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Hello, Today I just finished __Canyons__ by Gary Paulson. Like __Sentries__ I also liked __Canyons__. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy mystery or suspenseful books. Like __Sentries__ Gary also shows the story of two boys who have very different lives but litteraly connect to one another. Diffinetly not one way that anybody would really like to. Brennan Cole, a fifteen year old boy lives with his mother (who can never seem to get a man) and has a job mowing and maintaining lawns for a older man named Stoney. One day Brennan was on a run and was coming back to his house and he saw a car in their driveway. He didn't seem to think much of the car until he went inside his house. As soon as he opened the door which his mother heard he saw a man sitting on the couch in the living room. "Brennan I would like to introduce you to Bill Halverson." Brennan said hi and Bill said hi back and Brennan ran upstairs to throw on some clothes to go help Stoney mow lawns. Later when Brennan came home for the night, he found out that he and his mom were going camping with Bill and his youth group at the last minute. He didn't have time to talk with his mom, so he went with the flow. They were all on the road traveling in Bill's van until they were up in the canyons (coincedence with the title) and the road got to rough to go any farther. "Well we walk the rest of the way down there." Bill said. When everyone made it to the camping site, they set up camp and got a fire going because it would be getting dark soon. All the kids were always around the fire and were beating each other up and being "little monsters" as Brennan described them. Brennan wasn't exactly in the mood for camping because he had gone on a long run and had worked all day, so he crawled into his sleeping bag. He couldn't sleep though because kids would be jumping on him or trying to drag him around by his hair or sleeping bag. So Brennan decided to tell a story but really didn't have one so asked the kids if they knew of any good stories. There was looks of confusion and quitness for several minutes before Bill piped up by having a story. It wasn't a scary one but it was of the history of the Horse canyon and the Dog canyon (the canyon that they are camping in). Bill said there were many fights in the canyons because of raids by the Apaches trying to steal hundreds of wild horses and the Apaches would sometimes get caught by the bluebellies. Later on in the book we learn that the bluebellies were American soliders patroling the border between Mexico and El Paso, Texes. Which switches the point of view over to a fifteen to sixteen year old boy named Coyote Runs. Coyote Runs was an Apache boy and was chosen by the chief of the Apaches to help with what would be the biggest raid in Apache history. Coyote Runs did not hesitate one moment to say yes he would go, because this would be his chance to prove that he was a man. The Apaches were on their way to Mexico to steal as many horses as they could but made one tiny mistake that cost almost every one of the Apaches lives. The Bluebellies had had orders to patrol the area because several people had heard many horses coming their way. Keep in mind the Apaches had no idea the Bluebellies knew they were coming. So, if you can picture this, there are twenty to thirty Apaches on horses heading toward Mexico. No wind and are in the dessert. If you are in the rear of the pack, dust is so thick you couldn't breath without having a bandana around your mouth or nose and you can't see your hand even if its right in front of you. The Bluebellies have rifles with twenty rounds of amunition rationed to each solider. There are maybe one hundred soliders on patrol out numbering the Apaches terribly. The Apaches stole at least a hundred horses but were theirs for only a little while when the Blubellies came at them from the west. Chaseing the Apaches eastwerd toward the Dog canyon. The Bluebellies had shot Magpie, Coyote Runs helper bringing the rear of the pack up. The two boys were heading towards the canyon as the Bluebellies wanted and was only down to one boy with four soliders departing from the platoon of soliders chaseing Coyote Runs down faster than he thought. Finally one of the Bluebellies let out a terrifying shot from his rifle and shot right through Coyote Run's straw-colored horse and through Coyote Run's leg, just above the ankle. Coyote Run's horse went out from under him and jumped out of the way landing on the injured leg and sent extreme pain through his whole body but managed to get up and half kind of run away from the Bluebellies. Coyote Runs ran up in the canyon and clibed his way up to the very top seeing everything in plain sight. Even the soliders on his trail in hot pursuit. Coyote Runs scrambled to find a hiding place or it would mean death for him. He found a big boulder that semmed out of place and climbed underneath it to hide himself. The Bluebellies had made it to the top and were looking frantically for Coyote Runs, Finally they gave up and were going to leave, until one of the Bluebellies saw a little trail of blood leading up underneath a big rock. The Bluebellie started walking towards Coyote Runs and found him and put the muzzle of the gun to his forehead and shot. Back to Brennan, the story had ended and everybody had climbed into their sleeping bags and had gone to sleep and the fire had gone out. Here Brannan was left trying to sleep but could not because he would hear strange little voices in his head saying //take me away spirit... .// Brennan had had enogh and he was determined to go to sleep but couldn't. He knew he must be going crazy so he layed back down but there was this round rock that kept bugging him. So he got up moved his sleeping bag and pulled the rock out and filled the whole again, and set the rock aside. Then he laid back down but removing the rock made things alot worse! Brennan would twist and turn trying to get to sleep but his mind and body seemed to always be drawn to that rock. He decided he would throw the rock away and forget about it. That is until the light of the moon and stars shown Brennan what the rock actually was. It was the skull of a human. He knew he should drop it but couldn't. It was dawn now and knew people would be waking up soon so he wraped it up in a extra sweatshirt. When it was time to pack up and leave and go home Brennan wouldn't or couldn't tell anybody about his find for it was also on National Forest Land which belonged to the government. When he got home he quick put the skull in his closet but still could not get to sleep. He decided to take the subject to his old biology teacher Mr.Homesly. It turned out that Homesly didn't know that much about pathology but knew an expert who could help. Brennan did find out through old articles from one of Homesly's friends that it was Coyote Runs' skull and he knew he needed to return Coyote Runs' skull back to Dog canyon. Brennan did get to return the skull with some trouble though and Brennan's life became much better and easier. Hello, I am reading __SENTRIES__ by Gary Paulson. I have really enjoyed this book and it gets so exciting at times! The way that Gary has wrote this book is set up as four different people who have four completely different lives. I just love the way he breaks the chapters up, because he starts out with a teenage girl and her grandfather is always telling boring stories, only because she has heard them about 100 times. Then a young man starts to enter her life and he helps her realize who she actually is. Then he just leaves the story and jumps to a new chapter and new story which focuses on a young man by the name of David Garcia. He has left behind his home and family in search of a dream. His dream is to cross the Mexican border towards South Dakota. I did find out that he has crossed the border no problem and is playing it safe by hitch hikeing all the way up there.The next person Gary features is a young girl named Laura Hayes. She's always known where she was going, but now her parents are denying the only future that she ever wanted to have. That would be raising sheep or eews depending on how eew want to look at it! What I find out about her is more like me. She likes to be helping her father and Louie (who is old and cannot remember things the way they were) with birthing eews and keeping the coyotes away from killing the baby eews. Peter Shackleton is the next person whom I have read about. From what I know of him all of his life goes to his band and playing "rock music" but is still searching for a sound that is both unique and universal. His band members as well as him are quite easy to find if looking for them. They are usually always at parties getting drunk and doing drugs such as pot. What I have been able to get from this book so far is that one second you screw up, getting away from your dream future, it can destroy that one promise that you always wanted forever. Hello, I am just starting a book called __SENTRIES__ by Gary Paulson. I really havemt had much time to read in the book but I previewed it before I read it. I have really enjoyed Garys books that he has wrote and he always has a way of making them seem so much more realistic than the true stories are. Gary also makes it so that if you are reading it it will seem as if you are the person or people in the book.
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Hello, I am just starting the book THUNDER FROM THE SEA by Joan Hiatt Harlow. I haven't really got into any interesting parts from the book yet but I am hoping to finish reading it by the end of this month or very beginning of November. I didn't have this book recommended to me but I found it on my own at home on one of my book shelves. So far I know that it is 1929 and the main character is Tom Campbell who is 13 years old. Since 3 years old he has been in a Mission orphanage. So far I like the way this book is going and I would recommend this book to a lot of people.