In the final installment of the Infernal Devices series, Mortmain is closer than ever to assembling a clockwork army to defeat Shadowhunters. With the Consul breathing down Charlotte's back, the Institute is under close scrutiny. Tessa's love triangle intensifies with Jem's proposal and Will's discovery that his curse was never real. The members of the Institute must fight against Mortmain's clockwork army and find Mortmain before it is too late.
Eli has been living in the compound with his family for the past six years of his life. His father the rich and famous Rex Yanakakis, built the compound in case a nuclear war begins. As far as Eli knows, his twin brother, Eddy, and his grandmother did not make it into the compound and may or may not have survived these nuclear attacks. Even though his is used to the life in the compound, Eli is very unhappy, he begins having seconds on whether this nuclear war did happen and if his brother and grandmother did actually die.
Farewell To Manzanar written by Jeanne Watasuki, is about when the Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor in the year of 1941! The story explains how Jeane and her family went through tough times. Jeanne's father is a successful businessman and loves himself. He is proud and very sure. But one day he receives a call and sees many people with ships turning back to the shore. He learned that the Japanese army attacked the U.S. He was terrified and he himself was a Japanese-American! He didn't no what to do. After the attack, the U.S. Army started searching for anyone who would be able to communicate with the Japanese offshore. The U.S. then sent those people to concentration camps. Jeanne's family was one of them. Her family was accused of something they didn't do and that changed her whole life. Over the course of the story she talks and describes how the camps were. The type of food they had and how they were treated. Her mother would cry and she never knew where her father went.After that Jeanne's life completely changed all I can say at the end was that she had luck and she honestly deserved it.
A story that that is an example of the idea that a little fun can go a long way…and not in a good way. Jimmy, who is a geek and just wants some female attention, helps out his good friend Byron, who lost a margin call and needs fast money, who is assisting Cam, an athletic jock who needs to pay back Waits, a dealer under the great ex-convict Ianuzzi, Reina, a smart girl in love with Cam, plays a little hide-and-go-seek with Waits with some serious cargo, and Byron gets blackmailed by MC, a mountain chick who handles a rifle like it’s an extension of her hand. Each one wants something, and they will go to all extremes necessary to get what they desire.
Hamlet is a tragedy by Shakespeare that takes place in Denmark. Hamlet is the son of the last King Hamlet, who has supposedly died after being bitten by a snake in his garden. After his mother quickly remarried to his uncle Claudius. After finding out from the ghost of his father that he was actually murdered by Claudius, Hamlet vows to get revenge on Claudius and spends the rest of the play debating as to whether his revenge and life are worth it.
The book I read for my book report is called The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days. The author of the book is Michele Weber Hurwitz, and as she was writing the book she came up with the question: does good really do good? This question was the whole point of the book. The book talks about a thirteen-year old girl named Nina Ross and how she is committed on doing sixty-five good things for neighborhood. The setting of the story is mainly the cul-de-sac (the kind of street she lives on). The story starts of with Nina planning on doing something good for her neighbor. Since the recent passing of her grandmother Nina has been feeling very lost. Also since it’s her summer of freshman year she wants to find something she is good at because all of her friends have hobbies she wants to find one for herself too. This is what made her create her plan to anonymously do one small but remarkable good thing for someone in her neighborhood. Along the way, she discovers that her neighborhoods, and her family, are full of surprises and secrets.
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, is set in the magical world of Middle Earth, where giants roam, Orcs pillage and terrorize, and many other mythical creatures exist. Bilbo Baggins was visited by his old friend Gandalf, along with 12 dwarves, to Bilbo's surprise. The dwarves tell him of their quest to slay the great Smaug and take back their kingdom under the mountain, and that they need his help. After reluctantly agreeing, they embark on an epic adventure across Middle Earth, encountering all the dangers possible, from giant spiders to hungry giants looking for something to eat.
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Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak that follows the life of Yuri Andreevich Zhivago as he lives through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Civil War. As Yuri grows up, he eventually marries his childhood best friend Tonya. But when he gets drafted as a doctor for World War I, he meets Lara Antipova, whom he can't seem to get off his mind, even when he returns from the War in time for the Russian Revolution to his old home, but a new Russia.
