Thursday, October 28, 2010

Choice Book Report Part 2

                                                                The Last Dog On Earth

One of the conflicts is there is a disease going around and Logan and his dog have to fight to survive. The disease is called P.O.S. and it turns dogs into bloodthirsty killers. People start to shoot their dogs because they think they have P.O.S, even though they know it’s very painful for the dog.  
Logan got sent to boot camp because Robert didn’t like his behavior. Logan runs away from boot camp with some food, matches, and some string because the people there treat him bad, he’s homesick and he really misses Jack. About two days after he runs away from boot camp he comes up upon a big clump of scary, dark woods. After he’s walked in them for a while he sees a dark shape coming from the distance. He’s very scared that it’s an animal or human with P.O.S. Its running toward him, faster and faster it comes, and just when he thinks it’s going to attack him and rip him to pieces he realizes it’s Jack! He and Jack have to rely on there instincts to survive.
Another of the major conflicts is Jack and Logan have to walk all the way back to his house since he ran away from boot camp. They have to find different ways to catch and scavenge for food on limited resources. One of the things Logan did was he took a big garbage bag and poked tiny holes in it so that water could filter through it, and he also taped a stick to the garbage bag to make a fishing net to reach farther into the river to catch fish there. The reason he poked holes in the garbage bag was because if you try and swish a garbage bag through water without any holes in it’s really hard to move it fast.  Also he stole food from grocery stores and gas stations. Sometimes Jack would come out of the woods with a squirrel or a small rodent. Eventually Logan and Jack end up at Logan’s dads house in the middle of know where.
This is one of the best books I’ve read. It’s a very good story if you like animals, But if you get sad easily this book is NOT for you. I would give it 5 stars out of 5 because its a touching, heartfelt story about the relationship of animals and humans.

choice book report part one

My book is about a teenager named Logan. He is almost always angry since his dad left him and his mom. His mom remarried a man named Robert. Logan despised everything about him. His clothes, his voice, his personality, everything. Robert dislikes Logan too. One of the big reasons is because he wants Logan to be more like Devon Wallace. Devon is a goody two shoes boy who lives down the street. Logan is also an amazing inventor. The reason he’s amazing at it is because most of his birthday and christmas presents he doesn’t like so he turns them into things  he does like. The main things he makes are remote controls, tools that help train dogs better and robots. So, overall Logan is a cranky kid who really likes to make cool thing out of other things.
The day that Logan’s parents tell him he’s getting a dog, he’s angry, sad, and a little bit excited and happy all at the same time. He’s angry and sad because the only reason Robert and his mom are getting him a dog is because they think it will teach him how to be responsible like Devon Wallace. He’s also angry about it because he knows that they’ll make him do all the work like clean the poop and train her and all the stuff like that. But he’s also happy that he’s going to have his very own dog and maybe he’ll get along with her really well.
So off Logan and his mom went to get a purebred yellow lab. Another small part of why they’re getting a dog is because Robert wants a pure bred yellow lab like the Wallace's. But just then Logan asks his mom if they can go to the pound to get their dog so that they can save the life of a dog in need instead of paying a ton of money to get a purebred. Logan’s mom regretfully says yes even though she knows Robert will be mad when they get home. When they get to the pound Robert finds a sleek, red furred, hunting dog, and decides to name her Jack because Robert wanted the purebreds name to be Jack, even though its a girl dog.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

second memoir

          I remember the day when I got my dog. I had been asking my parents for over a year if i could get a puppy. I woke up on a bright day, and looked at the calender. It was my birthday eigth birthday! When my parents awoke they exclamed that they had a special surprise for me.
          We went into the living room to open presents, and the first on was a fuzzy, fluffy, blue puppy toy. They second one was shiny, sparkly, silver water and food dish. The last one was a card. I opened it slowly and it said you're getting a puppy! Then my mom said "we'll pick her up tommorow!" Thats the time i got a dog.