September's Reading Assignment

7th Grade Language Arts
Brookside School

September's Reading Assignment

8/21/2013

Ever heard of a Top 10 list? Well, this is similar, except there are just 7 topics! What are seven important things that happened in your most recent reading.

You will order your list based on your personal opinion of the importance of each seven; the most important
event will be your "#1" event, but it is the one you write last on your list. Start with "#7," which means you’re starting with the least important of the important events.

Remember to use complete sentences! Remember to let us know the title and author of the book.

23 Comments

Jake Garbar

9/30/2013 01:10:46 am

Death By Latte
by Linda Gerber

7. Aphra lied to her father about where she was going.
6. She hadn't seen her mom in four years.
5. She said she was going to see her friend in South Carolina, but she really took a plane to see her mom in Seattle.
4. When she arrived in Seattle, she saw her mom had a boyfriend.
3. Her mom was surprised to see her daughter there.
2. Her mom's boyfriend was very rude and told Aphra's mom to, "get rid of her", and that, "she can't be here".
1. Her mom told Aphra she had to leave because she did not want her there.

Lauren Bernstein

9/30/2013 01:14:13 am

Hope Was Here
By: Joan Bauer

#7 - Braverman was campaigning when everyone said they were voting for G.T. instead.

#6 - Bambi Barnes freaked out and storms out of the restaurant quitting.

#5 - Hope and Addie get a job to pay the rent of their apartment.

#4 - The restaurant was packed with raging people who were all mad at G.T.

#3 - Millstone ignores and acts very rude to Cecelia Culpepper in front of the whole town the day before the election.

#2 - G.T. Got more time to get sponsors in the town election so he can run again.

#1 - G.T. got kicked out of the town election because he didn't have enough sponsors.

Megan McCarthy

9/30/2013 01:15:06 am

7) Tris is from Abnegation which values selflessness, Candor values honesty, Amity values peace, Dauntless values bravery and Erudite values knowledge

6) She was the first jumper

5) She went zip-lining with the other Dauntless borns

4) She climbed to the top of the carousel

3) She was ranked first in the zone 2.

2) She went to Dauntless

1) She is Divergent

Natalie Downey

9/30/2013 06:28:56 am

Book: The Invention of Hugo Cabret Author: Brian Selznick

7)Hugo's dad dies, he goes to live with his uncle in the train station to work the clocks.
6) Steals food to eat since they are very poor
5) Hugo's uncle dies
4)Hugo works the clocks
3) Steals food and gears from the toy store to fix his automaton which his dad worked on before his death.
2)Gets caught stealing stuff from the toy store and the station inspector takes him away in his office and the toy owners family found him in there.
1)Lives with the toys tires owner and his daughter because he has nowhere to live now.

Claudia Mischler

9/30/2013 11:19:25 am

Top 7 Important Events-
Book: One For The Murphy's
Author: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#7: The most important event that occurred in my book recently was when Michael Eric had seizure.
#6: The cops came to the Murphy’s home to ask Carley questions about her past father and her mother in the hospital.
#5: Carley lost her best friend Toni because she lied and didn’t tell the truth about her real family.
#4: Carley taught Daniel Murphy how to play basketball.
#3: Mrs. Murphy cried because Carley hurt her feelings and was disrespectful. It got to her so much that Carley made her cry
#2: Carley was put in a foster home because her mom got hurt, and she also got abused by her mother.
#1: Carley’s mom held Carley’s ankle so that her dad could beat her for doing something she didn’t do.

Victoria Winters

9/30/2013 02:43:50 pm

Protecting Marie by Kevin Henkes

7. On page 144, her best friend Mary Dibble came back from Florida. Fanny surprised her by bringing along Dinner and then telling her the whole story of what happened. Then, Mary’s little brother Joey asked if she could stay for dinner. And when Fanny leaves her house after dinner, she pictures the masterpiece that her father says he is in the middle of making. Henry is very emotional. One moment he is the happiest man alive and the next moment he accidently steps into Dinner’s food bowl and yells while he stomps out of the house to talk a walk. Is this because he is an artist?

6. On page 44, Fanny makes a careless action that may cost her. Fanny is very upset with her father. He didn’t show up at his birthday party, and she still is furious at him for getting rid of Nellie. At this moment, Fanny wasn’t sure whether or not Fanny was going to forgive him or not. So, Fanny takes a balloon and writes on a piece of paper that she wants a new father because she isn’t sure about him, then she writes her address and lets it go. I think that this action will come back negative for her. What if she has to be taken away from her parents? I don’t think that Fanny really thought this out well.

5. On page 129, while walking Dinner for the second time that day, she stopped and they were playing catch. After they caught it fifteen times, for Fanny’s lucky number, they turned around and were heading for home. Again, Fanny saw a boy with a red cap on his head. After she thought about this, she finally realized: the boy is the son of the woman that had owned Dinner. He wants Dinner back. Fanny ran home and has been afraid of making contact with him, and she is super careful when taking Dinner top the park sense.

4. On page 8, it describes on what was supposed to be a beautiful birthday, didn’t turn out that way at all. It was Henry’s birthday, and they had a big party planned, but he never showed up. In fact, they to cancel the party and they told everyone that he had the flu. It describes how Fanny thought of how it looked in her head, and how it actually happened. What Fanny pictured in her head and what actually happen are both very different.

3. On page 163, Fanny finds out that the boy in the red cap was just Timothy Hill. Timothy Hill is just a regular kid in school has far as Fanny knows. It wasn't the boy of the woman who had owned Dinner. In fact, he didn't even know who Dinner was. What he did have was the letter that she had written asking for a new father. I knew that someone would find that letter!

2. On pages 28 through 45, Fanny is telling us how she got her puppy Nellie, and how her father also got rid of the puppy after he found out it caused too much chaos in his neat and orderly home. Fanny has never been able to forgive her father sense for what he did.

1. On page 82, Fanny shows all of the emotions she is feeling when she comes downstairs for dinner and she finds out that dinner was a dog. The dog's name is Dinner, kind of an odd name, but she's stuck with it. Fanny is full of joy, but yet, she doesn't know for sure if it is really hers to keep. Will this be a repeat of last time?

Maryam Skairek

10/2/2013 10:26:54 am

Trading Faces
By: Julia Devillers & Jennifer Roy

#7- Payton's popular friends don't want to be with her anymore and now are rivals.

#6-Emma and Payton make up for their mistakes by reintroducing themselves on their BTV..

#5-Emma could finally stand up to a guy she likes, without her sister helping her.

#4-The school figured something was wrong with Emma and payton and later found out they had been switching places. (got in trouble)

#3-Emma & Payton use the janitor's closet as there meeting place, when they go through trouble.For example, Paytons tank top strap ripped and emma needed to secure it with duct tape.

#2- A server/waiter at a Chinese restaurant immediately notices Emma and Payton, (because they are twins) and asked a question "Do you twins like to pretend you're the other one and trick people?" And that's how this whole plot started.

#1-Emma & Payton switch places, and learn something from one another because they deal with other friends, deal with the type of personality they HAVE to deal with so there cover won’t be blown.

Christina Boniello

10/3/2013 06:03:05 am

Black Beauty
By: Anna Sewell
7. Moved to another stable and a new master named Jeremiah Barker.
6. Black Beauty's duty there is to take people places by horse,(Cab)
5.Beauty is worried that he might have to become a war horse. He didn't want to be left to die on some cold hard ground covered in a bath of his own blood.
4.Got a new master. He got better masters the more and more he moved.
3. Now that he is a cab horse he gets tired a lot and can never stop and rest. Beauty is used by many different types of people. Most hard working and mean and others kind, thanking, and rewarding.
2.In the book there would be a lot of poor men would work hard nut have to pay a lot of money a day just to ride a horse,but when they work they don't even make more than half of that just for 14 hours a day. And one man died in the story working so hard that he died.
1. Beauty realizes that he is not a colt but a horse that has to face whipping from cruel to nice people, and that he will have to work and have to live without his family and his most favorite masters. He will had a lot of masters in his lifetime

Brielle Wiener

10/3/2013 11:36:16 am

Silent to the Bone
By: E.L. Konigsburg

7) Connor has the idea to use index cards and right words on them that might make Branwell talk, or will give Connor clues to Branwell's silence

6) Morris says that Vivian can lose her job for smoking because the au pair isn't allowed to smoke, especially near the baby

5) When we hear someone else at the scene through the 911 call

4) Finding out that Vivian lied to Margret and Connor about Branwell hurting Nikki. Margret said that people lie because they are scared, so Vivian was scared that they would find out she hurt Nikki

3) Branwell is accused of hurting hid baby sister causing her brain damage because they thing he dropped her

2) Branwell breaks his silence

1) Margaret and Connor confirm that Vivian is a suspect. Branwell tells everything about the incident and the reason for his silence

Justin Young

10/3/2013 12:00:16 pm

Title: Into the Darkness

Author: Walter Dean Myers

#7 When Jimmy, the main character meets his father for the first time, he is overcome with shock, disbelief, and surprise. He believes the man is a stranger, and when his mother welcomes his dad in, she calls him Crab, and it proves that he is his dad.

#6 When Crab was explaining to Jimmy why he was in such a rush, Jimmy pounded his hand against the car's dashboard and demanded to leave. Jimmy did not believe that Crab could be his actual father. Crab pleaded to him that he was his father, and that he was escaping the cops, and at that point Jimmy went with him.

#5 When Jimmy was forced to either stay with his mother or travel with his real dad, he was torn, since he wanted to know the stranger of his father, but he did not want to break the heart of his mother. He called his mother once on the trip, and they both cried from the being away, possibly forever from each other, mother and son.

#4 While in the town that he was born in, Crab talks to someone that “participated” in the armed robbery to set things straight with Jimmy. While he was talking,the person drove away from Crab, saying it would not matter if he had proof to prove to Jimmy. Jimmy thought Crab did not commit the crime, yet he still had his doubts about his part in the robbery.

#3 When Crab was dying in the hospital because of his liver failure, Jimmy watched over him, and when he was talking to him, Crab said to Jimmy about how to set his life straight, and attempted to smile, before falling asleep and dying from his problems.

#2 While in Crab’s birth town, they sat at the small creek in the barren wasteland to talk about what had happened. While Crab was talking about his problems, Jimmy yells at him “ It doesn’t matter if you killed someone or took the money!” He thought any crime was bad, and that Crab committed a crime, which was almost the same as a murder or theft.

#1 When the cops point a rifle at Crab and captures him, Crab says he is sorry to Jimmy. Jimmy says, "I know Daddy, I know". When Jimmy said that, it provided Crab with relief, since his son finally forgave him for what he did, and that Jimmy accepts and loves the fact that he is his dad. That fact set Crab’s heart at ease, and helped remove an enormous weight off his shoulders, letting him to die in peace, without a regret that his son hated him.

Allen Park

10/5/2013 01:27:00 am

Cover Up by John Feinstein
7.Stevie gets fired from USTV. Owners explain that Susan Carol needs ‘a more age appropriate looking partner,’ This angers Stevie, Susan Carol, and their family because they are the same age even though Susan Carol is taller, and also because a promise for airing throughout the whole year was given.

6.Stevie is asked to work for CBS.The owner is Sean McManus, who is known to be a honest owner, unlike most TV workers. Kelleher, who doesn’t like TV, tells Stevie to work for them. Page 33 says, “He’s not your typical TV exec. Maybe it’s because of who his father is, I’m not sure, but he’s never acted like being in TV makes him important. He’s as nice as he seems, and more important, he’s honest.”

5.The Dreams (the Super Bowl team) wins the Super Bowl by a game winning run by Eddie Brennan. They win with a special play that was made in pee-wee football, called E-D Special.

4.At an interview, Don Meeker (owner of the Super Bowl team) implies that he covered up his team from drug test results being revealed. Stevie tells Meeker at a Super Bowl Press Conference that he has a tape of Don Meeker and the manager of the show discussing bad things. Meeker says, “No way. Shupe and I were the only ones in the room.” This makes Meeker yell at Stevie right in front of the media and gives more information about the the team cheating.

3. Jamie, Susan Carol's partner, has a tape of Don Meeker and the manager of a show discussing that Meeker had to 'defend himself' from Susan Carol and Stevie, who were trying to figure out the case. This gives more evidence that Don Meeker cheated to make his team better.

2. Eddie Brennan (the team's star quarterback) and Bob Arciero (another team doctor) tells Stevie and Susan Carol that Meeker cheated and has drug test results to prove it. This can be supported on page 212, where the author writes, “The five starting offensive linemen were almost identical. Only Steve Sanders, the left tackle, had a notation saying his high testosterone level might be natural, based on prior testing. ‘Looks like he might have suspected they’d be tested again and was trying to get off the stuff,’ Arciero said.”

1.Susan Carol is told by a drunk doctor that the team that reached the Super Bowl has players who have failed the drug test. Soon, the doctor tries to deny, however it is too late, and Susan Carol and Stevie work to figure out this situation. This can be supported on page 91, where Susan Carol explains that this is what the doctor said: “What if I told you not everyone who tested positive has been suspended?” This makes Susan Carol suspicious, and she starts trying to uncover the secret with Stevie.

Caroline Martin

10/6/2013 12:16:36 am

Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
By Gennifer Choldenko

7. Ant gets a confidence boost when she wins a Math-A-Thon. She is very proud of herself and wishes her family was there. She disinvited them later that morning, because she was angry with them.
6. Ant has a teacher named Just Carol (She likes the students to call her by the first name.) Just Carol is Ant's friend and is trying to help her with her family problems.
5.Ant befriends a messy boy named Harrison. Ant's famiy doesn't approve of him, which makes Ant like him even more.
4. She convinces her mom to not move, which is a big step in their relationship.
3. She has a lying habit because she feels so misunderstood.
2. Ant has a rocky relationship with her family. She is very misunderstood. She feels like Pistachio, her dog, is her only real family.
1. Ant's dad quits his job. He gets a new one, but it's far away and they have to move.

Aedan Lorfink

10/6/2013 01:37:29 am

The Chocolate War
By Robert Comier

#7 Trinity has to sell twenty thousand chocolate boxes for 2 dollars each. Both amount and price were doubled.

#6 Jerry is called square boy and thinks he is going to have a boring routine life like his dad.

#5 Jerry says no to brother Leon about selling the chocolates because it was a mission from the vigils.

#4 Jerry continues to not sell chocolates even after the mission was over.

#3 People keep calling Jerry’s phone and laughing at him. Then they come to his apartment and throw things at his window.

#2 Every person in school is ignoring jerry or trying to hurt him and run his Life. Especially Janza.

#1 In the boxing raffle Janza hurts Jerry badly and he has to go to the hospital, but the chocolates were sold.

William $wankie

10/6/2013 01:44:37 am

"POP" By: Gordon Korman

#7- Marcus meats Charlie

#6- Charlie breaks a shopkeepers cars window and Marcus has to pay for it

#5- Marcus and Charlie get back at the shopkeeper by pouring sugar and maple syrup into his shop which attract bugs.

#4- Marcus dislocates his shoulder playing football with Charlie so Charlie decides to home to get his car to take Marcus to the hospital but totally forgets about him

#3- Marcus is very upset with Charlie for forgetting about him and doesn't want to be his friend anymore until he discovers that the former football player has alzhimers disease and has trouble remembering things.

#2- Marcus finds out that Charlie is getting inducted into his old colleges football hall of fame and tells Charlies family but they are very overprotective of him and dont want him to go because they dont think he will remember any of it anyway.

#1- Marcus find Charles child hood best friend and tells him he has alzhimers even to he promised Charlies family he wouldn't tell anyone. Then he tells him about the hall of fame ceremony and how Charlies family didnt want him to go. Charlies friend agrees with Marcus that he should go and that he would take him himself. Then Marcus need to think of lies to his family and Charlies so that he could go.

Noah Levine

10/6/2013 03:24:26 am

The boy in the striped pajamas by John Boyne

#7 Bruno's parents have to tell him that there moving

#6 Bruno's family moves into a new house

#5 Bruno hates his new home and he wishes he lived in his old home.

#4 World War 2 starts

#3 Bruno meets a Jewish person named Shumel

#2 Bruno and Shumel try to find what happened to shumels father

#1 Shumels dad dies and Shumel and Bruno remain friends forever.

Eric Kim

10/6/2013 09:07:47 am

Title of Book : Holes
Author: Louis Sachar
7. When Stanley finally found Zero, he was under a boat, labeled Mary Lou. This boat had been smashed by Trout Walker’s boat a long time ago, where Sam was killed. Katherine Barlow was saved after her wishes to be killed. When they returned to shore, she found that Sam’s donkey, Mary Lou, was shot in the head.

6. Stanley’s great-grandfather said he had found refuge on “God’s Thumb”. One stormy night, Stanley sees the horizon light up with lightning and finds a thumb formation with the mountains. The day he decided to run away from Camp Green Lake looking for Zero, he also decided to travel all the way to the Thumb. He knew it was their only way of surviving. They soon realized that the Thumb had water they could drink and onions they could eat. Stanley and Zero wouldn’t have survived without this Thumb.

5.Katherine Barlow kisses Sam, a Black man, who is also known as Onion man. God would now punish them, for it was illegal for a Black man to kiss a White woman. Sam and his donkey, Mary Lou, are killed, leaving Katherine in tears. Later, Trout Walker and Linda Walker ask where she put the loot she had stolen from banks and tortures her until she led them to it, but Katherine never said anything. Katherine was killed by a yellow-spotted lizard, which can kill anyone with a single bite. She died laughing at how they wouldn’t find the loot for a long time.

4. Zero (Hector) is the reason why Stanley got into Camp Green Lake. He was the one who threw the sneakers, which belonged to Clyde Livingston who was famous, that hit him on the head the day he had been called a thief. Both Zero and Stanley would have never been at Camp Green Lake if he hadn't thrown those sneakers away.

3. Stanley found a golden tube with the initials K B, which stood for a Katherine Barlow. She was one of the most feared outlaws in all the West. The warden of Camp Green Lake seemed really interested in this discovery. When Zero and Stanley had dug out a suitcase in the same hole with that tube, the warden tried to take it from them. The suitcase was filled with jewels and a stack of papers that had once belonged to the first Stanley Yelnats was underneath it.

2. Camp Green Lake is not green or has a lake, but it does have many holes. It's more like a jail, instead of a camp. Camp Green Lake has barely any water. No counselor or the warden would try to stop you from escaping because if you did, you'd have no where to run and no water or food to survive. It is said that if you dig a hole everyday then it will make you a better person.

1. Stanley Yelnats is under a curse of bad luck because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather". Each time something bad happens, Stanley ends up in the middle of it and it was said that it was all because of his great-great-grandfather. Stanley blamed his great-great-grandfather at how he had “stolen” (the sneakers were thrown at him) the sneakers, which happened to belong to an all star in baseball (Clyde Livingston), that day and was sent to Camp Green Lake as a punishment.

Chloe Levy

10/6/2013 09:14:16 am

I read The Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler.

#7: Penny goes to Tally’s house for the first time. She meets Tally’s family and really likes them. penny is happy to have a new friend. Penny loves Poppy’s glass balls and interacts with Poppy very well. They share many aspects together that make them special people. Poppy admires that Penny likes the glass balls and compliments Penny’s eye for art.

#6: Penny takes a walk on the beach with Marcus and Sam (the dog). This makes Penny feel calm and back to normal. Penny and Marcus talk about struggles and let each other know what they feel. It releases her stress because Marcus and Sam make Penny feel welcomed to Hogs Hollows.

#5: Marcus asks Penny to go to the dance with her. She is really happy and has been waiting for this moment to happen. Penny says yes and they walk along the beach some more.

#4: Tally eats lard in the hallway out of a can. Lard is pure pig fat and is not usually supposed to be eaten out of a can. While Tally eats the lard, many people stare at her. Tally eats the lard is other places as well and many of the people around think she is disgusting and crazy. Tally’s reasoning is actually because she read something about Lard helping people become skinny. This will be her source to win in the Hogs Hollow Pageant.

#3: Tally, out of no where, wants to sign up for Hogs Hollow Queen. She hates pageants but shes not doing it for the publicity. No one would’ve ever guessed that Tally was going to sign up. Penny and Blake are confused and speechless of what Tally just decided to do.

#2: Penny finds a letter from her father talking about separating. Him and Penny’s mom are not going to be together anymore. This makes Penny frustrated and upset. she had just found out that her parents might be getting divorced. Her mom won’t fess up and tell her what’s really happening.

#1: The cupcakes topple onto Charity. Charity is furious and hates Penny for this now. Charity was supposed to have a “perfect” birthday party but the cupcake incident ended up ruining it for her. Penny and charity now have a rivalry for each other. This is the start of the girls fighting and jealousy throughout the book.

Erik Diedrichs

10/6/2013 09:35:58 am

Book: The Innocent
Author: David Baldacci
7) At the coffee shop Will and Vance get involved in a drive by. Will notices that the car was a government car and suspects that there is a mole in the system.
6) Will Robie interviews all of the homeless people that were near the bus explosion or saw it and tries to keep them quiet.
5) A sniper tries to kill Julie and they run away in a car.
4) The bus that Robie and Julie were on suddenly exsplodes after they get off.
3) Robie saves the president of the United States and an Arabic Sheikh
2) Julie's parents are killed by a mysterious man asking "What do you know".
1) Robie has to kill a women put cannot do it because the flash drive with her information was wrong. After he does not shoot a sniper on the opposite building kills her and one of her kids.

Melissa W.

10/6/2013 10:00:54 am

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
John Boyne

#7:Bruno and his family moved to Out-With, from once living in Berlin. Bruno had to leave his friends and start from scratch.

#6: One day, Bruno goes outside to explore. He walks all along the fence right outside his house, and suddenly stumbles along a young boy just like him, sitting on the opposite side of the fence. Bruno met his new best friend, named Shmuel. He was exactly the same as Bruno, but with a shaved head, very frail, and wearing a pair of worn out striped pajamas.

#5: Bruno hears about Shmuel’s life before he was trapped in the concentration camp. Bruno becomes grateful for what he has, and realizes that Shmuel had everything, but in the blink of an eye it was all taken away.

#4:The Fury comes over for dinner at Out-With and Lieutenant Kotler is also there. Pavel, the waiter who helped Bruno after he fell, is very old and thin, but also shakey. When he is pouring Lieutenant Kotler's glass of wine, his hand becomes reckless, and the red wine collapses on to the table. Pavel then was yanked outside, and Lieutenant Kotler beat him to death.

#3: Bruno is roaming around his house, board out of his mind waiting for something exciting to happen, until he finds Shmuel working in the kitchen, polishing glasses. A huge smile then is plastered on Bruno’s face when he sees his best friend. Later, Bruno offers chicken to Shmuel. Shmuel wolfs it down, and within minutes, Lieutenant Kotler marches in. His intimidating screech makes Shmuel confess to having a snack. Later, Kotler punched and hits Shmuel, leaving him with a black eye.

#2: Bruno’s mother can't stand raising her kids in a house outside a concentration camp, so her and her husband decide that it would be best for Bruno, Gretel, and their mother to head back to Berlin, and their father would stay at Out-With for a few more months.

#1: Bruno decides to wear a pair of the striped pajamas and hop under the fence to help Shmuel look for his missing father. After a while, a Nazi soldier forcefully herds all of them together, and pushes into the gas chamber. Bruno and Shmuel are holding hands until the end.

Lauren Cooney

10/7/2013 12:57:32 am

Title: So B. It
Author: Sarah Weeks
7. Heidi found pictures of her mother’s past that leads her to think she has a grandma.
6. She finds a red sweater in her mother’s closet. The same red sweater as the old lady in the picture was wearing
5. Heidi wants to travel by herself to Hilltop Home in Liberty, New York in order to find out what her mother’s early life was like.
4.Bernie won't let her go to Liberty, but Heidi insists. Bernie ends up letting her go.
3. Heidi rides from Reno to New York by herself, in search of the past.
2.Heidi makes it to Liberty in one piece.
1.Heidi finds out her mother’s name and past.

Breanne

10/7/2013 10:31:36 am

Title:Crash
Author:Jerry Spinelli
7.Crash treats other kids in his school badly.
6.Crash is an amazing athlete and is one of the fastest kids in his school.
5.His parents don't care about his sports games at all. They never come to the games.
4. Penn Webb moved to the town Crash and his family lived in.
3. Crash's grandpa who means the world to him comes to his house to live in.
2.Penn Webb and Crash become best friends even though when Penn first moved to the town where Crash's family lived Crash bullied him.
1. Crash's grandpa had a stroke and now cannot do anything that he used to be able to do.

Milestorkelson link

10/8/2013 06:16:26 am

CRASH by Jerry Spinelli
7 Crash joins the seventh grade football team and breaks the most Touchdown record by 3. He ends up in the newspaper
6 Crash's Grandfather comes and moves in with Crash.
5Crash lets Webb win the slot for the Penn relays
4 Penn Web moves into Crash's neighborhood
3Crash's grandfather has a stroke and becomes mentally handicapped.
2 Crash and later Mike trick and bully Webb, but Crash becomes uneasy about this, causing the story's main conflict.
1 Crash finally admits the has become best friends with Webb

Danielle Vitti

11/5/2013 09:27:34 am

7) Bruno notices that the people working outside are wearing the same clothes, "striped pajamas."
6) Bruno and his sister, Gretel, see the people outside being yelled at and scolded by the soldiers.
5) Gretel is mistreating the maid. She doesn't think that Maria is as important as she is, so she starts to talk back and yell at her.
4) Bruno is a kind and caring kid. He believes that all people are supposed to be equal. When Gretel is being rude to Maria, he stands up for her and yells at Gretel.
3) Bruno meets a child named Shumel, and they become great friends.
2) Bruno and his family move out of Berlin for his dad's job. This part of the story is why everything that happens, happens.
1) Shumel and Bruno enter a gas chamber and they are both killed by the gas. This part of the story is very sad and not a happy, fairytale ending to the novel.

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