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Summary: Remnants: The End of The World Book
Review: The end of the world is coming, and 80 lucky citizens are chosen to survive. When NASA discovers an asteroid that's miles in diameter will collide with Earth, everyone is scheduled to die. There is only a limited amount of time before the planet it hit, and practically everybody is treasuring it. It's amazing what people take for granted until the world is coming to an end.
14-year-old Jobs is one of the 80 humans to live. He will be put on a special shuttle that will be launched into space before the asteroid strikes. Then, Jobs will be placed in a berth and hooked up to tubes. These create hibernation technology in his body. Hibernation technology puts someone into a deep sleep., sort of like what bears do in the winter. When the tubes are unattached, Jobs will be living and breathing naturally again. The space ship is called The Mayflower and the entire mission is known as The Mayflower Project. Every little piece and part of this journey will be unexpected and it's guaranteed to be full of surprises.
The night before take-off, Billy Weir, another rider, spoke to Jobs, and not in usual conversation form, either. Billy looked as if he was sleep walking or in a trance. Then, he said to Jobs, "You'll be there." Billy kept on repeating this phrase a few more times. He soon left Jobs to stare and wonder what he meant.
On the day of launching, chaos breaks out near The Mayflower. People trying to stop them from leaving were unsuccessful, making The Mayflower able to blast off. When the ship is just barely past the Earth's atmosphere, terrorists strike. Two teenage brothers on board aren't in their berths and attack the crew. They kill the pilot and injure the commander. The younger sibling accidentally shoots himself and dies also. Jobs is awake and catches all the action through the transparent cover on his berth. He hesitates, then stops the other terrorist. Jobs gets out of the berth and tackles him. The terrorist is placed in the dead pilot's original berth, and left to sleep. With that problem under control, there is still trouble on the shuttle.
Jobs is left with the duty of turning on sails that become the autopilot of The Mayflower. So he and Mo'Steele, his best friend on the space ship, go outside. Hanging in the galaxy, the duo quickly power the sails. They aren't fast enough. Before they're finished, the asteroid hits Earth. Both of the boys see this and are devastated. Every living soul is killed immediately and Earth is now officially extinct.
Unsure of what will happen, Jobs, Billy Weir, and 76 other passengers continue their journey, not having a clue about the future.
SETTING
The setting is in the United States during the year 2011. Some of the specific locations mentioned were California (home of Jobs), Texas (home of Billy Weir), Colorado (where Jobs and Mo'Steele vacation), and Florida (where the space ship launch pad is). Towards the end, everything moves into outer space, since The Mayflower is launched.
WHY I CHOOSE THIS BOOK
I had entered an essay writing contest over the summer and won as a runner-up. It was based on The Animorphs book series. My prizes included the first Remnants book, The Mayflower Project. It was there because now The Animorphs have ended, this is K.A. Applegate's new book series.
Main Characters
Jobs- He's a 14-year old who lives in California. His best friend is Mo'Steele and the girl he loves is Cordelia. Cordelia isn't able to travel on The Mayflower, though. Jobs is an average teenager, but one of the 80 chosen to ride on The Mayflower. He's also the hero of this story and saves the entire shuttle, but sadly, Jobs can't save his planet.Billy Weir- His real name was Ruslan. Though, he was adopted by American parents in Austin, Texas. This occurred because his mother was murdered and his father became a guerrilla fighter. Billy Weir is very curious and often dazed about things. He would dream about strange, odd objects and places. Also, Billy was a boy who could remember everything. Being a newborn baby, being three months old...everything. Finally, Billy's dreams seemed to speak to him. Almost as if he had a sacred and secret connection. Overall, Billy Weir is the man of mystery and secrets in this story.
MOST INTERESTING PART
The most interesting part of Remnants: The Mayflower Project was how futuristic it was. There were hand-held computers called links, self-driven cars, and even 12-year-olds controlling super high-tech automobiles. What's even more amazing is that this is in 2011. That's only ten years away from now. It makes me wonder if all of this could be possible within a few years.
CONFLICT AND RESOLUTION
The main conflict was getting The Mayflower Project launched and to a successful start. That happened and eventually, Earth was hit and everything died. Now, the only living humans are on a space ship headed to an unknown place.
HOW FUN IT WAS TO READ
Yes, this book was extremely fun to read. First of all, the words describing the scenes are envious with detail. Most of all, it kept me thinking. It made me realize how precious life really is. The catastrophe that goes through your mind when you know you're going to die is incredible.
SIMILAR BOOKS
I've definitely read numerous books by K.A. Applegate. Some of her works I've read include The Animorphs series and the Everworld series. Though I haven't read any books with a plot like this.
RELATIONS TO A CHARACTER
I relate most to 2Face in this book. Her real name is Essence. We're both Asian-American, get straight A's in school, and have high-tech gadgets. Finally, I'm most like her because my room is clean, organized, and "girly", too.
RE-WRITING THE BOOK
If I could rewrite a section of Remnants, I would go into deeper details about D-Caf and Mark. They were the brothers who terrorized The Mayflower. I thought they were smart, nice, and polite geniuses from the way K.A. Applegate described them. If I were to correct it, I would add a few mysterious clues hinting that they weren't so innocent. Otherwise, I wouldn't change another word from Remnants: The Mayflower Project. It has a sophisticated plot, but was definitely interesting, exciting, adventurous, and mind boggling.
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Summary: It's the best in the series . . .
Review: This book is the best YA book I read this summer. Set in the
"near distant future," (a.k.a 2011) a seventy-six (miles in diamiter) asteriod is on a colision course with earth, and eighty
people have been given the chance to survive, to wander around aimlessly in space in a worn out ship called the "Mayflower" it uses "hibernation" technology, which is untested, can kill many people of radiation, or put them to sleep for hundreds of years.
Jobs, who named himself after Steven Jobs, 2Face, a once pretty
girl who had the left side of her face burned in a fire, and Mo'steel, abreveating "Man of Steel" since he has broken so many bones and they have been replaced by steel, Yago, the president's bratty son and seventy-seven others leave behind their homes, their families, as the asteriod hits Earth.
I have this book, my sister has #2 #3 #4 #5 and book six. I read 1, 2, and 3, and this is by far the best, the one that should be made into the movie, so far the rest of the series has
gotten kind of old.
So my adivce, even though I haven't read all of them, buy number 1, borrow the others from the libary. This, is the best by
far.
Hope my reveiw helped! This is a great book.
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Summary: A Great Start to a New Series
Review: This book was very good. I expected K.A. Applegate would make this series good, but I never expected it would be this good. Some main characters were introduced. Applegate explains how life is in 2011. Anyway, this book was awesome! I'm sure you'll enjoy this book.
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Summary: The Review Project
Review: When this book came out the first I was totally hooked with Harry Potter so I thought this was another of another of all those cheesy series, so I didn't buy it.
I wasn't interested in this book for a long time until last week when I was browsing through my local book that it caught my attention. I spent looking at the front cover for about one minute, and without even reading the back or the first few pages I decided to buy it.
When I got home I started reading it and for the first time noticed that the author was the famous K. A. Applegate, creator of the extremely famous series Animorphs which I was a total fan of and the dissapointing EverWorld series.
I learned through reading it that this book was about an asteroid in a collision course with the earth and a project called Mayflower (Well, that explains the name) that promises eighty people the chance of survival by sending them in an old ship with a hybernation technology to look for another planet that can support human life.
When I finished the book I inmediately wrote this review and can't wait to buy the second one,.
I recommend this book to fans of Animorphs and even though it is not as good as her first series it is worth a read.
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