Ranger's Apprentice: The burning bridge

I am back from my school break.

"The "Ranger's Apprentice" by John Flanagan is a very exiting book series. It is almost like the "Lord of The Rings" I had just finished reading book two "The Burning Bridge."

The book is about a 16 year old boy who is a ranger for the kingdom of Araluen. In the book before he became famous for his actions in the first book and now is sent on a mission with his friend Horace. The mission is to go to the kingdom of Celts and ask for support for army. The dark lord Morgarath had attacked the Celts and killed or captured the people. For unknown reason he kept all the miners.

During the mission they had met a girl who was a peasant. But the ranger who accompanied them was to go back to Araluen to spread the news that Celts had been driven out of their land and killed. He found out that the girl was the daughter of the king. In the end the Ranger's Apprentice is captured and is the girl. With threat of bieng sold into slavery, Halt the Master ranger is going to go after them.

I think the book is very well writen and has alots of good story line that fallows the action.

Point Blank

In this book Alex Rider is sent on a mission to France. He is sent to spy on a school for the rich, careless, and mean kids. The school only has six students and it has two teachers. One of the students was a boy who was real suspicious about the school and he did not want to stay there. One night Alex was out looking around the school and he heard a yell. He saw the boy who was the only one who was still normal along with Alex. Alex went into the boy's room and saw that the boy was still there and was talking to Alex when he came into the room. Alex was confused and went to bed.

The next morning the boy that Alex saw who never went to the class had decided to go to the class and was enjoying it. Alex was very suspicious because the day before in the morning he hated the classes and never wanted to go to them.

Ranger's Apprentice

" Ranger's Apprentice" by John Flanagan is about a boy who wanted to go to Battle school in the castle and become a knight was chosen to be ranger's apprentice. In the beggaring he did not know any thing about the rangers and the the people said that they could become invisible and can be going without noise. The boy's name is Will and the ranger that chose him as an apprentice was named Halt.

In the story there was a great battle where the wargals and the solders of the kingdom were fighting and in the end there was a heavy cavalry of rangers who got through and attacked the back flank of the wargals lead by Halt himself. Will had not had a last name, because his dad died and his mom died he did not know his last name. When the people found him in the basket there was a note that said : His mom died childbirth, his dad died a hero, take care of him.

The book is very good and has a lots of action and it is very similar to the "Lord Of The Rings".

World history

In my World History , we are studying ancient history. I learned about Egypt. Before Egypt I learned about Mesopotamia. While learning about Mesopotamia I also learned about Ziggurats. Ziggurats are the ancient buildings that are similar to pyramids, but ziggurats are temples where the Sumerians would go to worship their gods, the tower of Babel was probably a ziggurat. This is a picture of a ziggurat that I drew.

Blog update

We had a busy couple of weeks, my brother Nathan and his family came to our house for a visit and we went fishing and did many other things. After Nathan and family left, I worked really hard and got my school work caught up.

Then came Thanksgiving and fall break. On Thanksgiving, I won my first pin-pong game against great grandma Gertie, she is 93, Russell brought her to the pin-pong table in the wheel chair, and we put the ping pong stick in one hand and a cup for her drool in the other, I beat her 21-19. Ha Ha Ha (Just Kidding!). We did have a nice Thanksgiving though. There were 14 of us. We hung out, played ping pong, went for a hike, lost "Toby" (our dog), found Toby, ate turkey, Piroshkis, and lots of other food.

Stormbreaker

The "Stormbreaker"by Anthony Horowitz is about a fourteen year old boy named Alex. His mom and dad died in a plane crash and he lived with his Uncle. One night he woke up because of police at the house and he overheard them say that his uncle died in a car accident because he was not wearing seat belt. Alex thought that could not be true because his uncle was always cautious at wearing seat belt. At the funeral there was also some unusual thing like one of the men had a hand gun and that there were many faces that Alex did not know. Alex always thought that his uncle was a bank manager. Alex decided to go see the car and when he saw it he saw bullet holes.

Later at home the bank called and asked Alex to come to the bank that day. In the bank he saw the same man at the funeral named Alan Blunt. He then found out more things and went to his uncles office. There he found many files and one of them was a file called the "stormbreaker". Alex finds out that his uncle was a secret agent in the M I 6 and he had been on a mission when he got killed.

As the story goes along, Alex gets involved with the mission, after being trained with the "K" Unit. The story is very interesting, and moves quickly.

I think this book is very good. It has a lots of action. It has great ending, but you'll have to read it for yourself.

Ancient History

In my history class I started with Genesis. From there I went to Mesopotamia and Egypt. So I traveled through Mesopotamia to find the "Promise Land. " I learned about Abraham and his son Isaac and his grandchildren who were the twelve tribes of Israel. Abraham's grandson was sold into slavery. He became a high class of Egyptian government and brought the Israelites to Egypt.

In my history lessons, I started with ancient history and I will work to the modern history. Yesterday I typed a report on Mesopotamia and worked on my hand writing. I was also working on Egypt.