25+Summaries

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1. Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
The story is about a young boy, named Torak, lost his father by a possessed bear and soon finds out that he is the ‘Listener’to fulfill a prophecy and sacrifice his heart’s blood. On his journey, he learns to survive through the amazingly large forest, and happens to meet his little companion, Wolf, and travels with Renn. The trio looks and searched for the Nanuak. But they didn’t have much time, because they were being hunted by the Raven Clan, and the bear will get much stronger by the time a Lunar Eclipse shadows over them. They jumped over rivers, met giants, almost got swallowed by a cave, and were almost frozen to death by a very powerful blizzard just to look for the Nanuak. Being the melodramatic man he is, Hord, Renn’s obnoxious brother, tries to get rid of Torak, saying that he’s the ‘Listener’, but eventually gets killed by a rock slide, along with the Bear as Wolf carries the Nanuak to the Spirit Mountain and sacrifices his heart’s blood to the mountain.

2. I So Don't Do Mysteries by Barrie Summy
In this book, a girl named Sherry(aka Sherlock Holmes), goes through a whole mixup of solving a mystery of poisoned food being fed to animals at a zoo, and having boy problems. Before her father's wedding, she happens to talk to a ghost who happens to be her mother. She(mother) can't surpass in the ghostly academy unless she can solve something with the help of her daughter, and her best friend. Sherry goes to San Francisco to look at the crime scene, but they don't happen to be in harm, yet. There, she met a tourist, and a couple of seniors, who carried a bag full of a mysterious green substance, which she found fascinating to have. When she had sources of a chef selling the food to the suspect, she encounter's his class as a (undercover) student, needing to find information about who it is. Between her investigation, she goes on a date with her all-time crush, Josh, who happens to offer to help her. What the whole problem is, is that the green substance she got, was actually the poison used to kill the animals. With Josh and her dead relatives, they sneak into the zoo and looked for the person they were looking for. Sherry soon realized who the culprit was, the tourist. He was actually asking the seniors for the green substance, AND the chef for what he needs for the plan. After that, her mother passed the academy, and passed on to afterlife.

3. Hit and Run by Lurlene McDaniel
Hit and Run is a book about a couple of teenagers in highschool, who went to partys, drugs, and in comas. Laurie happened to be asked out by the most popular senior at school named Quin, who takes her to a party on a Friday night. Analise was always the person to travel around to places with her bike. She was supposed to leave early, but the parents of the children she was looking after asked her to stay a little longer. After the party, Quin tries to take advantage of Laurie, which made her want to go home already, but sober enough to fall asleep in __﻿__the car. When she woke up, she noticed the car stopped on the side of the road and sees Quin trying to put brush so that no one could see what he ran over. He claimed to say he 'ran over a deer' and covered up the side. Laurie got suspicious but brushed it off right after. A day after the incident, Analise's parents plus Jeremy, her boyfriend try to find the missing girl. Talking to the police it was said that they found her unconsious body at the side of the mountain covered in brush. //Did Quin hit Analise?// Seeing so, Laurie asked Quin herself, and blackmailed him into being her 'exclusive' girlfriend, until he graduates, or she'll spill it to the cops. He hopes that it doesn't interfere with his future in baseball. Once Jeremy found out about his girlfriend, he rushes in to help her out.

4.Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
This story is about the life of a young girl who lived through the Cultural Revolution in China. Jiang Ji-li tries to follow the order of Mao Zedong and the Red Army, but everything goes downhill when others find her family record. From the beginning, she had a da-zi-baos written about her and her aunt which totally upsets her. In the middle of all this mess, her best friend's Grandma commits suicide, but doesn't have a proper funeral because of what she did. To get rid of the Four Olds, her parents burn old pictures, and repaints an old trunk. Ji-Li's father is hunted down and turned in for not admitting his own crime and is forced to do labour-intensive work. She isn't allowed to see him much. Just like her father, she is sent to the countryside to also do labour work, but cuts herself in the process. Confused and distressed, she thinks about the whole problem with the People's Republic of China and Mao Zedong.

5. Amelia Earheart
This long biography is 'bout the life and death of the known Amelia Earheart. At the beginning of her birth, she lived a wonderful life of a wonderful family. One day, they went to a carnival and saw a large plane, where she decided that she wanted to fly a plane when she grows up. But then her father goes bankrupt and went crazy with the alcohol. They then lost their homes and had to move in with their grandmother. Amelia and her young sister didn't fit in like the others. They dressed up like boys back then, which kinda embarassed their grandmother. Years later, she was ready off to college and worked a part-time job as a nurse, helping the soldiers who fought bravely in the war. To be put into a commitment, she married her colleague, George Putnam. But Earheart didn't want to be a housewife, so she cancelled the marriage. Then again, she got into the same engagement with the same man again. Though, she still kept the surname Earheart. Amelia wanted to plan something very large, like be the first woman to travel around the world on an airplane. That's it! With only her and a navigator, she sets off into the sky, leaving her fans to wonder if she'll make it or not. In the end, they lost contact with the young woman, hearing only a few seconds of her voice, before crashing into the depths of the unknown. The people couldn't find Earheart and Noonan's bodies. It was then declared that the duo were declared dead on July 2nd, 1937.

6. Outsiders
Being with the Greasers, Ponyboy Curtis goes to lots of trouble in this story. In the group, there is Darry, Sodapop, Steve, Two-Bit, Dally, Johnny, and lastly, Ponyboy himself. They really don't get along with the Socs much, which is why they fight alot. Stopping by the drive-in movies, Ponyboy and Johnny meet the Soc cheerleaders, Cherry Valance and Marcia. When they leave, a blue Mustang stops by and Johnny remembers the guy with the rings, and the Socs left home. The duo then left to the lot and slept there for who knows how long. Ponyboy suddenly wakes up and realizes that he's gonna get in trouble for coming in home late. At around 3 in the morning, Darry waits for the young lad and gives him a piece of his mind, which leaves the boy running back to the lot. Trouble comes by in the blue Mustang again and Bob, the three-ringed Soc, tries to get revenge on Johnny and Ponyboy for picking up his girlfriend. Half of them grabbed and attempted to drown Pony, while the others get Johnny, but luckily he's got a switchblade. Running towards them, Johnny stabs Bob in the back, literally, and kills Bob. Johnny and Pony immediately run to Dally, which he tells them to cath a train and go to an abandoned church on Jay Mountain.