Greenwood Lab School

Book- Haunting of Swains Fancy

Author-Brenda Seabrooke

Pages-1-160

This book is about a girl named Taylor who is 12 years old, and who has recently moved into an 18th century home. While at the house she was communicated to by ghosts of the Civil War. The ghosts end  up to be brothers that killed each other in the Civil War. The brothers were named Jared and Jason.  Jared was confederate, and Jason the union. They were both in love with their cousin Elizabeth. Jared shot and killed Jason, and accused Jason of stealing the family gold. Taylor finds evidence with the help of Elizabeth’s ghost that Jared stole the family gold and shot Jason. Elizabeth lived her host life happily after that.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. I like mysteries and this one kept my heart beating and the page turning. This would be a great movie, because of the action and scariness. It’s sad though because Elizabeth never got the chance to be with Jason because he died. I  think Jason  kind of got his revenge though, because the union ended up winning the war. I would recomend this book to someone who likes mysteries.

Marked- P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Pages-106/306

I have recently been reading the book Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. This book is about a girl named Zoey, who was marked. This means that she has to go to live at the House of Night which is a house for Vampyres. Right before i stopped reading, she had just gotten to the House of Night and met a few friends. There is a group of girls called The Dark Daughters who are mean to Zoey and I am excited to see how it ends up.

I am really enjoying this book. It has a good storyline and is very good. Iwonder what will happen now that Zoey has been marked. Will her parents be mad? Will she have to leave The House of Night? What is the deal with the Dark Daughters and why are they being so mean to Zoey? Will Zoey ever have to leave The House of Night? And if so, When? I think that this book has often been compared to the Twilight Series, but I have enjoyed this book just as much. This book is in a series and I am very excited to continue reading this book. I would reccomend it to anybody, because I think that it is a pretty universal book!

Alias: Faina
Rudy Gaborno
Chap. 9-The end
The APO team figures out that Faina at age seventeen is an accomplished and well known hacker. When Faina was still a hostage, the boss, Victor Pushov forced her to build a bomb. Little did Faina know the bomb was going to be attached to her father.

What will Faina and the APO team do to stop this catastrophe that is on their hands. Will Sydney be able to disarm the bomb in time. Will Faina go rogue and murder the men responsible for her family’s imprisonment. How could the ultimate tough guy in Michael Vaughn be tricked and deceived by a seventeen year old girl. Will it come down to a commercial airliner exploding or one dead seventeen year old girl. I personally hope that no one dies.

One cold, dark, and musty morning, a young boy was to report to Cox South Hospital at 0530. He was five minutes early to the check-in desk. He received a buzzer that would go off when he was to go to his private room. The buzzer goes off 45 minutes later. The boy is unsure what the delay was. He was then taken to his pre-surgery room. The attendant for his room made him change into a hospital gown. After he was changed the nurse attempted to find his veins, but his veins were nowhere to be found. The nurse looked on his right arm now. The only visible vein was on his hand. The IV was done, no big deal right. He then was left in that room an hour after he had received his IV. The nurse then comes in and tells him and his family he was bumped from the 0800 surgery to the 1030 surgery. After waiting and waiting the boy was taken back to holding so he could be prepped for surgery. Since he was under 15 he was stuck in a kiddie isolation room from all of the other adult patients. He was in the isolation room with his mom for fifteen minutes, when the anesthesiologist greeted him and talked over what he was going to do. He was to perform a block on this boy’s leg. Last time it took two times to completely numb his lower body. This time it took this doctor at least eight times if not more to numb not even all of his leg. When he was taken back into the surgery room, he told the doctors in the room that the block was not entirely successful. The boy woke up in the holding room at 1230 hours and was taken to a recovery room, where he and his parents would meet up. Last time the boy was in the recovery room he was sick, throwing up, and he even peed on himself. This year it was much different, the boy was able to keep down food and drink and peed in the toilet successfully. The boy then headed home where he would sleep the rest of the day away.

            I picked up on page forty of the boy in striped pajamas where he had just moved into a new home. In this new home there was alot of woods surrounding it. the boy went out and explored this very often. one day he went further than usual, when he came upon a barbwire fence where there was a boy sitting on the oppisite side.  this boy was in stripped pajamas bruno asked why he wore them. he told them that the soliders took them. bruno told him that his father was a solider but he didnt do that. they became friends and started meeting every day the boy informed him of all the terible things that had happened to him inside of the walls . bruno started questioning his father about his work and there were arguments. bruno now had to sneek out to see the boy. bruno decieded to get the boy out he snook into the camp got the boy but were caught on the way out and were put to death in a gas chamber.

The Hindenburg Mureders
By: Max Allan Collins

Leslie Chartreuse an accomplished author from the U.S.A. is traveling on the famous airship called the Hindenburg. He hooks up with and attractive young blonde named Hilda. He is told by the captain that his roommate is a German Spy sent to find anyone disloyal to the Nazi cause. After the first night Mr. Chartreuse realizes his roommate has been thrown overboard.

This book is awesome. I just want to keep reading it. This is a mystery/thriller novel. I really hope Mr Chartreuse figures out what exactly happened to his roommate Eric Kanecker. There is also a possibility of a bomb onboard the Hindenburg. Mr. Chartreuse is pondering how a bomb would be possible to be onboard with all of the thorough security checks. I hope Mr. Chartreuse figures out everything and stops it in time.

A Midsummer’s Night Dream
By: William Shakespeare

The fools are introduced and perform at the triple wedding. The fairies end up fixing what went wrong with Lysander. Demetrius, Helena and Hermia. The fools play is probably the comic relief in this tragedy/love story.

I really liked the ending. It was a happily ever after one. I enjoyed that the book wasn’t only intriguing but exciting. Even though it was hard to understand at times. Shakespeare did an excellent job writing a book that still included poetry. My favorite character out of all of the characters is definitely Puck, Oberon’s right hand man and prankster. Even though Puck messed up the love for some of the main characters. He ended up fixing it. Puck was just humorous and awesome. He would be a nice friend to have on your side.

A Midsummer’s Night Dream
By: William Shakespeare

A Midnight’s Summer Dream was about a mess of love. Lysander and Hermia loved each other, Demetrius loves Hermia for her money and father’s power and Helena loves Demetrius. Theseus the Duke of Athens is in love with Hippolyta queen of the Amazon’s. Theseus is good friends with Egeus who is Hermia’s father. Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius.

So far this book is really good. The love knots are always intriguing. I think Egeus needs to let Hermia marry her true love Lysander and not Demetrius. I wish Demetrius would realize that Helena truly loves and appreciates him. I think these couples should do the right thing. Everything gets made worse when the Fairies get involved. The fairies had good intentions but the end up hurting the good people. I hope the fairies reconcile what they did wrong. I also would like it if the fairies made the three couples and Egeus happy.

Alias: Faina
By: Rudy Gaborno
Chapter’s 1-7

The Sorokin Family was staying in a house in Prague. All of the sudden armed men come in and take the Sorokin’s hostages. APO was alerted of this kidnapping, because Anton Sorokin is a diplomat. Sydney and Vaughn are tasked to recover the Sorokins’. Sydney find Faina, the daughter, but the father Anton had already transported to a different location and the mother was murdered.

I can not wait until I finish this book. I really enjoy all of the Alias series books, because I loved the television show. These books add details and fill in gaps from the television show. I also think I love these books because it involves espionage. When I was younger I wanted to become a spy. I wanted to serve our country. My Aunt used to work with the C.I.A. as an analyst and computer technician. Even though she never worked in the field, I still see her as a hero for our country. The spies that have awesome fighting skills. I always wanted these skills. I am so pumped to finish my book.

I have read from pages one to forty one in the book the boy in striped pajamas. the beging is a bit slow about a kid named bruno who is just living a normal life at school and has his niegbor hood friends. 

then suddenly one day when he arrived home from school his father and mother were packing. they informed bruno that they would be moving far from there bruno was for some reason not very troulbed by this he was ready for change. when i had reached my stopping point he had just moved into a new environment. overall i think it has started out a bit slow, but considering i know the ending i believe that this book will be quite a suspensful and exciting book