Book Blog #4

Playing with the Boys
A pretty tough novel
By
Liz Tigelaar

If you like books that show girl power, then this one is defiantly for you. I would recommend this book to you if you like to read books or really anything about girls being tougher and better then boys, then this book is right up your ally. There isn’t a moment in this book were Lucy Malone isn’t showing up guys, and get this she’s showing up guys on a boys varsity football team. How great is that! I really liked this book, it has just about everything I like in a book. It has to do with my favorite sport soccer, about a girl that can kick better and more accurate then another guy, its got all the gossip, its full of drama, and it’s actually a pretty entertaining book. I really haven’t read a book like this. Not many books seem to be about a girl that can play football. It is also about the determination one girl must have to deal with multiply complications. Such as losing their mother, moving across the country, going to a new school in California your sophomore year, not having your best friend in the whole entire universe around anymore, an over protective dad, a team that doesn’t want you, not making the soccer team which is your life, drama, boy troubles, crushing on the hottest guy in school that just happens to be on the same team as you, and so much more. This book is just loaded full with the type of stuff every high school girl can’t get enough of, drama!
Throughout the novel the author was trying to get the point a crossed that anything guys can do girls can do better! She does that by telling a story of a girl that just moved a crossed the country, motherless, with an over protective dad that will not let her do much. First the girl Lucy tries out for the soccer team but since the team has been playing together for a very long time and they are a really skilled group of girl, Lucy didn’t make the team. But the coach and a couple of the other girls talk Lucy into trying out for the football team because she has a very accurate and strong kick. Beings that the football team just lost their starting kicker because he torn he’s ACL. Lucy finally gave in and tried out. Guess what! Looks like girls are just as good at football as guys are because she made the team and is the starting kicker for the Beachwood high school boys varsity football team. Throughout the story Lucy is tested and tried by her new teammates that don’t really like her, and by her father that thinks she is on the cheer leading squad now. Lucy has her ups and downs but in the end she made it through with her girl power and pulled it through for the team to win their biggest game ever in school history, and those jerk face guys that were so mean to her finally came around to take a liking to her. I really thought this was a good book and kept me interested the whole time. It had some slow parts but besides that I loved the fact it was about a girl being on the same level as guys and doing just as good as they are even when they kept being mean and shutting her down.

Word count: 587 words

Book blog #3

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness:
Wolf Brother
By
Michelle Paver

I actually really liked this book to. My aunt recommended to me because I like to read books about wildlife and weird ways people can twist the world to make it dark, magical, happy but yet sad, enchanting, and I love to see the good bonds between humans and wildlife. Also native tribes are really fascinating to me because of how they used everything and all the rituals they did were beyond anything I could think of. This book really showed how much the Earth and nature meant to Native Americans. Even though it wasn’t displayed in a real life world it still showed the passion and love the Indians had for the land. I really liked how the book is based about a boy named Torak and how he finds he’s guide that he hates at first but then loves with every bit of he’s heart. He’s guide or better known as he’s pack brother wolf (which is a real wolf, he finds as a cub after he’s family drowns) he’s Torak along he’s journey to find the mountain of the world spirit to stop a demonic bear from destroying the world. I don’t know about you but I really liked the whole entire story and can’t wait to read the rest of the books. This book is the first of a series of 4. I can’t wait to read what adventures Torak and wolf go onto next. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves animals, nature, stories of the Native Americans, mysteries of the wilderness, strong bonds between animals and humans, and to who ever just loves an absolute fantastic book. Its defiantly a book that you can’t put down, its that amazing.

Throughout the story Torak evolves into a brilliant young man while the keen skills of a wolf, with the help of he’s pack brother wolf and a few other people he meets along the way. The first key event that really changes Torak is the death of he’s father. Before he’s father was killed by the bear Torak was just a kid that was a loner like he’s father. He didn’t have a true tribe but he belonged to the wolf clan. After he’s father died he was completely alone in the woods and he was forced to grow up. At first it was extremely difficult for Torak to survive on he’s own. Then he found wolf, at first he was going to kill him because he needed food, but something wouldn’t let him do it. Torak blamed it on the rule were you can’t kill your clan animal unless it was an absolute must, but really some where deep inside him wouldn’t let him do it because it knew this was he’s guide. Those were 2 of the major changes in Torak’s life that really made him evolve into who he is to become later and that was basically just the first 3 chapters. Then when Torak gets captured by another tribe he starts to realize who he is and what he is meant to do. Some where deep inside of him he was changing and becoming a man with special gifts that are yet unseen. He is the chosen who, the only one that can stop the bear from destroying the lands they live on. I think this is a very good book and I hope the rest of the series is as good as this one.

Word count: 585 words