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!
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