Mark of Athena

Mark of Athena

 

Title: Mark of Athena

Author: Rick Riordan

Number of Pages: 574 (Hardcover)

                This week I am reading the Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. It is a fantasy/adventure novel based on Roman and Greek mythology and focuses on 7 demigods (each as a narrator). One unknown word is “ballistae”. This work occurs in the sentence “Leo was manning the ballistae.”

Definition: A piece of military equipment that was used in ancient times to hurl stones and other missiles over a distance



The Gadget

Stefan
7B 
2/18/2013


The book that I am reading is called the Gadget. It has 179 pages. From the last that i said now the book is very interesting. In the book Stephan and his friend are going to school. There is a lot of thing in the book that are happening now. Their president died and Stephan is having a lot of dreams of when he was a kid and he was living with his whole family and that he was with his friends that are now dead. One of his friends died from a bomb that hit at the park across their house and Stephan's .

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Skulduggery Pleasant Kingdom of the Wicked
606pg

The main characters in my novel are Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain. Skulduggery Pleasant is a Skeleton detective, over 400 years old. Valkyrie is his assistant detective and she is only 17 years old. Skulduggery is smart, violent and he is a skeleton. Valkyrie is nice, violent and pretty girl. The only way they could think of to stop a sorcerer named Argedion was by killing him. Argedion was a pacifist, meaning that he wouldnt kill anyone.

Harry Potter and the philosophers stone
J.K. Rolling
By: Max.A
Pg in book
230

The main character is Harry who is about ten years old and his parents treat him like junk he has a older brother thats fat and there parents treat him the best. Harry is younger and he sleeps under the stairs everytime he sleeps when they go down the stairs they stomp as hard as they can to wake him up. They are very mean and never nice to him though he is the nicest of all of them.

I think this is going to be a great book.

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Inkheart

Cornelia Funke

563 Pages

The main character in my novel is Meggie. She is a 12 year old girl that lives with her father Mo.  Meggie and Mo are really close because Meggie never knew her mother.  Her mother disappeared when Meggie was three so Meggie and Mo rely on each other and look after one another.  Meggie loves Mo more than anyone in the world. Meggie has fair hair and looks like her mum (she wishes she looks like her dad). It takes Meggie time to warm up to people because she keeps moving and now lives in a secluded place with her dad. Meggie loves to read. With Mo’s help she taught herself how to read at the age of five.  Her books give her comfort; they give her a place to escape to when she is feeling bored, sad or even scared. Meggie is strong-willed.  When Dustfinger (is first introduced to the story) she stays awake and spies even though her dad tells her to go to bed (Page 7).  Also, she refuses to leave in the van until her dad tells her what is going on.  She stands up for what she believes in. She is proud. She is brave and loyal.  When Elinor distrusts Dustfinger Meggie trusts him.

The Everafter

The Everafter
Amy Huntley
244 pages







                     

 This week I continued reading the book "The Everafter" by Amy Huntley. So far the main character definatley is Maddy. She is the girl who is dead and is traped in the world of Is full of memories of her past life. Maddy is a type of girl who easily gets scared and worried a lot. An example I found in the book is; "I'll get it," I assure everyone. But I'm only halfway up the stairs before I get major creeps. I run back down. "I can't do it" I say. "It's too creepy up there." (pg. 78) This explains how at the beginning Maddy is fine with going to get something but at the end she gets scared because it is creepy up there. I think this is nothing to be ashamed of but sooner or later she has to stop being scared, I can't wait to finish reading this fantastic book because of Maddy and all the personalities and traits she has!

Born At Midnight By C. C. Hunter

Name of Book: Born At Midnight

By: C. C. Hunter

Number of total pages: 406

Number of Pages read: Finished the book




The main character in my novel is Kylie Galen. Kylie Galen is the main protagnist in the Shadow Falls series. For a majority of her life, she had always known that she was different from others. She just didn't know how different. She is 16 years old, she has blond hair and blue eyes, and her species is a chameleon (explanation in the book). One of Kylie's personality traits are is that she is very curious. She always had a burning question in her that was never truly answered: What am I? She doesn't have a clue about her heritage, she is discovering different types of powers that are within her, and trying to find answers to that one question. On page 209, she had a lot of questions for Holiday (assistant) about how to turn off her powers once and for all. In fact, they come usually during the night. It was hard for Holiday to answer all of her questions, and decided to wait for her to figure out by herself.