Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden

             I'm really disliking this book.  Its a chore just to read it.  The way the author writes, which is all newspaper like, is written in a very grownup way.  There's words that I can't comprehend and I can't fully grasp what the story.  I'm on about page fifty and the author hasn't said much about the characters.  She's said a little more, but not enough.
            Pretty much all I know about the characters is that they arrived in Elkhead by train and were greeted by Farrington Carpenter.  They ate dinner and were taken to their room, witch already had furniture in it.  Then in the morning they had breakfast with cowboys who didn't say much, but had good manners.  Next Carpenter gave them horses to borrow, and then it talks about that they went to Smith (a school for only woman).  It says that they did fun things with their friends, didn't have a desire to be married yet, and a few other things.
            I read the description of the book and it said that it was about the girls getting an education, and how Carpenter has a plan to marry them off to some guys.  Its just I thought that it would focus more on the education.  Its a two hundred and ten page book, you'd think it would have more to comment on about their education.  Most of the book isn't even about the girls.  It just tells about events in history in the area of Elkhead or their home town.
              I do like some of the historical events that she adds to the story, but they are taking up most of the book.  If I was asked if I'd recommend this book to anyone I'd say no.

Janitors book three By Tyler Whitesides

                In this story Spencer finds himself in a tight situation when he finds out the BEM is hunting his dad.  He desperately leaves class with Daisy to warn him, but when he gets home he finds out he's off the grid.  Which means he won't answer because someone has found the package that could contain the secret of disposing toxites forever.  The reason why none of Spencer's dads team can contact each other is because they don't want the BEM listening on their plans.  As soon as Spencer's dad and his team is assembled (which includes Daisy and Spencer) they open the package and journey to a secret landfill where the Aurans are.

              I liked how in the story the Aurans lied and said that they'd take the team to the source of glop that toxites are born from.  What they really plan to do is to somehow separate Spencer from the rest of the team so they can pan him.

              The three boy Aurans (who were panned and not among the girls) warn Spencer that getting panned (when a glopified dustpan is wielded to you) takes away your Auran powers and traps you in the landfill forever unless the pan is remove.  Spencer is the only one who is left that can remove the pan from the other boys, because the boys have special powers that the girls don't have.

             The Aurans and the team travel through a valley of tires that are stuck together in large towers.  They also go through a forest with trees that are giant fork, knives, and spoons.  

              This is the part when the Aurans take Spencer and the BEM waits to attack the team (they were trapped in a giant seven up can because a bunch of mud closed off their exit, and they were digging themselves out).  The Aurans take Spencer to Broomstaff island to get panned (you can only be panned under the right conditions).  When the nine girl Aurans leave Spencer on the island tied to a giant wooden broom staff, the tenth Auran girl comes up to him.  She unties Spencer from the duct tape and helps him escape the island surrounded in steaming glop.  He goes back to help the team with the BEM, and the tenth Auran says she'll try to convince the other Aurans that the boys aren't bad.  

            All the imagination made this a great story.  I think my favorite part of the story was when they were at the landfill, because of the creativity.

Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden

                      I liked how the author, Dorothy gave background on the story.  The way she writes makes the story kind of fun.  The only problem about the background she's giving, is that so far that is what the story has mostly been about.  She started the story with the girls Ros and Dorothy arriving at their destination and describing how their parents wanted them to take more stuff.  The author also talks about Farrington Carpenter and the letter he sent them about the preparations he's made for their arrival.  The story continues talking about the background of  Auburn, which is the city they left from.  They mention the history of Auburn such as the gold rush and woman trying to get rights.  There are only glimpses of what Dorothy and Ros are doing.  Things that are simply said like, Dorothy and Ros (Rosamond) arrived at the hotel.  The hotel was over the theaters districts and Denvers business.  After that it went on to take about railroads.  What I don't understand is that I thought the story was about Dorothys and Rosamonds, not the background of Auburn.  I think the author put in to much info about Auburn instead of focusing on Dorothy and Ros.
                   Even though I didn't enjoy what the author put into the story, I did enjoy how she wrote things.  Dorothy (the author)  found some interesting events to add onto the story, which kept me absorbed in the story sometimes.  The events added some excitement to the story.  One example from the story is when she said that Dorothy's (the character) dad put twenty dollar coins in the napkins of his birthday guests (on his birthday).  Another technic she used to write the story was that the way she told the story sounded like a newspaper.  I thought it was kind of fun, but for the most part it wasn't.