7th grade summer reading notes

The Last Star by: Rick Yancey

Setting and characters

USA( they are constantly on the move and it never specified) Cassie (the main character),
Sam/Nugget (cassie’s younger brother), Ben/ Zombie, Evan an ‘other’ that fell in love with
Cassie, Ringer, Dumbo, Megan, Vosch

Conflict:
Nobody can trust anybody. The ‘others’ take a human host and are very sneaky so you can’t tell
who is human who is an ‘other’ so people end up killing each other

Inciting Incident

An ‘other’ disguised as a priest slaughters a bunch of civilians that he had ‘helped’ find safety

Raising action & falling action

Ringer comes back, evan is ‘kidnapped’, Cassie and Ringer go to get him back , Zombie,
Nugget and Megan are attacked, Ringer is pregnant.| Ben, Sam and Megan jump into a river to
save themselves from the falling helicopter, they are fine and alive, Ben saves Ringer Because
her back is broken

Climax

Evan has had his human part of him erased he has no memories, Ben, Sam and Megan have been
captured, Ringer and Cassie enter the base, Cassie then goes through the wonderland program
and ‘relives’ and lives every single memory in there to find evan, all those memories are know
‘hers’,
Resolution
Cassie gets into a pod(miniature one person rocket ship) and flies to the mothership she enters it
and blows it up along with her destroying the mothership is like destroying the queen bee of the
others, It is about a year later and Evan’s memories are back, sam, Ben, megan and Ringer are
alive, it is christmas they got a christmas tree Ringers baby was born and is healthy also it's name
 7th grade summer reading notes
is cassie after Cassie (sam’s older sister), evan decides to leave, Ben tells sam the story of queen
cassiopeia (the constellation) which Sam's sister Cassie is named after

Main Character , Traits, Behavior, Change (if possible)

Cassie has courage, hope and love. She is stubborn but joyful. She went from mentally weak too
strong
The boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Setting & Characters

Berlin, The new house called out-with, supposedly in poland, And the concentration camp.
Bruno, Mother, Father, Gretel (Bruno's older sister), Maria (the maid), Shmuel (Bruno’s friend
that lives in the concentration camp) Lieutenant Kotler, And Herr Lizst (toutur)

Conflict

Bruno lives @ out-with And he dislikes it until he meets shmuel (a boy living in the
concentration camp ) and they become friends even though they're not allowed to

Inciting Incident
Bruno meets Shmuel

Raising action & falling action

Bruno is going to move back to berlin So as a goodbye shmuel and Bruno make plans to help
shmuel search the concentration camp for Shmuel's unknowingly dead father| Bruno And
Shmuel enter a room with many others and tells shmuel that he is his best friend for life, then
there is a lot of chaos they still hold hands

Climax
Shmuel arrives to the fence with clothes for bruno & Bruno enters the camp they search high and
low for shmuel's father Hours later they are forced to march into a metal room to be
unknowingly gassed.

Resolution
Bruno is Gone his family never sees him again. His mother and sister go back to berlin. His
father stayed, being so numb he didn't care anymore what they did to him.