language+arts

=__**25 summaries**__=
 * 1. __Swindle__ By.Korman Gordan**
 * Its about two people who sleep overnight at an abandoned mansion. when one of them wakes up he notices that the ground is shaking and looks outside and a big crane that is about to destroy the mansion. one of them sees an old card and looked and it was a Babe ruth card. He notices that it is worth alot of money. he later takes it to a pawn shop to see how much it is worth. The cashier sees that the card is worth alot too. He instead says it isnt worth alot. He says it is worth way less because he says it is fake. The person with the card still sold it even though it was fake. The cashier had knew that it cost alot so he was going to sell it. He ended up on the news and the kid who sold it to him ended up finding out. he was really mad so he made up a plan to steal it back with help from his other friends. They later went and tried to get the card and found a way into his house and stole the card which was in a safe. Then later they found the true owner of the card and had to give it back because it was his.**
 * 2.__Diary of a Wimpy kid Dog Days__ By: Jeff Kinney**
 * Greg Heffley was in school but now its Summer and he is spending most of his summer playing video games and slepping. Then his mom comes in and tells Greg that he should go outside and spend more time with people. Then he does goes outside and he just plays with Rowley and they just get into trouble. They end up getting charged because they kept getting drinks and things at this hotel or golf course. Thier parents decide to make them pay for the charges. They think of things they could do to get the money. They start a lawn mowing business and dont make much money. at the end they finally pay off the bill with birthday money from greg.**
 * 3.__Red Scarf Gil__ By:Jiang Ji-Li**
 * This book was about a young girl living in a time of hard times. She lived during the cultutral revolution. She wanted to be a red guard when she grew up. Chairman mao was the leader at the time of the cultural revolution. This book is based on a true story about jiang ji-lis childhood. She has lived a life that has many good things and bad things.**
 * 4.__Outsiders__ By:S.E Hinton**
 * This is a book about the socs which are the rich people and the greasers which are the people that are usually poor and sometimes do not have parents. Thier are greasers that get into trouble with some socs. Later Johny and Ponyboy end up getting stopped by some socs and ponyboy got drowned and Johny killed a socs, so they run away to a church and they stay their a couple days and later on the church gets burned down and johny and ponyboy goes in to help save children. Johny gets hurt and has to go to the hospital and later dies and then another one dies becuase he gets shot at.**
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