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 **WEDNESDAY WARS** George Hoey  In the //Wednesday Wars,//  by Gary D. Schmidt, Holling HoodHood has to deal with many things. First, he has a very cranky teacher named Mrs. Baker who is out to get him. Second of all, he barely has any friends. Last but not least, his parents' company isn't doing too well. The genre is fiction because it takes place in a real time, place, and setting. This quote shows why she hates Holling "that when I knew she hated me. This look came over her -- the quick brown fox jumped over the lay dogface like the sun had winked out and was not going to shine until next June". The book takes place at Camillo junior high in 1967. The school setting makes the book more interesting because it makes the book seem more realistic. The year setting doesn't affect me because we have been fighting in a war for eight years. The style of the book is middle paced because some parts are fast and some are slow. The story's chapters don't end in cliffhangers. The dialogue is normal because the kid say normal things. I sort of liked the book. I like how it was funny but I didn't like the characters. I would recommend this book to children under the age of 12 because it is funny and makes you think of what it was like then. I would give this book 4 stars   __George hoey__ __Red Pyramid__  This is a review of //The Red Pyramid//  by Rick Riordan. Carter and Sadie are up for one big adventure with danger everywhere. An evil god named Set A.K.A Evil Day wants to take over the world. Our heroes need to battle ferocious creatures left and right. This is a battle against death itself. During the final battle as Set rose from the rubble he shouted "nice, completely ineffective, but nice. It will be a pleasure chopping you up to bits, Horus just like your father before you". The story's genre is fantasy because if the Egyptian gods were real everything would be different. The story takes place in many places expanding from Washington D.C all the way to Cairo Egypt. In the story the settings make the book more fascinating than them just going to Egypt to defeat Set. The setting played many roles for the characters because in each place they always had to figure out their advantage against their enemies. This was one of the best books I've read so far because it has a great story. Anyone over the age of 6 would love this tale. I like the book because Khufu is one awesome baboon and he can play basketball. I would give this book 5 stars



// City Of Ember // // By George Hoey // In the book //City Of Ember,// by Jeanne DuPrau, lots of action and adventure swirl around the world of Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet. Apocalyptic times are coming for Ember. Ember has suffered power outages and other bad things signaling the end of Ember. Doon says in his class that "everything is getting worse and worse." The book takes place in Ember, an underground city. In the book Ember is going to have a permanent power outage and no one knows a way out. It has lots of problems like running out of food. Ember was never meant to be a permanent society. The city doesn't make the story as exciting as it should be because they are always in the same place. The setting has one thing that helps Doon and Lina, the river. The only exiting part was when they went down the river. The book tells a good story because you never know what's coming up in the book. This is a post apocalyptic time. This seemed real because if the surface was polluted and you had nowhere to go, you would build a city underground. It was easy to read because every page had some interesting part to it. Only Doon and Lina fully understand the impending doom of their society. People were all reacting in different ways. The mayor wanted to steal some food and hide out in a cave for the rest of his life. Citizens knew it was coming and didn't want to believe it. The people at the storerooms were stealing food and picking their favorites to enjoy while others suffered.

I would recommend this book to kids under the age of 11, because when I was little my Dad read this to me and I loved it. I didn't like it as much as I originally did through my second reading. The book did not hold my attention and I didn't care about the characters. In the end of the book Lina wants to send a note to the town saying" we are going to find a way out", but Doon wants to just go. Lina then brings up that if they go they may not return. The decision of not leaving a note was selfish because no one would know if they had left and found a way out or if they were hiding somewhere. It's hard to care about the protagonists if they make choices like that. I am giving this book 3 stars because it wasn't as exiting and adventurous as I thought it would be.