Rating: Summary: The Voyage of the Toad Review: The Voyage of the Frog was about a boy named Divid trying to survive. David dumps his uncle's ashes in the ocean, but while doing this he hits a storm. The storm takes him to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. In between the begining and middle of the storm, David hits his head and gets a concussion. A few nights later, David woke up to a shark bumping the boat. The next week a tanker went by, but does not see him. The wind picks up. He finds land. When he awoke from his sleep there's whale junk on him. Then,atlast some whale watchers find him. At the end David is going to travel home.This book was a very sluggish book. I think it was a dull book because it had no humor, excitment, or action. David just woke up, drank four cups of water, looked at the ocean, or cleaned, and then went to bed. The action was very little and had no excitement at all. Plus, I didn't like the part about David reading Owen's diary. I would not reccomend this book.
Rating: Summary: very boring book Review: The voyage of the Frog was detaled book. It was very detaled about the whales and the boat he was in and how he got it. It was hard to understand and it didn't started from that book because it started at how he got the boat.
Rating: Summary: The Voyage of the Frog review Review: The Voyage of the Frog By Gary Paulson The Voyage of the Frog is an exciting thriller book. The reader is not sure what is going to happen next. At the beginning of the book the boy named David goes out to sea. He hits a storm. Is David going to make it? If you like thrills I recommend this book for you!
Rating: Summary: The voyage Review: This book is about a fourteen year old boy how has to go out to sea and dump his uncle ashes. Everything all right on the sea. But then a big storm comes.The boat get tooken out to sea.He get hurt but not bab.He only have seven cans of food. And his along way from home. So he cant eat. Because he dont no when his going home.
Rating: Summary: Quite Dull Review: This book is about David Alspeth who is 14 years old. He went out in the Frog to fulfill his uncle's wish to have his ashes scattered on the ocean. After David was done, a horrible storm came. David goes through many adventures to get home. He first when the Frog is almost hit by an oil tanker. He also must deal with the struggle to survive with very little food and water. When he is finally found, he refuses to give up the Frog. Instead, he decided to sail home by himself. I really found this book dull. If it was humorous I probabley would have liked it better. Also if the action wasn't in clumps. If I think of books to recommend to my friends, I would definetley not because it is dull.
Rating: Summary: Another Good Paulson Book Review: This book not only has action and adventure, but also a plot. The main character is David Alspeth, who journeys out to sea to scatter his Uncle Owen's ashes. But he gets hit hard with a storm and swept 315 miles away from his home in California. He pases many obstacles, like almost being hit by an oil tanker, and experiences many wonders, like befriending killer whales. But he makes it home and finally fufill's Owen's dream. I thought this was a very good book for people who not only crave action but also Paulson's writing style. Things happened more in David's mind than in his boat, but this was a good action book none the less.
Rating: Summary: SLUGISH Review: This book was not written for someone uninvolved with the sea. It was a dull, boring, uninteresting, slugish, and blunt book. THE VOYAGE OF THE FROG lacks action and humour. David Alspeth, the protagonist in the story, had a typical day plan. While stranded out in the ocean, he would simply wake up, drink water, try to catch fish, think, look at the ocean, and go to sleep. I think personally that Mr. Paulsen put far to many details into an already awful plot. It started when David's Uncle Owen died with the request to have his ashes scattered where no land could be seen. He did this, but was then hit by a storm that took him far from home. Drifting for days with the boat, he forms a bonding with it and matures after watching whales jump in and out of the water outside his boat. With the oppurtunity to be rescued at last, he refuses in order to stay with THE FROG, and travels home alone. It took a 141 page book to explain this small story.
Rating: Summary: Amazing Review: This book was truly amazing! It talks a lot about sail boats, but it is kind of interesting because in the copy I read there was a diagram of a sailboat that had the different parts labeled. I HIGHLY recommend it! If you like Paulen's style but not the sea, then try these books: The River, Hatchet, The Car, The Island, Brian's Winter, The Night the White Deer Died,
Rating: Summary: The Cool Adventure Review: This was a good and a sad book. The sad part was that his Uncle Owen died. I feel it would be sad to drop the ashes in the water. The part I didn't like was the storm. It would be scary with all that stuff all around him. The cool part was the sharks. I bet David would be scared, but I wouldn't. I thought the book was cool.I hope Gary Paulsen will write another book about him.
Rating: Summary: This is a must read book for the sea-lovers. Review: This was a very interesting book and it had more action then I anticipated. This story is about a fourteen-year old boy who grants his uncle Owen his dying wish. When Owen dies David was left his boat. When trying to spread the ashes of Owen, David gets a taste of mother nature. David is stranded with little food and little water in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. After many close calls with everything from sharks to killer whales, David is given food and water from a research ship. He then starts on his journey back up the coast. I would recommend this book to teens who enjoy survival stories and action filled books.
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