Band of Brothers

The book Band of Brothers, by Stephen E. Ambrose shows the heart and determination of the men of Easy Company. The book starts off with the men many of which have just turned 18, at Camp Taccoa. The camp is a jump school, many of the mens reason for joining the airborne troops is because that it is the best of the best. The group meets Herbert M. Sobel or captain sobel. But you also meet Dick Winters among many others. The book shows the hard ships that the men had to face under Captain Sobel. The company is the best in the Army they are the best in shape and the meanest fighters. The phrase high ho silver is something that the men grow accustom too. When the group graduates from jump school and gets there silver wings, it really means one thing that this group is getting put into the war soon. With WWII in full swing and Hitler beating down on the allies plus having the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor, the group gets to find out where they go to if the train takes them north east to New York there going to Europe if they go south then there going to fight Japan. When the train heads to the north the men start saying hello Hitler here we come. Easy Company in the 101st division are the best of the best and in reading the book you will find that out from the jump on D-Day all the way to being in the battle of the buldge  to even going up the mountain to Hitlers eagles nest. This book is the hardest book that I have ever read and I'm not saying that lightly the men go through some very hard things and Stephen E Ambrose knows how to write a very good book this is the only book I think that I'm going to give a 10/10 for. The way that this book makes me really think is amazing. I wouldn't recommend this book to people that don't like to read challenging books because this book is very difficult but on that same note for people that love books on WWII or even war books this is the book to read.

One Good Punch

In the book one good punch, by Rich Wallace. Teenager Michael K errigan is track captian and has a good life a good family in the small town of scranton. when the school goes on the anti drug spree they are preforming drug sniffs with dogs and when Mike is told that he has weed in his locker things go up down and backwards in his life he goes from the top of the charts to the worst person in school. And if thats not enough for a person to go through he also has to deal with shelly who is his best friend and he has to make up if there will be more then a good friendship. this book was one of my faster reads that I ahve done all year I read the book in about 5 hours and it ws a very good book with alot of real talk and meansing. I would rate this book on a scale of one to ten, more then less a 7 becasue it was so short I blew through the book and as good as it ws it was too short and left to much up in the air in the end.

street pharm

In the book Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen, Ty Johnson a local drug dealer in the streets of New York finds life to be very easy. His father built an empire and then got locked up, leaving it to Ty to run. With that Ty then has to lie to his mother and protect his turf by whatever means necessary. If Ty thinks that it is going to be a walk in the park, he is wrong because now a new threat comes in by the name of Darkman. Will Ty be able to keep the family buissness a float or will he watch it all burn to dust?  Read the book to find out. I liked this book because I feel that Allison van Diepen writes about the things that really intrest teens and that most teens can relate to. I would give this book a 9 out of 10 because of the fact that it wasn't as put together as I thought it could be, but it was a very good read. There are things in this book that will  make people love it but there are also things that will make people hate it. If you enjoy books that have drama in them and are also books that you never want to put down I would highly recommend this book to you.

Cut

Cut is a book written by Patrcia McCormick who is also the author of other books that have what i call the same type of writting but about different things. It is about a girl named Callie, that has been cutting herself for sometime now. The cause of doing this has lead to her being admitted to a mental institution called sea pines. She doesnt talk during the first month or so at all a girl there gave her a nickname s.t. for silent treatment, she also called sea pines; sick minds. She does continue to cut for sum time through out the book even while she is in the institution. The girls sat by the same disordered people as them kind of like little groups which were the food issue girls which are the biggest mojority there (anorexic, and way over eating). The next dissordered group was the "druggies" or wat they call substance-abuse issues, then girls like Callie who are called assorted psychos. But she does get better once she starts talking and talking about her brother sam and how hes always sick and shes to blame for one time he had an attack. which causes her mom to be super protective and over clean and her dad is always at work or out and now hes really working to pay for her treatment. Once she realizes that not everyone hates her and the things she was blaming herself for and has an amazing talk with her dad she starts really working at getting better.

One Good Punch

The book One Good Punch by Rich Wallace was about a young man, Mike, and he was a senior in high school, and the school does a random drug search and they find 3 or 4 joints in his locker. It wasn't his fault that they were in there. He wanted a couple of joints for him and this girl for a Friday night because they were going to hang out and watch a movie and they wanted to get high. The guy that Mike was going to get them from decided to just put them in his locker and not tell him about it. Mike found out about the drug search and then he found out that the guy put the joints in his locker. That whole weekend he spent trying to get into the school to try and recover them so he didnt get caught, because he was a big time athlete and he was already filling out applications for colleges so he could be successful in life. He knew that if the school got them before he did, then he would have gotten expelled. That weekend he could not get into the school. On Monday, Mike was sitting at a table eating lunch with the guy who put the joints in his locker. The school liasion officer and the principle came over and asked for him to come with them. The officer and the principle both knew right off the bat that Mike was innocent, because he was one of the schools best athletes, and he was thought of to be the most successful in the long run after school. The principle and the cop offered him 3 or 4 days to come back in there and tell them who it was that put the joints in his locker and he was going to be off the hook and back to school. However he felt guilty because he asked for the joints for him and this girl so he didn't think that it was the other guys fault. So he decided not to go back in there and tell them about Joey putting them in his locker and he just took the blame, and got expelled from school, kicked out of all the sports, and got fired from his job. I really enjoyed this book, and I give it a 4 out of 5 and I recommend it to people who like suspenseful books.

The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower VII

The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower VII is the last installment in the Dark Tower series and i feel the best book in the series. Even though the ending wasn't approving to myself the rest of the book really grew on me and is filled with exciting adventure and suspense that had me reading non stop. The beginning of the book starts out with Callahan and Jake about to break into the Dixie Pig where Susannah and he possessor, Mia were held captive to give birth to Mia's baby, Mordred who is too be born to kill his white father Roland. Jake and Callahan break in and finds hundreds of low men and Cantoi in the building. They both fight there fight but Jake and Oy are sent to save Susannah as Callahan dies when he finds god again when he slowly is being devoured by the low men and shoots himself with Jake's Ruger to not feel the pain. As this is going on, Eddie and Roland go and try to find Stephen King and to save him from being killed.
I give this book despite the ending a 10 out of 10 and the whole series 10 out of 10 i recommend this series to anyone that likes to read

snitch

it is a book by Norah McClintock and it is about a boy who just got out of a boy group home, and is now living with his brother his brothers wife and their son. he has to go through an anger management course and gets to chose between two types. one is a group of kids with similar anger issues and they talk about their problems and such things, the other is in the beggining of the group they talk about their day and then later they train dogs. these dogs were abused dogs or strays from the animal shelter well the ones that couldnt get adopted by anyone because they are to out of control and not tamed. but there are two other guys he has problems with one is a guy that basicly put him there as he thinks he sniitched on him for when they were purse snatching. there was thousands of dallors in the purse and the other guy couldnt take the guilt so he went to the police about it. and then the other guy is one that he just wants to beat up because hes always antaganizing him, but theres this girl that also help him stay calm and centered. itwas definitly a short read but a good read i give it a 4 out of 5 and would reccomend it to very many people.

Song of Susannah The Dark Tower VI

Song of Susannah is the 6th installment or second to last book in The Dark Tower series and is once again an awesome book filled with adventure, action and drama making it glue to your hands never wanting to put it down.
The book starts with aftermath of the Wolves invasion Roland, Eddie, Jake, Oy, some of the Callafolk and the Manni all huddled together absorbing on what just happened. Margaret and Benny Slightmen both sadly killed during this horrific battle and dozens on green cloaked robots as known as the wolves lay on the cold ground helpless, and Susannah Dean goes of missing after Mia took control of her body because the demon is ready to give birth and she heads to the Door and makes her way to the Dixie Pig so she can have her baby. The Ka-tet realizes this and they go on a search for her leading them into seperate paths through the door Jake, Oy and Callahan get sucked up ino the same time period that Susannah is in while Roland and Eddie go into another time period looking for the King.
This book is filled with great suspence and action that made me love this book and the series itself. Of course I give this book a 10 out of 10 because the series has never let me down and never givs up on the epic tale of The Dark Tower.

http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/song_of_susannah.html

Impulse

Have you ever been so depressed, to the point where you just don't know what to do any more? Well in the book Impulse by Ellen Hopkins, it really showed me some of the real life situations that can happen to young kids, and young adults. Impules is about 3 kids, Venessa, Tony, and Conner, and they are being held in a mental institution for attempting to commit suicide. However it is not just a week or two like you would think, they are being held any where from a couple of months to a couple of years. This book has probally been one of the best books that i have ever read, because i never wanted to put that book down.

Klepto

Klepto

A girl in he later teens has made alot of bad unwelcomeing commotion. she has done alot of things she shouldnt of to cuase all of it. so she is in a girls corrections group home and not volutarilly but by placement of her social worker. Hannahs little sister Katrina where the story is going to be focused on. Hannah is expecting to come back home soon which Katrina has a huge problem with because of the way she treated her and the wrong things she did and most of all their parents. But kat herself happens to steal items from the mall but she thinks its different cuz thats all she does. but all started with just that and will progress. Kat feels like shes being ignored and not important at all and all the focus is on hannah whose done so much wrong to them, yet shes getting all this special treatment. i liked the book alot actually and would definitly recemend it to others. i would say i give this book a nine out of ten because it did grab my interest.

drive by

Drive By is a pretty legittament book. Its about a kid named Tito, and Mino and they had to Witness their older brother getting killed in a drive by shooting. From there on, Tito wants to find out who killed his brother so they can be off the streets. It may be a fast read, and for some of you, a very fast read, but it was deffinetly worth my time to read this book, just because stuff like this happens everyday in some parts of this country, and all over the world people get killed for no reason.

Wolves of the Calla The Dark Tower V

Wolves of the Calla is the 5th installment in the Dark Tower series and one of the most longest reads filled with great adventure and conflict making it a awesome read.

It starts out with the prologue introducing Tian a farmer in the Calla working on the fields with his sister Tia and they get a message from Andy the message robot (and many other functions) that the wolves are coming to the Calla from Thunderclap in thirty days to come and take or be given a child that has a twin which both causes Tian and Tia fear and frustration with Andy and the Calla. This causes a town meeting with the Manni and everyone of the Calla and they try to find others solutions to stop the wolves from taking there children. Father Callahan one of the calla folk says there is a way to stop the wolves and that is gunslingers. the calla folk all start out with disagreement but after a while in the meeting and finding out what to do they figure that gunslingers are the only way to fight off the wolves.
As this is going on Roland and his ka-tet, Eddie, Jake, Susannah and Oy are heading toward the Calla unexpectedly hoping there on one of the trails of the beams to the tower. but as there on there trail to the calla they fall into a todash which is a dream that comes into reality in your mind and they realize that the rose is possibly in the real world and they try to find out if they can reach the rose in the todash.
This is an extremely long book that took forever to finish but a really good book filled with adventure, drama and action which was the thing that kept me going throughout this long book.

I give this book a 10 out of 10 because of its way of keeping me glued into this book and making me keep going throughout the series.

http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/song_of_susannah.html

Street Pham

Street Pharm, by Allison Van Diepen, is a very good book. It is about a boy named Ty who takes over his dads drug dealing business when he was 13. The book is about him and everything he runs into and goes through. You basically go along with his everyday life for 5 years. He runs into problems with the cops, deals with other dealers trying to take over his territory and they shoot him in a drive by. He survives and takes out the other dealer, he doesn't really date girls because he has to stay on top of his game. Then he meets a girl named Alysse, she's very against drugs, violence and just about everything he does. So he hides it from her, but eventually he tells her because he doesn't want to drag her into it. From there he deals with his best friend and partner getting shot. This book is filled with action and keeps you interested the whole way through.

Street Pharm

Street Pharm is a a book that pulls you in with a hook, the author Allison van Diepen is a high school teacher. She had spent around three and a half years at one of brooklyns most dangerous high schools. It basicly is about a young adult Ty age seventeen that inherited his fathers business, but this was no ordinary one or legal for a matter of fact. He has been brought into the drug game he was at a young age and he's not just the little man. He refers to himself as king of the streets, and his partner who was really his fathers untill he went to jail. His name is Sonny and there the main people in this drug "biz" even though his mom thinks completly different. His mom thinks that he's nothing like his father that he's not a "gangbanger" waling around the streets doing nothing but trouble. He has had her convinced through so many lies and he seems to have a talent for it. But his mom starts to suspect something when he pretends to be someone he's not to the alternative school he is supposed to be enrolled in, because he couldnt keep up with the regular school. Although his mom doesnt even know that he's supposed to go to an alternative school until she gets the call from them. So his mom suspects things about him but he still has her eating it up. He makes large stack's of cash and probably the one good thing is he doesnt do the drugs. But all starts to go bad when his father old compitition comes around his town and all of these things has been changing the way he looks at what he's doing. It's definitly a most intriguing read and will really tell how expeiriences even if there bad and they are mistakes. they can prove and show that when you learn from them it not only gives makes you a stronger person but starting to do the right thing.

Tyrell

The Book Tyrell by Coe Booth is about a young boy named Tyrell. He grew up in the projects and at the age 15 he finds his little brother, his mom and himself bouncing from shelter home to shelter home while dad is in jail. The only thing he has left is his amazing girlfriend novisha who means everything to him. Tyrells mom cant do anything right and she doesnt know how to take care of her own family, so she leaves it up to tyrell to take of them and get them out of the nastiest hotel shelter in bronx. While in there he meets a girl named jasmine and Tyrell cant keep his eyes of her. Shes the hottest thing hes ever seen and he is more than willing to put his relationship on the line for this girl. As time goes on his mom releys more and more on him and he comes up with the idea to throw a huge party like his dad used to always to do make money. As he begins to plan his party he slowly realizes its gonna be harder than he thought and he is gonna spend a lot of money that he doesnt even have yet. Worst part is he has his hotel girl jasmine coming to his party to dance and he his real girl novisha decides to show up. Will the party be everything he wanted or will it end badly. What girl will he end up with and will he make enough money to support his family? I thought it was a really good book and it had a lot of detail and gave me a clear image of what i was reading. I would deffinetly recomend this book to other people. I would rate it a 8.5 out of 10.

Monster

Monster is a fast paced and very suspensful book by Walter Dean Myers that fills you with questions and makes you think everything about whats going on. It all starts out with Steve Harmon, a 16 year old that was convicted of shooting Mr. Nesbitt, a Gas station manager that was held up by robbers. He sits inside his dark depressing cage of a cell waiting for court to ruin his life. But he has a chance to get out with his lawyer Kathy O'Brien and his family which gives him faith throughout the book. Now he has to wait and try too keep himself together hopeing that the jury will choose his side.

This book is a great book that has nail-biting suspense and makes you read through the whole book right away making it a fast fast read. so I give this book a 7 out of 10 only because the author didnt really make feel like reality and it was more suitible for teens which kinda brought down the book for me. But it is a great book for people that are fans of suspensful books.

I am the messenger

in the book i am the messenger by Markus Zusak we have a 19 year old teen named Ed who has an average life that he shares with his three best friends audry marv and richie he also has to deal with his other who is a very heavy drinker. after the loss of his father Ed took in his fathers dog the door man. he makes a stop at the bank with his friends when suddenly the bank is being robed as the robber is leaving ed picks up his gun and shots at the robber making him semi famous. when all the fame stops comming in ed is back to his regular self or so he thinks when he gets a playing card in the mail with names on it he trys to figure out what to do the book takes many twists at this point and ed is left alone to figure out how to deal with the misterious cards he gets in the mail. this book has jsut about everything a person would like in a book it has dramtic fighting sences and also has the love that one person would find in a less dramitc book i give this book a very high 8/10 and thats only because in the end he dosent seem like he knows how to end the book but besides that fact Markus Zusak uses any great things in this book to make it a book you knew want to put down. I wish that this book would use more passion in it because it seems like when he was writing the book it just kind of happened he didnt try to make the book amazing he was ok with good.

Wizard and Glass, The Dark Tower IV

Wizard and Glass, The Dark Tower IV, is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series. Wizard and Glass talks about Rolands past and how he got too the point he is right now. In this book it goes off from the ending of the recent book in the series, The Waste Lands where Blaine stops in Topeka, Kansas after being over-loaded with "bad" and "stupid" riddles that Eddie came up with too save his friends lives from Blaine's insane attempt too kill himself and his "friends". But they crash land in Topeka and they explore there surroundings. As Roland and his fellow gunslingers, including Oy, go about exploring they find that they're near a deadly Thinny, which is an evil white void that feeds on everything and creates a sickening noise and it nauseates the gunslingers. They also find that there in there world but in a different time and reality. for example, instead of the baseball team, Kansas City Royals they find out that in this world there the Kansas City Monarchs. They also discover that the Topeka perhaps the world was destroyed by a Superflu. Anyway they start to journey off too what seems like a building with a nimbus surrounding it. but as the sit for and rest for the night Roland tells a story too his friends about the grave story about his time in Hambry with his past friends Alain and Cuthbert and how they battles the Big Coffin Hunters and the traitors of the Affiliation and how he met Susan, the love of his life and how she then burned and died on the Charyou Tree for Roland. After this depressing story and night they soon head off too a gate that stood before the Green Palace. As they thought and discussed about the Wizard of Oz and how it seemed soo familiar they found a pair of red shoes for each of them and they so realize that they have too clack there shoes simultaneously too open this gate. Then they head into the Green Palace. As they head in they see a very disturbing and famililar and sickening sight. It was Blaines Train car room that they were in and they soon confront The tick tock man and Flagg or Walter, Rolands nemisis. They kill the tick tock man and then Flagg puts them inside the Rhea wizards glass which was described in Rolands story and Rhea is the Witch that ultimatly killed susan. In the Wizards ball, His friends witness Roland killing his mother because Roland thought that that she was Rhea. After there horrible expierience in the wizards ball they wake up in Mid-world and they go off on there journey to the Dark Tower.

The Dark Tower series gets better and better each time i finsih the book and i look forward to the next book and will mostly get even better! i of course give this book a 10 out of 10 and i encourage all that are fans of fantasy fiction to read the Dark Tower series.
http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/wizard_and_glass.html

Roof Top

Rooftop by Paul Volponi is about a boy named Clay he lives in the projects and is in a drug treatment facility called daytop. When his cousin Addison who he hasnt seen or talked to since their family had a argument leaving them to go their own ways shows up at daytop Clay can't believe his eyes. When the two families find out they go to daytop together they have a long talk and the family dispute is finally over. But when Addison starts playing dice it might just be the last thing he does. As they chase the boy for Addisons money they end up on a rooftop, Addison dead and Clay in shock. Will the truth come out on what really happened on that roof top or will it be stuck inside Clay forever. I thought it was a ok book. I would rate it 5 out of 10. I wouldnt really recomend it to many people because it got very boring during some parts and dragged on but when they got to the core of the book i thought it was very good.

Cooked by: Jeff Henderson

Jeff Henderson is a black man who grew up in the inner city of San Diego. Like alot of young kids in this area, he got into the drug trade and started selling to make a living. Soon he upgraded to selling cocaine and by the age of 21 he was making over thirty-thousand dollars a week selling drugs. Soon after, he was sentenced to 20 years in a federal penitentiary for drug trafficing. Just as it seamed that his life couldn't get any better, he started working in the kitchen in the prison. A passion for cooking started cooking up inside him and he then knew what he was going to do when he got out. After being transfered around and let out early on good behavior, Jeff was released from prison. He had his mind set on finding a job cooking food, not crack. Finally after alot of hard work, he landed a job in vegas on the strip and his life just started to take off from there.