Sunday, April 6, 2014

Gone by Micheal Grant


Gone.

Poof.

Everyone above the age of 15 has disappeared.

What do you do?

Freak out.

Cry.

Destroy stuff.

Well… if you live in within 20 miles of the Perdido Beach Power Plant, your life has just done a 360. First of all you’re in a giant impenetrable sphere and everyone thinks they can do anything. Everyone is in a panic when some of the 7th graders decide it’s a good idea to burn down an apartment building…with kids in it. Sam steps up and stops the fire but none of the kids survive. Everyone is looking to Sam as if he was their dad. The problem is that same is going to turn 15 in 12 days and then poof, the leader of Perdido Beach will be Gone like the rest of the adults. With the 12 days that Sam, potentially, has left he:

Finds all the food left in houses

Finds all the children left in houses

Guards the grocery store from invasion

Some people didn’t respond as well as Sam did… Kids are crying. Kids are drinking. Kids are smoking. Kids are dying. The bullies are also trying to take over and bully Sam out of the leadership position.  The worst part is that people are starting to develop powers that develop from there hands like: Lasers, Fire, Super Speed, Telekinesis, and Invisibility.  Now the kids that aren’t starting to develop powers are starting to break away from the kids that are. They aren’t trusting them and calling them “freaks”.  The whole society is falling to pieces but who’s there to stop it?

 There’s no adults.

4 comments:

  1. Haha nice Ashley this was a very entertaining blog to read. The book looks so ineteresting i wanna read it now. I like your beginning " Poof, Gone," very gripping.

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  2. i like how you wrote it. It was really different and interesting!

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  3. I like the format of your blog. I think this would be a really really interesting book to read

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  4. This seems like a really interesting book. I like how it kind of talks about the one things kids have thought about a lot; What if there were no adults?

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