Crash

PLOT SUMMARY: Crash is about a boy named John Coogan, but every one calls him Crash. Every one except for Penn Webb. Penn Webb is a boy that is the same age as Crash and he lives on the same street as him. Penn moved to Crash's when they were about 7 years old and right away Crash didn't like Penn. He would always make fun of him and he liked doing it. Penn never really did anything about it. Instead he would just ask Crash to do things with him, even though Crash always brutally turned him down. As Crash and Penn got older Crash would still make fun of Penn, but now he had a friend to do it with. Crash's friend's name is Mike. Mike is just like Crash. They both have a passion for football and making fun of Penn. Penn joins the cheerleading team and gets made fun of. Penn gets tired of being made fun of and never smiles at Crash, like he had ever since he had met him. I think it is then when Crash realizes that what he is doing is wrong. He stops making fun of Penn and when his friend Mike asks him if he wants to steal Penn's turtle he says "no." When Mike does steal the turtle Crash gets the turtle back and gives it to Penn.



CHARACTER: The main character in Crash is John Coogan. Rather known as Crash. Crash makes a big, big change over the course of this book. At first he is a mean kid and he always makes fun of Penn. At the end he doesn't make fun of him and he actually protects him by getting his turtle back. I think that Crash will never make fun of Penn ever again and maybe they will even become good friends.



YOUR THOUGHTS: I thought this book was fantastic. I liked the plot and the way the author presented it was great.



READING STRATAGIES: I used connections in this book. I



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