Catching Fire

Catching Fire, the 391 page sequel to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, continues the story of Katniss's very action filled life. When Katniss finally returnes to her home in district 12 she is know all over Panem,the country, for she and Peeta were the winners of the hunger games. As Katniss's atempt to spare her's and Peeta's life she and Peeta pretend to commit suissude so they can both live, the action is interperated as rebelion in the other districts and provides a spark. This spark makes rebellions from the district against the capitol happen. President Snow personally threatens Katniss to fix it and make it look like it was an act of love not rebellion. Will Katniss succeed in her new mission? I recomend this book to every one.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games, a 374 page novel by Suzanne Collins, tells the story of Katniss Everdeen a sixteen year old girl who has to compete in the hunger games to save her life. Katniss lived an ordinary life barely scraping by, then the day of the reaping her sister,Prim, was called to enter the hunger games*. Katniss out of love leapt to the stage to take her sister's place in the games. In the interveiw before the games Peeta ,the other tribute from district12, declared his love for her, but it was "supposedly" to get donors form the rich Capitol residents for neccesities needed in the arena. In the arena Katniss did her best to stay alive, and along the way there is a rule change so that she and Peeta could stay alive and she had to maitain the star-crossed lover title so she set out to find him. When Katniss finally found him he had blood-poisoning,burns,and  tracker-jacker stings Katniss needed to heal soon or he would die.Will Katniss and Peeta stay alive? I recomend this book to any one who likes science fiction, romentance, adventure, historical fiction, or people who just like to read.

* the Hunger games is where you go in an arena with 23 other tributes and try to stay alive until you are the only one left. If you win your district is showered in riches each month.

 My Holocaust Project

The Devil's Arithmetic a 166 page novel by Jane Yolen is telling the story of a Hannah,a young girl, who travels back in time to during the Holocaust in place of a girl named Chaya. On the way to Chaya's uncle's weddeing she and all the other Jews are pursued by Nazis who tell them that they are being "resettled" and need to climd aboard theirNazis trucks. When the trucks finally stop moving the Nazis tell the Jews to get out and give all their possetions worth anything to them for "safekeeping". After, the Nazis herd them into the tiny cattle cars that will carry them off to their new homes, in other words the concentration camp, where some of the Jews will meet their horrible end. In the end Chaya saves her best-friends life in the concentration camp by dying her place. When Hannah dies in the concentration camp she wakes up  at her Aunt Eva's for Passover with her families eager faces surrounding her. The Devil's Arithmetic is a great story and I recomend it to anyone intersted in historical fictionor or in adventure.