Assassin By:Anna Myers May 22, 2010

           I read the fascinating book Assassin by Anna Meyers. the book is about President Lincolns assassination. The main characters in the book are Arabella Gretchel, Steven Browning, J. Wilkes Booth, and President Lincoln. Arabella Gretchel is a laid back, relaxed kind of person. On the other hand, Steven is a talkative and smart person. Booth is the bad guy and he is very, very sneaky. And last, but not least, President Lincoln. he is always exhausted and tired. he is worried for his family and his country. now, some of the other characters. There’s Mrs. Lincoln, Arabella’s grandma, Arabella’s dad, Willie Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, Miss Keckley, June, Asia, and Edwin Booth.

       This story alternates between Arabella’s side of the story and J. Wilkes Booth’s side of the story. This story begins in 1859, November 4 when Arabella is eight years old. She was going to the Richmond stage to see a play with Wilkes Booth in it. Booth and Bella meet eyes when they’re walking in and say hi to each other. One year after the play Bella’s mom passes way. Her dad decides to get Bella down to Washington City. So they load up their carriage and in 3 days, they arrived.

        One year after Bella and Booth met, 4 states already succeeded from the Union. Bella meets Steven Browning. He is a neighbor of Bella and Stevens mom works at the white house. Steven is allowed to go to the white house after President Lincoln gets inaugurated. One year has passed and Booth now has joined the Confederacy. He is still allowed up north because he is the star actor in many of the shows. The next week Bella finds out some bad news. Her best friend Steven has to go to school next fall. That year they just spend their days wandering the streets of Washington City. Most of the schools and churches were turned into hospitals for the wounded solders. The day Bella dreaded had come. Steven and Mrs. Browning were leaving for school.

        Booth was not happy that President Lincoln was reelected again. He met Bella again at Fords theater when she was working there. They introduced them selves and somehow Booth talked the young fourteen year old into his plan to kidnapp Lincoln and free 35,000 southern solders from Fort Delaware. When his plan doesn’t succeed, the Union wins the war. Booth finds out that the President will be at the theater  to watch a play. Booth thought that this was his chance. Will he be okay?          

I recomend this book to people who love suspence. Also to people who just like a good book. That is my recomendation.

                                                                         Summary By: Nikolas Malachowski

Double Identity By: Margaret Peterson Haddix April 4, 2010

          I read the book Double Identity By Margaret Peterson Haddix. The main characters in the story are, Bethany Cole, Myrlie( Bethany’s aunt), Joss( Myrlie’s daughter, and Bethany’s cousin), Bethany’s parents, Walter Cole, and her mom, and last but not least, Elizabeth. Some of the other characters in the book were, Officer Brigemann, and Dalton Van Dyne. Those are the main characters, and the other characters in the book.

        The story starts out when Bethany, and her parents, were driving somewhere, to drop Bethany off. Bethany, is a self-contained kid, that doesn’t show her emotions. She is a blonde, with spreaded freckles across her nose. She wears narrow, brown-rimmed glasses. She’s also 5 foot 4 inches tall. Bethany’s mom is crying, but she doesn’t know why. When they finally reach their destination, it’s a small, dark house surrounded by big trees. The porch is big, wrapping around the side of the house. There’s a woman at the door talking to Bethany’s father. She hears the name Elizabeth a couple times and wonders who that is. He walks back to the car, grabs a suitcase, and tells Bethany that she’s going to spend a little time with her Aunt Myrlie. Bethany is so cofused.

         When her parents leave, she feels terrible. She doesn’t Myrlie, and she does who this, Elizabeth, is. She goes to sleep that night with all emotions circling in side her head. The next mouning, Myrlie takes a day off from work to relax Bethany. She sits at the table, eating breakfast, when she finally, has enough courage to ask about Elizabeth. Myrlie tells all about Elizabeth, explaining about how she was Bethany’s sister and how she died in a accident. The next day, Myrlie’s daughter, Joss, arrived at the door.  The three of them sat down at the table, introducing them self. Joss is from St. Louis, and she’s a minister. The phone rings, and all three of them spring up for the phone. Bethany gets it first, and her mother thinks she’s Elizabeth. She’s says something about cloning her, and that’s when Bethany goes crazy.

         She runs out of the house, down the steps, though the gate, and out the development. She trips and hurts her leg. Thats when Joss arrives and she’s panting. Then a black car drives up to them and offers them a ride home. He Knows their names, but they don’t know his. They veto the offer, and get back home. When she gets home there’s a package, waiting for her. Inside there is 10,000 dollars. The door bell rings and trick-or-treaters are there.  Soon, the Trick-or-treaters are over, and they decide that their going to a carnival. The dress up and their coming, are Bethany’s parents. All three of them are shocked. But behind them, is the criminal, Dalton Van Dyne. He’s telling Bethany’s father give him his clone. Bethany takes off her disguise, and tells Van Dyne that their is no clone of him, only her. Then Van Dyne starts to cry. The next day, is Bethany’s thirteenth birthday. She finds out that she is a clone, but her and her sister are not the same. The next few months, Bethany starts to go to school, and her parents move in with Myrlie. They are living in Sanderfield, Illinois, but they’re doing just fine.

          I recomend this book to people who like suspence. Also to people who like compelling, and a twisting plot story. That my recomendation, hope you like the book.

The Graveyard Book By: Niel Gaiman March 2, 2010

          The past few weeks I rea the book The Graveyard Book. The main characters in the book are, Bod Owens( bod short for Nobody Owenes), Silas, (Bods’ guardian) Scarlett,( Bods’ friend), Miss Lupescu,( a friend of Silas) and finally, the man Jack( the murderer. Those are the main characters of The Graveyard Book.

         The story starts out in a foggy night in the middle of summer. The man Jack stalks the house until everyone is sound asleep, the strikes open the houses front door. The knife is in his pocket, he goes up to the parents room and strikes quickly. “ Two down, two to go.” The man Jack says outloud. Next, moving swiftly towards the young girls room, he wipes the blood off the knife, and strikes once agian. ”One to go.” The man Jack goes up to the attic, opens the toddlers door slightly. He sees the boy sleeping in his bed. He holds up the knife and, bam! When he hit the boy, all there was on the Knife was the toddlres teddy bear. The man Jack got furios. He looked all around the house, the catches the boys scent. The scent led to the front door. There lay a diaper. The man Jack folled the scent to the graveyard. There was a couple picking up the toddler, saying how beautiful it was. The man Jack would have to wait, to get his next victum.

            Five years later Bod is in the graveyard making friends withe dead. He goes out of the Owenes tomb. His guardian, Silas, would be going away in a couple days. Bod met Miss Lupescu the day Silas was leaving. She has a pinched face ang grey hair. She also had croocked teeth. Bod did not like the idea the Silas was leaving him with this freak. She taught him tons of stuff about ghoust ond ghouls. When Silas returned, Bod was thrilled. Over the next few years, Silas taught him all about the dead, and in a bad situation, how to fade. When he turned ten, he finally went out of the grave- yard. Everyone was cleaning there tomb, or coffin, to get ready for the Mocabray. Bod went to Silas to find out what this Mocabray exactly was. He told Bod it was a huge dance in the middle of the town. Bod was not aloud out of the graveyard for saftey reasons. That night, nobody was at thier grave to play with Bod. He heard music, and decided to see what it was. When he saw what it was, he was stunned. The dead and the young were dancing together.

         When the next year came, Bod decided that he wanted to try real school. When he walked into school, nobody noticed him. Bod mostly spent his spare time in the library. One he noticed that a boy was getting his money stollen everyday. He walkes over to him and tells him to stand up to the bullie. It works. When the bullie comes after Bod, Bod gets scared and doesn’t go to school anymore. Over the next couple years Silas teaches Bod how to more quickly.When he turned fourteen, he met a girl named Scarlett. She liked Bod. At that age, Bod really wanted to learn about his family. Scarlett decided to help. When Scarlett askes a friend to help he  accepts. When Scarlett and Bod go over to the mans house, the man pulls out a knife and reviels himself as the man Jack. Scarlett and Bod ran back to the graveyard. Scarlett hid while Bod wanted to protected his home. When the man Jack reached Scarlett he put the Knife on her neck. Then Bod is down near Jack and Scarlett. The man Jack fools the Sleer of being its master. Next, a three headed snake comes out and swallows the man Jack up. When they get out the pit, they say it is all done to Silas. Silas takes Scarlett home and erases he memory from the past few days.

        When the end of summer comes he finally leaves the graveyard to go and explore life. That day Bod Owenes realizes that he can live his life, he doesn’t have to live in the shadows anymore.

      I would recomend this book to people that into mystery and happy enddings. Also to people that love suspense.

Thomas Jefferson January 8, 2010

               Over the past few weeks I read the book Thomas Jefferson. Of couse, the main character in this story is Thomas Jefferson. He was a good and loyal President to the United States of America. His life was pretty interesting, so lets get started.

              Thomas Jefferson always wanted to be president when he grew up. He was born  April 13, 1743  in Monticello, Virgina. He had a mom and a dad. There names were Jane Randolph and Peter Randolph .  Later when he was ten, he started attending the Virgina church more often. He made friends and he attended school. Later in his early 20′s he built a house that he said he would live in that house till the day he died. The house (or masion) was named after his home town, Monticello. Now it stand as a national monument. Thats Thomas Jeffersons eary childhood.

               Later in his life he wrote one of the most famos documents ever known to man. Its called the DECLERATION OF INDEPENDANCE. It took jim years to write it. After giving a speech, the president election was up. He won!  A few years later he bought one of the largest pieces ever. It was the Lousiana purchase. It neary doubled the size of our country we know today. After winning the war with Britian, He retired from office. He spent the rest of his life living in Monticello with wife and writing books.. After she died, he was depressed and only one more book before he died on July 4, 1826.

                  I recomend this book to people who like really good presidents. Also to people who like history books.  Thats who I recomend this book to.

                                                                                                                Summary By: Nikolas Malachowski

The Intruders November 14, 2009

      Over the past few weeks, I read the book “The Intruders” By: E.E. Richardson.The main characters are, Joel Demetrius, Cassie Dremetrius, Damon Wilder, and finally Tim Wider. Some of the other characters are Ms.Demetrius, and Mr Wilder. Those are the chacters of the book.

      This book is very interesting. As the Demetrius’s and the Wilders move into this centeries old house, Joel doesn’t like the felling of the house. He starts to feel uneasy, he becomes more afraid of the house. The day they move into the house, Cassie, and Joel to in the back yard for a little while. That’s when Joel see’s this running shadow hop over the huge fence. Joel takes off after the thing, but when hre gets over the fence there’s no one there. That night Joel has this terifying dream. He wakes up with a start. He goes to his window to breath in fresh air, and there in the garden was some one strarring at him.

     The next few days Joel had more dreams and didn’t sleep. He tells Cassie, but she doesn’t believe him. Joel was trying to tell Cassie again, but Cassie’s enemy, Damon and his brother Tim over heard them. Cassie and Damon get into an argument and Cassie brings up the idea of having a seanceup in the loft. Everybody goes quiet for a little while. Damon was the firs to speak. ”Tell when we need to be up there sis” he says. Now it’s time for you to find out what happens next. I recamend this book to people who like scary, mystery novels.

 Summary By: nikolas Malachowski