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Dear Mr. Jeffers,

The title of my book is The Car and the author is Gary Paulson. In this book Terry Anders is abandoned by his parents so he builds a kit car in his dad’s garage. Terry is going to travel from Cleveland to Portland to find his uncle that he doesn’t know that well. Waylon, Wayne, and Terry are going trucking (road trip). Trucking is where you take turns picking where you want to go. Waylon picks to go to Deadwood to play poker. Terry thought Waylon was poor and Waylon pulls out a like 8,000 dollars. Then Waylon and Wayne are talking about Wild Bill Hickok who got shot in the head while playing poker in Deadwood at a bar. They went to visit Wanda and another woman came out with a negligee on but I don’t know what a negligee is. Waylon ask where Wanda is and she said Wanda died three years ago. When Waylon was playing cards he won 18 thousand dollars and split it between the three of them. I wonder why they went to Deadwood. Was it to gamble or to see Wanda? I thought the book was really good. My thoughts of the rating of this book are an eight out of ten. I recommend this book for six to eighth graders.

Your Student, Logan

Dear Mr. Jeffers,

I’m reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Right now in the book, the main character Bella, who is human, is being hunted down by vampire named James. He is a bad vampire who feeds on humans. Another vampire named Edward is trying to save Bella with help from his family. They are also vampires, but do not feed on humans. They want to hide Bella from James, while they come up with a plan to kill James.

My thoughts on this book are that Bella and Edward are in love. Bella would do anything to be with Edward and Edward would do anything to protect Bella, Edward thinks that he puts Bella in danger because he knew that other vampires were in the area and he should have protected her better. James found Bella because she was with Edward. Edward’s family tries to protect Bella too. I have one question about this chapter. Why did Edward’s dad invite James and his pack back to their house? I wouldn’t want those creepo’s knowing where I live. All this happens in the first book, so I infer that Bella can’t die from this event. It wouldn’t make since there are three more books in this series, and she’s the main character.

In conclusion, this book is really suspenseful and always leaves you wanting more. I would recommend this book to people who believe in true love and enjoy twists and turns.

Your student,

Kelly

Dear Mr. Jeffers I am reading Crackback by John Coy. Crackback is a book about a football player named Miles Manning. Who is on a football team favored to go to the playoffs and has a grouchy dad. Crackback is a book about a junior star football player named Miles Manning. Miles has a lot of pressure on the field and off the field. Everything stars out pretty good for Miles he is on a great football team and he has a great job. Then when he least expects it all starts to go bad slowly. First he has to find a date to homecoming but then the person he is going to ask out already has a date and it is there backup quarterback. Then the night before homecoming at practice their starting quarterback gets injured and then the backup quarterback has to play at homecoming. The homecoming game doesnâ€™t go so well the first play that they have the backup quarterback gets hit and hit hard in the legs and breaks his leg in 2 places. After all of that stress the coach has to drop out of coaching because he finds out he has prostate cancer and canâ€™t coach because of the stress he would be u nder. Miles is very upset about that and then to top it off his dad is always yelling at him and telling him he should do this better and that better but all Miles wants is a break. One day miles is sitting in his history class and he notices a new student and her name is Lucia and Miles canâ€™t keep his eyes off of her. Miles is scared to talk to her but he somehow manages to talk to her. When Miles goes to pick up his new jersey he doesnâ€™t get his lucky number and he thinks this is why he isnâ€™t having good luck. When Miles gets his new history assignment he has to do a family tree and find where his ancestors came from. While Miles is asking where they came from he gets some surprising news and he gets a better relationship with his uncle. The surprising news is that he actually had an older brother but he died when he was just a couple months old he died of SIDS which stands for â€œsudden infant death syndromeâ€ and figures out that is the reason that his dad is harsh on him because he loves him and wants him to succeed. When he goes to football practice the next day he is taken out of his starting spot and is really upset because nothing is going right. At the last game which is very important because it determines whether they make it into the playoffs or not. When all else fails Miles gets his spot back and when they go to get a field goal miles was supposed to be safety and w atch out for the fake kick a=but instead he went and blocked the field goal and they won the game by one point and got into the playoffs. After the game the coach talked to Miles and told him because he wasnâ€™t playing the spot he was supposed to play he said Miles will never play again this season. Miles never got to play but he ended up going out with Lucia and he got a lot closer with his dad and his uncle. Miles head coach recovers from the prostate cancer but he didnâ€™t coach again because he didnâ€™t want the stress anymore Miles gets a scholarship to football and lives happily ever after.