Flipping Boats

We had just canoed to a beach on the Chesapeake. Lunch was over, and someone told us we were going to flip the canoes over and rescue the boat and the people. Aden and I went out and started tipping back and fourth. Tipping, tipping, flipping! The water was very cold, and my body took a while to adjust.The boat was upside down, in the water and we were floating on top of the cold bay water. I went under the flipped boat with Aden and got the paddles out. The man running this drill got close to our boat, and showed us how to get the water out of the boat, and safe for the people in the water.

HE grabbed the tip of the boat, and puled it over his dry canoe. The water dripped out of the canoe, or whatever was still in it. He yells that he's going to flip the boat the correct way on his canoe. The boat made a loud sound when he flipped it back to normal. We pulled ourselves back into the canoe, and now it was our turn to rescue someone who needed Help    

Two Little Birds

Two little birds
Sat on a branch
Trying to stay warm
On the roof
Of the ranch

Next to each other
In there little nest
Sitting all alone
Thinking
This place is the Best

Bomb by Steve Shinkin

Bomb is an awesome non fiction book. It is suspenseful, and very interesting. It used true facts on the race to build the atom bomb. The book is about the long race to build the atomic bomb, and what all the powers did in the very competitive race. People bomb each other to try to destroy certain facilities. It is a painful and desperate game to see who could make the first bomb, who could spy and get certain information, and who had the best ideas. This book is very fast moving and there is lots of competition, deadly competition. This is defiantly one of my favorite books, and I think anyone could read it.

Nick of Time

This book is a great book. It is one of my favorite time traveling books. I couldn’t put this book down because of all that was happening. Nick of time is about a boy named nick and his sister. Nick loves to sail, and they go through many adventures sailing through time. Because so much happens I don’t want to give anything away so I sill stop there. This book is full of action. It is fast moving and very intense. This is a great book for me because I love action and time travel. I highly suggest this book for all readers.  

If I Tell You I live You I'll have to Kill You

My friend suggested this book to me after she couldn’t stop talking about it. I thought that it wasn’t my kind of book, I was wrong. This book is hilarious! It is not an action book, but I still liked it. This book is about a girl in a high school. It is not a typical high school, it is a school of spies. She has many experiences in her school, she makes new friends throughout the book, and has many adventure being a spy. I liked this book, even though it is more a girl book than what I normally read. This book is very funny, and I think it is a great book.  

Hiroshima

Hiroshima is a great book. This book is very realistic, and it represents everything that happened when the atomic bomb went off. Hiroshima is about two girls on the island that were living normal lives where they were. But the other point of view is what is happening in the Enola Gay bomber, and the other U.S. planes involved in the attach. This book is very dark, but it is what actually went over during World War II. The book is intense and full of terror and some action, but also shows heroic actions, survival, and pain. I liked this book, and it deserved every award it received.

The Giver

The Giver

The Giver is a great book. It is based in the future and a community is trying to make a utopia. A boy starts seeing things that other people cannot see. He receives a job that is different from other jobs in the community. He has to hold memories both good and bad, and he has some rough experiences throughout the book. He wants to save the community and release the memories to the community. I thought this book was very cool. Some things were confusing at some point but nothing that was too difficult. The book was very interesting and I could not put it down. In conclusion I loved this book, and I suggest it.

The hut

The cold air

A cracked door

The fallen snow

There will be more

 

The rusted bell

An old mail bod

A leaf that fell

A wall of rock

 

No door knob

Some broken glass

Who lived here

In the passed                               

The Road

The Road is a good book. A lot happens in this book in a short amount of time. The author does a great job of painting a vivid picture with descriptive words. Because there is so much happening throughout the book it isn’t always easy to follow. The place the characters are changes rapidly so you really have to be paying attention.

 The book is about two people (a man and a boy) that think they are the last people alive. They struggle to find food and shelter, but somehow they live to see another day. They get scared, tired, hungry, and cold, but the father and son never give up on finding other people or surviving.

The author never announces the names of the characters, and I think it adds a very different prospective. I liked this book but it can be confusing. Although it is confusing sometimes, I think it is a great book and the topic is very cool.

Champion Chips

I had just showed to the youth basketball championship. Half of my team was warming up and waiting for everyone to show up. I joined them in the drills, and we were all observing the other team while getting ready. They were good, and they made a lot of shots in their warm up, but I thought that my team could win.

We went to the bench and my coach gave the team a pep talk, and told everyone what position to play. I was center, and my friend Alexander was the point guard. We had made some plays and were ready to use them in our final game. Everyone who was playing first went to check in them got on the court.

Our shoes squeaked as we jogged onto to our positions. Once both teams were ready Mason Prepared to jump. The ball goes up in the air, and Mason tips it to Alexander. We run down the court and right off the bat we score. The other tem brought it down the court, and we started defending. I stole the ball and passed it off.

I got into position right out of the three point line, and alexander passed me the ball. I take the shot and it flies into the net. Swish! The game was constantly going back and forth, Scoring or not. The shoes made high pitch squeaks when someone moved or faked another out. Forty-five minutes passed and it was close but we won!

When the buzzer went off my team was jumping up and down, and congratulating each other. We high five the other team and go to the awards room. My heart was pounding because of happiness and excitement. My team got a big trophy and each player got a medal. Pictures were being taken of our team and the trophy. I had so much fun, and I wish I could re-live that game.

 

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Lights Out

The dark had covered the town like a black blanket. My sister, our friends, and I, were watching a movie in the basement. We had no idea what was about to happen. We were in the middle of a hilarious movie, and laughing and having a great time. The parents were upstairs chatting while they here laughter from the basement.

Our, I walk upstairs for a minute to grab something from upstairs. When I got there I spent some time to find my phone so I could find out what a character’s name in the movie was. While I was looking the lights go out in my room. I hear some screams from down stairs and I look out my window, and the lights from the houses around me were all going out. Power outage.

I run downstairs with a flash light I found on my desk in hand. My mom had found a flashlight too. It was fine on the main floor, but when I got to the basement, every one that was watching the movie was screaming, and tripping over their own feet. I aim the flashing at each one of them. With the light the screaming stopped and I told them it wasn’t just our house.

After we all calmed down we got extra lights and lit up the basement. We built a fort and continued the movie on my sister’s IPad.  We were laughing and saying how each one of us got stepped on or bruised something. The lights came on soon after, but we having so much fun I turned the lights off right away.

Champion

This book has action and adventure. Once I started reading this book I couldn’t stop. I was sucked into the book, and it felt like I was an extra character in the book. Champion is about the same characters that are in Legend and Prodigy (Day and June). They had just stopped and attach and this book is the aftermath, but with new adventures. This is a great book if you like action/science fiction/adventure. This was fun to read, the description was great in the book. Throughout the book I felt like I was in it as an extra characters watching from the shadows. I enjoyed this book, and I highly suggest it.

Rain

It was the night of the full moon, and I had just walked out of the place I was staying in Turks and Caicos. My cousins (Kaya and Siena) were wearing white close and so was my family. Our parent chatted while the kids walked down to the beach. We were having a full moon party and that’s why we were in whit close.

Once everyone was at the beach we went on a walk on the beachside. The moon lit up the sand and water as if it was daytime. My cousins, sister, and I jumped around on the beach. After about fifteen minutes of walking on the beach, we could see rain cloud rolling in. We kept walking.

The palm trees were blowing because of the breeze, but it felt kind of nice. The clouds got closer, and we could all tell that it was about to rain. I turn around and start walking back, and so does the rest of my family. A few rain drops start falling, so the parents walk faster, but I almost wanted it to start raining harder. And it did.

The parents start running the opposite way than the kids with all of the things we didn’t want to get wet, but my cousins, sister, and I all run into the rain. The rain made the sand feel like silk every step I took. Our faces were dripping water, and our close stuck to our bodies.

 It kept raining for a few more minutes, then we walk to the house for dinner. We all talked about how the rain felt, and what we did in it. We couldn’t stop thinking about the rain, and we were still soaking wet.

 

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Racing an Airplane

It was a hot day on Little Cayman, and my dad had just rented a scooter. He said I could drive it around the island. Going around Little Cayman would probably take about twenty minutes. He showed me how to go fast and slow and where the brake was. It seemed easy so I hop on and my dad rides on one behind me.

I rev the engine, and then drive off. The wind was blowing my hair, and the scooter was kicking up small pebbles behind me. I felt like I was going fast, but I was going the speed limit. We didn’t see any cars so my dad tells me to speed up. I slowly accelerate, then I se an airplane about to take off.

The pilot had just straitened out to take off. I slow down and come to a stop and look and the pilot. He smiles and me and tips is cap. I smile back, and notice his and raze. He starts counting down from five. He wanted to race me! His propellers speed up, and I rev the engine. 5,4,3,2,1!

His plane moves forward, as I speed off. I could feel some of the wind from the propellers. After all, the runway was next to the road. I go faster and so does the airplane. I look at it as it starts lifting off the ground. The pilot smiles at me again right before he picks up more speed and flies away.

I forgot my dad was behind me, so I slow down and look at my dad who was now beside my. I had a huge grin on my face. I had just raced an airplane! We continue the ride, and the whole time I was thinking I raced and airplane.

The A.T.V

We were at my aunt’s ranch in the summer. It was the second day there, and I had just woke up. I was still trying to wake myself up. I was the first one awake, but I few minute later my mom and sister are in the kitchen next to me. After we ate breakfast we started walking half a mile to where my aunt’s cabin was.

It was around 9:30 when we left the cabin so the sun was already out and I didn’t need a coat. The dogs were jumping around and checking out the horses. We were about half way to the cabin and my aunt, uncle, and cousin meet us. They had just been hanging around the horses, and they saw us and our dogs. We chat and explore on our way to the cabin.

When we arrived at the cabin I saw something behind the cabin. My cousin (forest) drives out on an A.T.V. He stops next to my sister and I, then points at me and says “take it for a spin.” An ear to ear grin runs across my face and I hop onto the vehicle after he hops off. He shows my how the go backwards and forwards. I slowly accelerate then get faster and faster.

I go about 20 yards then Forest says to back up. I do what he says and back up towards the cabin. Then he tells me to go back to our cabin, then drive back. I start off and accelerate faster this time. The air cooled me down as I drove to the cabin. I sped up as I went up the hill, and my cabin comes into view. I go around the back of the cabin while kick up mud and sticks.

On my way back my legs were dirty and I had windblown hair. I went faster and the horses seemed to be racing next to me. A trail of dust was following me, and I was having an amazing time. I thought in my head as the cabin came into view “I wish I owned on of these”.

 

 

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Fireworks

The sun had just gone down at my uncle’s house in the mountains. It was the fourth of July. My dad and I had brought a plastic bag full of fireworks, and my uncle took a trash bag out of his garage. I looked inside, and it was three quarters full of both illegal and legal explosives. We walked down there dirt road to where there was a wide area with no trees or bushes, just a wide section of a road.  

I take the fireworks out of my bag, and my dad helps my uncle do the same. I had brought: twelve roman candles, six sky rockets, one hundred bottle rockets, and a huge brick of firecrackers. All of my fireworks were from Wyoming.  My uncle had fountains, sky rockets, a mortar, and more. After we showcased our explosives, we set up and I ran to the house to get the fire extinguisher just in case something went wrong.

When I get back to the area my everyone was there, my aunt, my cousins, my sister, my mom, my dad, and my uncle. I was going to light the first firework. I chose my roman candle. It shoots multicolored fireballs that fit in a plastic tube. I hold it in my hand, light it, and aim it at the sky. Boom, Whoosh, Crack, Bang. The fireballs fly out of the tube like rockets, and explode high in the air.

After that the firework show for the family began. We light off skyrockets, more roman candles, firecrackers, and more. Some of them went off at the same time. Everyone was sitting on rocks, or blowing something up. The whole night I had fun, the sky was lighting up with many different colors, from our family, and others close by.

 

 

 

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Painful

The sun was out, and my sister and I were on the trampoline. We hadn’t been on the trampoline in a while because of the snow, after all it was early spring. I had just taught myself how to backflip but I wanted to do it without bouncing. Before I tried my sister and I were just bouncing as planes flew overhead and clouds passed.  

She was trying to teach me some things she learned in her gymnastics class, but I couldn’t do everything. However, she did teach me how to back handspring. I did a few backflips, but I was ready to try a standing one. I bend my knees, lean back, then throw my head backwards.

I soon as my feet left the ground I knew I did it wrong. As I was upside down I landed on my head. My body bends in a very uncomfortable way, and my legs slam down on the trampoline. My neck had cracked but didn’t break (I was sure), and because of the way my body bent I felt like I was hit by a truck.

My sister helped me inside while I could feel my heartbeat in my head.  Rite when I got in my mom gets my some ice. I lay down on the couch in pure agony, and put the ice on my neck. I turn on the T.V., and sigh because of relief and pain. It was a very painful moment, but I was glad it was over.

 

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