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Mark Chakejian 11/12/10 Book Review for //Crash// The book I chose to read was //Crash//. The author of this book is Jerry Spinelli. The genre of this book is sports fiction. The theme of this book is to treat others how you want to be treated. For example, Crash Coogan and Mike Deluca would always pick on Penn Webb because he was a quaker. They also made fun of him because he wore different close then everybody else and he would always have a different button on his shirt every day.

The setting of this book took place at Crash Coogan's middle school and in his nieghborhood. On the first day of school mostly everyone in Crash's school was checking everyone out. Then, later when sports started Crash tried out for football while Penn Webb tried out for cheerleading. Both of them made their teams. In fact Crash was a starting running back and scored six touchdowns in his first game which was a school record while Penn Webb was over with the cheerleaders cheering for Crash's team. In Crashes nieghborhood lived Penn Webb and Mike Deluca. A lot of times when the story took place in the nieghborhood Mike was over Crash's house. One morning in the book Scooter and Abby were working in the back yard and while they were working Scooter got a stroke and was then rushed to the hospital. It turned out that he was going to be okay, but he was going to have to learn how to talk and walk again. He would also have forgotten a lot of stuff. The setting of this book can really help the reader understand the story.

The plot for this book told a great story. The plot for this book was memorable in some parts. For example, when you set a record for something it will usually be a memory for a very long time. While I was reading this book I could concentrate because I would make sure that I was in a room with no distractions and little noise. While reading this book my mind never would wander off because I enjoyed the book so much.

My rating for this book would be five stars. I would give this book five stars because I liked how most of the characters played my favorite sport which is football. Another reason why I would give this book five stars is because I could understand what was going on most of the time. A third reason why I would give this book five stars because I really enjoyed how the author made the characters act in this book. A forth reason why I would give this book four stars is because I liked how most of the characters had nicknames. For example, how John Coogan's nickname was Crash. Lastly why I would give this book five stars is because I really enjoy reading the book genre of sports fiction.

Mark Chakejian

Book Review for //Hunger Games// The book that I chose to read was //the Hunger Games.// The author of this book was Suzanne Collins. I would say that the theme of this book is to be brave. For example, how katniss and peeta went to the hunger games and made it through the whole thing alive. For this book I would say that the genre is realistic fiction. For example, how these hunger games and discrict twelve could be real.

The plot was great in this story.The plot told a great story because of how brave you had to have been to even enter the hunger games. you would have to be brave because it is like a little war. I could not believe some parts in this plot. For example, how katniss and peeta faked that they were going to die at the end. I could not believe that because I thought that someone would at least notice. In this book I would not wander off because of how great this book was.

My rating for this book would be four stars. I would give it four stars because in the begining of the book it did not have as much action. I would also give it four stars because it was an action packed story in the middle of the book. another reason why I would give this book four stars is because of the characters were great in this book. Lastly why I would give this book four stars is because I did not have a hard time understanding the text in this book.

Mark Chakejian 5/16/11 Biography book review for //Muhammad Ali the Greatest// The book that I chose to read was //Muhammad Ali the Greatest//. The author of this book was Walter Dean Myers. I would say the theme of this book is to have confidence. For example how Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) was knocking out people bigger than him. Another example is that his record was 56 wins, 5 losses, and 37 knock outs.

I would rate this book with five stars. I would give this book five stars because I enjoyed learning about Muhammad Ali's life. I would also give this book five stars because of all of the action in the fights. A third reason why I would give this book five stars is because of the style that Ali fought like. Lastly why I would give this book five stars is because I could understand what was going on through out the whole book.

The plot of this story was great. The plot told a great story in this book because of Ali's fantastic life in boxing. It also told a great story because of all of the detail that was added into this book. A third reason why the plot of this book told a great story is because he would have a fight about every week or every other week. Lastly why this story had a great plot is because of how energetic Muhammad Ali was in his life.