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This story is about a man that gets hit by a truck when driving the man ends up dieing, a pastor that ended up at the seen God spoke to him and told him to pray for the man that was died so he did what God sent him to do. As the pastor made his way in to the car to pray for the man he gets in and starts to pray as he prays the man starts singing and comes alive but it was not just any singing he was singing the songs there where singing in heaven. The pastor gets out the car and starts to yell at the EMT that the man is alive no one believed him so he told them to check it was true he was alive. This is why this book was made today 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper the man that got hit by the truck is still alive today. This book is good to read if you are in to God and want to learn things that he can do in people life to change them. One of the thing that make this book a good book is that the book goes straight in to action. At one part in the book when he is on the highway driving he had just came to a bright where there was many cars and a lot of traffic he was driving and a truck hit his car and tolded the car the don pipers in the car. well when the police and and EMT’s got to the scene the EMT’s checked the car and said that Don piper had died so they the cover the car up to clean and check up on the driver to keep the road moving. At the scene a pastor the pastor asked to pray for the people that where alive but out of no where God talked to him and told him to go focus on the man that was die. The pastor asked an EMT if he can go pray for the man that was die and the EMT looked at him like he was crazy and told him if he wanted to so the pastor did. As the pastor pray for the man the man started to sing the pastor started to yell he is alive people looked at him like he was crazy. The way Don Piper writes the action in the books makes people want to keep reading to find out what happens next.

If you don't believe in God and that he can do things to change people life this wont be a book for you to read. There is a part in the book where Don Piper comes alive after he gets hit by a truck and dies as all this is happening he is in Heaven getting to the gates where all the Angles are greeting him and welcoming him in as another angle. As they singing and pray to God and it say in the book that it was like a party in heaven and it was bright. Another part that have to go with if you don’t believe in God is that on every chapter in the story has a bible verse that you have to read to understand where he coming from. After all this happened and Don Piper gets his life back together and starts to heal he had relived what God has done in his life. Don Piper changes his life so that he can tell people how God did things in his life. This is the reason why I say if you don’t like things about God and you don’t believe that he can do this there is no point in reading this book and wasting your time.

This book is good because it gets in to deal tails about the crash and how heaven looks. Around the third chapter of the book is when he died and he is at the gates of heaven he say that heaven is bright and it is the most beautiful thing that have never seen in his life, the angles where singing they had the most beautiful voice that made others want to singing as there reached the gates. As he was walking in the gates he seen family, friends that help him when they went on him ups and downs. H was is haven but as the pastor sat there and prayed for him he began coming back to life but the thing was as he was coming alive he was singing like an angle. When Don Pipers was fully healed he became a pastor he told his story many times heaven is a grate place to live after your life on earth because the way it is the way angles treat you the way they act everything about them.

If you are in to God and want to learn a lil more about him get your head in to this book and read it and begin to believe because God is good and with out him no one can really do anything. These are real life things that are happening now in are days.

In conclusion This book by Don Piper’s 90 minutes in heaven is a book that will get you hooked and make you want to read more because of the action and detail it tells I would love for everyone in this class to read it to see if it changes are view on live. I rate this book a five cause i got in to it and it connects to something that happened to someone in my life. God is real believe in him he can work.

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Basketball courts in rows of 4, regulation hoops an a well paved black court with white an yellow lines to show the vast quantity of detail. Mike Lupicas Summer ball shows how hard players work to be the best that they can. What makes this book so good is that Danny is such a adventures player that he not only makes him self good but he makes the players around him better also an i think that's something important to have when you are a leader of an travel team that has won an national championship. Over the summer Danny makes his team to an over the summer basketball camp called “Right Way”. Right Way is a camp for all ages but has some of the best basketball players in the nation. Danny knows that he has to push his team to the limit. that is one of the great things that make this book a good book. One negative about this book is that  about half way through the book Danny  hurts his knee. When Danny hurts his knee he starts to think if he will heal back to the way he was before, it happened . This part of the story goes very slow an can be very boring, because Danny gets very depressed. An he almost goes home because of it, an upper class men walks in an finds him calling his to to take him home to see there family doctor. Will says some very important things to make Danny change has mind (if you wanna know what he says then you have to get the book.) an stay at the basketball camp. Other then this little problem  the rest of the book is way better. At the end of the book is mainly about Danny becoming a team leader, an him getting the support from his team again to work harder than what they ever have before. the real games start to begin at the en of the book any really this part of the book o me is the best because it really shows how good of a team they are a how they far agents the older players that went to Right way Summer camp. From here on they have about 2 clinics a day( clinics are basketball games), in the morning an in the after noon. After Danny leads his tea to an basketball national championship. He gets invited to an over the summer basketball camp where the best of the best goes to. Danny walker is the smallest kid on the court , the challenges never stop especially when your playing the game basketball.

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Tempted (House of Night, Book 6) by Cast - a book review by Tamara

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Tish is a teenage girl, who happens to write  in her school journal, Because she don’t have anyone to talk personally to. Tish likes to write when she is having trouble at home. Its almost like a hobby to her. Tish becomes comfortable writing because, she feels that she can write all her thoughts and feeling without anybody knowing about it. Tish dad comes back home after being gone for about 2 years. when her dad returned, he came back like he was never gone, he brought things fr them, and for mat birthday he brought mat the new game system that came out. she wished that is was better off when he wasn’t around. Tish kept thinking to herself that hes going to make things worse that what it already is. So at this point Tish is sad, and angry. She Kept thinking to herself, “its crazy how dad was gone for so long and yet we’ve never heard of him since, and till now he wants to return?”. Before Tish dad came home her little brother Matt didn’t knew who was his father, and their mom is depressed. Tish was the only one in the house who realized that. “I can connect to her situation, and why she feels the way she feels. She sad and angry inside shes really disappointed in her mom and little brother mat for accepting heir dad back home. and i found the passage interesting because it relates to real life event’s”

Tish and her family is poor. Shes the only one in her household who actually works, Since her mom don’t. Tish works at a fast food Restaurant called “burger boy”, she don’t get paid the best but its worth working for, in her position. Her mom don’t seem to help out as much. All her mom do is sit in that same rocking chair everyday when Tish comes home from school. Not only is she lazy, but irresponsible. Tish takes care of her little brother mat and takes him out to eat at “burger boy” where she works, whenever she has enough money left over. or when he did something good in school. Tish life is Tough, especially at her age. Shes too young to be having so many responsibility. “I like the way the author write, because it brings an images of how its like for her. I also think to myself of how she must feel as if she was a real person. That had me even more interested in the book.”

Tish got a lot going on in her life. So she writes everything in her journal, it takes out her anger, stress, and sadness. Everyday from school she writes on her journal and talks about what happen specifically. After awhile she gets use to writing in her journal, Tish ends up actually liking writing. Tish feels as if someone is listening to her and understands all her problems when she writes in her journal. So it all started in her English class, when everybody is assigned a notebook. For extra points they have to write entries about anything. Mrs.Dunphrey, the English teacher collects them, and if you don’t want her to read the journal entry, at the top of the page write don’t read. Tish on the other hand, Always marks her entry’s that way. She never let the teacher read not one entry, unless she’s making it up, just to stop hearing the teacher complain about her not letting the teacher not read her entry’s. Tish feels as though, if she let he teacher read her entry then shes afraid that she is going to tell everybody that shes having problems at home. “The whole book is based on these journal entry’s that Tish is writing, its Interesting to me because of how the book is setup that way and it makes me want to read more”

A teenage girl name Tish she writes her daily life on a school journal because, she don’t have anybody to personally talk too. Tish writes  on her spare of time, or whenever she’s alone. As time flies Tish become comfortable writing in her journal just to speak her mind on a sheet of paper about her day’s

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A teenage couple get’s into a situation that will change their life forever. They struggle, fight, laugh, an try to make the best decision for their baby, so that he/she will have the best. Reaction is a very good book that grabbed my attention from the start. Teenagers that enjoy reading about real life situations, and a book that gives out a message that will impact your life, will love to read Reaction by Lesley Choyce. That’s what I enjoy, so i read it and loved it, and could relate to it very well.

This is a good book that gives great detail on whats going on. It makes you feel as if your one of the characters. It get’s into Ashley and Zach’s relationship an explains their thoughts. Like when Zach runs away you feel the anger that he’s feeling. Doesn’t make you bored, it keeps you alert and ready for what will happen next.

Other people may give Reaction a push to the side, because it’s a small book that talks about one main topic through out the whole story. It doesn’t give a verity of events. Sticks to Ashley and Zach’s decisions for the baby and how their going to care for it, if they keep it.Even though it’s small an talks about one main topic Lesley Choyce choose to do that so you would really understand whats going on between Ashley an Zach, the main characters.

A teenage couple that made the wrong decision. Does that  catch your attention? Well if so then this will definitely be a good book for you. Reaction is about a high school couple that goes to a party and full’s around. You can find out what the have to deal with now, once you pick up Reaction and read it for yourself.

This book is a four out of five stars. I didn’t rate Reaction a solid five because the ending leaves you wondering what happens. But other then that Reaction is a wonderful book. With a great story line.

Have you ever been in a close game of poker before? In my book All In Monique Polack a kid name Todd always plays poker and sometimes he has to come back to end up winning. Although, this book mainly about poker which is not really exciting. For example in the chapter two Todd tells his friend Lewis to “Never let your opponent see your cards.”Todd told Lewis this because Todd is teaching Lewis how to play poker. The book is mostly about the game of poker so if you don’t  under stand the game of poker this book the book to read.

For people that don’t enjoy card games All In isn’t for them.Some people may like the ending of books to surprise them, but All In  gives away the ending early on in the book. Next, some people might like this book because of the characters in the book. The characters in the book are like the kids in schools now a days. There are trouble makers, teacher’s pets and class clowns .Monique Polak is very detailed with characters in my book creating different personalities making it easier for you to relate to them.

Meanwhile, All In is a hard book to follow the story line because some chapters jump around from place to place. The author makes the reader assume that certain things happen and may not have really happen . The book wasn’t believable cause the author wrote somethings that couldn’t really have happen in real life. `Young teens and Adults like poker, but I wouldn’t recommend this book because it was confusing. I rate this book a 2.5 out of 5 because the book jumped around from part to part and not very detailed.

Dog Song Gary Paulsen

Russell is dog sledding across the frozen tundra when he comes upon a pregnant Eskimo woman being attacked by a polar bear and he defeats the bear. I would recommend this book because it has lots of adventure.

Dog Song is a good book because it has lots of adventure by Russell dogsleds across the frozen tundra because of his dreams taking him half way across the earth from his in Alaska.

However, people wouldn’t like this book because it has lots of slow parts and it go’s slowly. The story is slow because in the beginning and to the middle of it, the setting or plot never changes. When he goes to oogrucks house to talk about his weird dreams.

Another reason, people would absolutely love this book is because it has lots of action packed passages like while he is dog sledding across the frozen northern tundra with a group of people and while he’s doing that. He rescues a woman from a polar bear.

In conclusion, I think that it would be a wonderful book for the people that like mysterious and adventurous type of books. I would give this book a four because it can be slow at times but its still action packed. The book is good for all ages but people should be a little older to understand the story.

Riley Park by Diane Tullson

Death may not be easy. Corbin learns this the hard way when he finds out his best-friend, Darius, passes away in a hospital. In Riley Park by Diane Tullson, the reader will have a blast trying to figure out who murdered Darius and experience a BIG twist!

People who are into the CSI or Law and Order genre, would definitely enjoy reading this book. Although the length of this book is super small, anyone would pick this book off the shelf. This book counts up to 162 pages and 10 chapters. The chapters go about 10 pages. The chapters go fairly quickly.

Maybe some people might think the ending of this book is disappointing, if I was the author I would of ended it differently. It ended with something I didn’t expect to happen. I was hoping someone would die, or maybe a miracle, or something more catching, that would’ve left me thinking later on. As much as I didn’t like the ending, the author left it so maybe a sequel will follow?

Now, the major action in this book is the park scene! That part made this book about 1,000 times better! Corbin and Darius went to a bon-fire party at Riley Park. Later in the night, Corbin and Darius were alone after everyone left. They were drunk when 2 to 3 guys came and jumped them. One of the guys brought a steel pipe and beat Darius with hit. Corbin left with scratches and a cut open head, Darius sadly didn’t make it. That whole scene is packed with action and makes the reader feel like they’re RIGHT THERE! That scene made a major impact on the ending of the book.

Finally, people who like action, mystery, suspense, would love this book. Mostly appropriate for ages 14 and over due to violence and modern urban life subject matter. I highly recommend this book! I rate this book 4.5 stars out of 5.

A Paramedics Story by  Steven Grayson

One time while I was riding on the ambulance we got a call for a cardiac arrest, the additional was a 53 year old male unconscious and not breathing. As we get on scene, we go in and check out the patient, he was DOA (dead on arrival). We go back to the rig and get the stretcher and as we are bringing the patient out his arm falls off of his lap and gets stuck in the doorway, and the EMT I was with said “I TOLD YOU TOO KEEP YOU ARM IN THE STRETCHER!” A similar event happened in the book. so i would recommend this book to all MATURE readers and all adults that are in the emergency services!

A Paramedics Story  is a great book because it is FULL of action. a great example of action is when they beat the fire department to a vehicle fire and that is a rare occurrence. As the fire engine trails the ambulance, the ambulance wins the race to the vehicle fire.

One bad point of this book is that immature people couldn’t read this book. the book requires mature readers because they use a lot of adult language, and the scene descriptions require maturity. For instance the ambulance gets dispatched to an injured person class 1 (class 1 means lights and sirens). The additional is a 23 year old male with his P**** stuck in his zipper.

This book makes you feel like your driving the ambulance. “behind me i hear his enraged voice of, WHAT THE F***!” “ I vaulted on the running board of the rig and hollered at JoAnn to drive before i could close the doors, peeling rubber and spitting debris as we roar up the street!”

Graysons style of writing make you want to read more by writing in 1st person. Putting it in 1st person makes you feel like your in the action!

Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen

Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen is mainly about how to make the person   feel good about themselves, to  improve their thinking, and  the way they live. It is to influence those who not only want to change their life  but to give insight in how he or she will change their thinking. This book teaches those who read it to live a positive life and not speak negative about their situations or circumstances. It also tells about what they say in life it can, and will happen if they  believe it. Many people don’t realize why so many problems are going on in their life, well its because of the word they speak day by day. The words we speak determines our future. It doesn’t matter what we say, well thats my opinion. It does matter because our  life can become in ruins if  we don’t think about what we saying. Those that are against God, or not into spiritual  books then they would not like it. Many people today don’t believe in God because they think it is un-cool  or don’t want to be rejected by their peers. The truth is we can overcome those words. We  may think  that God never answers pray, or don’t think he will prosper  us in all that we  do. He can and will prosper us if we ask him too. It doesn’t matter who we  are or what background we  are from, if we  believe in him he can change  our life for the better and will do more than we  can ask. This book gives insight to how we  can motivate  our thinking and the way we  look at ourselves. In this book it tells us how to speak to our problems and they will go. It also tells us  what words we  should and should no say. “What we think in our heart we will become.” Your Best Life Now was great, overall  I think those who would like it are those who are into spiritual books that improve  our lives. I would give this book a rating of a five out of five , because of the content and information that it covers. I really enjoyed this book and I would recommend it, because if we  want to live a prosperous and positive life then this book is for them. The book is geared mostly toward adults, but has information that would be helpful for high school and college students.