Another Great Book

This week stories about bullying, were about a new type of bullying that exists in modern life. Bullying is no longer only in school or face to face but now is in computers, phones and in social networks. The bullies in this stories usually create a fake account of any social media to torment, bother a make life of this victims miserable. When the victim try to act against this they usually tell their parents but they can’t do anything because the account is not a real name of the person. When the bully is done and the victim knows who is bothering him he there are usually more than one so the victim can’t do anything. And I also finish this book that was really good and I have a great moment each time I read it.

“Someone created a Facebook page called “I Hate Erika.” It had over a hundred friends that had “liked” hateful content posted about me”. (Pell 182)

Thus story was really shocking and hard to read, not because of the type of writing but it was difficult because of the things Erika experienced. This type of bulling is very difficult to confront because the bully is protected by a computer and no one will ever know who it was. We need to be prepared for this type of bulling.

“However, all of these still required us to step up and talk with our children so we can keep them safe and healthy” (Durvasula 229).

This recommendation is the best thing that can be done to prevent children from bulling. We should do and follow this to live happy and without any struggle. Ramani Durvasula is the doctor who say this and it is very smart of her to say so.

This book was a really great one for everyone who wants to read and know more about bulling and also for people who don't know what it is. We should be prepared for a bulling situation so this book is a great choice for everyone. I will recommend this book to teenagers and to adults to know what to do in a situation like this one. Finally I will give this book a 5 out of 5 because it was an excellent one that thought great lessons and it can help everyone in the future.  

Even Bullies Suffer

This week short stories were about the consequences of bulling in the bully. In all this different stories the results were similar, the bully stop being supported and they become weaker. After there had been damage the victim react and make the bystanders support him and not the bully so he is weaker and then he regret for his acts. Sometimes after the bully is no longer supported he tries to create a friendship with the victim that is not always found. When the bully tell this stories the reader can make an image that make them see all the pain they had feeling because they are alone.

"I suppose I don't really care what they think, but I do care what Joshua thinks about me" (Goldman 171).
This quote was about a bully who lost his friend because of what he had done. I can't imagine how awful will be to list your only friend because of his act. Everybody need to be very careful with their acts.

"I was once an average teenager who used humor to get to notice me, but now I know how much my words can hurt" (Dow 156)

Things can always change from one day to another such as in this quote were no one feels good with this bully around. Even if we are making jokes we need to follow what this quote said, not hurt people making jokes, be very careful. Like in this quote there had also being other similar quote were the bullies don't understand what they do and they lost friendships.

This chapters for the week had being really hard to read because of the pain you can see in the reading. You can feel how the bully is alone and everybody rejects and tries to be away from him. These chapters had made me realize and gave me a lesson about all the problems that there are because of bulling. As the other week I can tell this book is really helpful in live and we need to think in our acts and the consequences they will bring.

Everything Causes Bulling

This short stories that I read were very impacting because of all the discrimination that exists to people that are different from other people that are in majority. This stories were about victims who were bullied because of their beliefs, their edict, their skin color, people is homophobic, and because of their appearance. In all this cases the victim had many bullies because there are more people different to the victim. The experience that they write about is terrible because it explains who all the family is treated badly and how no kid defend them. The bullies from this stories belief that they are better than the other people because they are in majority and they are different in skin, race, gender and religion.

“There had always been rumors about my sexual orientation, but the painfully straight forward question made me cringe” (Sares 112).

This kid had tell a devastating story about how kids say he was gay because they see him with girl appearance. Instead of respecting him and living him alone, he was bullied a lot and bother with this. As seeing in this quote he had a bad time with all this commentaries he had even though anybody notice it.

“The first fact everyone need to learn is that every bully starts as a victim, whether the victim of an abusive home life, a bad self-image, or another bully” (Norton 131).

Whit this fact I was really surprised because I could get to lots of conclusions for each of the stories I have read in the book. I can say that this can be right because bullies want to discharge all anger they have because that have a problem in someone who is the victim. I can tell that most of the bullies stories are related to this quote.

This few stories make me understand better how kids that are Jewish or had darker skin color are experience. I can tell that I had listen and read stories were this occurs and some people thing that this thing are pretty common. This is a big mistake in our society that we will need to change to be better. This book is teaching me a lot of lessons that I will apply in to my daily life; like not belief that I am better than other kid because I am with. 

Right or Wrong?

For this week the short stories were much about the bystanders and the bullies. All the bullies tell that they had make the worst mistake on their life by making this damage to a person. Most of the bullies reflect and tell what they have done. Some of the by standards tell that they did the right thing by helping the victim. The other by standards say that they made a mistake by laughing about the victim. This bad bystanders and the bullies always tell that you should decide wisely what you will want to be.

“And anytime I got the opportunity, I ask my loved ones, with all my heart, the simple question that changes my life: How are you?” (Hahn 82)

It is always good to know how people are to know what their troubles or worries are. To help someone you need to know the answer to this question. I am really liking how the authors make suggestions to help people who need help.

“Sometimes changing a bully is difficult and even impossible. But if you don’t try, those who are bullied will never know who much you care, and those how bully will continue to think their actions are acceptable” (Rainey 89).

This is a true and awesome thing to say. This quote made me think that I can do things to help bully people in the future, it is my choice. I really like this quote and I will use it to make my decisions, to do the right thing or the wrong thing.

This book is really good for everyone who has trouble or issues with bulling or for a person who wants to know how to prevent it. We should follow all the books advise and being careful with our acts. I am really getting the themes from most of the stories because they are really easy to get. I want to continue reading and having more wisdom about bulling.

A Book For Everyone

I am starting a new non fiction book that is called bullying under attack, this book doesn't have one author because it has lots of "true stories" writen by victims, bullies and bystanders. I had read a 10 short stories were the victim had suffer a lot  because they are yelled fat and whale. The best thing that the bullies had done is to put a stop and tell an adult. In all the situations the adult has help the victim with the problem. There has also been bully stories where the bully has to confront his mistakes. The bullies recognize their mistake and they regret for it.

"Of course, at that point my mom got involved, which meant that the other girls parents were notified" (Burnholdt 12).

When you have a bully problem is always good to defend your self by telling an adult about your problem. I had hear a lot of thing to prevent bulling and if I will be bullying I will probably do what this girl did. I had once got a friend who was bullied and he told his mother about it and then her mother end the problem.

"It was from Adams dad, and it contained a picture of Adams exposed back, covered in red marks. I was forced to face my mistakes head on."(Hwang 50).

In this quote the bulling is receiving pictures from the victim. When I read that I was really in shock, I couldn't believe that a kid could damage they way a kid. I also notice they the adults always help solve problems because the victims father send the letter to the bully.

I'm really liking this book because it teach me lessons and I know what is best if I have a bulling problem. This book has make me realize they bulling is one of the awful things that exists. I don't know what stories I will find out on my next reading but I know that they will be interesting. I can tell, just by reading this first pages, that this book is a lesson book that everyone should read.

Fight Until The End

Alex was treated as a prisoner in his own base, he was chain as Kierbie. The Cloak society decided to attack that night to the Rangers of Justice base. Misty, an Alex´s friend, rescues both Alex and Kierbie and took them to the Ranger´s base to fight against Cloak. When they arrived the Rangers were almost defeat but Alex used all his power and he defeats his former Society. Suddenly the Ranger´s building start to explode and the Cloak Society escape leaving behind Alex, Kierbie, Misty and the rest of the rangers. Misty using all of his powers saved all of the Rangers by taking them out of the destroyed base to the outskirts of Starling city.

"Mother...," Alex said, trying to speak rationally. "If you leave us here, we will die.”

“I´m sorry, but you won’t be coming back with us. Good-Bye, my son.”

“Mother!” he yelled.” (Kraatz 266)

How in the world can a mother decide to kill his son by leaving him behind? Even Tough Alex had betray his parents and friends I don’t think killing Alex is a good punishment. I can’t even imagine my mom leaving me in that situation, I just can.

“We wait for Misty to wake up,” Alex said. After that, we head for the highway. “We need to get out of sterling city for a while.” (Kraatz 278)

Does there are any more books from this series? I can’t belief the book end like this, the bad guys scape and the good guys are save and need to despaired. I thought that the good guys will win but this author make unpredicted things happened. 

This book was really exciting and it made you want to read more and more. I will give this book a 4 out of 5 star because it was very good but not the best one. I was a really difficult to predict because everything that you though it will happened it never did. I always like the super powers series and books and this one was a great one even it was not my favorite.

Important Decision

Alex decided to go and visit Kierbie again in Victory Park where he started talking to her and Alex start to really think in changing to the rangers and he had start to be Kierbie’s friend. Kierbie persuade to stop being a super villain but Alex was not sure to betray his people. The next morning Alex had a meeting that was about the attack to the Rangers of Justice that was being move to the next week. Alex decided to betray his teammates by telling Kierbie this news, but when Alex start talking all the Cloak Society was at Victory Park to capture them.

“Our attack on the Ranger had been moved. We will be taking Justice Tower in one week.”                                                     

Alex felt like all the air had been sucked out of the War Room.” (Kraatz 196)

Alex had made a friend that is his enemy just as Romeo and Juliet. Alex is starting to have special concerend for Kierbie and that’s why he is so weired.

“Alex opened his mouth to speak, when he felt his arm start to tingle like a sleeping limb coming back to life. The sensation quickly concentrated itself in his right palm, which began to freeze.” (Kraatz 221)

This always happened. When something important is about to be said something happened and the important thing is never said. I had here this happen in a couple of movies.

This book is full of surprising events that you won’t never imagine. I am really liking the suspense that the author is giving to the story and all the ends of the chapters are making the book to be open to any continue. The theme of this book is really good but strange.  I can predict that Alex will betray his team mates and he will go to the Rangers of Justice.  I do want to know what will happened later.

Super Powers

The next day after being at the mall, Alex went to train his powers at cloak base. In that training he discover that his powers worked when he was in danger and not when he want them to work. That night Alex decide to secretly use the base deported to talk to Kierbie again in Victory Park. When Alex saw Kierbie he start to lie by telling her that he will betray Cloak and go with The Rangers. Alex wanted to have some information that will help Cloak in the attack to the Rangers. The next day Alex trained with the Beta team and that was when he demonstrate that he was very powerful by burying half of Titan into the ground by using all his mental force.

“This box that you couldn’t lift weighed twenty pounds, at most.”“It doesn’t make any sense,” Alex said, still trying to wrap his mind around what he was seeing. “I tried as hard as I could.” 

(Kraatz 133)

In this quote Alex can’t lift a small box with his powers and I know that he had lifted objects as heavy as a person when he is in danger, so I infer that Alex´s powers only work well when he feels fear. This will make sense because during the fight with the Rangers of justice he lifted and saved Kierbie’s life because he felt fear for her to die.

“Still focused on Titan´s body, he pushed down on it with his mind. Titan shook his head, trying to figure out what was happening as Alex pressed him down farther into the earth.

Alex took all the feeling of anger and shame and poured them into his powers.”  (Kraatz 170)

This quote just correct my point because Alex is thinking on shame and anger feeling to became more powerful and burying Titan into the ground. Alex is being more powerful because each time his powers, Alex knows that he need to be  angry and he is thinking on things that make him angry to make stronger his powers. 
                                                                        

 This chapters had had in them a lot of information that explains better the book.  I can see that the author is explaining that Alex is very powerful but he just need to get his powers out of him. I can predict that Alex is going to be more powerful that what he is right now because he is still in training. I am really liking this book story, characters and its surprises.                                                           

Thursday of Surprice, Thursday of Lies

On the chapters that I have read the beta team is integrated by 4 members: Mallory, a girl who control climate, Titan, an steel boy, Julie, a girl who can transform his form into hard diamond and Alex the telepathic. All of them had a special superpower training each day and a tutor who taught them history. On Thursday the beta team could go to a shopping mall to spend some time. There Alex run into one of the enemy from the junior rangers who was called Kirbie. She tried to fight him but Alex told her that he wanted to betray Cloak, but this was a lie. After Kirbie was foolish she told Alex that she will be patrolling Victory Park on night so that they could see again.

"So on Saturdays afternoons, Alex and his team mates were left on their own devices in the city for a few hours while the adults took care of business.”(Kraatz 92)

What I first did when I read this quote was make a connection because this is the only day the beta team was on city and it was a special day and for me Fridays are does days. Then I also realize that they were villains and they could be recognize easily. And what I also wandered was what could this teenagers do on a shopping?

“Because I’m thinking of leaving the Cloak Society”, Alex lied. He didn’t realize what a perfect excuse this was until after the words had left his mouth.”(Kraatz 103)

Will Kirbie believe in this lie? Maybe she can think that Alex is saying the truth but what if she realize that Alex’s answer was a lie. If I will be in real trouble like Alex was I will probably lie a little bit even though my lie will not be as perfect as Alex. 

This story is being very descriptively in the characters and settings. I think that Alex will try to find Kirbie to get some Rangers information. I think that the author could improve the story by adding more dialog because there is too much explaining compared to dialogue. I am so desperate to see the continue of this book and what will next Alex´s training will be. 

Great Beginning

The book that I have chosen to read for this partial is the Cloak Society. This book stared explaining that the cloak society is a group of super villains that have powers and they were stealing a diamond from a bank in Sterling city. Alex a ,14 years old boy, who has telekinetic powers and is part of the Beta Team, a group of young super villains inside cloak society that was in the mission with 2 adults that will supervise them. As they were at the bank a group of superheroes called Rangers of justice arrive to confront them. The cloak villains had distract the rangers and them scape on a black shadow that was like a vehicle to return to their secret base. In the base the cloak society discuss what had happened on the bank and decide to attack the ranger when the beta team is prepared.

“With a gust of air the wall of shadows fell over the huddled Cloak members, crashing like a dark wave. It hit the ground, surged forward a few inches, and then sprang back against the side of the bank, sleeping into the corners. The Cloak Society was gone.”(Kraatz 32)

Where did they went? Is that a teleporter machine or something similar? I will definitely want one of does. I use this shadow in a lot of situations, especially in awkward moments. 

“Instinctively, he raised his hands, pushing energy towards the object, caucusing it to slow and eventually stopped, hanging just inches from his nose.” (Kraatz 17)

Alex has super powers that are as extraordinary as the shadow. I knew that Alex had powers but not this extraordinary ones. I’m really liking all the surprises I can found in this book. What I don’t know is if the energy that Alex emit is transparent or if it have color? 

I am really enjoying all the powers and magical things and powers there are in the story. I also like the fact that the primary character is not a superhero and it had teammates. Another thing that I like about this book is that the author had created a story from where the super villains come from. I really want to see what the plan to attack the Rangers is and what other fights will they have. I can absolutely affirm they I love this book. I am really in the story and I don’t want to stop reading.

A Great Book

This weeks chapters start when Matt discovered that the thing that cut Dravids' head off was a dinosaur fossil. As Matt and the journalist scape the ribs of a big dinosaur trapped the journalist named Richard. Mrs.Deverill appeared and took Matt and Richard to an abandon power station were the villagers were trying to open the Ravens Gate. The last step of the ritual to open the gate was to kill Matt but when Matt was about to be killed his powers appeared and he stop the knife that was going to kill him. Matt and Richard scape from the power station that blow up. Finally an agent that worked with Dravid went to Richards house and told them that Matt was going to stay with him and also that on Peru was another Ravens Gate.

"A pterodactyl. Except that it wasn't quite a pterodactyl. It was the fossil skeleton of a pterodactyl, an x-ray version, weird together and put on display at the Natural History Museum."(Horowitz 200)

A dinosaur skeleton alive? I think that this was too much imagination. I don't like the fact that a fossil takes lives, I think this is the only thing I don't like about the book. 

"I live on Lima. In Peru. It is the reason why I was chosen to visit you today. There is evidence that another gate exists in my country. It may be that I have to invite you there." (Horowitz 253)

Uh oh... When I first read this, my first thought was about a next book. Then I thought about the story and I got worried because Matt didn't want to destroy Ravens Gate again. If there is a next book I don't know if Matt is going to be the protagonist again or maybe another kid with powers will be the protagonist. I have lots of questions to make and I will love to read a second book.

This book was awesome. I loved it but the only think I didn't liked was when the dinosaurs fossils were alive. I will recommend this book to the people that like suspense because the story gives you hints of what will happened later and it is very difficult to make a prediction. This book is a page-turner because it is very difficult to stop reading. each time that I make a pause on the story to make a post I got anxious because I want to continue with the reading.  

I Dont Get It

This weeks chapters started at the journalist house were Matt told him that he had special powers. Matt convinced the journalist to help him investigate what was ravens gate, so the went to Ms.Ashwood´s house. She told them that they need to go with Dravid that was an expert with the Ravens gate. Dravid told them that the Ravens gate was a gate that leads you to the world of bad spirits and if the gate opens the spirits will come to the world. Dravid want to take them to the secret agency but when he was about to open a locked door an invisible thing cut his head off and Matt and the journalist were trapped with it.

"And then was the question of his own powers. He had seen the car accident that had killed his parents before it happened. It was the reason he was still alive." (Horowitz 166).

Matt had seen his parents car accident, why was he the only one alive? Why he didn't warned them?  I don't understand why he hadn't even try  to help even do he has powers. I have seen movies abouts kids that have no parents but nothing similar to this.

"He stopped and let that hand fall and, with a gasp of horror, Matt saw a terrible wound- a gasping horizontal line, perhaps cut with a sword- across Dravid´s neck." (Horowitz 196).

That was the last part of the last chapter for this week and I don't want to continue reading. I don't have any guess of what could happened since the author had add to this story unbelievable events and everything could happened. I don't know what the invisible thing was but Matt and the journalist are in trouble because they are locked with that thing. I believe that the author shouldn't add more surprises because he had add them all trough the story. This last thing seem to be enough.


I don't understand the author because he makes the story more exiting by adding things that are to exaggerated. I loved how this part of the novel ended even though he exaggerated a little bit. After all the unpredictably thing that had happened I can't imagine what will come later. I don't know what surprises will come next but I expect not to be so overdone.  

Each Page is a Clue

This week chapters started in a secret agency that was investigating Matt because they new that he was searching what was Ravens gate. Then the story goes to Mrs.Deverill farm were Mr.Mallory, the agent that send Matt to this farm, arrived to visit Matt. The agent told Matt that he was going to take Matt out of that farm but before taking Matt with him, he died on his return to London. The next night Mrs.Deverill went to a meeting, Matt followed her and he active an alarm that alert 2 dogs. Matt run for his live into the woods and he felt in a bog. For his luck a journalist help him out of the bog and he killed the dogs.

"With a sinking feeling, Matt got up and went over to the telephone. He lifted the receiver. "Hello?" he said. "Matthew - is that you?"

Matt recognized the voice instantly and felt a shiver work its way down his spine. He knew it was impossible. It had to be some sort of trick. It was Tom Burguess"(Horowitz 112-113)

When I read this quote for the first time I got a feeling that it wasn´t true that Tom was alive. I think Mrs.Deverill plan this call to make Matt feel better and make him think that what he saw wasn´t true. I don't know if Matt is going to see Tom Burgess again in any part of the story because I think Tom is not alive, instead is a trick. I think I have all ready read something like this on another similar book but the person that revives is imagination.

"All his instincts screamed at him to slip away before he was spotted. But at the same time he knew that what he was seeing was important. He just had to work out what they were doing."(Horowitz 140-141)

When I read this quote I compared to my life. I`ve had this instinct lots of times in my life and not all of the times I had followed it. When I read the quote I knew that Matt will not follow his instinct and he will do the bad choice as almost every one. If I would have that choice of investigating I will follow my instinct and not getting into trouble.

As I read the book, it  keeps getting better and better and it continues surprising me. It is clear that all surprises of the book are not done yet and that every thing could happened. The author had add clues on different parts of the story, to create suspense that makes you wonder what would happened next and make you keep reading. I really like the fact that the excitement never stops and it continues entertaining you.  I am really loving this book and I cant wait to see what will happened with the journalist and the secret agency.

Excitement Begins

This chapters have had lots of suspense, it all begin when Matt had returned to Mrs.Deverill´s farm were he felt asleep and he had a nightmare. Mrs.Deverill wasn't on the farm when he awoke so Matt try to scape but he couldn't because the roads change and make Matt return to the same place where he started every time he went trough them. The next day Matt went to the forest and got lost but he run into Tom Burgess, the man that had warned him, he gave Matt a necklace and told him that he wouldn't get lost if he wear it all the time. Tom invited Matt to go to his house the next morning but when Matt went the next morning he found Tom death in his house, Matt found  "Ravens Gate" written on Toms bedroom´s wall. Matt got out of the house as soon as he could and he told the police what had happened but when the police went into Tom´s house the body and the evidence was clean up.

"The farmer was laying on the floor on the other side of the bed, partly covered by a sheet. He was obviously dead. Something-some sort of animal- had torn into his face and neck. There were hideous red gashes in the skin and his fair hair was matted with blood. His eyes were bulging, out of focus,  and his mouth was forced open in a last attempt of scream. His hands were stiff and twisted in a frantic attempt to ward something off." 

(Horowitz 89)


After reading this I got shocked and I though who could do this to Tom and why? I don't think an animal do all these things to Tom, maybe there were more than one animal or a person was with the animal. I don't know what things Tom would have done to deserve this, but I believe he had made a bad thing. If I will see something like that I woudn´t know how I will react but I will probably run as far away as I could and never come back because of the fear.



"He relax. "It´s all right," he said. "It´s only the cat. It must have followed me here."
         But the farmer´s face had gone white. All at once he had snapped the barrel of his shut gun and raised the whole thing to his shoulder. Before Matt could stop him, he pulled the trigger. There was an explosion. The cat had no chance." (Horowitz 80)


Why would he do that? I got surprise when the cat´s presence made Tom paled and kill the animal. Maybe on the pass Tom made a terrible thing to Mrs.Deverill or the cat so he would be that afraid. If I will be watching that at that moment  I will probably be really surprised and I will have loots of doubts.




I am loving this book because of the fact that it makes you not stop reading. All the suspense and the fear that the author add are pretty precise and that's why I don`t want  to stop reading. I will say that this book is a page turner because it always start and ends the chapters so intensely that you want to go on and on with the story. I´m so exited to see what will come up on the next chapters. I don't know what exact magic does Yorkshire has, but I found it strange that a necklace could suspended it. I think that when Matt go back to Mrs.Deverill´s house he would be punished and he will scape to found out more about Ravens Gate.