Top Ten Book Blog

1. The Lost Hero By Rick Riordan

This novel is my all-time favorite book. It invokes my favorite sub-genre Fantasy. The main character's name in this book is Jason. This book is about trying to takedown the Earth goddess Gaea or make go back to sleep for another thousand years. This book got recommended to me in 5th grade.
I was automatically glued to it. I would read 200 pages of the book in 1 session at night. It influenced me because I thought that there were't that many good genres out there for me, until I stumbled upon this. This book is the reason fantasy is my favorite genre.

2. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

This trilogy sets place in the future. The main character in this book is Katniss Everdeen. Katniss's sister gets chosen for this fight to the death battle, she volunteers for her sister and she has to participate in it. This book didn't influence me as much as my first pick but still it hooked me in and that is why it is my second favorite book






3. The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

This novel takes place in the Holocaust. The main character is Helmuth. He is a german who doesn't believe that killing Jews or deporting them back to their country is a good thing. This book influenced me because I never knew that their were dictators as bad as them. It also made me believe that speaking your word isn't a bad thing, it is a good thing.






4. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

If I didn't read the lost hero, this would be my favorite book of all time. The main character is Ender. He is sent to space to fight in a intergalactic battle between teenage kids and aliens. He commands every single ship because he is the smartest. This book hooked me in. This book always has surprises.  It didn't really influence me that much, but it was still a really good book to read.






5. The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch

This book is about how I would their were to be an eleventh plague, this is how it would be. The main character is Steven. He is with his dad trying not to catch a virus while at the same time trying to forge food to survive. It hits very close to home in a disturbing way. It was still a very interesting book. I am waiting for the next book in the series to come out.






6. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

This book is about a girl about to enter college, but she gets teleported to a different place. Far up north. She faces many dilemmas such as armored bear etc. She has to get through this journey to find the golden compass which will lead her back home. This book will hook you in in a couple chapters.







7. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

This series by all means is probably the best series of books of all time. Probably the most famous too. These series of books are awesome. It is that one book that you can't keep your eyes of of. The main character is Harry Potter. He was adopted because both of his parents died. He was recruited by Hogwarts, a magic school, which is just like any other school. But when he gets older he has to fight evil with his powers. If you haven't read this series I suggest it to any kind of reader.




8. The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

This is overall a great series. This is a great series about 3 siblings who are unfortunate orphans. They get adopted by a creepy old man. Than bad things start to happen. He starts to put them in bad schools and abuses them. But he dies in the end. This is a great book for anybody the age 11 and over. I suggest to many people.






9. The Perks of being a Wallflower by Steven Chbosky

The main character is Charlie. He is the new kid in school. He surprisingly becomes popular. He is one of those, shy, intelligent popular guys. He is trying to figure out if he should live with his life, or runs away from it. This is a really good book. I know it doesn't seem for my age but still, it talks about life in the teenage years. It is a really good book. I would suggest it to anyone.






10. The Maze Runner by James Dashner

This is one of those action packed books. I cannot put a book down if something is constantly happening. This book is about a boy named Thomas. He was put in a maze. They brainwashed him so he doesn't remember anything of what happened in his passed life. The maze is huge and is constantly changing. So he and his other friends have to find there way out. I suggest it to any reader who can't put a good book down.






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All About Me

     Hi my name is Robert. I am in 7th grade. I live with 2 sisters, my mom, and my dad. My oldest sister is in 12th grade, and the second oldest is in 9th grade. I also have a dog. She is oldest sister is in college, and the second oldest is in 9th grade. I also have a dog. Her name is Ginger.

     I have a lot hobbies. My favorite sport is baseball. That is my favorite, but I also play basketball and soccer. I really don't like or play video games that much. But if I were to play a video game, it would be 9 innings on an apple device.

     

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

     The Boy Who Dared is 1 of Susan Campbell Bartoletti awesome books she made. The Boy Who Dared is about a boy named Helmuth who tortured by society when he is being pressured to hate Jews. Helmuth is later killed because he was listening to a radio station that was ruined and the people that were talking were Jews.

     Susan was born on November 18, 1958. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania . 2 months after she was born, her father had sadly passed away in a car accident. Her mother later got remarried when Susan finished kindergarten. She attended Marywood College and Binghamton University. After that she became a teacher. She stayed in that career for eighteen straight years.

     When Susan was younger, she wanted to be an artist when she got older. She said she had no idea that she was going to be in the writing business. For one of her books, she won a Golden Kiter award for nonfiction. She won the Jane Addams book for Children books. She also won the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for another nonfiction book. Two other books that she had wrote were Black Potatoes, and Kids On Strike.

    The name of my book was The Boy Who Dared. The author is Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Susan has created many other books about Hitler and how life was back then.
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The Boy Who Dared

     The book,  The Boy who Dared, was a really good book, this was one of the books that I would not want to put down. The memorable part was when the author gave flash forwards to hook the reader throughout the story.  One flashback was, "Noon. The small window in the cell door slides open again. A bowl of watery cabbage soup is shoved through. the soup is possible to eat if he doesn't  stop to smell it, doesn't stop to think about is grandmother's soup, her thick beef-and-barley soup, and the crusty bread bread to sop up the hearty broth. He longs for a letter. He'd surely trade soup for a letter. He misses his family terribly, so terribly he aches. He knows he has caused them much sorrow, much hardship, Especially Gerhad, That he regrets, and only that. He gulps the thin soup." This flash forward means that he is in a dark cell. I predict he has been in their for a long time because it says he misses his family so very much. The author Susan Campbell Bartoletti did a really good job with these flash forwards, and the book in general.

Why Helmuth, is Helmuth

   Once Helmuth knew that that Hitler got elected, he knew Germany was in trouble. He never agreed with Hitler. You could say he was anti-hitler. He wanted to stop Hitler from what he was doing.  He didn't believe that they should kick out or kill anymore jews. "Germans! Don't buy from Jews!"(pg.31).  This means that Germans don't like the Jews at all. This is what gets Helmuth furious with Hitler.

My Last words

Dear Hans,

     I will not see you. I will be gone for forever. I was sentenced to death for listening to foreign radio. This is the last pen I will ever pick up. I will be executed on October 27, 1942. I am sorry. Remember I didn't die in vain, this was for all of Germany. I would rather speak the truth and die, than lie and be a coward. I want you to tell Mutti, Gerhad, Rudi, Guddat, and Karl that I love them. Id rather die than live in that concentration camp. I will see you all in heaven. Tell my story. Quote me here, "Germany is like being tortured by the devil."'



                           Yours Truly,

                            Helmuth

The Boy Who Dared

   In  The Boy who Dared, the author Susan Campbell Bartoletti captures my attention by putting a flash forward in the beginning. She opens a little window of curiosity in my mind. The one sentence that grabbed my attention was, "The executioner works on Tuesday." (pg.3). This quote means that he might have been sentenced to death or he is in the death row. Also after this quote it says, "Helmuth is three." (pg.4). I inferred that the my first quote was giving me a sneak peak of what was going to happen to him in the end of the book.