https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu Three cheers for independent reading! en-us 2018-11-19 19:19:33 UTC 2025-04-18 19:39:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306353390 Thomas and a few boys are all together in this Maze. Though they have been there for some time, the Maze holds many secrets and mysteries the boys need to solve. They continuously look for a way to escape the maze, but at the same time survive. This story has a lot of cliffhangers at each chapter and keeps you reading to figure out what is about to happen. ]]> 2018-11-20 14:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306353390 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306354326 This book is about 5 kids that enter detention because of their phones. However, they claim that someone set them up. As the story goes on, only 4 kids leave detention. The rest of the plot is about the mystery behind the death of a student. It is suspensful and dramatic.]]> 2018-11-20 14:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306354326 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306386739 This book is about the Columbine shooting. It is broken into four parts and each part is a different topic. The first part of the book, where I am, introduces some of the victims and the shooters. It also gives a play-by-play on what happened. ]]> 2018-11-20 15:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306386739 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306512225 This book follows siblings Carter and Sadie Kane as they find out they are descendants of both royalty and magic of ancient Egypt, and that the gods of ancient Egypt are walking among them. They must embark on an adventure to save their father and save the world from destruction. Basically, this is Egyptian Percy Jackson. The book is very interesting to read, and the switch between Sadie and Carter's perspectives makes it exciting. ]]> 2018-11-20 19:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/306512225 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307536194  In every story, there is something that someone relates to. In The Truth About Forever, Macy, a teenage character in the book, lost her father in a dramatic accident and decided that for the rest of her summer, she was going to have her mind set on school and nothing else... until she met Wes. Macy realizes that “the truth about forever is that it is happening right now” and she decides to come out of her shell. ]]> 2018-11-25 17:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307536194 19dvanleuven_45 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307748304 "Hercules, huh? This won't be too hard." This quote was said by Percy, just before his fight with the demigod Hercules. This quote shows how confident Percy is in many seemingly difficult situations, and perhaps cocky. I would choose Tom Holland for the role of Percy because in his other roles (Spider-Man), he has displayed a believable character with a sense of humor.]]> 2018-11-26 13:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307748304 19dvanleuven_45 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307787512 "Hercules, huh? This won't be hard." The quote was said by Percy Jackson, one of the protagonists, just before he was about to fight the demigod Hercules. The quote shows Percy's confidence, and how he can be cocky. The quote also shows Percy's likable sense of of humor. I would choose Tom Holland to play the role of Percy in a movie, because Tom has played Spider-Man, another teenager with a great sense of humor, and Holland portrays roles in a believable manner.]]> 2018-11-26 14:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307787512 19dvanleuven_45 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307809108 2018-11-26 15:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/307809108 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/308243546 Pet Sematary follows the story of the Creed family who've just moved to a new town in Maine. Upon their arrival to their new house, their neighbor, Jud, shows them a hidden path that leads to none other than the Pet Sematary itself. The Pet Sematary is exactly what it sounds like: a cemetery for beloved pets. However, the real evil lies beyond the Pet Sematary where an indian burial ground lies. Louis Creed, the protagonist, learns that whatever is buried there, comes back to life as he has buried his daughters cat, Church, there only for it to return the next day...but it was not the same cat that it was before. ]]> 2018-11-27 13:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/308243546 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312222424 At the start of this book, Graham, a movie star accidentally sends an email to Ellie and they end up conversing pretty much everyda. This is a summer love story about an ordinary girl from Maine and a famous guy from California. The story is full of secrets and unexpected twists and turns. ]]> 2018-12-07 13:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312222424 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312222559 The pelican Brief by John Grisham is about 2 supreme court justices who were murdered the same night without a trace. One was shot in the head, the other strangled, possibly by the same killer? Darby shaw, a law student, thinks she knows the answer, she writes up whats later known as the pelican brief. What started as a harmless conspiracy ends up in the hands of some powerful people and causes many troubles in Darby's life.]]> 2018-12-07 13:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312222559 19mhaschak_58 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312222867 This story is set during the civil rights era in Jackson Mississippi. It is about the life of the maids and the conditions they faced during this time. Friendships are made and opinions of what is right and wrong are changed. A white women named Skeeter wants to change others perceptions and the story follows her process of telling the stories of voices that normally go unheard.]]> 2018-12-07 13:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312222867 ArionnaStar https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312223193 This book shares the love story of Min Green and Ed Slaterton. In the beginning, she begins to collect mementos from cherished moments in their relationship from theater flyers to the bottle caps of the sodas they drank when they first met. However, as the story goes on, the objects start to represent why they shouldn't be together anymore. This book explores the idea that sometimes the reason you fell in love is the same reason you'll fall out of love.]]> 2018-12-07 13:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312223193 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312223328 This book is a spin off of the Pride and the Prejudice but in a more modern era! The book follows around the Bennet family, and throughout the book they navigate through love (Jane and Chip, and Liz and Darcy), sickness (Jane's father), and conflicts between members of the family and other characters. The author did a great job of developing the characters throughout the entire story, which made me never want to put it down. While it is a longer book, I found it to be an easy shorter read because the length of the chapters varied from one page to six pages.]]> 2018-12-07 13:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312223328 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312223773 This non-fiction book is not like most, right from the first page, and even the cover, you know the ending. This whole book is trying to understand the journey of a young man named, Christopher McCandless. Krakaur goes all around talking to people Christopher has come in contact with and tries to put the puzzle together. This book does a really good job of keeping you interested and tells the journey of Christopher very well.]]> 2018-12-07 14:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312223773 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312224016 It is Amy and Nick Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary and suddenly Amy goes missing. Their living room is trashed and blood covers the kitchen floor. All fingers point to the husband, Nick. He isn't doing himself any favors though because he goes around town engaging in lies and inappropriate behavior. The book also takes the reader into the mind of Amy as it goes through her diary detailing the past five years with Nick. The media, Amy's parents and the police all want answers. Who killed Amy? Is Nick really the killer?]]> 2018-12-07 14:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312224016 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312224115 Colin, a child prodigy who is known for his great intelligence, has dated 19 girls in total, all named Katherine. To get his mind off of a breakup from Katherine #19, Colin's only friend, Hassan, takes him on a road trip from his Chicago hometown all the way to Tennessee. Here, he learns more about himself, makes more than one friend, and discovers that there may be more to his love life than Katherines.]]> 2018-12-07 14:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312224115 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312225045 Liesel Meminger, a young blonde haired, blue eyed girl, must go live with a family. Liesel doesn't know why she to leave her family, but she knows the word "kommunist" has something to do with it. When Liesel arrives at her new home the Hubermanns find her cltuching a book, and refuses to get out of the car.
The Book Thief is my favorite book, because of the narrator. The narrator has a dark sense of humor, obsesses with the colors of the sky, and is Death. Death is obsessed with Liesel's story, and follows her through WW2.]]> 2018-12-07 14:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312225045 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312225756 This story sets place in 2044 where everybody lives their life through the virtual reality world known as, the OASIS. The story follows a young man, Wade Watts, in his hunt for an easter egg hidden in the game. the discovery of the easter egg with inherit the game creators fortune. ]]> 2018-12-07 14:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312225756 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312226631 Mark Watney's crew leaves, expecting him dead after a bad sandstorm. However, what they don't know is Watney is still clinging to life on the surface. After regaining consciousness, Watney needs to figure out how to survive on Mars and return to Earth. Using only his mind, leftover materials, and his comedic approach to life.]]> 2018-12-07 14:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312226631 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312227357 This book follows a girl, Laia, and a boy, Elias. Laia is fighting to save her brother. While Elias is fighting for his freedom. Laia becomes a slave to get inside information about The Masks. Elias is in trial to become an official mask. They work together to help each other escape The Empire. This is a 3 book series so far.]]> 2018-12-07 14:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312227357 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312227548 This book is about teenage girl, Alex, making it through an apocalyptic world ravaged by undead creatures after bomb was set of and destroyed life and the world we know and love. Alex meets other survivors in remote areas of what was the U.S. She meets little girl Ellie, past Afghanistan soldier Tom, and other survivors of the new world. We see Alex's journey though her losses of friends and family while at the same time fighting for her life against the dead. However the dead and personal loss isn't the biggest of her problems...]]> 2018-12-07 14:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312227548 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312227858 Little Fires Everywhere follows the story of the Richardson family in Shaker Heights, Ohio; the perfect town where everything is in order and your children grow up and go to an Ivy League School before moving back later in their lives to start families of their own. But when a nomadic artist named Mia moves there with her daughter Pearl and causes town-wide chaos, Mrs. Richardson sets out to find the past of Mia, and what she is hiding.]]> 2018-12-07 14:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312227858 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312230086 Misery is about a author of a great seller that gets kidnapped by a psycho fan of his books. Throughout the novel she, put him in a wheel chair, starves him, and tortures him into writing a end to the series. I would recommend this book because the antagonist is the most frightening thing ever created. She is a disgusting, fat rat of a human and is all around freaky. If you are looking for a great written book and wanna feel trapped in its writing: this is a great book for you. ]]> 2018-12-07 14:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312230086 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312230475 By Stephen dando-collins

The Big Break is a Story about how the greatest escape in history happened during WWII with and how the escapees made an tunnel leading from the toilet area to the ditch pass the fence. The Internal and external that work against the character in the story because of the abuse they take from the POW camp and the use of there last amount of energy to build a tunnel for the escape from the camp.]]> 2018-12-07 14:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312230475 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312252991 This book is told from two different people, Hannah and Emory. They are basically neighbors but had a falling out and now they can't speak to each other. Emory is an actress and has a boyfriend while Hannah is all about her church choir. Everything changed when something bad happened to Emory's boyfriend and Hannah and her family had to help them. It really shows the two girls and their own struggles with self identity and their relationship with each other throughout the entire book.]]> 2018-12-07 14:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312252991 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312255454 Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she's determined to get her death right. She starts visiting a suicide website. Each chapter counts down to her DOD (Date of Death). A boy begins to sit with her after school whiles she's waiting for her parents to pick her up. Even though she's made it clear that she wants to be left alone, Santana won't give up. It's too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life... ]]> 2018-12-07 15:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312255454 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312255729 Water for Elephants is about an old age man names Jacob that lives in a nursing home. There is some slight conflict with another while he's there dealing with carrying water for elephants. He gets upset with this as then goes to tells his past about being involved with the circus and the adventures he took part in. He tells about all the problems that arose and the people that he had met. He talks about everything that he can remember along with a dangerous and horrific event that took place while he was there. Along with the book having a twist ending that not many would see coming. ]]> 2018-12-07 15:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312255729 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312255937 Room is set in the pov of the five year old son. His Ma was kidnapped 7 years ago. It talks about their life in Room and what they had to do to survive and keep Old Nick happy. ]]> 2018-12-07 15:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312255937 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312256249 Terra's bright red birthmark trails from her temple down her cheek. Although she's always dealt with stares, they never cease to make her uncomfortable. She's gone through laser treatment after treatment, but her birthmark remains just as vibrant as before. After all the jabs from her dad and the subtle hints from friends and strangers about getting her face fixed, Terra has an idea of beauty and her lack of it. That is, until she learns what True Beauty is as she creates her own Fate Map, blazes her own path, and breaks free from maps others have drawn for her. ]]> 2018-12-07 15:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312256249 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312256639 The book picks up 17 years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, he now has 2 kids and a job at the Ministry of Magic. But the story revolves around his son Aldus Severus Potter who is "cursed" with his father's legacy and everyone expects him to be just like his father. As the story progresses, Aldus makes friends with Scorpius who is rumored to be the offspring of Voldemort. Aldus learns that Harry has a lot to make up for in terms of the death toll between him and Voldemort, Aldus then tries to fix the past that Harry has created which ends up going wrong in so many ways both with his relationship with his father Harry and his very existence entirely.]]> 2018-12-07 15:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312256639 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312256708 This book is a story of self-discovery, with encounters between two computer gamers and a dangerously unstable kidnapper. Marnie suffers from passive-aggressive behavior since her mother passed. She has blown off her studies to spend her hours online playing a game fighting monsters called Elf. Marnie is kidnapped by a teacher from her school and is held in a windowless cell room at gunpoint, who informs her that they are half-sisters. This book is very interesting and I would recommend reading it.]]> 2018-12-07 15:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312256708 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312257753 This book follows the different point of views of seniors from this friend group in the 1950's. A day before school starts these girls decide to go to a party. All goes well until the next school day. Two girls with blue eyes were found in the forest dead. The whole town believes it was one of their boyfriends since they had fought at the party but Nora doesn't believe so. Throughout this story Nora tries to forget what happens by living on with her life but nobody knows for sure who the actual killer is.]]> 2018-12-07 15:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312257753 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312268071 This novel is based on a true story that is about a mother, Ma, and her five-year-old son, Jack, held captive. Ma was kidnapped when she was 19 years old by a man, Nick or "Old Nick". The novel is told from Jack's point of view. Ma devotes her time, in captivity, to create the most normal life she can for Jack. Jack, being so young, does not understand that there is an outside world (his world is Room). The novel begins with Jack's fifth birthday. Throughout the novel, the readers are given a glimpse at what victims go through and the struggle of recovery. ]]> 2018-12-07 15:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312268071 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312326940 In the book "I am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak we follow Ed Kennedy a underage cab driver. He is a less than average guy unremarkable compared to his brother, stuck in his hometown pining after a girl who doesn't love him. All of that changes after he stops a bank robbery he gets playing cards in the mail with names on them. Who is sending the cards and why are those peoples names on them find out when you read I am the messenger.]]> 2018-12-07 17:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312326940 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312326966 Silver, an over weight, washed up rockstar part of a band who rocked the nation is faced with a decision. Life? Or death?As his life had already fallen apart years before; A hate-felt divorce, a foreign daughter. A severed aorta on his heart doesn't surprise him anymore. He has to undertake an emergency surgery that could save his life, but to everyones surprise, he refuses. Silver grapples with the question: Is his life really worth saving?]]> 2018-12-07 17:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312326966 19pherbach_78 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312330250 by Danielle Steel

With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston’s life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage–or his unwanted transfer to his firm’s New York office. With nothing left to lose, he takes a leave of absence from his job to drive through New England, hoping to make peace with himself. A spontaneous ski trip then leaves Charles stranded in a small Massachusetts town, living in a house haunted for the past 200 years by a mysterious woman. Charles' newly found fascination with her and her diaries leads him deeper into the quest to discover more about her and the history of the town. ]]> 2018-12-07 17:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312330250 19pherbach_78 https://padlet.com/kbishop17/epbl79a2s2hu/wish/312335570 by Scott Westerfeld


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