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 * Books Read in School- 6th Grade(As a class) [[image:bhms-summer-read/Frodo.read.jpg width="163" height="173"]]**
 * 1) **Red Kayak-** This is a very mysterious book from the start. It is about a boy who's friends are involved in a murder case and he the choice to turn them in or let the case go.
 * 2) **Walk Across America-** This is about a young college man who decides that there are better people in the world than there were in the city so he sets of with his dog across the U.S.A.!
 * Books I Have Read in School- 7th Grade(On my own)**
 * 1) __Unbroken-__ Crashed bomber pilots in the second world war.
 * Summer Read Program-2009-2010**
 * 1) **__The Big Field__** //This book is an amazing story about the love of baseball in a young player who is the son of a big leaguer who figures out he is not the best after playing a couple games with the big stuff. His son Hutch does not understand why he should not to be prideful and full of himself until he comes to understand since he lost a very important game for the team by trying to know everything. Finally he begins to understand why his dad quit the big leagues and never played ball again because it broke his heart to find out he wasn't the best like everybody said he was! This was by; __Mike Lupica!!!__//
 * 2) **__John Muire__** //This book is about a natururalist who learns about how much our land needs preserved and then helped establish many national parks in our history. I strongly recomend this book if you are interested in history!!//
 * 3) **//__Geronimo__//**This is a book about a young Apache's life growing up and how he learns to be a man!!! Again, this is another great American history book!!
 * 4) **__2 Min. Drill__** This is a book I highy reccomend because it is 1. By my favorite author and 2.It is about sports and has a great moral about never quiting. Dont Quit!!!!!!!!
 * 5) **__Long Shot__** //This is a book about a boy who is still a great basketball player but not as good as the kid named Ned who is not only the best but also the most popular kid in the game of basketball but in school to!!!Now Pedro the main character has figured out he will be running against Ned for class president and will have to learn to fight through things the way his dad does/his example.This book is also by __**Mike Lupica.**__//
 * 6) __**Hana's Suitcase**__This is a book about the Holocaust and a group of kids at a museum in Japan trying to learn about Hana [Hon-a]a young jew who was killed in the holocaust many years before and are forced to find her brother to learn more about her.
 * 7) **__Encyclopedia Brown Mysteries Volume 1__** This is a book of many mysteries and solved cases over money food and lots of other things.If you like mysteries this is your kind of book!!!!!!!
 * 8) **__Meriwether Lewis__** this is a biography about Meriwether Lewis's starting at around 8 years old, it talks about his exploring expeditions as a child and when he grows up. It also talks about how he and when he meets Will Clark and President Jefferson who was his nieghbor as a child!!!!! I again highly reccomend this book!!
 * 9) **__Jim Thorpe__** This is a biography about an olympic champion who is native american and played all sports very well.Growing up he goes through many hardships but grows up and learns the way of life!!!!
 * 10) __**Maximum Ride**__ This story is about mutant kids who are be chased down by erasers-dogmen and try to stay away from the dreaded place "the school' while also trying to find their families!!
 * 11) __**Take Your Best Shot**__ This is a book about how even though you're little you can still do great things!! Shone from the heart of small but talented sportsman.

- **Trailblazer Series- This series is about different missionaries and their adventures.**

 * 1) ======**__Trial By Poison__** This book is about a missionary serving in an African country where witch craft curses are believed to be true. Although the missionary goes through hardships, she is able to convert most of the villages to peace and Christianity.======
 * 2) ======__**Abandoned on the Wild Frontier**__ This is about a boy who travels to the west during colonization of the west with a missionary. In the meanwhile, he looks for his now indian cultured mother.======
 * 3) ======__**Imprisoned In the Golden City**__ This is about two missionaries who come to Burma to spread the gospel. They then adopt two children and take them on a journey they will never forget!======
 * 4) ======**__The Chimmney Sweeps Ransom__** This is about a poor family in England who meetsd a traveling preecher and are converted. In the meanwhile the preacher helps them fight through trials and obstacles.======
 * 5) ======__**The Bandit Of Ashley Downs**__ This is about a young orphan who is caught stealing a load of money from somebody. Again, in the meanwhile the boy is taken to an orphanage.======
 * 6) ======__**Attack In The Ry Grass**__ This story is about a man you takes his nephew out west to Indian settlements and spreads the good news. Although, the Indians believe he is bringing evil upon the village. Will his nephew be able to save him in time?======
 * 7) ======__**The Betrayers Fortune**__ This story is about a young boy and his father who are secrectly in church meetings that are against the law. Unfortunately, the boy's mother is taken because of her belief. Then, the boy has a chance of freeing her, but it will take the betrayal of another beliver to free his mother.======
 * 8) ======__**Flight Of The Fugitives**__ This is about a young girl who is left by her step father when her mother dies. But when a little white woman from the big new country "America" takes her in as her child, the girl's whole life changes.======
 * 9) ======__**Listen For The Whippoorwill**__ This is a book about a young slave family who go through trials where most of their family dies off. In the end, will they be rescued by the new "Moses" or not?======
 * 10) ======__**Heat**__ This is a book by Mike Lupica based on a boy who loves baseball in the Bronx of New York City. Although, his league will not let him play unless he verifies his age and birthplace. Will they find out his secret? Or will he get by clean?======
 * 11) ======__**The Gold Miners' Rescue**__ This story is about a boy in Alaska who wins a scholarship to travel with a Presbyterian missionary to help save starving gold miners during the big gold rush.======
 * 12) ======__**The Runaway's Revenge**__ This story is about a slave boy who travels to England as a cabin boy with his master from South Carolina on a plantaion. Although, once his master dies he escapes/runs away to find the man that had originally carried his mother over on a slave ship to the colonies.======
 * 13) ======__**The Drummer Boy's Battle**__ This is a story about a family whose father dies of a sickness and leaves the family with no money. The two eldest sons then go into the British Army to raise money for the family back home. Although the boys are challenged when they are sent into battle...... and who knows? Will they survive?======
 * 14) ======__**Defeat of the Ghost Riders**__ This is a book about a African American family living just after the war. Although they already have enough work to support themselves everyone still works who is able. But right when things are going ok the Klu Klux Klan drives them from their home making life even more miserable.======
 * 15) ======__**The Fate of the Yellow Woodbee**__ This book is about missionaries to Native people in South America. Although, once they find the tribe they have been looking for, they are viciously murdered by the people.======
 * 16) ======__**Traitor In The Tower**__ This book is about a boy whose father is locked up in jail for being a secretary of a dead but once rival king of the now ruling King Charles III. Can he spring his father from jail?======

**Other Books Read(Summer 2011)**

 * 1) ======__**Rascal**__ This is a story about a young boy during WWII. While waiting for his brother to return from the war he finds and collects many animals including his new pet Rascal, the racoon. Although facing many hardships, his life turns out to be a wondrous adventure.======
 * 2) ======__**Moho Wat**__ This is a story about a Shoshone Native American boy who loses his left hand at a very young age due to a mountain lion attack. Can he overcome the challenge to shoot his bow? Can he save the young beautiful Wind Flower from death?======
 * Summer 2012 Books I have Read!!**
 * 1) **__The Westing Game__-** This is a great mystery book that involves a bunch of inheritants to a large amout of money!!
 * 2) __**Under Enemy Colors-**__