Book Report: I Survived The Joplin Tornado

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After reading a book, write down the title (underline and capitalize), the author of the book, the date you finished the book, the genre of the book and a one sentence summary of the book. If you abandon a book, please write that as well, but it does not count as a book read. 1.I Survived the Joplin Tornado 2011 by Lauren Tarshis The tornado was terrible but this is a historic fiction book about 11 year old Dexter going with a storm hunter/ show host that is chasing the Joplin tornado which is a very brave thing to do. 2. The Eye of Minds, James Dashner
The Eye of minds is a book about a boy and his friends who get recruited by a game producer to find and take down a man named Kaine. He is a cyber-terrorist who has been hacking into
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17. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (Dystopian) Double book Pg.454 Scarlet is about a girl named Scarlet who lives in france and her grandma went missing so she went to find her she met a street fighter named wolf that saved her, the she talks about Cinder in a speech when she got back her grandpa had burn marks and said the people who took her grandmother did it. Wolf tries to help and figures out that they were interrogating her grandma for information about the lost princess Selene
18. The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings (Realistic Fiction) The Red Kayak is about three boys named J.T. , Brady, and Digger. They are best friends who always hang out. Most of the time they hangout at Diggers family's property. One day they met there and Digger had a cigarette but the property was no longer his so they were trespassing. Mr. Diangelo (the new owner) had seen them and made them leave. This ticked off Digger so much he trien to kill Mr. Diangelo by putting three little holes in his new red kayak, His plan had failed but he killed his son and almost his

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