Holes by Louis Sachar

Stanley was a very unlucky person and also so was his family. They just couldnt seem to get anything to go the way they wanted. His dad was a scientist that never got anything right. Stanley was just walking along and a pair of shoes hit him in the head and the cops picked him up. The shoes were Clyde livingstons shoes or sweet feets. There was a supposed curse on the yelnats family and they all believed it. when stanley got sent to camp Green Lake he thought he was actually goin to a lake and know a dry lake bed. He meets a boy named zero why hes in camp and they end up running off, climbing gods thumb, and breaking the curse that has been on there family for hundreds of years. The camp got shut down after a big ordeal happens and all the boys got sent home.

Hatchet by Gary paulsen

Brian Robeson, 13-years-old, survives alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing to assist him but a small hatchet. Brian was the only passenger on a small Cessna 406 plane when the pilot died of a heart attack and the plane crashed into a small lake. After Brian crash lands the plane into a lake he swims out an is left to fend for himself in the Candian forset with only himself and his hatchet. He has to over come strugles of finding shelter, food, and water. His parents have just recently deviorced and it is also bothering him. Wild animals and everything else is giving him trouble in this untamed wilderness. 

Air Raid Pearl Harbor by Theodore Taylor

This book really pulls you in. The author keeps the suspense up by giving both sides purpose. Its like the war will never get there and then it just happens like it did in Pearl Harbor. The japanese never had intentions of negotiation it was just a scam to keep the U.S. from seeing the approaching fleet of carriers hauling all kinds of planes. The Americans knew there would be a war, but thought it would be a long ways away never thought it would get to Hawaii. They made check points to get there but they did. The ships in the harbor were completely takeing by suprise an it was around the third bombing attack before all the men were up on deck an fighting back. The book air raid is a very supsenseful and it keeps you comeing back always wanting to read more on this book just to see what happens next.