One for the Money Janet Evanovich

Michelle Sherwin
12th grade
One for the Money
Janet Evanovich

When an unfortunate Stephanie Plum is out of everything, including money again, she finds she must find work. Aside from that her mother and grandmother continue to nag her to get a job. He mother convinces her to go to her cousin Vinnie and have him give her a job as a bounty hunter. Despite her despise of cousin Vinnie she decides to go merely to appease her mother. When she finds out her old nemesis Morelli is the case they have she is convinced she can bring him in. They have a history of not doing well together and she wants the chance to pay him back for what he did to her. As if hitting him with her car was not enough when they were younger she now wants to get her revenge thought the law, more or less. As a bounty hunter she learns that bounty hunters often find themselves above the law so they feel they can bend the rules in order to catch the villain. Anything from taking their cars to searching their houses without warrants. She also learns she has to be rough and tough and willing to fight her own way out of it every time or she will end up on the loosing end. This seems to happen quite often in this story.

Meanwhile her mother now hates the job she has and wishes she would find something more suitable for her. Her mother had a desk job at Vinnie's in mind not bounty hunting. Stephanie continues to chase Morelli and corners him several times, but he always uses one of his sly tricks to get away before she can or is willing to take him in. After a bad experience at a gym for a lesser criminal and after having been rescued by Morelli she decides to listen to his side. He is running because he thinks that there is going to be a chance for him to prove that he is innocent and says if Stephanie were to help him he would let her take him in after they had found the person who would prove his innocence. As unsure as she was she allowed it. Is this just another one of Morelli's schemes to get closer to Stephanie and farther away from jail or was he truly framed for something he didn't do for once? Find out in One for the Money.

I was interested in this book because after walking by the Janet Evanovich section almost every day I wanted to find out what her stories were all about. On top of that a few people had suggested I read her books so I decided to start at book 1. I finished it because it was a very comical book, but also had an intriguing storyline behind it. This gave me just the push to be able to get through it.

I would suggest this book to mature people who enjoyed a good mystery and a little adventure. I would suggest this to a mature audience because there is some more mature content.

I give this book ***

Name: Eric

Grade: 12

Book: The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three

Author: Stephen King

In October, I reviewed the first novel in the epic tale of the Dark Tower, The Gunslinger. The Drawing of the Three is the second book, and truly begins the quest of Roland the Gunslinger, as he seeks out companions to accompany him to the Tower.

Capitalizing on the Arthurian nature of Roland, our antithetical hero must "Draw" 3 companions from their respective worlds; Eddie, a junkie working for a crime lord in 1987 New York, Odetta Holmes, a wheelchair bound bi-polar African-American woman from 1967 New York, and of course, Jake Chambers, whom Roland met once before in the previous novel.

The Drawing of the Three captures the true heart and soul of the Dark Tower series, traversing through controversial topics such as race and drug use, while delving into fantasy and history. Stephen King once again manages not to create characters but people that the reader connects too and begins to love, or hate. And of course, no King story would be complete without the touch of dark horror, as the eye of the Crimson King grows ever more powerful...

The Drawing of the Three really begins to get the tale of the Dark Tower rolling, and once you start it, putting it down will be the real challenge.

Why I picked up the book: I loved Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, and I had to continue the series.

Why I finished it: It is immense and inescapably intriguing.

I'd give this book to: Anyone interested in Stephen King or that has previously read the Dark Tower Series.

My Rating for this book: *****

Kaitlin
10th grade
The Lucky One
By: Nicholas Sparks
This book tells a tale about a young U.S. Marine, Logan Thibault, in Iraq that finds a picture of a young woman. From then on, he has good luck, winning poker games and surviving daily combat. After his tour ends, he sents off cross country on foot to find this girl and thank her for keeping him alive. This book was a very heart warming feel good book, with a few twists here and there. I picked up the book because I have read so many other books of Sparks's that were very well written. I finished this book because I wanted to know if he traveled cross country for nothing, or got what he wanted. I would give this book to anyone looking for a good summer read or a love story.
I give this book 5 stars! *****

This book is also coming out in theaters so hurry and read it then go see the movie!