Write a summary of a book you read over the break! Your summary should include a description of the setting, characters, and major conflict. Below is a great example book summary from Airman:
Airman is set in the 1890's on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. It is the story of Conor Broekhart, a young Saltee Islander whose father, Declan, is the King's bodyguard. When Conor discovers that the power hungry Marshall Hugo Bonvilain is organizing a military coup, the king is murdered and Conor is blamed for the crime and thrown into prison.
In prison, Conor passes the solitary months by scratching designs for flying machines into the walls. This has always been his dream, to win the race for flight. After two years, Conor now sixteen, plans and executes a daring escape to the mainland. Initially he plans to return home, but realizes that this would put his entire family in danger, so instead he builds a glider to fly to the prison island and reclaim the diamonds he buried there from the prison mine. Eight bags of diamonds, means eight trips.
Over Thanksgiving break I had a great feast. We had mashed potatoes, lamb and string beans. For desert we had pumpkin pie. We mashed the potatoes ourselves and had enough to eat for the next three meals. They took along time to make but not as long as its taking is me to type this. My mom made the pie from a gourd she bought at the store. It was really good! Most of the time I spent with my brother. We played basketball, Frisbee, and football. We also spent time with our dogs and sheep. I am looking forward to a great Christmas break.
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