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 * Rylee C: **
 * The plot of "The Declaration" is as follows: There's this girl named Anna who has grown up as one of many "Surplus" children. In this society, chemists have developed a pill called "Longevity", which enables one to life forever. The people who take the pills must sign a document that forbids them to have children so the world wont get overcrowded. So when the "Legal" people have "illegal" kids, they are labeled Surplus and sent to one of several Surplus Halls where they are treated like slaves and may only use a very limited amount of energy that they are "stealing from the Legals". Anna defies the rules and keeps a diary. A new boy is admitted to the Hall, named Peter. Peter claims to Anna that her parents sent him to get her back and they have to escape together. At first, Anna refuses, but as she gets to know Peter she gradually believes him and agrees to the scheme. They sneak away in the dead of night out of a secret tunnel and escape to "The Underground", where Anna's parents welcome her back and show her her baby brother, Ben. But the authorities soon catch Anna, Peter and Ben and their Parents so Anna's parents nobly kill themselves, making use of the "Life for a Life" statement in the declaration, allowing Anna and Ben to become Legal. The authorities are about to take Peter away, when Peter's long lost famous Grandpa shows and explains that Peter's father was just killed by his ex wife, Peter's mother, and that Peter is now Legal as well. The three live happily in London until book two came out. **

﻿Rachel Harrison: 
 * ﻿ The plot is rather basic in The Hunger Games. The new government has a way to keep what used to be North America in line. Every year they have a drawing in each of the 12 districts of the country of one girl and one boy. The girl and boy from each district have to go compete in the Hunger Games at the arena in the capitol. These children (ages 12-18), have to fight to the death to win. Their can only be one winner. This happens to Katniss. She is a 16year old girl who lives with her mother and younger sister, Prim in small, poor district 12. They are so poor that each year during the drawing, she signs up to put her name in more times than she has to, in order to get more food for her family. At this years drawing, Katniss and her friend, Gale, have 23 and 42 of their names in the drawing. The chances of them being picked are huge, yet Katniss's little sister, Prim, who is only 12, has her name in once, and her name is the one they pick. Katniss, without thinking, jumps up instead, and takes her place. I don't want to ruin the ending, even though tons of people have already read this book, I will not spoil anything for those who have not read it. All that happenes next, is she goes to the capitol and is made beutiful by stylists, to gain more people that can help her during the games. Then she goes into a three day training with the boy, Peeta, who was also picked in the drawing for district 12. Then they go to the arena, and the games begin! **

Paige T The plot of The Dead and the Gone is a bit complex. It starts with Alex and his sisters. Their mother is away at work in a hospital in Queens and their father is in Puerto Rico at a funeral. The oldest child, Carlos, has been deployed in the military. While the three are gone, the moon is knocked out of orbit and sent closer to Earth. It causes a series of natural disasters and chaos, and also removes any form of communication possible. Phone lines are shut down, transport systems brought to a halt, and many other things that force the people to remain at home. Alex and his sisters, Brianna and Julie, have to gather as much food as they can and ration it so that it doesn't run out in a day and a half. A few weeks later, Alex's friend Chris leaves New York, but gives Alex a card with his father's telephone number in case Alex needs a serious favor. Father Franco, a Pastor, informs Alex that a convent upstate is searching for Catholic girls aged 15 or older to help work on a farm. Bri gets to leave, while Alex keeps Julie behind. Julie didn't like it, but learned to be okay with it. Later in the year, conditions are absolutely terrible and Kevin Daley teaches Alex to steal from the dead. This gets them coats, jewelry, identification, etc. Then they take the items to Harvey, who owns a tailoring store. Harvey gives them food and alcohol for Kevin. A month later, Bri returned from the convent. The owners of the convent sent her home because she had asthma. The air outside forces her to remain inside and that causes the tiny food stash to diminish because she can't go to Alex's school or Julie's school and get free meals. At the end of the year, schools close, causing even more food to be needed from the almost imaginary stash. Then Alex calls Chris' father for the serious favor. Chris' father gives Alex three extra tickets to a place where there are food, electricity, phone lines, etc. When they get there, Bri goes to Mass and never returns. A few days later, when electricity returns, Alex and Julie find her dead in an elevator. Alex finds Father Mulrooney, the headmaster of his old school, and Sister Rita at the same building in which Bri had died. Father Mulrooney tells Alex that Sister Rita is leaving in a few days and allows Alex and Julie to travel with her disguised as a seminarian and a postulent.