language+arts

= ﻿ ﻿25 summaries= ==== ﻿This quarter i read a book named **__Goal.__** There was a young kid named travis, who was a goal keeper for his team. He was really talented at his positon in goal, and has a really good to as well. They went to the championship last season against the best team in the state and lost to them in the end do to a penalty kick shoot out, so they wanted to make it to the champion ship again this season and win it all this time.Yet a new kid was trying out for goalie for there team. He is a tall black haired kid that had amazing dives and acrobatic saves. Travis was worried he was going to get his spot taken away from him even though he was still a good forward and new he could just play that pasition. Even though goal keeper was his pashin! The coach had a srimige with the team haveing Travis in one goal and the new recruit in the other. Travis new he had to bring his game or else he was going to loss his pasition in goal. Travis made alot of really good calls in has mind like running to the ball on brake aways and other things and made some good saves yet still let 3goals in. Where the new kid made some imposiable saves and dives for the ball but didnt make as many good calls but only letting 1goal in. After practise coach had a talk with both of them letting the new player be there goalie. Travis was sad but still he new there team was going to the end. They went through the season undefeted, finding them selfs in the championship. The final score was 3 to 3! both teams had a penalty shoot out, so coach called travis over and wanted him to be the goalie during the penalty shoot out. He new he could do it, he blocked all 5 shoots winning the game for his team. ==== ====﻿ The second book i read this quarter was called **__Pele.__** The book is a biography about the best soccer player in the world. He has more goals than any other player in his career. Hes known for his amazing agressive,fun,wild, and exciting style of playing. this man is the only person to bring his team the world cup and successfully win every time! ==== ====The third book I read was **__Swosh!__** Its about a boy and his dream of becomeing a professinal basketball player. He was the best on his team, yet something was holding him back. He had asma. This really affected his playing, but he had help from docters to help him learn how to keep his breathing at a safe rate so that he could last longer on the court. He was soon gaven a scalership and played for his collage team. Then off he went to the big leages.==== ==== ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ The forth book I read was **__Treasure__**. It has to do with a group of friends going to this island of mystery in the search for treasure. They go through many outstanding obsticlse in there journy. Some of the members servived and found the treasure. Inside the treasure there was things such as gold,silver,jewels, and money. You must read this book! ==== ==== ﻿The fith book I have read is called __**Never Back Down.**__ It is about a young boy that lives with his mother and 6 year old brother in a new apartment, because of his bad behavior. Yet now at his new school he comes across some trouble kids and they were ancuiose to hurt him. So they did makeing, him very angury seeking for revenge. Then he stubbled upon this mixed marshual arts master teaching him to have strangth,disaplin,speed, and importantly heart. Later on he enters a compatition of fighting that his enemy has entered so that he can prove him-self and he did. ==== ==== ﻿The sixith book i read was called **__Speed!__** It is about a boy named Kevin that had desire to win the fourty yard dash to prove that he was the fastest. He would allways come in second place, till finally after all his trianing he was on the verge of winning the state championship till he was only a couple yards away when he felt an excrushiating pull in his quad takeing him to the ground, loosing the race, and the posiability of him never running again. Yet he whiped away the tears coming from his eyes, and stude up. The crowed was silent in complete shox as he slowly limped to the finish line, not giving up. As he crossed the finish the crowed standed up cheering and claping for his amazing disire to never give up. ==== ==== The seventh book i read was called **__Gears of__** **__War.__** y ou are a Gears of War video game fan this is a great book to read. It’s based on the tight friendship of three boys who grew up so close together, but when they became soldiers it all fell apart. Marcus Fenix, Dominic Santiago, & Dominic’s older brother Carlos fought in an epic battle at Aspho Fields which changed the way the Pendulum War was going. This book is like a crossover between the movies Terminator and I Am Legend, it has big, ugly, gray, zombish like monsters called Locust drones that break out to attack anything in its way. It’s a deserted land where the humans are scarce but mighty and a warlike setting that started with Emergence Day and seemed to never end. It’s definitely a science fiction book not for the weak at heart and surely liked by video game fans all over. ====

The Eighth book i read was called **__Spiderwick the iron__** __tree.__ Spiderwick fans will love this book 4 of the chronicles. It is full of imagination both good and bad. It has goblins, faeries, and a ton of adventure. The invisible world that surrounds the kids like Mallory, Jared, & Simon is like no other. The three siblings are smart and tough characters that love a challenge and are on alert at all times. In this book it all began at Mallory’s fencing compitition where Jared started seeing twins of himself and his brother but not the twins that he knew they were different. It was a creature looking for the guide and Jared was not having it! The book is full of riddles and mystery, dwarves and faeries, and it takes you to this land of make-believe, but it almost makes you believe it could actually be real. The fascination really peaks when Jared, & Simon find the Ironwood Tree. A tree that grew with no sun, where the leaves were bright silver, the enormous trunk was made of metal and a copper bird moved its mechanical wings and sang a strange metallic birdsong. The Korting and Mulgarath and their evil plans take place and it is up to the Grace kids to figure out a way to survive the bad doings of these wicked dwarves. At the end of the day they want to tell their mom but they know it is just too hard to believe.

====The ninth book i read was called __**flipped.**__ is about a girl and boy that are neighbors Bryce Loskie and Julie Baker.Julie has a hudge crush on Bryce as soon as she saw him.Julie is like stalking Bryce because she loves him that much. This was a hudge eye opner about bryce here is the story of why Julie hated Bryce. Julie loves this sycamore tree and some guy had to cut it down.Julie asked bryce to come up on the tree so they wont knock it down if two where up there but bryce wasnt being a good friend and left her to fend for her self.After that julie never wanted to speak to bryce ever agin.Bryce loved her ignoring him as he got older he thought she got prettier bryce tryed to do anything for her attencion.One day bryce asked Julies father if he could plant a sycamore tree in there lawn the father said yes!When bryce was planting the tree Julie freaked out saying what is Bryce doing to our lawn!Then julie felt the same about Bryce.==== ==== The tenth book I read is called __**Holes.**__ It's about a kid named Stanley Yelnats III who gets accused of stealing a pair of sneckers form a Orfanage. But he either has to go to jail or Summer camp, but this is not a ordinary summer camp in fact its a dried up lake that was turned into a summer camp. But Stanley Thinks their not just digging to be digging he thinks their digging to find something. ==== ==== The eleventh book i read is called __**The lion King.**__ Once a lion baby was born from the King and Queen lion. So a new generation emerged from the savanna. Jafar was jelous of his brtoher Mafasa and his new born baby. Simba grew up and he wanted his dad to wake up with him, to show him about the pride land. He told Simba to never go in hthe Elephant Graveyard. Any ways Scar( Mufasa Brtoher) was tring to find as way to kill Mufasa. Scar says never go to the Elephant Graveyard. So Simba goes to the graveyard with his best friend Nala. They go to the Graveyard and meet the hyena. The hyena were trying to kill Simba and Nala. Then Mufasa scared the hyena away. Simba had a long talk with his father. The next day Scar had a suprise for Simba. ====

==== The twelveth book i read is called __**Hardy Boys the Shore Road Mystery.**__ This book is about two young detectives Frank and Joe Hardy in the sixth book of the series and their adventure to find a friends family treasure. But then suddenly crimes start happening left and right when dozens of car jackings in Bayport happen. So then they suddely have to abort their adventure to find the treasure. Then their friends are blamed for stealing the cars that have been stolen but then shortly after that they go missing and nobody knows where they are. But the Hardy brothers still have that their friends didn't steal those missing cars Throughout the book the Hardy boys are ambushed, attacked, and kidnapped in this very good book. ====

==== The thirtenth book i read is called __**Red Scarf Girl.**__ This book is about a young girl going threw the cultre revolution. The girls family background was full of landloards, which to the chines government is very bad.Her dream is too be an actress but thanks to his family background shes not allowed to or else the government could take them. Later on in the story the little girl looses her dad just because of their family background. She searches for him trying to get him back. ====

==== ﻿ ﻿ ﻿The fourtenth book i read is called __**Magic Tree House Sunset of the sabertooth,**__ This book is about two kids named jack an annie who travel back in time using a magic tree house! The tree house takes them into the time of the cave people and the gigantic woolly mammoths. Although it is very cold nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure,not even a saber-toothed tiger! ====

==== The fifteenth book I read is called **__Diary of a Wimpy Kid.__** This book is about a boy named Greg who is rather satisfied with spending his summer inside his home entertaining himself in his dark room playing video games. Even though the rest of the kids are enjoying the nice, summer weather which is perfect for playing outside, Greg chooses otherwise. He describes himself as an "indoor person" and would much rather live his summer fantasy with no responsibilities or rules! Gregs mom. of course, has a different idea of how he will spend his summer. Will Greg live his ideal summer or have to deal with his mom's plan of "family togetherness." ====

====The sixtenth book i read was **__Diary of Wimpy Kid Rodrick__** Rules. Greg heffley the new school this year eager to put his past be hind. To bad for Greg, his older brother, Rodrick, knows all about the incident that greg wants to keep under wraps. but secrets have a way of getting out...especially when a Diary is involved.====

===The Seventenh book i read was **__39 Clues.__** Two young kids happen to discover that thir family was one of the most powerful people in human history. They were told to the source of the family power was hidden around the world in a form of 39 clues.===

The eighteinth book I read is The **__Outsiders.__** This book was about a gang of boys who went through alot of good times and very sad times. The main charecter was named pony boy. He has two brothers one named Soda pop and the other named Darry. All of them were in the same gang named the greasers. The greasers had a rival gang that they hated named the soces. The soces were all rich kids who hated the Greasers because they were poor. Pony boy lived with his two brothers and his older brother hit him, so he ran away with his friend Johnny. Pony boy and johnny run into some soces and and get in fight that led to johnny killing one of the soces. I can't tell you anymore about this story but i can tell you that it a great story. ====The ninetenth book i read is called **__Slam.__** This book is about a boy in his middle school years involving alot of humor and surprising at times. A brave and absorbing book for anybody to read. The boy experiences being in love with the girl of his dreams but he cant get her, and he does everything in his power to try to get her, and some times it involves him doing the wildest things!==== ====The twentieth book i readis **__bend i__**t like Beckham**.** It is bout the famous English soccer player that was one of the best soccer players in the world that is known for his spectacular free kicks. Yet he doesnt just play soccer he also does other thing such as modeling and clothes designing. Hes a very succesful man.====