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Final blog**...** sorry it's late Mrs. Olson.
 * May 26, 2011.**

__//**PLOT**//__ The major plot in this book is that there are a bunch of people that are basically like police officers that take people from their families when they are young to raise into ruthless people that do all the dirty work of the police force. These police officer's main goal is to kill anybody that can use Magic or any Mythical creature. The Heap family has lost their child due to the random choosing of kids and the police don't know that the baby they took is Magically gifted.



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Since I last blogged about my book, I ended up finishing the book. The book that I finished was called __Brisingr__ by Christopher Paolini. I have read over 500 pages since the last time I blogged. A quick summary of the book is that Eragon, the leader of the good guys, ends up having his sword taken away from him by Murtagh, The second in command of the bad guys. Eragon ends up going on a quest to create a new sword and that lasts most of the book. He ends up finding an elven woman that is famous for creating swords and he talks her into making it. Then a few days later, when his sword is done, he takes it and starts training with it. The elven woman tells Eragon that every sword must have a name, so that's where Eragon names the sword Brisingr, which is the native elven word for fire. He ends up taking the sword and going back to where the rest of the good guys are to end the fight between good and evil once and for all. That is how book three ends and now I'm waiting for book four.
 * List the major and minor characters (at least 4) and write a paragraph describing them. Included any relevant literary terms, such as protagonist and antagonist. Header will be __characters.__
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 * Give the book a rating (1 is poor; 5 is amazingly awesome) and explain your rating. Heading will be __rating__.
 * Reactions to classmates blog: Read several classmates' reviews. You can also go to other 2B sections' blogs, too. Then on your blog, write which book you might (or will) read next quarter based on these other blogs. Be sure to mention who had read it and written about it AND why this book/blog appeals to you. Heading will be __Discussions of Classmates' Reading__.
 * Comment on what you think of using this Wiki as a place to discuss your independent reading. Is this a good idea? Not a good idea? Explain as best you can. Heading will be __Wiki Reflections__.
 * April 18, 2011.**

I'm reading the book __Brisingr__ and I have read 20 pages this past week. One of my favorite scenes in this book is in the beginning when basically the good guys are fighting the bad guys. It starts off with a few people from the bad guys side acting like idiots. Then Roran, decides that would be a good time to attack and capture them to interrogate. It ends up being a success for Roran, who is a good guy, and they take the guys back to camp for questioning.
 * April 1, 2011.**



Alice Ruth ( Turtle ) Wexler -- Child of Grace Wexler. Youngest in the series. She is the protagonist in the book. Madame Hoo -- Cook of Sunset Towers. Flora Baumbach -- dress maker in Sunset Towers. Christos Theosorakis -- Ornathologist. J.J. Ford -- A judge that lives in Sunset towers.
 * March 4, 2011.**
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 * February 10, 2011.** Blog number two... here we go!! Since the last time that I blogged, there have been a few things that have happened in the book. One is that a lot of people have been getting injured due to the random planting of bombs all over the place. Now these bombs are only grenades that are trigger sensitive so they can go off if someone touches them or if it's set to go off at any given time. Three people have been injured so far, and the sixteen people are still trying to solve the Westing game mystery while staying alive and finding out who is planting the bombs. I have stopped on a chapter named __The Third Bomb__ so... I wonder what's going to happen...?(sarcasm) This is Joe Anderson, thanks for reading blog number two. I'll update my blog in a few weeks. STAY TUNED!!! =D


 * January 27, 2011.** Today is the first day that I will blog about my independent reading book. The book that I'm reading is __The Westing Game__ by Ellen Raskin. It's also a winner of the Newbery Medal. The book is about sixteen different people that get called to the old Westing house for a meeting one day. They find out that old Mr. Westing was murdered not too many days ago in his house. The sixteen people are paired up with another person. These people are given a set of clues so they can solve the mystery of how Mr. Westing was killed. On each set of clues, there is a note that says one of the sixteen is a relative of Mr. Westing, and one of the sixteen is actually the murderer, and whoever is able to solve the crime is the relative of Mr. Westing. All sixteen want to solve the crime because the relative will receive all of Mr. Westing's belongings and his "small" fortune of a couple million dollars. That is all I've read so far and I hope you enjoyed my blog.

Another review is on the website teenreads.com. URL is www.teenreads.com/reviews/0525471375.asp
 * January 13, 2011.** Today I have successfully joined wikispaces and made my first BLOG... AWESOME!!!!