Hidden Talents

Prompts:  Summarize what you have just read.

The first thing that I read was that Martin was still getting the tour of the school.  After he finished the tour, he went to his room to get some downtime.  He took a short nap, then along with his friends Torchie, and Cheater, play some sort of card game that they made up.  Cheater strategized  his way to victory and beat Torchie and Martin, in no time flat.  After a few more rounds of Cheater winning, the dinner bell rang loudly.

On their way to the cafeteria they had to pass the hangout of the resident bully, Bloodbath, and his "cronies".  After sneaking past their hangout, they discovered that he was never really there, so the sneaking around was all for nothing.  On their way to the lunchroom Torchie was telling Martin, that on a good day, the food smelled like barf.  Martin soon found out the hard way when they got to the lunchroom.  He got his food and followed Torchie to their table.

When they got there, Martin was introduced to some more kids.  He quickly designated some of the kids as "weird".  I thought that he was one to talk having been expelled from like, seven schools and all.  Then one of Torchie's friends told Martin that it was rude to call people names and made Martin feel pretty guilty.  After that, it seems like they were hiding something because Cheater was about to tell them about their hangout and what they do there, but right before they could, the kid who made Martin feel guilty cut Cheater off before he could finish.

The 40 Book Challenge

The 40 Book Challenge was a good thing to keep your self motivator to keep reading more and more.  It gave me a goal to work at, and to complete that goal, I had to keep reading.  I told myself "If you want it done, you are going to have to read a lot"  Which is good because you have to read to get better at thing in real life.  I think the motivation comes from the the challenge it posed.  I know that I always like a good challenge to keep at.  It makes me feel really happy when I finally overcome that challenge. I think that it was another good way to spend tim rather than to do less constructive things like watching TV or something.

Another great thing about the 40 Book Challenge is that you get to try many new books and see if you like them.  I thought this was great because I found so many books that I thought were really good.  Then what I thought of the last book would want me to read more books!  From reading "The Boy Who Dared"  I discovered I liked historical nonfiction.  I thought the story was very interesting and even more interesting that it actually happened. Overall, I think the 40 book challenge was a excellent thing to keep working at.

Hidden Talents

Prompt: Create a wanted poster for the antagonist

Hidden Talents

Prompt:  Does the title fit the story? Why or why not?


So for I don't think the title fits the story.  Nobody has anything that is a secret or any special abilities   I know that they do because my friend gave me the synopsis, but so far, nothing special.  They all have a knack for getting them kicked out of school, after school, after school, after school.  The school called Edgeview is like a last hope for parents, and a "second chance" for students.  It's like the worst school you can be sent to if you can't behave, or keep causing any kind of trouble that the school would consider expulsion worthy.

Well, at least one kid has a "talent" but it's not really hidden.  His name is Philip, but everybody calls him Torchie.  If you haven't guessed, he likes playing with fire.  Except, he has no idea that he causes the fires, or that he is playing with fire.  In literally the first two chapters he sets something on fire again.  He claimed that he didn't do anything, but when they made him turn over his pockets, they were full of lighters.  When the main character, Martin, asks him why he lit the fire,  Torchie says he has no idea what he was talking about, and when Martin questioned him about the lighters, he replied "I just like seeing the sparks"  I don't know if stupidity is a talent, but otherwise he seems like a nice person.  He takes martin under his wing, and shows him around the school.

Let me tell you about Bloodbath.  That's no nickname, that's actually his last name.  He is the school bully,  To everyone there, he is the most intimidating guys they have every seen.  He even controls the mail flow he  has that much power over the school.  Say someone got some cookies from home,  Bloodbath, would get to them first and made sure the cookies would never see the lighof day.  Anything he wants, he gets.  If anything his not so hidden talent would be having people hate him on the first day.