Boy of the Painted Cave Blog

Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel, has 158 pages filled with drama, adventures, and, action. The main characters in this story are Tao, Ram, and Greybeard with clan leader, Volt, as an antagonist. Tao is an unloved, bad-footed, 14 year old early man who wants to be a cave painter. In the story, cave painting is forbidden but Tao does it anyway. When he leaves the clan to go off on his own, he meets Greybeard, a cave painter and chosen one. Greybeard helps Tao become a real cave painter.

In Boy of the Painted Cave, the Secret Cavern has a big affect on the story. The clan believes that only the chosen one can paint in the Secret Cavern. In the story Tao commits a crime by painting in it, and he has to face Saxon, the sacred bull because of his fault.

Wringer Blog

Wringer ,a fiction story,by Jerry Spinelli, has 228 wonderfully written pages. It is about a 10 year old boy named Palmer, who does not want to become a wringer. A wringer is a boy who, on Pigeon Day, wrings the pigeons necks to take them out of their misery. No one in his town likes pigeons and would EVER keep them as pets. It just so happens, that one day before school, Palmer found a pigeon on his window sill. He knew he had to wring its neck, but he didn't want to, so he left it alone. The next day he found the pigeon again and kept it as a pet since it would never go away, he figured no one would find out, but he still kept it a secret. Will anyone ever find out, and if so, what will happen?