A Quest of Heroes

I just finished reading A Quest of Heroes by Morgan Rice. This was about Thor's journey from going to a poor herder to a greatly appreciated warrior in the king's army. There was a lot of things in this book that I liked. Thor had a lot of bravery, confidence, and goodwill in himself. He saved several people's lives. When his friend Erec was sparing and was almost killed, Thor had a lot of confidence and bravery to not only saved his life, but to interrupt a knights jostle. Thor always wanted to do the right thing. When a Legion boy named Elden was trapped and his friends wanted to leave him because he was rider, Thor was good enough to want to rescue him even though this same buy was bullying him earlier that day. This was a really good book to read. I would recommend this book to young adults and teens for all of the good morals and hardships Thor had to go through and how he gets through them. This book would be a 5 out of 5 because it was really good and had really great descriptive details.

Taken

My previous book that I read was Taken by Erin Bowman. It's about Gray Weathersby and his journey to find the truth about his life. Ever since the first people of Claysoot, there has been the Heist. The Heist takes every boy at the age of 18. Every year, groups of boys are taken from their mothers. When Gray's brother Blaine is taken from the Heist, Gray is lost without his brother. Gray suddenly finds a letter from his dead mother to his brother telling him that they are in fact twins. This would explain how they look exactly the same and are very close. Gray goes on a search, past the mysterious Wall enclosing them all, to find why he was saved. Along the way, Gray encounters different things. He finds out that Claysoot is in fact a testing subject. He also meets his father on the way. This book reminds me of the old proverb, curiosity killed the cat. Gray was so curious that in the end, it killed somebody. I would say that this book is a three out of five because it has some stupid parts in it. One dumb part was when Emma had decided that she should go with Gray over the wall. She said, "...There's nothing for me back there anymore, Gray. The two things I want, answers and you, are now on this side of the Wall." This, to me, just screams out stupidity. Even though it could be stupid at some parts, I would recommend this book to someone who likes a book with more stupidity than action.

Guitar Notes

I just read Guitar Notes by Mary Amato. The book was about Lyla Marks and Tripp Broody's lives intersecting. Lyla Marks if the perfect girl. She has perfect grades, perfect attendance, perfect posture, perfect best friend, perfect class president, and perfect at the cello. Tripp Broody is just about opposite from her. He is failing in almost every class, has no friends, and he plays the guitar. Though they both are from two different worlds, they are alike in ways they never knew. Lyla's mom died in a plane crash, while Tripp's dad died from a brain aneurysm and they both have demanding parents. Throughout the book, Lyla and Tripp both write notes to each other about the situations in their lives. They slowly go from people you see everyday to friends that are almost inseparable. This book is truly one of the best books that I've read. It shows how peer pressure can go way out of hand and it can really hurt you. Lyla was "forced" to do all of these different things like play the cello and apply for orchestra auditions. She was "forced" to do these things, but was too nice and scared to say no. Tripp, on the other hand, goes through all of this pressure through his mom. She takes away his only prized possession guitar and signs him up for all different social groups. This book also shows how you shouldn't judge a person by the way they act or what they look like. Annie, Lyla's friend, had told Lyla herself the Tripp was a freak. That their lives shouldn't be mixed with his way of life. Annie showed that she was a judgemental person. This book would be a 5 out of 5 because it was a really good book and it had lots of good morals in it. I would recommend this book for teens and young adults.

The House of Hades

My recent book that I've read was The House of Hades by Rick Riordan. It's about Annabeth and Percy trying to survive Tartarus. While they are trying to survive that, Nico, the son of Hades, is leading the other five crewmen to the House of Hades where they will meet Percy and Annabeth. Throughout the whole book, each person goes through their own hardships and struggles. This is, so far, my favorite book out of Rick Riordan's book series The Heroes of Olympus. My favorite part of the book was when Leo was chasing after the two dwarfs that had taken his and Jason's metal belts and swords. Jason had gotten tied up, so Leo had to go after the dwarfs themselves. So, Leo had gotten some things at a Italian supermarket. He went after the dwarfs and when he got there, he ended up tricking the dwarfs and getting them to be on the gods side. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 because it was a really good book. Rick Riordan is one of my favorite authors, so it isn' t a surprise that this book is really good.

GenTx Week

This past week at school has been Generation Texas week. It's basically about college and career readiness. This whole week, all of the teachers at my school had to decorate their doors to represent the college they went to. I love this because we get to decorate, which I love to do, instead of reading for twenty minutes. On Wednesday, during your science period you had to go to the eighth grade computer lab and take this career and skills survey. On my career interests survey, my top five pathways were performing arts, journalism and broadcasting, marketing communications, visual arts, and governance. I do not life performing arts, marketing communications, and governance. The only job pathways that I would even consider would be the journalism and the visual arts pathways. My skills confidence survey had similar results. I got journalism and broadcasting, performing arts, professional support services, health informatics, and early childhood development and services. I don't like any of these except, of course, journalism and broadcasting. Tomorrow, there will be a poll of which teacher's doors is the best. I'm pretty for sure that it would be Ms. Pennington's door because hers had lights, a theme song on it, and is overall awesome.

Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters

Earlier this week, my family and I went to the movies for my sister's birthday. We watched Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters. The movie is a sequel to Percy Jackson & The Lightning Theif. It was about Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson embarking on a quest to find the magical golden fleece that would save their camp. While doing this, they have to try and stop their old friend Luke to save Olympus and keep Kronos from rising. I think that the movie was good, but I would say that from a scale from one to ten, it would be a five. I would say it's a five because the movie didn't really follow through with the book and the acting wasn't really good. Though there is talk about a third movie.