RAT ATTACKS!!!!! YIKES

This book tells us all about rats like how they fight to become a leader, how they eat, how they live, other types if rats, and how to get rid of rats. In the beginning the author tells us about a rat's the author told us that once when a woman on a plane fell asleep she was awoken by a strange rodent crawling up her leg. The woman yelled "HELP!!" when that rat was scared it ran in the back of the plane to go and hide and when the plane landed the officials were searching the plane, but the rat was nowhere to be found. Rats carry many diseases that can harm humans. A rat is a rodent that belongs in the rodent family with other rodents like prairie dogs, chipmunks, mice, beavers, and gerbils. When rats are hungry they look for like brown rats eat meat, fish, nuts, pet food, and insects. Black rats eat plant food like fruit, nuts, vegetables, nuts, tree bark, and seeds. One day a man named Dave Holman was cleaning his basement and he fell while cleaning it and he was so badly hurt that he was unable to drag himself up the stairs. When he was trapped down stairs for two weeks he attracted rats with hie blood and injuries. Holman had to fight for his life those two weeks the rats started to attack and chew his fingers and legs. Dave was finally rescued from the basement and brought back to the hospital. His lower legs have been horribly bitten and chewed and the doctors had to amputate his legs so he wouldn't get the infection from the rats.

I think this is not a good book because it talks about how rats can kill and how rats are killed it is a nasty book , but it can be educational at the same time because it tells us information about rats so i think this book is a medium, but its good.

MTV

MTV is about teens who are protesting againts the government shuting down music.

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

This story is about how Penn High School officials banned music through out the whole school district. That meant radios could not be played on school grounds or on the school buses. The reason music was banned was because of a parent's complaint. There was an offensive song playing on the radio and the parent did not want his/her child listing to that foul language. All the students from Penn High School protested because they thought that should music be allowed on school grounds. Some schools go to the extreme of banning music on school grounds. Students argued on how they have the right to have music on school grounds.

HOMEBOY TO THE RESCUE

The summary of this story is about these two kids named Tony and and his brother Carlos hanging around in the wrong crowd. This all happened when Tony was in 6th grade and that began all his trouble. When Carlos saw that his brother was in a gang and his father was doing drugs Carlos decided to run away and live on the streets, but all of that went wrong. When Carlos wanted to live on the streets, he grew into a gang and started to do drugs and found no way out of it until he went to HOMEBOY a brotherhood that keeps young people off of the streets that is directed by Father Greg Boyle.

I think Father Boyle's philosophy can stop crime for all of the young people.

My Life on the Streets

This story is about a girl named Elizabeth Murray that has a mother that was hospitalized with AIDS and she had nowhere else to go. This all happened on Christmas in 1996 Elizabeth's mother has died and the only people there were her, her sister, and her friend they stood in front of Elizabeth's mother coffin which was just a pine box cause they didn't have enough money to buy one. When she looked down she saw that her mom's named was spelled wrong so her friend took out a marker and fixed it and he also wrote "Beloved Mother" 1954-1996. When Elizabeth was still at the funeral her mom's death woke her up the memory forced her to see how the way she was living. Elizabeth grew up with her sister, her mother, and her father. They lived in a poor neighbor hood filled with drug addicts and the worst part was that her parents were drug addicts also. They never had food in the house and everything was dirty. Drugs were everywhere and she wold see her parents shooting cocaine. When they had welfare checks they were spent before they arrived and her mother would run up a bar tab. Elizabeth spent alot of nights at a 24-hour super market just to pack groceries for tips. She would bring food home with the money she would get for packing groceries. Elizabeth would also go to a self-service gas station to pump peoples gas for tips. When she was 13 her parents had split up so she had to go to a youth center and she promised her mom and her godfather that she would live with them , but by then her mom had a full blown case of AIDS and she was put in a hospital. At age 15 she was so broke that she even had to ask her friends if she could stay at their house.

What I think about Elizabeth is that she is a good role model for everyone because usually people would give up and not even try to help themselves so I think everyone who is or was in a situation like Elizabeth follow her footsteps because she could lead you into the right path like she did her own self.