Boot Camp by Todd Strasser

Boot camp. One place any kid never wants to go, but a few unlucky kids with major problems and rich parents get sent to a horrible place without there knowledge. Garrett, is sent to this place called lake harmony. He is taken in the middle of the night, hand cuffed, and stuck in a car. When he arrives at lake harmony he discovers that his parents have sent him here. Garrett soon discovers how this place works the staff can only do so much to beat you down but they have kids that will gladly do it for them.  There are diffrent levels you must get to before you can graduate this boot camp and your completely brainwashed when you get out. Garretts very smart and he is trying to beat the system when he hears of a plan to escape from his friend Pauly. They make a mad dash when the plan was finally completed and make it out, but in the end two people get away one gets caught and hes in for the worst punishment of  his life. This book was a very good read full of action I kept picking it back up always wanting to know what was comeing next.

Night by Eli Wiesel

Night. A very depressing novel about a man and his strugles in the holocost and haveing to watch his whole family die. During there ordeal in the prision camps Eli tried to stay connected with his family especialy his mother. Keeping there family close was something that helped Eli keep going. Father son bonds were a big deal after seeing so many familes split up and sent to many parts of the concentration camps and they never seen one another again. These bonds kept them strong. Some of the familes were tore apart by children willingly seperateing there families and sending there fathers to death. Some of the sons would even beat there fathers. He witnessed one incident where one man beat his father to death.

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.

Where The Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls Where The Red Fern Grows has its very high and very low points during the story. The book had me always wanting to know what happend next. 
      The style of this books puts you right into the story with Billy and his two coon houds. Its like your right there with them chaseing the crafty old coons up the river, running across the shoals, and finally treeing the the tricky critter. Also you can just feel how bad Billy wants the dogs. He sells the fisherman baite an fruite all summer saving up all of his dimes an pennies to get his pups.
      He lived in the foothills of the Ozarks. This gave him open fields an high mountains, caves, and  rivers. When Billy goes to get his dogs from town he leaves late in the night haveing to cross the river and everything just to get his pups from town. When he gets his dogs trained they run all over the Ozarks chaseing coons and working hard at it.
     I can make conncections personaly with this story because ive always lived out in the country and hunting an traping is a way of life. When he trees his first coon with his young dogs he proves to them that hes goin to get that coon down no matter what. When i took my first deer on my own i wanted no help, it was my deer an i was goin to take care of to prove to my dad that i was well old enough to be out on my own.
     I would recomend this book to any reader. Its a great read an very easily read an its got its highs and lows in the story you never know whats gonna happen next so your always comeing back to read more.

My New Years resoulutions

My first resoulution was to win state this year. To acomplish this I have to work extra hard during the off season and summer. I must be as big and fast as i can be. Also learn my position inside and out to make the best of time on the field.
Secondly was to spend more time at home with the family and go see my dad more. theres not been many nights that me an my family have sat down an had dinner together or actually done anything together. since new years the whole family has been much closer an were all home every night. Also i go to my dads three nights out of the week to c him an stay with him on every other weekend.