Impulse Book Report

The book Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy tells the story of how Travis Roy’s hockey career ended in eleven seconds. Travis broke his neck at a C4 level and became a quadriplegic at the age of 20. Throughout the book you learn about the physical and mental journey he takes as he learns to change his perspective to adjust to the world he now lives in.

All these characters had different personalities and each character was lovable in their own way.

“And we are back! Bottom of the seventh out here in Chesterfield. The score is 7-6, Crushers are winning and the Stix are at their last at bat. It’s about as hot as a chili pepper in August.

Fallout by Ellen Hopkins is the third book in her Crank series, in which describes the lives of three children who are siblings but live in different homes. The main characters of the book are Hunter, Autumn, and Summer who are Kristina’s children. The book starts out by talking about Hunter, which I believe is Kristina’s oldest son. Hunter works at a radio station and is very popular around town. Hunter has a girlfriend names Nicky in which he was a good relationship until he starts feeling insecure and eventually starts using drugs and cheating on Nicky. Autumn is the second child the books talks about, Autumn lives with her aunt Cora. Autumn is very timid, she has OCD and sometimes gets panic attacks. Autumn is in high school and has never had a boyfriend before but in school, she meets a boy in which she fell in love with but thinks she’s not good enough for him because he is very good looking. Autumn starts to go on dates with the boy from school and eventually starts to date him. Autumns relationship with her aunt Cora is very good until her aunt gets married, that’s when autumn falls into having a drinking problem. Lastly there is summer, who is the last person the book talks about. Summer was in foster care for a while where she had a bad experience and eventually went back to

The book The Program by Suzanne Young takes place during a time where teens all over are committing suicide. The Program helps these suicides by taking in depressed teenagers and erasing their memories. Most people think this can end the epidemic but not the main character Sloane. After a tragic loss of her brother and best friend, Sloane and her boyfriend James try to escape The Program but after they both get taken away and their memories erased, fate brings them back together. Throughout the book James and Sloane try to take The Program down with the help of new friends.

Have you ever been on your own in your early life? It's hard to take care of yourself at an early age, therefore you either get tough or die. All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers gives the perfect example of this. Paul, a kid that has been practically taking care of himself, has been through a lot of good and bad throughout his life so far. Paul has been working at a soup kitchen for a while now, as well as helping a girl named Keisha pursue her dream in basketball. Paul is a pretty open minded person besides the fact that he doesn’t like to listen to Elijah's life tips. Elijah is the owner of the soup kitchen, and helps out Paul with whatever he needs. A lot of the characters show that they put other before themselves in many situations during the book.

When mag crew workers become victims of tragic accidents or perpetrators of violent crimes, they’re often thousands of miles from home, which makes it difficult for their families to get information about their cases, often involving foul play. Since their door-to-door jobs are by nature itinerant, they roam the streets, trying to sell magazine subscriptions to the public in town after town. It is also a job that, many say, leaves crew members open to serious abuse. There is a long list of persistent mag crew-related problems, which usually generate only local news attention disappearances, rapes, assaults, van rollover accidents, abandonments and suspicious deaths. Successful civil lawsuits against mag crew company owners haven’t done much to curb the industry’s labor abuses, and because of jurisdictional restrictions, local police in most states can do little other than arrest sales agents for selling without proper permits.

S: Page 132 is about a story of a family that lost their child due to the baby being premature.

When analyzing character Charles Frazier obviously does a good job developing the characters thought out the book since all the main characters must face some diversity in there

• Audience: Feed was written for a young teen audience because in the first few chapters of the book there is evidence of teenage slang such as “null” which means bored or boring. Other evidence that points that the book is for a teen audience is when the moon trip is described as having “rockiness and the suckiness” by the main character. Also most of the characters in the book want to fit in like most teens because in the chapter the nose grid it talks about how Quendy, a teen female character in the book, says, “Omigod! Like big thanks to everyone for not telling me that my lesion is like meg completely spreading.” • Purpose:

Although competition is something that can drive one to the top of a mountain, sometimes there can be an enormous negative consequence that no one can handle. Middletown High School, where Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle both attend, holds an extremely high competitive atmosphere. In particular, this school puts the most drive into their football players and wrestlers. “Everyone around here knows the football players. Either they see them at the games or they read about them in the newspaper” (78). However, as shown in this book competitiveness may lead to a complicated result, in this case a shooting. As a result of the power put into the athlete at Middletown High School, the athletes and the academic students receive contrasting treatment

After reading this chapter, I have many reactions to some of the actions some of the characters made and the overall plot of the story. All the relationships that I had once loved, are tragically ending in flames. There is no chance Gatsby and Daisy will be together anymore, which cripples my soul. I do not think Tom deserves any satisfaction in life and unfortunately he gained some by embarrassing Gatsby and taking the only happiness Gatsby ever had. Jordan and Nick have hit a rough patch, due to Nick being “sick of” everyone, meaning all old money people. I hate that Nick let Tom ruin his relationship with her, Tom’s actions have made him disgusted by everyone in the group. I will never feel sympathy for Tom, I think he is an ego-inflated jerk who needs to bring people down in order to make himself happy. He literally was flabbergasted about Daisy’s cheating, saying does no one understand a family anymore. How hypocritical!! Tom acts as if he has done nothing wrong in his entire life, as if he understood what a marriage meant. He had cheated on Daisy for god knows how many years, yet he has the audacity to criticize Daisy’s actions. Tom’s ego may be gigantic however, it is extremely fragile. Tom got so threatened about Gatsby going to a different school than him and wearing a colored suit, that he had to through so many accusations to suppress his insecurities about himself. I feel sorry for Myrtle, honestly. Her husband locked her upstairs and was planning on

The book Crank sure of course does have a lot of poor judgement in it, but I think it could be a great book for a kid around my age to sit down and read. When I first picked up the book and started to read to read it I never thought I would end on the mind frame that I did. It for sure is a long book, and does contain some graphic material, but it is for sure worth reading in my opinion, and I think you should definitely keep this book, for all you know, it could be the best book a kid has ever picked up and read, I know it was for me.

The main character, Nathan, reminds me of my older brothers, Mike and Matt. They both love to hunt, big or small game animals. They always brought food to our table, as well as Nathan and his father take food to their families table. Anytime they shot and killed something they would always thank the good Lord. Before and after every meal they would tell their stories because they were just so grateful and happy they had one, gotten some food on the table, and two they had another awesome experience not everybody has.

n the book Everything, Everything the main character Madeline suffers from a rare disease called SCID, but she calls it ‘bubble baby disease,’ because she essentially lives in a bubble. She is not allowed to leave her house and the only people she can socialize with is her mom and her nurse Carla. Madeline does the same thing everyday, online schooling, scrabble with her mom, and book talks with her nurse Carla. Madeline never really had an interest in the world outside of her home until a new neighbor moves in, Olly.