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.
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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.

The Waste Lands,The Dark Tower III

The Waste Lands, The Dark Tower III is the third book out of the Dark Tower series. The book follows the footsteps of the second book The Drawing of the Three. The whole series so far is phenomenal but so far this is the best book out of the two that I have read and it seems too get better as I move on to the next book. But it all starts out with Eddie, Susannah and Roland camping out in the wilderness, surviving the wild and having Roland teach Eddie and Susannah to how to become true Gunslingers. But as the story rolls on, a lot of strange signs and events occur and creates a lot of tension and relaxation for Roland. Because Jake, Roland's first companion to join his quest to find the Dark Tower and the man in black, comes back to life but he lives on in the real world. But even though Jake was killed in the first book from dropping from a mountain, Jake manages to remember everything that he had gone through in Mid World (which is the world Roland and his current travelers are in at this moment). But all this was discovered when Eddie confronts a cyborg bear and the bear was Jake's sign which led to the fact that Jake is still alive. But to get Jake back to Mid World Eddie finds out that he has too make a key out a piece of wood that they soon discover by throwing the jawbone of the Man in Black's into a fire. As the travelers go on through a vicious and backbreaking adventure they finally rendezvous with Jake which filled Roland with Happiness and joyfulness and same with Eddie and Susannah. After this event they all follow the beams that lead to different portals which all the beams meet up in the middle which means that the Dark Tower is there. They also encouter alot of conflicts and action through out the book.
The whole story is very long and full of excellent details, i could go on but there are too many things going on and i would probably fill this whole page up but all the things that go on makes you glued too each and every page making you want too know every outcome and detail on what is going on because it is such a great story too read. Rating this book 1-10 I give this book a 10 out of 10 because I've enjoyed this book and of course this series so much and i hope people that like to read Fantasy, Science Fiction, Action, Drama and adventure book will get a chance to read this epic tale.
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Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

Award winning Laurie Halse Anderson wrote PROM a story about a "normal kid" named Ashley Hannigan. Many teens spend hours planning out there prom night to the point where it has to be perfect. Ashley was not one of them girls, she could care less about Prom. Ashley only worried about graduating from Carceras High School, and her many detentions that had to be served. Ashley had a boyfriend named TJ who was barely ever around, a crazy family, and a best friend Natalia who was head of the Prom committee. When Nat found out the math teacher had stolen all the money Ash had no choice but to help, But with the assistance of her family, her friends, and the school staff it all worked out. It's unlikely to have Ashley, a girl who hates prom, at last minute pull off Prom on a very low budget but in the end it turned out perfect and not only made everyone happy but changed Ashley's thoughts in all sorts of ways; Read this book to find out how Ashley pulled it off!

-->This book was very interesting and made me realize that its not always just about yourself. I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to other teenage girls.
-->If i had to rate this book out of 1-10; 10 being the highest i would give it an 8 =)

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By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Daelyn Rice is the main character of "By the Time you read this, I'll be dead."
She's been through a lot, and starting from a young age makes it even harder and longer. She's attempted suicide numerous times, but obviously failed each of them. She can't speak, and she has to wear a neck brace. Other wise she can hear, walk etc, fine. She waits after school each day for one of her parents to pick her up, and theres this boy named Satana who always meets her there and welcomely greets her. She tries her BEST to ignore him. She dosnt want anything to do with anyone, and she dosnt want anyone to do with her. She found this website, she thinks by some strange miracle, but this website is called "Through-the-light.com". This website shows blogs of people who've attempted suicide and blogs about how horrible there life is. This Website also gives you tips on how you can kill yourself and when. She signed up to this website and she found something you can sign up on where it'll give you a date to kill yourself. The minimum days is 23. She's disappointed.
She decided on her technique. She continued going to school. And continued sitting on the bench and Satana always came by and talked to her. She had to go to his house a couple of times because her parents were unable to pick her up some days. She opened herself up little by little, not neccessairly talking about herself, but allowing herself to listen to Satana.

This book is kind of depressing. So, I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody who've felt the way she does. Like, feels like ending their life is the only option. I mean, it might give them ideas ya know? So i recommend this book to someone who is stronger mentally. It's not a horrible book, it's a good fast read if you don't put your life in Daelyn Rice' Shoes.
I hope you enjoy this book, I sure did.

The Drawing of The Three, The Dark Tower II

The Drawing of The Three, The Dark Tower II, is the second book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen king. This book is as great as the first book full with action, drama and epic adventure's that will keep you attached to the book until your done with it and will make you want too read on and on until you hit the next book in the series. The second book starts out with Roland, The Gunslinger, waking up on a beach and is suddenly attacked by a monstrous lobster-like figure which soon calls a "lobstrosity". As Roland loses his index finger and middle finger on his right hand and losing his big toe on his right foot he kills the lobstrosity. With his wounds untreated and are starting to get infected, Roland starts too lose strength and begins to become feverish. Throughout his struggling adventure through the long never-ending beach he stumbles upon three doors. These three doors lead to his soon to be discovered companions and explain what the tarot cards are for(This is explained at the end in the first book The Gunslinger). In the first door it reads "The Prisoner", he enters the door and he discovers Eddie Dean, who is a street-smart heroin addict which describes him as "the prisoner" Eddie joins Roland on his quest to the Dark Tower and becomes an Gunslinger. The Second door leads to the "Lady of Shadows" Odetta Holmes. Odetta has multiple personalities such as Detta and Susannah, which this labels her as "Lady of Shadows" because of her many shadows. The Third door leads to Jack Mort and is labeled "The Pusher". Who is used too help Roland get ammo and medicine for his journey.

This book is an amazing book which is as good as the first one. An must read for people that are Stephen King fans or even any reader that love action filled adventures. i give this book a 10 out of 10! It really made me never want too drop the book.

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The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower l

The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower l is the first book in the Dark Tower series written by one of America's favorite authors, Stephen King. This amazing book is one of the best book's I've read in for a while and it all feature's fantasy, western, horror and science fantasy all mixed and twisted together making it an awesome book. It all begins by introducing Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, and his pursuit for the "Man in Black" which has lasted for many years. The beginning of the book also starts to describe the world in the book as if it were similar too the old west but is an complete mirror of our world today. His quest for the Dark Tower drives him and keeps him going but is filled with many obstacles which also glues the reader too the book making the reader not want too let the book down. There's a lot of great action, adventure and drama in the book, for example, through a flashback of Roland's past in a town called Tull, the whole town turns on him because of the "Man in Black". In order too survive The Gunslinger was forced too kill every resident in the town, including his lover, Alice. This part is just one out of many parts filled with action and drama that makes it such a amazing book.
I give this book a 10 out of 10! The book just made me read more and more because of its intensity, the whole storyline and the vivid descriptions of the book really just brought me in the world of the Gunslinger.

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Drive-By

In the book Drive-By, by Lynne Ewing, we have a family that has just been devistated by a gangs drive-by shooting when it kills titos older brother and he dosent know why. the gang the gang starts comming by titos house alot and his buddy gus gives him a gun and tells him it will help him against a rival gang that tito thinks killed his brother. this book was really short it took me a day to read i lked it but it could of been alot longer i give the book a 5 out of 10 because it was so short.

By the Time You Read This I'll Be Dead

In the book By the time you read this, I'll be dead by Julie Anne Peters, Daelyn Rice is determined to successfully remove herself from existance. Her parents have sent her to a catholic all girls school since her failed previous attempt, but she doesnt seem to fit in so well with a neckbrace, she is known as the 'mute freak' who can't speak at all. She tells about her traumatic history of abuse, torture, and depression, she allows you into her mind to see her experiences and feel her feelings. With the help of Through the Light she counts down the days until her death, her success and freedom. It all begins with 23 days, 23 long, eventful, dragging days for Daelyn. She wants nothing to do with anyone, or anything, but when 18 year old Santana pushes his way into her life, and refuses to leave no matter how stubborn she gets, she has no choice. Throughout the book you feel the terrible, depressing feelings that many people who have endured torture feel everyday, you get a taste for what it feels like to be bullied and made fun of.

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a great thriller novel with non stop suspense and action that will make you jump out of your seat and will force you too want too read more and more of this book. It all starts with Llewelyn Moss out hunting for antelope when he suddenly comes across a drug deal that has gone bad. He sneaks into the bloody scene and finds a ton of heroin in a truck with dead Mexican drug dealers except one badly wounded man asking Llewelyn for water. He tells him that he doesn't have any water with him and he goes on investigating the gruesome scene and finds a satchel filled with cash, he takes the satchel and goes home. When he left for home he felt bad and was full of remorse for the man he left behind. He soon goes back and finds that the man was murdered and he sights another truck in the area. He runs for his life but is sighted by gunmen and the grueling never ending hunt begins for Moss and the hunters are the Mexican drug cartels and the Sociopath hitman as known as Anton Chigurh.

No Country for Old Men is an great great book filled with tense, suspenseful scenes with loads of action and drama which forcefully will make you never want put the book down until its over. I give this book a 10 out of 10 because its a very very quick read and the thrills and the suspence made me read on until the bitter end

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Jake,reinvented

In the book Jake Reinvented, By Gordon Korman, We have a small town school with people that play football and alot that dont. The book is centered around three people one Todd,Rick and Jake. Jake is a new transfer student and he joins the football team and is good at one thing and that is long snapping. the coach that believes that the game is played both ways tells him that long snapping is the only thing he will be doing. When Jake throws a party and has a really good show of people the popularity starts flowing and people want to know and hang with  Jake. Rick and Todd are really good friends but when jake comes in and  has Rick in the hot seat about being best friends Rick is split. when Todds girlfriend Dede comes into the picture and Jake looks like he is in love but really every guy is in love with dede she is a perfect ten out of ten. Things start to go really wrong when Jakes partys start to get out of hand when him and Dede start hanging out alot Todd goes wild and makes a mistake but that you will have to find out for yourself see what happens to Todd,Rick and Jake by reading the book. I give this book a 10 out of 10 there are very few times when a book comes around and it apeals me but so far books by Gordon Korman have done that. the book is for sure a non put down book and I loved it the book is perfect for people that like fast reads that are really good. Gordon Korman has become one of my favorite writers and keeps on writing books that I cant put down. I recomend this book to anyone because I think everyone should read it.

Mark Levin: Liberty and Tyranny

When I started reading liberty and tyranny I have to say it was pretty amazing. I have had to listen to talk radio with my dad for a lot of my life but I never really knew why he did and now that I'm coming to voting age this book helps to put a lot of things into perspective especially why he always listened to it. it talks about a lot of things from the near communistic power of f.d.r. to current issues plaguing this country. Mark really impressed me when i read this book because it wasn't a biast vote republican book. he just said that the people he supports could come from any party but right the best way in is through the republican party. he talks a lot about conservative values, the attacks on freedom, the rise of the welfare state, the parental disconnect with their children education, the loss of morality, the rise of the global cooling then global warming scandal, the hundreds billions of dollars in debt and tens trillions in unfunded obligations, the great communicator ronald reagan, the liberal takeover of the media, the liberal takeover of schools and union groups, the breakdown of national security through reduction of our nuclear arms allowance for communist dictators to acquire them, the breakdown of the border, backroom deals, bills passed that the american people have made known they dont want, an activist supreme court acting outside there abilities and the list goes on and on. The real purpose of this book is a warning to the people of america that if we keep going down the road were going america is no longer going to be the land of the free. We are now on a fast track to socialism and if we become socialist there will be nowehere free left on the planet, we are the last great bastion of freedom, and freedom is never more than one generation from ectintion. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Street Pharm

The book Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen, is about a young boy named Ty who lives the life of a hustler. He doesnt go to school and when he does he gets kicked out. When his mom makes him go to another school he meets the girl of his dreams but hes not trying to have a girlfriend. Ty has followed his dads footsteps and taken over the family buisness ever since his dad went to prison. But when compititon comes to Brooklyn Ty doesnt know what to do. Will he loose the family buisness and his life or will he manage to make it out on top as the King of the streets.

I thought it was a really good book and I really enjoyed reading it. I would rate this book 8 out of 10 because it gives you that I want to read more feeling and makes you want to keep turning the pages.

Ed Gein, Psycho

Ed Gein, Psycho is a book about one of the most legendary, psychotic, serial cannibalistic killers in Wisconsin that has inspired many books and films(Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)which created his ghoulish legacy of becoming the most hated and most loved killers of all America. Ed Gein, Psycho, starts out with his family history of being farmers and eventually gets too Ed Gein. The book at this part describes his personality as a kid and how his personality changes as he grows up and lives through his hard and lonely life. His father was a Big farmer and a very abusive parent and never stooped down to his level while his mother was very caring and really was the only person that loved Ed at the time.
One night Ed sneaked out toward the outhouse, which is out limits to Ed, out of suspicion because of weird and awful noise's. He slightly and gently cracks the door open and witnesses his ma and pa cutting and slicing open a pig for food. Ed felt faint and had a warm tingling feeling deep down below inside of him. This was the event that turned Ed's mind upside down and created the psycho that is Ed Gein.
This book is a very Graphically gory book and creates the wrong images in your mind which for some people makes them want too read on and learn and see more and for others would just want to drop the book and leave. for this reason i give this book a 6 out of 10. But i feel that this book is very intriguing and made me want too learn and read more about Ed Gein.


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Street Pharm

Street Pharm, written by Allison van Diepen takes place in inner-city Brooklyn. Tyrone is the main character of Street pharm. Orlando, his father was put in jail for getting caught drug dealing. It's only right that Ty should take up the 'family' business. Right? Well, that's what he did. Ty knows what he needs to do.

His mom dosn't suspect anything in the beginning, but when he started getting kicked out of schools, she knew something was up. Especially when she found out he was hanging with Sonny, one of Orlandos buds.

"Darkman's in town and he's shutting us down" (page 107)

This Darkman guy is trying to take over Ty's customers, and more importantly, his business. Ty isn't going to stand there and let it happen. He's going to do something about it. Two questions, how is he going to do it, and does he succeed?

Ty learns his responsibilities as a teenager. He shouldn't have to worry about what his fathers done, or what his father wants him to do. There's a reason that Orlandos in jail.

Friends, enemies, everyones got them. Ty tries to stay away from friends outside of the business, and that means girls too. He dosn't want to get distracted and he dosn't want to put them in danger.

Ty is very smart and has a lot of common sense. I like this quote from him, "I DIDN'T OWN NO GUN. Having a gun wasn't gonna change my chances of getting shot. You don't hear about people saving themselves from drive-bys by shooting back. If you shoot back and you lucky enough to survive the drive-by, you still got the cops charging your..(butt)" (page 15).

Throughout this story, Ty goes through many emotions about life, and he wants to find out if his life is what he wants it to be. Does he want to deal the rest of his life, and possibly get thrown in jail right alongside his father, or does he want to make that one step forward on a new path?

Ty figures out what he needs to do, whether that be following his dads footsteps, or making his own.

Band of Brothers

The book, Band of Brothers, is set in World War II and is about the different experiences the soldiers in Easy company, 101st Airborne Division and the U.S Army all had endured throughout the war in Europe. Stephen E. Ambrose, the author of Band of Brothers, describes with full detail on how certain lives and experiences of the heroic soldiers changed from fighting through, D-Day, Operation Market-Garden, fighting in Bastogne and attacking there way too Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Band of Brothers starts out in Camp Toccoa, Georgia and it begins with describing the general backgrounds, the lifestyles and changes the men went through and showing the rigorous, extreme training the men of the Easy company, 506Th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division and the U.s Army had to go through to get ready for the assault on Normandy or most likely known as D-day. As the brutal training went on and jump school ended, the fully powered, disciplined parachute soldiers were ready for action. As the book goes on, Easy Company parachutes into normandy and begins too slowly progress throughout Germany and German powered countries. Stephen does a great job of showing the battle scenes and the gory images that make you feel like your in the battlefield with Easy Company. What really makes this a great book is how he interviewed alot of the living soldiers that participated in Easy Company and 101st Airborne Division and there perspectives and expierences they had while fighting in that gruesome war. I give this book a 9 out of 10 because of the great detail and is a great book for readers that like to read about Military History.
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