Give A Boy A Gun
By.Todd Strasser
Reading Level: Grade 5 &7 Pages 208 Chapters: Breandan lawlor and Gary Searle both go to the same school.Where they always get bullied everyday by the football players that rule Middletown high and teachers who witness it but never do anything.Every day was misery for them the stress,the hardships,the embarrassment and those suicidal thoughts.All that ran through their heads was revenge. Feed up Brendan and Gary stole rifles from their neighbor. The day of their school dance came Brendan and Gary held everyone hostage like lunatics.But anger and hatred filled their minds wanting to kill. |
Hatchet
By.Gary Paulsen
Reading Level: Grade 4 &8
Pages 195
Chapters; 19
Thirteen year old Brian Robeson was heading to Canadian wilderness to visit his father. While on the plane to visit his father the pilot beside him suffers a massive heart attack and later died. Not knowing how to steer the plane he immediately thought to land the plane near a lake but the plane crashed in the lake. Brian lived through the crash. He then started taking advantage of his situation. He built shelter, found berries and managed to keep animals away from his shelter. One night a tornado hit the section of forest where Brian was surviving the tornado broke his shelter. Then the following morning he saw that the tornado turned the plane so that the tail section was sticking out he then realized there was a survival pack inside the plane he made a raft to get the survival pack. Inside the survival pack he found matches, cooking equipment, many packs of freeze dried foods and an emergency transmitter. He turned on the emergency transmitter. Then a trader flying overhead herd the signal and landed to rescue Brian.
By.Gary Paulsen
Reading Level: Grade 4 &8
Pages 195
Chapters; 19
Thirteen year old Brian Robeson was heading to Canadian wilderness to visit his father. While on the plane to visit his father the pilot beside him suffers a massive heart attack and later died. Not knowing how to steer the plane he immediately thought to land the plane near a lake but the plane crashed in the lake. Brian lived through the crash. He then started taking advantage of his situation. He built shelter, found berries and managed to keep animals away from his shelter. One night a tornado hit the section of forest where Brian was surviving the tornado broke his shelter. Then the following morning he saw that the tornado turned the plane so that the tail section was sticking out he then realized there was a survival pack inside the plane he made a raft to get the survival pack. Inside the survival pack he found matches, cooking equipment, many packs of freeze dried foods and an emergency transmitter. He turned on the emergency transmitter. Then a trader flying overhead herd the signal and landed to rescue Brian.