Friday, October 30, 2009

Four Steps To Death

Four Steps To Death is written by John Wilson.

I picked this book because I had heard it was a good book because of our Literature Circles. Most of the people reading this book said it was very good, so I decided to read this book.

This book is about two young men in the army. One is Russian, and one is German. They are both fighting against each other to try to save or destroy Stalingrad.

Vasily is russian and he is a machine gunner is his platoon. He is very quite most of the time.
Conrad is German and he is assigned to a tank with other people. He is also quite, but also a thinker.
Sergei is a cop, but from what I have read and heard, he is a boy when Vasily, and Conrad are fighting, then at the beginning of the book, he is old and at the war torn city of Stalingrad.
So far the book is very interesting, and very action packed.

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Friday, October 9, 2009

We All Fall Down


I have just started to read the book called We All Fall Down. It is about the twin towers and how a kid named Will goes with his father to the World Trade Center to be in a co-op for school. The day of this book s based on 9/11, and how a kid and his father must bond to survive.

So far I have only read the first two and a bit chapters. In the chapters I have read, Will and his friend James have been introduced. They are just starting highschool. The first class that they have is history and they learn the history of "Ring Around the Rosie"

Then we learn that Will is going with his father to the World Trade buildings and James is being with his fire fighting father.

In the first part of the third chapter, Will is in his fathers car, and they are heading to the World Trade Centre. They arrive there, and that is as far as I have go.

All in all, the book is really good from what I have read so far.