Book Report
1 spiral notebook
1 pen
What you do:
Write one paragraph (at least 3 sentences) for EACH chapter of the book. There are 22 chapters.
What's the BIG IDEA?
In each paragraph, give your thoughts on the chapter. What was the main point (the BIG IDEA) of the chapter.
The Title Page:
The first page of your notebook (the title page) should contain:
1. Your name
2. Title of book
3. Author or authors
4. Publisher and city
5. Copyright date
Introduction:
One or two paragraphs, in your own words, introducing the subject of the book.
Next:
Your BIG IDEA chapters come next, one on each page. Remember to put the title of the chapter on the first line of each page.
Last, but not least:
Make a MY REVIEW page. Here's where you give your opinions on the book: what you thought, what you liked, what you didn't.
OK, Finishers, this is a big project, but you've got TWO months to do it. YOU SHOULD HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK BY NOW!
The next book club meeting is the kick-off for the school year.
It will be Saturday, September 18, 2010. Expect something special!!
The book for October, chosen unanimously by the Finishers (who ignored Mari's objections) will be...
by Zilpha Keatley Synder
You'd think that someone with a name like Harry Houdini Marco would be clever and skillful, but Harry could only occasionally catch even an easy fly ball without making some dumb error. On top of that, most of his friends' families were moving to the suburbs. It would have been a long, dreary summer, but then a Mr. Mazeeck showed up and Harry got the gift of flight.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Arnold Spirit, a goofy-looking dork with a decent jumpshot, spends his time lamenting life on the "poor-ass" Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly 
named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing as best friends do. When a teacher pleads with Arnold to want more, to escape the hopelessness of the rez, Arnold switches to a rich white school and immediately becomes as much an outcast in his own community as he is a curiosity in his new one.
Among the Hidden
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.
Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows -- does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?
Soldier Boys
by Dean Hughes
Parallel stories follow teenagers Spence Morgan, a farm boy from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick, a farm boy from Bavaria. Stirred by complex feelings of patriotism and adolescent insecurities, both young men find themselves fighting for their respective countries in World War II. The first part of the story follows Spence from his small-town life to the rigors of basic training as a paratrooper; Dieter has left his family in order to supervise other Hitler youth, digging trenches on the German border. Then suddenly, both teens are thrust into the chaos and carnage of the Battle of the Bulge.
