Science+Fiction

Title: Ender’s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Setting: Earth and outer space. Plot: Ender is such a genius that he gets taken to a military school in outer space. Characters: Valentine: Only person who loves Ender and is loved by Ender. Ender: Is a genius but everybody him on earth except for Valentine. Themes : How hard it is to be a six year old genius and being in a military school at the age of six.

I like science fiction books that are about the future and when it had to with Alien having a war against the humans. I found that really cool. What I found weird at the starting, at the introduction. “After all, the book has been in print for six years and nobody ever told me the book needs an introduction. But to print a new hard cover edition needs something new. So I gave this book an introduction.” I thought that was quiet odd. I once saw a movie that had a school in outer space but they trained superheroes. There is a speech that comes in a movie I once saw. “ I’m the only one here who is paid to be nice to you. But I won’t be too nice.” I would recommend it to people who like sadder books because it is quiet sad and brutal like, children are killed and Ender is put under so much pressure that he does weird stuff like, self cannibalism. (One of the more harsh examples.) Oliver Streibel-May Grade:7 Mrs.Ulster **__ Summer Reading Assignment __** 1. Title: **__The Giver__** 2. Author: Lois Lowry 3. Setting: A community where everything is the same 4. Plot (one sentence only – NO SPOILERS): An ordinary boy is chosen to hold all the pain of other people and memories and now he needs to save himself and close infant. 5. Describe two characters briefly: Jonas= A 12 year old boy who is never stuck out and was very normal. Gabriel= an infant who has not done to well in his healthiness and will be killed next year. 6. Themes: What people say is not always true. And there is no such thing as a limit.

//I chose this book because it had Newbery Horner award and so I thought I would read it. I loved this book because it takes the truth of life and exaggerates it so that makes it look like the future.// //This book is much like a book called **__The City of Ember.__** In that book people are lead to believe that there is no world but there city. Later they explore for the sake of the city and find a place much different call “earth”. In the giver they all think that only here city exist. But then find the place called earth.// I would defiantly recommend this book because it captures thing that you would not think of unless you read this book. Also it is written amazingly and the man who wrote this is truly an artist. I think that that man who wrote this was taught very well. So for short **__ YES __**


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Author: Matthew Reilly Plot: The President is supposed to go visit Area 7 with a team of soldiers. When they arrive, they find out that the whole base is taken over by terrorists. Shane Schofield and his team must get rid of the terrorists in the base. Characters: Shane Schofield, and Gant. I chose this book because I like reading Matthew Reillys books. He writes good mystery and suspense books. By: Mong
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Summer Reading Project Title: Dull Boy Author: Sarah Cross Setting: A small town in the U.S.   Plot: Dull Boy is about a teenage boy with superpowers and how he tries to have a normal life. Characters: Avery is a normal kid until he finds he has supernatural abilities that he tries to hide as he goes on with everyday life. Catherine is a girl with cat-like powers who keeps to herself, but then later becomes one of Avery’s closest friends. I chose Dull Boy, because I thought it would be very interesting to see another point of view. I don’t normally like superhero books because they’re not realistic at all, but in Dull Boy I got to see what problems a real boy with powers would have to face. The phrase in the book, “Having to say all the slip-ups were just adrenaline rushes weren’t going to cover up for him all the time.” caught my attention and was a major reason why I chose the book Dull Boy. I could connect Dull Boy to my life, because he had to lie so he wouldn’t be caught. I can connect to this, because I have had to cover things up before and I know how hard it can be. I would definitely recommend this book to other middle school students, because it much more realistic than any other super hero book. It’s also packed with action page after page. After reading this book it’ll be hard to put it down. Diego Valer