Alan and Naomi
Myron Levoy
Pages: 192
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Milkweed
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli
Pages: 208
There are Jackboots marching down the road lined with bombed out buildings, followed by tanks while one boy thinks it is a wonderful parade. In Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, that boys name is Misha, an orphan and gypsy, who meets a little girl named Janina and becomes good friends with her. When every Jew and gypsy moves to the Warsaw ghetto, he steals food for her family and himself when Janina starts, too. When the trains come to the ghetto to take the Jews to work camps, Janina gets lost in the crowd and goes to the work camp, leaving him alone. Misha is very arrogant at the beginning when he wants to be a Jackboot and part of that “wonderful parade.” If I were Misha, I would have taken Janina very far away, without her knowing, so she couldn’t go to the trains and to the work camp.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
The Son of Neptune
The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan
513 Pages
Percy Jackson? He’s too loyal to his friends. He can’t give them up, not for anything.” Mars, the Roman god of War, explains. The Son of Neptune, by Rick Riordan, is about a teenager, Percy Jackson, and his two new friends, Frank and Hazel, who all go on a quest to save the Roman demi-god camp, Camp Jupiter. The quest is to free Death and kill the giant Alcyoneus to stop everything from regenerating after it dies. Before Percy arrived at Camp Jupiter, he lost his memory and spent most of his quest getting it all back. Percy is very loyal to his new friends, and, as Mars said, can’t give them up for anything. If they have a movie for this, I hope it follows the story closely because it is too good to change!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Pendragon: The Pilgrims of Rayne
Number of Pages: 547
The Pilgrims of Rayne is the eighth installment of the Pendragon series and has a great plot. In this new territory, Bobby finds people that he's not sure if they know a lot about technology or not and sails away from the island of Ibara with the Jakills to find out. What he finds is even more important, that this territory is Veelox, only 300 years in the future! He realizes that Saint Dane is planning an attack on Ibara, and Bobby mixes the territories to prepare for the battle. Will this new, not to mention, risky, tactic help save Veelox, or make it worse?
Read the book to find out!
The Pilgrims of Rayne is the eighth installment of the Pendragon series and has a great plot. In this new territory, Bobby finds people that he's not sure if they know a lot about technology or not and sails away from the island of Ibara with the Jakills to find out. What he finds is even more important, that this territory is Veelox, only 300 years in the future! He realizes that Saint Dane is planning an attack on Ibara, and Bobby mixes the territories to prepare for the battle. Will this new, not to mention, risky, tactic help save Veelox, or make it worse?
Read the book to find out!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Artist Quotes...
Diego Rivera :::
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Giorgio Morandi :::
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
Banksy :::
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
Bono :::
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
Mark Rothko :::
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Michelangelo :::
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
Do you like these quotes?
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Giorgio Morandi :::
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
Banksy :::
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
Bono :::
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
Mark Rothko :::
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Michelangelo :::
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
Do you like these quotes?
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Pendragon: The Quillan Games
Number of Pages: 486
Book seven of the Pendragon series is a wonderful book about Bobby Pendragon when he lands on the new territory of Quillan controlled by Blok and gambling. He goes there to stop the evil Traveler, Saint Dane, who's trying to get the boring territory to crumble, when Bobby unexpectedly becomes a Challenger in the Quillan Games. The problem is that Blok, a company, controls Quillan and has turned it into a deadly place. Will Bobby be able to win this territory?
You'll have to read the book to find out!
Book seven of the Pendragon series is a wonderful book about Bobby Pendragon when he lands on the new territory of Quillan controlled by Blok and gambling. He goes there to stop the evil Traveler, Saint Dane, who's trying to get the boring territory to crumble, when Bobby unexpectedly becomes a Challenger in the Quillan Games. The problem is that Blok, a company, controls Quillan and has turned it into a deadly place. Will Bobby be able to win this territory?
You'll have to read the book to find out!
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