1,001 ReasonsTo Love Baseball

1,001 Reasons To Love Baseball is a book that reasons to love basball. It will give you stats, historical players fields, and many more other reasons to love baseball. I believe that the authors, Danny Peary and Mary Tiegreen did a great job combining the stats and the love of the game in this book.
For example, there is a page on how great Cal Ripken Jr. was, but on the next page there are baseball phrases (like "Sliding under the tag"). The authors did a great job mixing it up a bit. I didn't know what was coming next.
They also show a wide variety of great baseball books and movies that you should go and see. The book also has many famous baseball quotes. For example "The pitcher has got only one ball. I've got a bat,"- Hank Aaron. They also have a list of cool nicknames, different pitches, baseball songs, and much more. This book has everything you could possibly imagine about baseball.
I would recomend this book to anyone who likes baseball or wants to get into baseball it is a great book.

Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a book about a farm where the animals take over the farm and kick the owner out. They try to govern themselves and make laws, but they have some currupt leaders (three pigs). When this book was published Stalinist Russia was a target. This author used an animal farm to symbolize Stalin's rule over Russia.
I will give you some examples of the great similarity of the book and the communism and Salin's reign. For example, one of the things that were similar was that when Stalin became leader he made plans that would take a very long time and a lot of hard work. Same as the pigs. Stalin made workers work extremely hard and long hours for very little pay. So did the pigs exept the animals got payed with food. Boxer was a horse in the book that alxays was the hardes woker and work about 10 times harder then the others and was treated as a hero. Alexei Stakhanov was a real worker who basically the exact same thing happened to. Those are just some of many examples.
George Orwell, the author did an amazing job with the symbolism between this event and the book. I could barely tell any differences. I would recomend this book for anyone looking for something very interesting to read.

Peak

Hello. I have recently read a book called Peak, by Roland Smith. Peak Marcello is a fourteen year-old who loves to climb. Unfortunatly Peak lives in New York City, where there is not much to climb except skyscrapers(illegally). Peak tries to climb the Woolworth Building, a sky scraper in New York. Peak completed his goal(painfully), but was caught when he reached the top and is sent to Juvenile Detention center. While he is in JDC his long-lost father offers him an oppertunity to climb Mt. Everest(the tallest mountain in the world). Peaks options are:
1: Spend over three years in jail.
or
2: Climb Mt. Everest with his father.
Needless to say, he chose option 2. If Peak makes it to the top of Mt. Everest he will be the youngest person to stand over 29,000 ft.
Peak begins the gruesome climb with his father and his new friend Sun-jo. Sun-jo would also be the youngest person to stand above 29,000 ft., but not as young as Peak. Peak passes Base camp, Advance Base Camp (ABC), and many other camps until he is very close to his goal. Although he had many close calls along the way. Peak and Sun-jo are ten feet from the top when Peak decides to turn back so that Sun-jo will hold the record of the youngest person to stand above 29,000 ft. Peak returns home as a much more happy and changed person.
I believe that the author, Roland Smith did a great job using symbolism in this story. I think that he usined the idea of climbing up a mountain as the hard journey of life.