to wear sunscreen. When they reached camp four, Cap Cicero was listening to the radio to see if any teams had made it to the top. He heard a weird noise, it was Ethan Zaph's sherpa, Lansang. Ethan Zaph is the youngest person to ever reach the summit. Lansang said that Nestor, the journalist, was unconscious, but Ethan wanted to continue his climb. Ethan's team was trying to climb Everest without oxygen masks.
Many climbers make poor decisions when they don't have enough oxygen in their brains.
That meant, Dominic, Sammi, Tilt and Perry would have to save Ethan and Nestor.Once they found them, Ethan was in the death zone with no oxygen. They strapped oxygen masks on and headed down. Perry noticed Nestor didn't have any crampons on his feet. Crampons are razor sharp shoes that climbers wear to have more traction. They realized that they were stuck in his back. When they pulled the crampons out, he screamed.
When they arrived at camp four, Cap Cicero and Dr. Oberman were waiting in the tent. Dr. Oberman took Nestor down to camp two and eventually back to the city to recover.
At the end, Nestor is okay. Tilt confesses that he was spreading the news and everybody is okay.
If you like suspense, action, drama and adventure, then you will like the Everest series. After I read the first book, I was looking forward to reading Book Two:The Climb. I really liked Everest Book Two:The Climb. It is action packed, drama filled and one of the most intense books I have ever read.
By Olivia

A Solitary Blue is a book about a boy named Jeff and has a mother named Melody, who left him and his father, the Professor, when he was in second grade. It had been seven years, then one summer Melody had invited him to spend the summer with her in South Carolina. So Jeff went to see his mother. Jeff met so much of his family, he loved the wilderness there, and he loved spending time with his long lost mother! When he goes back the second time every thing is going wrong. His mother is not as nice as she was before and is never home any more, his grandmother is to old to talk to him and she is grumpy, and most of all he finds out that his mother never wanted him any more! When he gets back his father decided to move and never go back to his mother! Will things get better for Jeff or will they get worst? Read the book to find out!!

I would recommend this book to kids that love drama, action, suspense, and wilderness. If you like these things than this book is for you!


By: Ellie

Dive

This is a really good book. There are four main charactors in this book, Kaz, Dante, Andria, and Star. They are four kids that like scuba diving and start doing some research on marine life. When they were diving one day, the find a shipwreck and a note that said: Telodo. They find out that it was the fifth atlantic crossing. So they went back up to land found out that there is 1.2 billion dollars worth of treasure on that shipwreck. The wreck was in a place called the hidden shoals. Then they find out that there are six people after the treasure. So they send a water proof camera to get a better look at the shipwreck. Then they find another person to help them named captain Vanhoover find the treasure, and he let them use a extreemly nice sumbarine. They go down in the ship and do you think they find the treasure. I won't tell you just read the book and find out.

I highly recomend this book. It is great for fifth graders. this book has a lot of action and suspense. you should read this book because it has a good amount of pages and has a lot of everything. The auther is Gordan Korman

by Nick Sh

Pish Posh

The book Pish Posh is about a girl named Clara and her parents own a restaurant called Pish Posh. Clara never gets along with any children and all she wears is a plain black dress and black sunglasses. One day she finds this girl named Annabelle. Clara finds out that Annabelle is a bugalar. Clara asked Annabelle to steale something for her. She wants her to steal an envolope that a doctor who was just killed has in his old office, because this girl named Audrey who works at Pish Posh has records from the office and Clara needs to find them because Audrey has so medical condition but no one will believe her because she looks just fine. When Annabelle gets out of the building that she stole the records from she runs into some trouble when the security guard comes and finds her stealing it. But then when a big crowd suddenly appears out of no where and the security guard can't find them through the crowd they escape. They get the form to Audrey and she gets all better but then she out of no where she dissapers. But they know that she has gone somewhere good.

I recomend this book for girls in the forth, fifth, or sixth grade. It is a great book full of adventure and suspense.

Mimi

The Wanderer

My book was called The Wanderer. This book is just right for you if you like adventure and a whole lot of suspense!This book is about a young girl named Sophie who goes on a very exciting adventure with her cousins Cody and Brian. She also goes on this journey with her uncles. At first Sophies mother didn't want her to go on the adventure. As soon as her uncles and cousins came to get her and the boats ready her mom had no choice but to let her go with them! On this adventure their destination is Ireland. They are gonig to Ireland from Connecticut. They are going to Ireland to see their grandfather Bompie. They are going to see Bompie for two reasons, the first reason is that he is very sick and he has a nurse living at his house with him. The second reason is, they haven't seen him in a long time and they wanted to catch up with him and see how he is doing. Although there are some bumps along the road while they are traveling to get there. They are traveling just fine until there are storm clouds up ahead. They would turn around but, then the storm would be pushing them with it and they would never stop going. They decide to go straight through the storm and luckily they made it out safely. After the storm they took a rest and docked at a small town nearby. The people there are very nice. All of a sudden no one can find Sophie and Cody? Where could they be? They found a small boat and traveled to an island that their grandfather Bompie met his first wife at. Cody did not know that the island is where their grandfather had met his first wife Rose. They stayed there for only a day and when they came back they headed off to continue their journey. They were about three fourths away from their destination.Two days after they started their journey they were there in Ireland they were so excited to be there. That night they had to stay in an inn until their grandfather was well enough for them to be able to see him. The next day they headed to Bompie's house and when they approached him the nurse said to be very calm and quiet because he is very confused and doesn't know who they are, who he is , why they are there, and who they are. But, when they started to tell him one thing about each of them and a couple of things about his own life then he started to understand them. They were very happy to see him as his old self again! Sadly the nurse said that they had to leave and he needed some rest because it ws very overwhelming for him to see all five people at once. Even though there were ups and downs in this book it was definetly a good book!

I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who likes suspense, drama , and especially adventure! You can find it here in our local Woodbrook library! The author of this book is Sharon Creech. If you like this book you would also look for, Walk Two Moons, and Chasing Redbird! I hope you will enjoy this book as much as i did!

By: Reiley

The Wanderer

Rules


Catherine is a teenage girl who has a little brother named David. David has autism. Sometimes Catherine gets annoyed with David because he does stupid stuff in public. One of those things that he will do in public is pull his pants down if they get the tiniest bit wet. Catherine creates a set of rules for David so he does not embarrass himself or others. There is a family that is moving in next to Catherine and David and the family has a girl about Catherine's age. Catherine really wants to make freinds with this girl. There is only one peroblem...David. One day, Catherine's mom asked her to go next door to invite their family to a cookout that tonight.Catherine is not so confident about the idea because she does not want David to do something stupid in front of their new neighbors.Luckily for Catherine, they could not come. You have to read the book to find out how the story ends.
I recomend this book because it is fun, interesting, and it teaches us about autism. It also teaches us that just because someone has a disability, that does not mean that they are not still a human just like me and you.


by: Abi

Al Capone Does My Shirts


Al Capone Does My Shirts is a great book! It has action, suspense, and drama in the same book. It is about a twelve-year-old-boy named Moose who lives with some of the most popular convicts of 1935 like
Roy Gardener, Machine Gun Kelly,and Al Capone. If you haven't guessed yet, Moose lives on Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco. How he got on this island is because of his father who is a electrician on the island. When he comes to the island, all of the kids on Alcatraz are impressed with a girl named Piper, who comes up with a lot of schemes. Moose has a sister named Natalie who has a disability. Moose's parents want him to watch his sister while his dad works and his mom teaches piano lessons. His sister got suspended from her school and Moose has to help with her until she is able to go to school again. Moose would rather play baseball than watch his sister.
Will he watch her or let her loose?
by Trevor