Due: 6/5

Firestar
by Chris d'Lacey

This book introduces a lot of new things to the "Dragons" series. The protagonist as always is David Rain. A geography student bent on being a writer. He got mixed up in all this when he moved in with the Pennykettles, who he discovered was decedent from an ancient line of Gwendolen. This also got him mixed up with the business of dragons, particularly the last dragon Gwain.

The antagonist changes for this book. Theres is a new character and species in this book, the Fain. They are an also ancient species that have long been forgotten. They live in a universe called the dark matter, they are also a totally more advanced species. Some are good, others are tremendously evil an bent on destroying and anything in their path.

The Fain's goal is to kill all dragons that may be living on earth and extinguish the memory of them, saying that they are not meant to be on this world anymore. David's goal is also to get ride of the dragons, but he wants to do it in a way where the dragon will not get killed. Instead he wishes for the dragons to be transported to the dark matter, a place where MOST Fain worship their kind, and the dragons will be safe.

Due: 5/30

Flush
by Carl Haaisen

The main conflict in the book Flush is the spat between Paine Underwood and Dusty Mulemen. Dusty and Paine were old boat neighbors, both of them were captains of smalls boats to help tourists. Then Dusty got rich and started a casino boat in an Indian reserve , that never had to go anywhere. He was suspected to have been keeping more than his fair share, and dumping the content of his sewage tank into the bowl. The sewage then washes down to the Thunder Beach where kids play, and turtles nest. Making dumping sewage not only gross but dangerous. The major start of the conflict was when Paine decided that he personally had to do something about Dusty since whenever the Coast Guard checked, Dusty was being tipped off. The best thing that Paine had thought to do was to sink the Coral Queen (Dusty's casino boat). And that wasn't such a good idea, since, it landed him strait in jail.

Not to say that Paine minded being in jail, he might have even enjoyed it. But his wife Donna did not, neither did his children Noah and Abbey. They all were worried and desperately wanted to help his cause. As time goes on more and more people get wrapped up into the conflict. And the plot gets more and more complicated. It's revealed that Noah's long lost grandpa is alive, when all thought he was and buried in South America. The Underwood's got a great help from an unlikely source in a trailer park. And, there are friends in unlikely places.

But in the end it's Paine and the Underwood family that pulls ahead. The Coral Queen finally got what it deserved, shut down, re-opened, and finally burned down. They suspected Paine originally of course because of the rivalry between the two. But then found all the Underwood's and the actual offender was the son of Dusty Mulemen himself!

Due: 5/23

I got a winning ticket!

Due: 5/16

The Fire Within', Book 2: Icefire
By Chris d'Lacey

David Rain a long time tenant of the Pennykettle household has become more evolved in the Pennykettle family. In doing so he also got wrapped up in the business of dragons which is exactly what Liz Pennykettle does. She makes and believes stone dragons.

There are many myths about dragons, Liz and her daughter Lucy believe that the reason no one has proved the existence of dragons is because there are none left. Also the ones that have died off leave no remains so their bodies just decompose into clay. And, that all clay comes from dragons. Liz sculpts dragons from clay, those dragons move in the mind of whomever named them or is their master. The dragons can do special things depending on how they are made.

David is still going to school though. Lately he has been given the opportunity to travel to the arctic to study poler bears and other arctic animals. The teacher that is giving him the opportunity, I think, he's up to no good. Every student is assigned the task of writing an essay, each student has a different topic to write about. The best essay wins a free trip to the arctic to study, all the others must pay for their trip. David's topic is dragons, he has to write 2000 words about the subject. But I think that the professor is too curious to be .

So now David is trying to squeeze as much information about dragons out of Liz as possible. As he really needs the scholarship. He's learned that dragons like high cold places, and during his quest he's been having weird feelings and seeing things. Like tracks in the snow and stuff outside the window.

I predict that David will win the scholarship on the expedition (because he's the main character) and on the trip he'll find the real last dragon. A dragon of the ice.

Due: 4/25

Alex Rider Adventures: Book 7, Snakehead
by Anthony Horowitz

The life of a spy is glamorous and wonderful, like you see in movies. Well life isn't like the movies Alex found that out when he became a spy. His life has been all lies and trickery ever since. I'd ask Alex what it felt like, but he has expressed some hatred towards his spy friends.

His father was a supposed great spy. Then he was a horrible killer, then he was an honorably great spy. He found out the truth about his father, whom he hadn't even met before. Then he learned a different truth. Then he was told the real truth.

His God-Father, that is also a spy. Used to work for the same company as Alex's father. But then he transfered to Australian spying because of an that happened in the field. He met Alex a couple of times when Alex was a baby but ultimately gave custody to Alex's Uncle, then when Alex's uncle died Alex was in the hands of Jack. A real hero he was made out to be, he was there when the plane that carried Alex's parents blew up. During Snakehead(Book 7) it is found out through confession that Ash(Alex's Godfather) wasn't such a hero. Back when there was the field , Ash was demoted that was when he switched sides and started working as a double agent. He admitted that he didn't just wittiness the explosion of the plane Alex's parents where on he caused it, it was his test of devotion to the bad guys.

No one is what that seem on the outside. A spy has to know that.

Due: 4/16

Rangers Apprentice: Book 4, Battle for Skandia.
By John Flanagan

This book starts out with Will, future ranger, still stranded in Skandia. His companion is Evanlyn the undercover princess. Halt is still tracking Will with Horace(the warrior apprentice). They're reunited but with a ly twist, Will and Evanlyn are recaptured by the Temujai. Brutal warriors from the Eastern Stepps.

Halt becomes mixed up with the Skandians, to keep the whole party alive. The Skandians are not accustomed to any strategy, their war strategy was to see the enemy and attack. But the Temujai's evading army was both bigger and more organized then theirs. Halt becomes their master planner, he is trapped in Skandia because the Temujai are blocking the passes to Araluen so they can't get home. So if they died so did he, there was no other way to stay alive.

Will is given position as commanding officer of Skandia's very first archery unit. And Horace is given the position of watching his back. That's how they won the war, an unexpected attack force that got them the ace in the hole. It was close but with many casualties, including Ragnak the Oberjarl.

Erak the new Oberjarl decides to personally deliver the released slaves, Halt, Will, Evanlyn, and Horace all back to Araluen. That starts the new piece treaty between former mortal enemies. King Duncan gets his daughter back, Halt gets his apprentice back. Horace is promoted to a full time knight, Will is offered a place as an elite scout for the kings army, and everyone is home.

Due: 4/5

Alex Rider Adventures: Scorpia, Book 5

By Anthony Horowitz

This book is about Alex Rider and his quest to find his destiny, as Yassan Gregoriovich said right before he died. Right before his tragic on Airforce One he told Alex that he had known his father before he died, and he was also a contract killer. “Find Scorpia and your destiny” and Alex went to Venice to do just that.

He does find Scorpia, they encourage him to join them. They tell him that M16 was the one that killed his father and the women that he thought was on his side was the one that gave the order. And out of his anger he does turning against M16. He goes to a school again, but instead of public school and learning about math he goes to a private island to learn the art of . The first victim that was chosen was Mrs. Jones, the first deputy of M16, but he got caught.

He turned double agent for M16 after they convinced him that Scorpia was the bad guys again. Now he’s switched sides twice. His new mission is to shut down “Invisible Sword” the thing that can kill on control, and might release a poison into thousands of kids . That is very hard for him since he really doesn’t know what he wanted to know in the first place, who is his father?

It was Mrs. Jones that told him in the end. It turns out that what he learned from Scorpia was all staged. John Rider, just like his son had been a double agent for M16. But in doing so was also thought to be one of Scorpia’s best operatives. In the end when they pulled him out they had to stage his capture and , otherwise Scorpia would never had let them live.

He then went back to his family. But sadly the fraud was found out just a couple years later. And there was a planted in the plane that would have taken him to a relaxing vacation. So that was the real life and of Alex’s parents that he’d never known about. Alex could live peacefully after that, knowing that his father wasn’t a horrible contract killer but a good man that saved many lives.

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