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  Gabe Hudson’s Exciting But Confusing Gork, The Teenage Dragon by Felix Lee                 Gork, The Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson is a science fiction, fantasy novel, featuring teenage dragon Gork The Terrible. Despite his family’s reputation of having the most ruthless dragons, Gork, nicknamed “Weak Sauce”, isn’t one of them. Having a humongous heart, tiny horns, and a condition of constant fainting, Gork is ranked the lowest in his class in all dragon standards, and all hope seems lost for him as a dragon. When Crown Day, the day all male senior dragons propose to female dragons, arrives, Gork sets his goals high and aims to propose his crown to Runcita, one of the hottest dragonettes in his class. The consequences of failure, however, are equally high, as rejection would mean life as a slave forever. With all odds against him, including other tougher seniors attempting the same quest as him and a ...

 Reading Progress: Lord of the Rings   by J.R.R Tolkien by: Luke Fahnestock Over the last few weeks I have been making steady progress in reading J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings . This book is an epic fantasy that follows the adventures of the hobbit Frodo Baggins. For those who do not know, hobbits are miniature versions of humans. They are a good natured race of people who enjoy simple aspects of life, such as eating and gardening in the fertile hills of their homeland, the Shire. Frodo Baggins was no exception to this. Aside from living with his eccentric uncle Bilbo, he was considered respectable. Little did he know that he would soon be launched into an adventure that would determine the fate of Middle Earth. The story starts with Bilbo departing from the Shire on his birthday. The inheritance that he leaves Frodo includes an odd gold ring that he acquired on his previous adventures. Frodo is surprised by his uncle's sudden withdrawal from the Shire, but continues...

Book Review: Bleach by Tite Kubo In the first two weeks of school I finished a manga series called Bleach by Tite Kubo, I had started it earlier in the summer because it was a well known series, and I wanted to know what all the hype was about. Now I somewhat regret spending my time trying to find every book to read when i could have just read the plot through a Wikipedia article. Bleach started with a boy named Ichigo Kurosaki, who can see and talk to ghosts. He meets a girl named Rukia Kuchiki as she randomly looks around his room for a hollow, a spirit which can harm humans and ghosts. Rukia is a Soul Reaper who can get rid of them. During her fight against the hollow Rukia gets injured and transfers her powers to Ichigo, who then becomes a Soul Reaper as well and defeats the hollow, now that he's a Soul Reaper he know defeats hollows as a job of sorts. That's the main premise without major spoilers. Bleach started out as a series that I really enjoyed, the characters were g...

              Book Review:   Let's Pretend this Never Happened  by Jenny Lawson by Isa Hernandez Every teenager wants to fit in and be just like everybody else. So imagine how hard that is when your father runs a taxidermy business out of the family home, your mother runs the student cafeteria, and your sister has just been elected high school mascot, which means she walks the halls in a giant bird costume. But as Jenny Lawson grows up, falls in love, gets engaged – in a way that is as disastrous as it is romantic – and starts a family of her own, she learns that life’s most absurd and humiliating moments are the very same moments that make us who we are. From radon-poisoned well-water to taxidermy Cuban alligators, this biography has made me realize that life can be so much more if we try hard enough. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened is a compilation of the weirdest and funniest moments in the life of the author, a woman who has been battli...